Jam With Jamie Humphries

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Jamie Humphries Tutor, Professional Guitarist

Lessons Included in this Course

Course Content Overview

The "Jam with Jamie Humphries" course is built around three high-quality rock guitar backing tracks, each of which Jamie performs at three distinct levels of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This progressive structure ensures that the course is genuinely useful whether you are taking your first steps into lead guitar or looking to push your playing to a more demanding level.

For each track, you have two ways to engage with the material. You can take the lead yourself, using the on-screen chord and scale graphics to guide your improvised solos and explore your own ideas, licks, and phrasing. Alternatively, you can trade solos directly with Jamie, drawing inspiration from his performances and studying the techniques, musical choices, and expressive vocabulary he brings to each track. All of Jamie's solos are fully transcribed and available as downloadable PDF tablature, so you have a precise and detailed reference to work from at your own pace.

Course Contents at a Glance

• Three original rock guitar backing tracks, each performed at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels
• Nine fully transcribed Jamie Humphries solo performances, available as PDF tablature
• On-screen chord and scale graphics to support your own improvisation during jam sections
• Structured lessons covering the techniques and musical concepts behind each performance
• Full backing tracks for solo practice and performance at every difficulty level

The techniques explored throughout this course cover the essential vocabulary of classic rock and 80s guitar, including vibrato, string bending, alternate picking, legato, legato runs, sweep picking, tapped harmonics, two-handed tapping, hybrid picking, pre-bends, arpeggios, arpeggiated chord progressions, double stops, double stop bends, unison bends, pinched harmonics, trills, tremolo picking, palm muting, power chords, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, pick slides, open string riffs, whammy bar techniques, syncopated rhythms, galloping rhythms, octave melodies, and bluesy bends.

This Course is Ideal for Players Who...

The "Jam with Jamie Humphries" guitar course is designed for guitarists who are ready to engage seriously with the techniques and musical vocabulary of classic rock and 80s guitar. It is particularly well suited to intermediate players who want to develop their lead and rhythm skills in a real musical context, guided by one of the most experienced rock guitar educators in the business.

This course is perfect for guitarists who:

• Want to learn the techniques behind Jamie Humphries' classic rock soloing and 80s rhythm playing
• Are drawn to the styles associated with artists such as Brian May, Def Leppard, and the great rock guitarists of the 80s
• Are looking for an online guitar course that combines structured technique instruction with genuine creative freedom
• Want to practise soloing over professional-quality rock backing tracks at multiple difficulty levels
• Learn best through detailed, note-for-note instruction combined with hands-on musical exploration

This course is not simply about learning to reproduce Jamie's solos, though you will certainly be able to do exactly that. It is about understanding the musical thinking behind what he plays — the scale choices, the phrasing decisions, the rhythmic instincts — so that you can begin to develop your own voice as a rock guitarist. Jamie's teaching philosophy reflects his playing: technically grounded, musically expressive, and always focused on what serves the music.

What will I achieve from completing this course?

Learning to improvise alongside Jamie Humphries offers benefits that go well beyond the three tracks at the heart of this course. This classic rock guitar masterclass is an education in musical expression — in how to build solos that combine technical authority with genuine emotional impact. By the time you complete this course, you will have developed a rich set of skills and musical instincts that will elevate your playing across rock, blues, and beyond.

Technical Skills You Will Develop:

You will build genuine command of string bending and vibrato, developing the expressive control that lies at the heart of great rock soloing. Your legato and alternate picking technique will become more fluent and more musical, giving you the ability to move through phrases with ease and articulation. You will gain a thorough understanding of how to use power chords, palm muting, and galloping rhythms to create the kind of driving, authoritative rhythm playing that underpins the best rock tracks of any era.

Your expressive vocabulary will expand significantly, encompassing the double stop bends, unison bends, and bluesy phrasing that give classic rock its distinctive character. You will develop a much stronger sense of timing and groove through regular practice with Jamie's professional backing tracks, training your ear to lock in with a band and feel the music from the inside. You will also gain insight into how arpeggiated sequences and melodic phrasing can be used to create solos with shape, direction, and genuine musical interest — skills that transfer directly to 80s rock, hard rock, blues rock, and classic metal.