Guitar Lessons by JamPlay User Reviews

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Cannot play videos

I can’t play any videos. It keeps saying CoreMediaErrorDomain error 12646.

Why?

It doesn’t even let me in the first lesson it says “This operation could not be completed” it’s so frustrating please fix it.

Can’t access purchased courses. Yowsers.

I’ve bought several courses thinking I could watch them through the app. Apparently not. This app is so clumsy, they’d be better off without an app.

Not for bass guitar members- doesn’t work

Disappointed. I’ve been logging in online and have only 3 lessons left in my first bass course. This app won’t let me continue. It let’s me play the lessons I’ve already done but if I try to access a new lesson it shows a lock icon and asks me to log in again. Then shows me the list of lessons I’ve already done, I try a new one and it asks me to log in again. Repeat.
I tried going in through the lessons menu and found the only class by the instructor I’ve been learning from, it looks like a different course (lesson titles don’t match the lessons I’ve completed). When I try to play a lesson, it plays the intro ad for the course instead. Worthless.
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Question

I pressed on the log in or join and it took me only to the login but there was no join button or anything. How do I join?

Very difficult to navigate and no search function

If you haven’t already started a class on the website or want to see archived live classes, good luck. Your guitar will be compost before you ever get this to work.

UI

App buttons and UI are not intuitive or properly sized.

Struggle just to play a video or navigate lessons.

Lessons are great though. App not so much.

Unusable

App opens up fine when not logged in. As soon as I sign in the app tries to load some data and crashes. I tried re-downloading several times. Still the same issue. I’ve tried different connections 5G/WiFi. Still the same issue.

Can’t open!

Used to work great but I can’t open the latest version

Recent release crashes

Can’t get the app to open on iPhone. Crashes every time after I log in.

JamPlay Needs Updating - Not compatible

JamPlay had been great. It is not compatible with the latest iOS updates. It crashes at login.

Crashes

This app keeps crashing what the hell. Please fix!!

So bad needs updating

So bad. Doesn’t work. Crashes. Needs updating.

Used to work

Now it crashes upon opening. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Same problem. Content is a 5, app is 0. Jamplay, can you reach out to me to help?

Embarrassing miss and such opportunity

Where do I begin? Lots of crashing. Click the pdf in the supplemental and it often crashes. Click some pdfs and it says you must have Guitar Pro. The supplemental sticks on the previous lesson. Imagine moving from lesson 5 to 12 and then noticing that the pdfs are still on lesson 5. Bizarre. There is dashboard. There is no playlist. There is no way to manage your practice selections versus what you surfed because it’s all in your progress page. This is super frustrating. Finally, the interactive tab you get on the website is missing from the app. It’s the one feature that separates it from Guitar Tricks. Not on the app. What a miss.
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Response from developer

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with the app. Can you please email support@jamplay.com and let us know which PDF charts are crashing the app? In regards to supplemental files labeled "(gpx)", the Guitar Pro app must be installed in order to open these. If you have Guitar Pro installed and it is still not working, please include that in your email so we can fix that in the next version. Some features on the website that are currently not in the app will be included in future versions of this app - if there are any features not present in the app that you have not already listed here, please also include them in your email. Thank you.

Very user-friendly app

The JamPlay app is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The app is nicely made and a big upgrade from what it used to be. Nice work JamPlay staff!

Honestly really helpful

It’s hard for me to even find the time to practice between work, life, and so on. JamPlay’s app made squeezing helpful lessons in to my very limited free time VERY easy and I’m actually noticing incremental improvements. Bravo!

A much needed rework

Jamplay has always been great, but the app needed work. The UI is much easier to navigate and all the features work across the JamPlay site as well as the app.

Huge improvements right off the bat

So great to see so many significant improvements made to the app. Tons of great guitar lessons spanning so many genres and styles — and song lessons too! Such a welcome update!

Uninspiring

The app is uninspiring and the site overall is disappointing. They have lots of teachers, and some good ones, but the method of filming and showing different angles is not perfected and crisp, like on TrueFire. Some lessons drone on about boring irrelevant stuff, while others will go on too long with a teacher playing longer than necessary. I think they are week, too, on teaching songs and getting us playing full songs from start to finish.
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