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Just how to Jam on Guitar - Jamming For Beginners
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This page is a welcome message for new ProgClub members. If you're not a new ProgClub member it doesn't apply to you (you can of course change that by [[Register|registering]] to become a ProgClub member!).
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Guitar jam sessions are a great way to improve your playing skills and your confidence while a guitarist. They are able to also be very daunting for guitarists who are new to jamming, certain beginners. But jamming is actually likely to become fun, and are going to be if you understand what to expect, and go ready. This specific content takes a search at what's involved, launching with the techniques needed when jamming, followed with the different situations through which you can have tried it.  
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== Introduction ==
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Component 1: Jamming On Guitar - Just how To make it happen
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One of the great things about being a ProgClub member is that it entails absolutely no obligation. Well, no obligation except that you remain subscribed to the ProgClub announcement list. So, now that you have an account, you don't actually need to do anything at all. However, if you'd like to, there are a few things that you can do, as detailed below.
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Basically, jamming is improvising with other musicians - generally one particular or more people play rhythm parts, to get a beat going, and others improvise solos over the top. A jam may always be totally free-form, or may always be based on a particular song or chord string. Anyhow, despite the fact that you may possibly not always always be preparing to play any individual song or bit, you can (and should) put together yourself by ensuring you have a solid comprehend of your instrument. This kind of means practicing chords and scales in various keys, so that you'll be able to play both rhythm and solo parts while jamming. You don't should be an expert guitarist to jam, but you do need to at least understand the fundamentals.  
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== Terms and conditions ==
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Skills needed for jamming:
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Before using your login details to access any of ProgClub's services, please be aware of our [[ProgClub:Policy|terms and conditions]]. Particularly the [[ProgClub:Copyrights|copyright policy]] as that contains the ProgClub Contributor License Agreement wherein, among other things, you agree to license your contributions to projects under the projects' licensing terms. If you do not accept the terms and conditions, please do not use ProgClub's services.
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Strumming chords in a variety of keys, with the ability to restore chords cleanly. If you're fresh to the guitar, start off with the primary chords in the much more common keys (such because C, G, D, A, At the, F give up), and development through there.  
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The ability to play in time. You don'big t have to play complex rhythms if you're not comfortable with that, but you has to be able to retain to the beat. If you're playing a solo, the rhythm must take concern - in other thoughts, if you come unglued, it'utes ok to miss out a few notes of the melody, but you must keep way up with the beat. Learn to listen closely to the bass and/or drums - this particular will help that you stay in the right place, and to prevent being distracted by nerves or other things going on in and around you.  
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The ability to hear chord progressions and follow along. Ear skills are vital for jamming - you can training by recognising when chord changes happen in the music you listen to, and later by mastering to identify the suitable chords that are being used. You'll discover that the same patterns tend to recur a lot (incredibly in popular music), and will eventually become able to recognise them instantly. For more advanced ear training, specialised classes are available.  
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You can use your account details to login to any of the club's user machines via SSH. Typically that would be:
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To be able to improvise lead melodies. You might not want to try this straight away, which is truly fantastic - you can just strum along with the rhythm if you like. But being able to improvise melodies is truly a key portion of far more advanced jamming, and requires some lead guitar skills. Scale exercise will be important here, because is actually some basic theory, so you understand which notes can be successfully played over which chords.  
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Jamming step by step
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using your ProgClub member username. There are several ssh client programs available. If you're on a Windows system use [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html PuTTY], otherwise you probably have a built in 'ssh' command as part of your operating system.
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Jamming will be by it's nature a somewhat unstructured process, but if you're brand-new to it, you don'n have to jump in at the serious conclusion. Instead, you can develop your jamming skills gently. First of every single one, you need to know which key the music will be in - for simple pieces, this unique will figure out the chords and notes which you will need to be able to play (more complex jams may involve lots of key changes and the use of much more obscure chords - try to get experience of jamming with simpler songs and sequences first!). Having determined the important thing, you can decide the way you want to engage in the jam, based on your skill and confidence level. For case in point:
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The user machines are [[hope]] and [[honesty]]. You can connect to a specific machine via SSH using either of:
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Step one - if which you're basing the jam surrounding a song you understand or a predetermined chord string, just strum along with one particular strum to every beat using simple downstrokes (or if the pace is actually way too fast - try strumming every single other beat, or on the first beat of each bar).  
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Step two - strum along, but rather than just using downstrokes, use upstrokes way too to play much more complex rhythms that blend with what the others are doing.  
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$ ssh username@hope.progclub.net
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Step three - create some simple riffs. These might be repeated with the chord changes, or varied somewhat to make things a lot more interesting.  
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$ ssh username@honesty.progclub.net
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Step several - try improvising some solo melodies. You can keep them very simple at first, sticking with the notes of every chord, then get more adventurous because your skills and confidence progress.  
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If you don't specify a specific host you will get routed through to honesty. Note that you use progclub.NET (not progclub.ORG) to connect to the user machines, there's more information about this on the [[Domains]] page.
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If you're playing a great electric guitar, you can also experiment with adding impact at any stage in the course of action, if appropriate.  
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== Accounts ==
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Part II: Putting It Into Practice - 3 Jamming Scenarios
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At ProgClub you have at least three accounts: an account on the wiki, a ProgClub member account, and a ProgClub email account. Anyone can have an account on the wiki, you don't actually need to be a ProgClub member to have one of these. Anyone can have an account on the blog too, and you aren't automatically signed up for that as part of your membership. If you'd like an account on the blog then [https://www.progclub.org/blog/ head over] and sign yourself up. In order to get a ProgClub member account or a ProgClub email account you need to have registered. The account names and passwords for your accounts can be the same, or different -- it's up to you, and depends on what information you provided at registration.
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So, now you have an notion of just how to jam on guitar, lets possess a glance at the main situations where you can practice your brand new skills, and just how to make the a lot of them.  
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One of the first things you might like to do as a new member is to change your password.
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1. Jamming With People
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=== Changing your wiki password ===
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Jamming in a live atmosphere with other musicians can'testosterone end up being beat. After practising individually at property every night, it is great to get out and connect with some like-minded others. It furthermore provides invaluable experience if you want to play in a band or other live situation - playing with others requires listening, improvisation and rhythm skills beyond people you'll normally use when playing itself.  
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Once you're logged in click on the [[Special:Preferences|My preferences]] link at the top right of your screen. Then on the 'User profile' tab, under 'Basic information', click on the 'Change password' link and follow the instructions.
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So, what exactly happens at a jam session? This particular changes, with respect to the situation. For case in point, occasionally people bond to jam over existing songs (or song buildings), or they may follow a chord collection advised by one member, and tabs or chord charts may or is probably not used. At times, like with many free-form jams, there's no predetermined structure at almost all, and everyone just improvises based on what that they're hearing. The music may cover various styles (these kinds of while jazz, rock, blues and many others). If you're new to jamming, you'll possibly find it simpler at sessions that follow a familiar song or chord progression, with simple structures this kind of since three chord songs or a 12 tavern blues.  
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=== Changing your member password ===
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In a group situation, you could be expected to play a particular role during each bit - these kinds of like playing rhythm, or soloing. Make sure you stick to your task, but even stay aware of what the other consumers in your own session are doing. Attention contact could be particularly vital if you're all improvising openly (as opposed to following a predetermined structure), while people will work with it to sign when that they're about to move chords or rhythms, or finish a solo and many others.  
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You can change your ProgClub member password using the standard Unix 'passwd' utility once you're logged in to a user machine via SSH. Just type 'passwd' at the prompt and follow the instructions.
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You might feel nervous when jamming with others for the first time - that is normal, and also you shouldn'n worry as well much about making mistakes - these people're inevitable. It will help if you're playing with people who aren't too advanced, or are prepared to include some less difficult songs in the session for the benefit with the much less experienced. Most musicians are going to be welcoming to newcomers and will with luck , remember exactly how it felt to always be fresh to jamming - if they're not, find somewhere else to play! If you don't have musician friends to jam with already, you can often locate nearby jam sessions organised by music stores, cafes and the like - these will sometimes end up being geared towards players of different standards, so be aware of beginner jam sessions to start with.  
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If you're unable to jam with other musicians in individual, or you only want to improve your jamming skills in between session, you can furthermore jam along with recorded tracks, in addition to with tools like a drum pc.  
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Login to the [https://www.progclub.org/pcmail/users/login.php user email administration] facility with your ProgClub email address and the email password that was sent to you in your welcome email. Then change your password or update your email forwarding details in a way that suits you.
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two. Jamming With Recorded Tracks
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Jamming along with recordings is the next best thing to playing live. While this specific doesn't have the same aspect of unpredictability, it gives you the chance to exercise concentrating on developing your personal improvisational skills against a constant musical backdrop. You can of course play along with recordings of songs by artists you like - this is definitely a good way to get to know the songs that are likely to always be played at your are living sessions also.  
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ProgClub operates a facility called [http://www.progclub.net/ MemberNet]. MemberNet is the set of member web-pages available from http://www.progclub.net/ Note that you use proglub.NET not progclub.ORG to access MemberNet and the user machines. ProgClub has a fairly sophisticated and extensive setup for its domains, which, if you're interested, you can read more about on the [[Domains]] page.
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You can often use tracks that were recorded specifically with jamming in mind - there are lots of free guitar jam tracks in many styles available online (though the top quality does vary a lot), and you will find professionally recorded tracks available for sale at low prices. These often appear in two versions - 1 with a guitar solo included, and 'minus one particular' versions where the lead track is actually absent, and that means you can fill it in yourself.  
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In your home directory via your SSH account you can create a public_html directory for the purposes of having a ProgClub member web-page on MemberNet. There are some brief instructions about how to go about setting up a ProgClub member web-page found on the [[Webpage creation]] page.
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Another option would be to practice jamming with a virtual drummer or bassist in the form of the drum appliance or software package equivalent. That is the excellent way to build up your rhythm skills, which are vital to effective jamming. Computer software that allows you to plan your unique drum or basslines, and/or which is truly pre-programmed with a variety of presets is actually widely available online. Some software program even offers full backing tracks in various keys.
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ProgClub also operates a facility called [http://progclub.mobi/ MobileNet]. MobileNet is the set of web-pages available from http://progclub.mobi/ Note that you use progclub.MOBI not progclub.ORG or progclub.NET to access MobileNet.
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If you're still brand-new to playing the guitar, you'll find that practising playing along with others from a good early stage in the studying course of action will help people to jam more confidently. Deciding on a course of quality guitar lessons that consists of jam tracks that provides you experience of playing with a virtual band right from the start will be a single with the best things you could do - I recommend Jamorama, a downloadable course which features professionally recorded jam track in a variety of styles, right from the first lessons. Discover out more about it at http://learntheguitaronline.info. You can furthermore read much more about my experience with the Jamorama guitar instruction at my site.
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In your home directory via your SSH account you can create a public_mobile directory for the purposes of having a ProgClub mobile web-page on MobileNet. Checkout [[Webpage creation]] for further information.
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ProgClub members have commit access to the club's subversion repository which is known as 'pcrepo'. You can read more about it on the [[Subversion]] page.
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It's important to be familiar with the club's [[ProgClub:Policy|terms and conditions]] prior to using the subversion checkin feature for any source code, particularly (but not only) the [[ProgClub:Copyrights|copyright policy]], as these contain the [[ProgClub:Copyrights#ProgClub_projects|Contributor License Agreement]] wherein you accept to license your work under the terms of the project.
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If you're not happy with those terms, then please don't submit content! Submitting content indicates acceptance of the terms and conditions.
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== Email ==
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Typically you will have a ProgClub email account created for you when you register. You can connect to it via secure authenticated SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. The server is mail.progclub.org, and you use your ProgClub email account details to connect. See the following sections for the SMTP and IMAP server settings.
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== News ==
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ProgClub was founded in July 2011, so we're pretty new. We've done a few things in that time, however. The latest news is that we've released an [[Pccipher|encryption library]], which you might be interested to know about. You can keep up-to-date with ProgClub news on the [[News]] page, and maybe checkout our other [[Forums]].
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== Skins ==
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If you find the club's green/orange/black fixed-width fonts scheme a little too much, you can turn it off. Information about how to do this is provided on the [[Skins]] page.
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== Mailing lists ==
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The club operates a few mailing lists. You can read about them on the [[Mailing lists]] page. You are automatically subscribed to the announcement list as a part of your registration, the other lists are at your option. It would be cool to see you there though, so why don't you head over and sign up?
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If you don't already know how to setup mail filters, checkout the [[Mail filters]] page for guidance. It's a good idea to setup mail filters so that messages from ProgClub don't get in the way of your more important business!
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== Welcome ==
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It's very cool to welcome you to ProgClub! Welcome aboard, and happy hacking.

Latest revision as of 23:49, 1 January 2018

This page is a welcome message for new ProgClub members. If you're not a new ProgClub member it doesn't apply to you (you can of course change that by registering to become a ProgClub member!).

Introduction

One of the great things about being a ProgClub member is that it entails absolutely no obligation. Well, no obligation except that you remain subscribed to the ProgClub announcement list. So, now that you have an account, you don't actually need to do anything at all. However, if you'd like to, there are a few things that you can do, as detailed below.

Terms and conditions

Before using your login details to access any of ProgClub's services, please be aware of our terms and conditions. Particularly the copyright policy as that contains the ProgClub Contributor License Agreement wherein, among other things, you agree to license your contributions to projects under the projects' licensing terms. If you do not accept the terms and conditions, please do not use ProgClub's services.

SSH access

You can use your account details to login to any of the club's user machines via SSH. Typically that would be: 

$ ssh username@progclub.net

using your ProgClub member username. There are several ssh client programs available. If you're on a Windows system use PuTTY, otherwise you probably have a built in 'ssh' command as part of your operating system.

The user machines are hope and honesty. You can connect to a specific machine via SSH using either of: 

$ ssh username@hope.progclub.net
$ ssh username@honesty.progclub.net

If you don't specify a specific host you will get routed through to honesty. Note that you use progclub.NET (not progclub.ORG) to connect to the user machines, there's more information about this on the Domains page.

Accounts

At ProgClub you have at least three accounts: an account on the wiki, a ProgClub member account, and a ProgClub email account. Anyone can have an account on the wiki, you don't actually need to be a ProgClub member to have one of these. Anyone can have an account on the blog too, and you aren't automatically signed up for that as part of your membership. If you'd like an account on the blog then head over and sign yourself up. In order to get a ProgClub member account or a ProgClub email account you need to have registered. The account names and passwords for your accounts can be the same, or different -- it's up to you, and depends on what information you provided at registration.

One of the first things you might like to do as a new member is to change your password.

Changing your wiki password

Once you're logged in click on the My preferences link at the top right of your screen. Then on the 'User profile' tab, under 'Basic information', click on the 'Change password' link and follow the instructions.

Changing your member password

You can change your ProgClub member password using the standard Unix 'passwd' utility once you're logged in to a user machine via SSH. Just type 'passwd' at the prompt and follow the instructions.

Changing your email password

Login to the user email administration facility with your ProgClub email address and the email password that was sent to you in your welcome email. Then change your password or update your email forwarding details in a way that suits you.

MemberNet: member web-pages

ProgClub operates a facility called MemberNet. MemberNet is the set of member web-pages available from http://www.progclub.net/ Note that you use proglub.NET not progclub.ORG to access MemberNet and the user machines. ProgClub has a fairly sophisticated and extensive setup for its domains, which, if you're interested, you can read more about on the Domains page.

In your home directory via your SSH account you can create a public_html directory for the purposes of having a ProgClub member web-page on MemberNet. There are some brief instructions about how to go about setting up a ProgClub member web-page found on the Webpage creation page.

MobileNet: mobile web-pages

ProgClub also operates a facility called MobileNet. MobileNet is the set of web-pages available from http://progclub.mobi/ Note that you use progclub.MOBI not progclub.ORG or progclub.NET to access MobileNet.

In your home directory via your SSH account you can create a public_mobile directory for the purposes of having a ProgClub mobile web-page on MobileNet. Checkout Webpage creation for further information.

Subversion pcrepo

ProgClub members have commit access to the club's subversion repository which is known as 'pcrepo'. You can read more about it on the Subversion page.

It's important to be familiar with the club's terms and conditions prior to using the subversion checkin feature for any source code, particularly (but not only) the copyright policy, as these contain the Contributor License Agreement wherein you accept to license your work under the terms of the project.

If you're not happy with those terms, then please don't submit content! Submitting content indicates acceptance of the terms and conditions.

Email

Typically you will have a ProgClub email account created for you when you register. You can connect to it via secure authenticated SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. The server is mail.progclub.org, and you use your ProgClub email account details to connect. See the following sections for the SMTP and IMAP server settings.

Your email account gets you all of the following email addresses:

  • username@progclub.org
  • username@progclub.com
  • username@progclub.info
  • username@progclub.net
  • username@progclub.co
  • username@progclub.mobi

We recommend that you use username@progclub.org as your primary email address, but the others might come in handy from time to time. (Say, for instance, if you're creating multiple accounts somewhere, or if you want to give out an email address that you can ignore messages to (not that we'd encourage you to ignore people!)).

SMTP sever

Settings

  • Server name: mail.progclub.org
  • Port: 25

Security and authentication

  • Connection security: STARTTLS
  • Authentication method: Normal password
  • Username: username@progclub.org

IMAP server

Settings

  • Server Type: IMAP Mail Server
  • Server Name: mail.progclub.org
  • Port: 143
  • Username: username@progclub.org

Security settings

  • Connection security: STARTTLS
  • Authentication method: Normal password

News

ProgClub was founded in July 2011, so we're pretty new. We've done a few things in that time, however. The latest news is that we've released an encryption library, which you might be interested to know about. You can keep up-to-date with ProgClub news on the News page, and maybe checkout our other Forums.

Skins

If you find the club's green/orange/black fixed-width fonts scheme a little too much, you can turn it off. Information about how to do this is provided on the Skins page.

Mailing lists

The club operates a few mailing lists. You can read about them on the Mailing lists page. You are automatically subscribed to the announcement list as a part of your registration, the other lists are at your option. It would be cool to see you there though, so why don't you head over and sign up?

If you don't already know how to setup mail filters, checkout the Mail filters page for guidance. It's a good idea to setup mail filters so that messages from ProgClub don't get in the way of your more important business!

Welcome

It's very cool to welcome you to ProgClub! Welcome aboard, and happy hacking.

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