As a budding lead guitarist, you will need to put in hours of training into your scales to build up your chops. Unfortunately, not all of us have a band when we start so we turn to many different pieces of software that provide us with backing tracks that we can play along with.

Now, most of these softwares are to cost a bit of money and they require you to be sitting in front of your computer before you can jam along to it. That is fine and all but if you’re looking for a mobile option to practice your lead guitar, you might want to check out “Jam Amigo“.

The Jam Amigo app for the iPhone was created by a guitar player named “Guillermo Carbonell” (view Youtube video below to see him playing along to the backing tracks)  and no he’s not just an app developer. The way he’s set up the software is ideal for guitar beginners as well as intermediates to learn how to familiarize themselves to the different scales applicable to each jam progression type.

Once you load up the software, you’ll get a feel for how good this software for the iPhone platform really is. With this application, you can take your backing tracks, customize them and bring them along with you on the road so you can practice anywhere. Practice and silence with a pair of decent quality Bose or Sennheiser earphones so you don’t disturb the neighbors, or plug it into your favorite amp and let hell break loose – the choice is yours!

Here’s what you can look forward to with the Jam Amigo app:

- Play along real guitar tracks recorded on top of realistic, carefully sequenced bass and drums.

- 12 inspiring original songs, covering many styles from blues to jazz to metal and more.

- 28 loops for you to practice specific styles and keys more in depth.

- Each song contains different sections so you can explore different scales/modes/keys.

- Also includes a shuffle mode to allow you randomly skip from different loops.

- It comes with a super-easy to use interface that you can accustom yourself to within minutes.

- Each loop included in the software, comes with tips as well as suggestions on which scales you ought to use when playing lead against this backing track.

You can buy the iPhone app direct from iTunes, or you can go through the developer’s website - See link below.

Watch the video below to see Guillermo in action with his iPhone 3GS as his backup band.

Click here to visit the Jam Amigo’s Official Website

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Guitar Rig in my opinion delivers the good and gives you the most realistic sounding tones – I’ve yet to come across any other guitar software that does it this well and smoothly. By the way, I’m by no means promoting for Native Inst. okay..I just really love GR.

GR 4 Pro comes with some nice enhancements and upgrades but rather than me just telling you the entire list of upgrades, pop over to Native Instruments and read it up yourselves if you want more detailed info.

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Guitar Training Software - Fret Surfer For The iPhone

Guitar Trainer Software On The Road!

This is the best guitar training fretboard software in my opinion. Fret Surfer came onto the iPhone about 6 months ago and I’ve been using it every week to refresh my knowledge of the guitar fretboard.

If you want to learn guitar fast, you’ll need to learn all the note positions on the fretboard. This is a crucial step that many beginner guitarists find daunting and try to avoid. In fact, about 70% of guitar players don’t know the fretboard back to front. You’ll find that once you master all the notes in every possible position, learning songs and chords get a lot faster and easier, and you gain freedom in playing solos all over the guitar neck.

Learning all the notes might seem like a daunting task at first, but after a month or two of doing certain exercises, you’ll find that it’s a breeze. This is where Fret Surfer comes in handy..

Fret Surfer is an inexpensive iPhone software that you can purchase for only a couple of dollars. What it does is it lets you play the game of ” guess what note this is? “. There are two modes which you can test your skill levels in. The first one names a note and a string, and you have to find it. The other mode points out a note on the fretboard and you have to name the note. It keeps things fun by allowing you to choose different levels of difficulty, where the hardest level only gives you 3 seconds or so to provide a correct answer.

I’ve recommended this app to a friend of mine who was just starting to learn to play guitar, and he pretty much mastered the entire fretboard worth of notes in a matter of 3 weeks! I recommend anyone who’s got an iphone and is serious in learning guitar, go out and get this guitar trainer software – you’ll really go a long way with this one.

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I recently got to mess around with Band In A Box. What is it? It’s a creative music composition program that allows you to generate midi music and create your own backing tracks. It has all the instruments you’d want in a band including piano, drums, saxophone, rhythm guitar etc. All you have to do is enter the chord progression you with in standard notation form, and it goes to work for you. Perfect if you want to create your own backing tracks to jam along with.

It’s available on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, and will set you back about $80+ USD via direct download.

Is This The Ultimate Band Software?

From my own experience, it’s great for a beginner who wants to compose their own music. In terms of overall sound, I find the sounds available on their demo software a bit unprofessional.

If you’re interested in reading up about it, Hugo has reviewed Band In A Box in good detail.

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The Jamorama guitar software is an extremely simple yet efficient guitar learning tool. Not only is it very effective at teaching you how to master a guitar in months, you can really master it and start jamming like a professional. The guitar tutorials teach you how to play the guitar by ear ( which is how I learned ), taking you step by step by the hand with weekly and monthly guitar lessons.

Here’s what some other people have said about the Jamorama guitar course:

“Jamorama was designed by Ben Edwards. Ben Edwards was the former lead guitarist of the popular down-under band “DegreesK”. Ben designed Jamorama to be fun and easy to use. Inside this cool program are jam tracks selected exclusively by Ben for people to play and practice. One does not have to endure repetitive and boring tracks or drills. These jam tracks were designed by professional musicians and are interestingly different from those usual play-along practice sessions. This session is designed like an actual live jamming session. Thus, by doing jam tracks, it is like you are practicing with these professional musicians in a live environment” – By Mike Darwin, Ezinearticles

“Getting a guitar teacher can become very expensive. Another option is to learn from friends who also play the guitar and to get a guitar tab tutorials book either referred by a friend or one you picked up from the local music store. However it’s not always easy to learn from a book. A lot of people just don’t get it so they need a teacher to explain everything. Jamorama is a package that combines a book using audio, video and a program to load those three components.” – By A Ghielli, Ezinearticles.com

“What I like about the program is that it mixes fun with their guitar learning approach and it covers most of the important elements when it comes to guitar learning. It gives you three bonuses which will help you on your learning ability. The learn-by-ear is good for learning guitar playing by listening. It is a game which provides the value of true learning. There are also music notes learning game and electronic metronome. Those are a good compliment to guitar learning process.” – By Jim Somchai, Ezinearticles

Do you want quick-start guitar tuts that will get you jamming in months? Don’t waste your money on one to one guitar instruction, they’re way too expensive. Jamorama is the only resource you will need for years to come!

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