CONTACT ME
If you would like to contact me then please email:
jamieholroyd@gmail.com
If you would like to contact me then please email:
jamieholroyd@gmail.com
I am interested in learning how to play jazz guitar and would like to know how much does the pricing goes and how does this work.
Hi Ãsrael,
Send me an email at jamieholroyd@gmail.com and we can set something up. If you check out http://jamieholroydguitar.com/teaching it explains how online video lessons work, thanks!
I see your playing a Telecaster in this course, who do you get that mellow jazz tune with the tele. What amp settings are you using?
Thank you
credit card declined , paypal account terminated long time ago . Be sure my credit card is safe on your website .
HI Jamie,
Just watched your Jazz amp video on You Tube…Thankyou!
If you know of a Polytone Megabrute for sale, please let me have a contact.
Just decided to try Jazz guitar, a bit late at 75 but I look forward to the journey.
Thanks,
Graham
Returning guitar player( 74 years young) after 35 year break. Know all my pentatonic scales and an jam with basic blue . . . Every jazz course I try is just too advanced and I get frustrated. Do you have a course that will teach me a easy jazz tune with chords and single notes that’s not too fast or complicated?
Thanks!
Hi Peter you are never too old or too young to learn! Check out my free beginner course.
I can’t seem to register for the free course. It keeps telling me the passwords don’t match. I have changed it and typed it in many times knowing for sure they were the same but I get the same result and I sure like to take this course. Thanks, Rick Toles
Thanks Rich – just sent you a password reset let me know if you still have problems. Thanks.
Hey Jamie,
I was just wondering if that was you and your partner at the car park of camping sandaya in France ? We just had a chat.
Maybe it’s a strange coincidence or I’m completely wrong then please excuse me. Otherwise I have seen your double.
Greetings Lukas
Hey Jamie,
I was just wondering if that was you and your partner at the car park of camping sandaya in France ? We just had a chat.
Maybe it’s a strange coincidence or I’m completely wrong then please excuse me. Otherwise I have seen your double.
Hi Lukas. That was definitely us so thanks for dropping me a message on here, small world! Where did you guys head to? We’re just leaving Béziers and heading west. Nice to meet you!
Really new jazz player, purchased the Summertime course . . . Is the somewhere I can get a slow basic backing track to play along . . . This woul help me keep in time
Thank you for the reminder about Summer Time. I appreciate it, Jamie. Cheers Randy
Hey Jamie I’ve tried contacting you by email to purchase Summertime lesson. But I’m being advised that website isn’t safe . Can I pay you via PayPal or other. Thanks hg
Is there a backing track for Summertime that I can use to play with?
Hi there is one included with the course!
Hi Jamie
Im having problems accessing the site. I think my email is colingardiner36@gmail.com.
I hope you can help.
Kind regards
Colin Gardiner
Hi Colin I’ve just sent you a password request. Please let me know if it works or not! Hope you are well.
Hi just wanted to buy Misty but the coupon “mistyjazzguitar” does not apply. Kindly. Jean Marc
Hi Marc. Thanks for this. The code should now be working!
Hello
I want to buy Misty with the coupon ; it’s ok , but I pay with Paypal and there is a problem , it’s not finalised to your site
Thanks
Patrick Caron
Is the free course still available? I created a free account but was unable to access the locked features
hi jamie! i have sent you an email regarding an inquiry. kindly check, as it might have been placed in the spam folder (not sure).
Hi there thank you for your interest. Please send me an email and I will manually enrol you! Cheers
Hi Patrick – sorry about this. Please email me at jamieholroyd@gmail.com and I will help you out with this.
I can’t log in, says email already in use, won’t send lost password
Just sent you a fresh request! Please check your spam and if the problem still exists than send me a direct email. Thanks
Hi Jamie, I have been watching and following you off/on over the years and much appreciate all that you do.
I just saw a YouTube you did called “Should YOU use Flatwound or Roundwound strings” and loved what I saw and heard when you talked about Flatwounds on a Tele (starting at about 4:30). I am a Tele player, and have been desperately trying to get that “Jazz tone” you so well demonstrated on YOUR Tele in this video. I have never used Flatwounds, so that was a real learning experience in itself.
I have ordered some “Thomastik Flatwounds 10-44” for my Suhr Custom Tele as flatwounds seem to make the world of difference (so many Jazzers use them). And Julian Lage certainly agrees with the concept as well 🙂 I have always just used D’Adarrio Nickel Wound EXL 10’s or 9’s, but they are very bright on the scale of things. So no question now why I couldn’t get YOUR sound.
To help me get the “full picture”, I would very much appreciate you letting me know – in that video portion you did using Flatwounds on your Tele-
1) I can see you used Flatwounds 10-46…but what BRAND of strings did you use / do you use?
2) What amp were you using? If you remember your EQ settings, that would also be great to know.
3)What effects did you use any effects (reverb?)
Having all that info will be a huge help in me getting to that sound you so beautifully demonstrated in that video! I so love Jazz on a Tele!
Many sincere thanks Jamie…
Hi Jamie
I sent a comment with questions a couple days back and wanted to know if you received as I haven’t heard back, nor can I see the comment here.
Many thanks
Hi Charlie, thanks for your comment. I’ve just seen that my contact page is down which is why it’s taken a while to respond. Perhaps you misunderstood me, but on that video I actually say that I use round wounds on a Tele. Gauge 10-46s. D’addario strings, but that Roadworn still has strings which came on it which are not d’addario as they sound dead (like flat wounds) which d’addario strings never seem to sound like. I used GarageBand to record that example which is a free DAW for MAC – there is reverb for sure but just the one that comes on the EQ. I like to use amps to play in reality but the recorded sounds of the DAW often sound much better than mic’ing up the amps I have! Hope this helps
Hi Jamie – Many thanks for your reply. My apologies as you are quite correct…I re-watched your video and you did in fact say the flats were only on one guitar…not the Tele. But based on your commends that the strings on the Tele in the video were “dead (like flat wounds)”, then one can not really make any assumptions as to how flats sound on a Tele. I am curious to know what flats sound like on a Tele as I have NEVER used flats (!!) and I absolutely love the tone you got on that Tele in the video. I have been trying to get that “Wes” sound for years. That is exactly what I am after. Currently I use the same strings you do (D’Addario XL’s Nickel Wound Rounds) and use 9-42 at this time, but have also used 10-46. Either way, the tone I get with those Round wounds is nowhere near the jazz tone you got…nowhere close! I will not turn my tone knob way down on the Tele to try and attempt to get that sound, as it always sounds muffled and horrible. Been there, done that, and I don’t like at all. And more importantly, doing that does not sound like what you get.
So maybe dead round wounds sound like flats as you say. Either way, I have some Thomastiks 9-44 flats on order and do hope they will make a difference and get me closer to the tone you get.
Thank you as well Jamie for confirming your amp is GarageBand and that’s how you got the tone you did. Interesting approach, and I wouldn’t have thought that.
I play my Tele through some reverb and such, and then into my “amp” which is a “Strymon Iridium” Pedal going into my Tannoy Studio speakers.
The Iridium is great, but I still haven’t got your tone. I am going to look into buying an FRFR speaker (most likely the Fender FR12) as everyone in review blogs say the sound from a good FRFR is hugely better than any studio speakers. The studio speakers just sound thin and metallic like. So I’m hopeful a good FRFR cab matched with my Iridium matched with my Tele with flats, will get me to that nice warm sound you get!! Fingers crossed!
Thanks again for listening Jamie and helping me with your comments…and certainly, based on the above, if you have any further suggestions to help me get your tone on my Tele, I would be very grateful.
BTW…I love your YouTube channel and have subscribed. Great stuff you do…and many thanks for that as well!
Cheers…
Thanks Charley, good luck! The most important aspect is always touch. The sound I get on a Strat is barely any different from a Tele. I do have a video about how to get a jazz tone from a solid body. I use a Strat in the video but I do the same thing on a Tele.
The free intro course is brilliant. I cant thank you enough. You clarity and attention to detail is brilliant. I actually am a keyboardist and will study tith you as l recruit a guitarist to enjoy your offering