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Andy James’ first explosive package for jamtrackcentral.com is now available for all

The breathtakingly talented Andy James joins the ranks of the Jam Track Central guitar wizard army with this debut series of mind blowing Metal jams. Andy James Custom Metal Series One is packed with more licks than you could ever dream of ever trying to shake a stick at!

The package contains a wealth of content including 5 full length mp4 video’s of Andy playing live in the Jam Track Central studio, 5 audio tracks of the solos, 5 backing tracks of the actual performance, 5 long extended backing tracks and 5 totally accurate transcriptions in notation and TAB format. Andy has also written up some notes for you to look over when tackling the tracks with your own improvisations!

This package is an absolute must for all fans of metal!

To see what’s in store for your fingers and ears check out the promo video and prepared to be AMAZED:

• 5 full length solo tracks in MP3
• 5 full length backing tracks in MP3
• 5 extended jam tracks in MP3
• 5 full length video performances in MP4
• Completely accurate TAB in PDF and Powertab format for each track
• Notes from Andy on each track

Hungarian guitar maestro Jonas Tamas has just released his second album Timeless Hour through Steve Vai’s Favoured Nations label.

A culmination of two years work Timeless Hour follows on from Jonas’ successful debut album Sharp Guitars From A Flat Planet and features guest appearances from some of the world’s top players, including the likes of Brett Garsed, Andy James, Mattias Eklundh and the legendary Troy Stetina.

The album’s opening track Rule Of Thumb, quickly sets the scene and vibe for the album with its progtastic sequenced arpeggiated keyboard intro theme, heavy riffs and melodic guitar.

The pace and sonic palette is varied though with the fantastically exotic sounding The Unbreakable, the lovely laid back piano intro and uplifting harmony guitar parts of Chance and acoustic piece Space Walk.

There is obviously some outstanding guitar technical playing on display here which helps build the intensity and excitement of the music but Jonas has a great melodic sense and touch in his playing too, as can be heard on an another album favourite of mine, Farewell, which as an added bonus also features a sublime guest solo from the mighty Brett Garsed!

In fact the quality of guests Jonas has invited to play on this album speaks volumes. Their contributions fit and compliment each song very well. Especially the combination of the phenomenal Andy James and keyboardist Sergey Boykov on Borderline.

Not only did Jonas mix and produce the album but, excluding the guest solos, the entire album, guitars, keyboards, bass and drums were all played and programmed by Jonas, which is an impressive feat in itself! My only personal gripe is with the sound of the programmed drums, which for me sit a little too far back in the mix. A little big bigger and splashier and the album would sound even more epic.

An eclectic mix of stunning modern guitar work that fuses elements of Rock, Fusion, Prog and Metal Timeless Hour will appeal to lovers of intense modern instrumental guitar music.

Check out Jonas’ Facebook page for audio previews and much more.

The album is available now worldwide from CD Baby and iTunes.

Album Tracklisting

1. Rules Of Thumb (featuring Marcel Coenen)
2. Debate (featuring Mattias IA Eklundh)
3. All Night Pass
4. The Unbreakable (featuring Mischa Mang, Troy Stetina and Thorsten Koehne)
5. Chance
6. Platinum
7. Farewell (featuring Brett Garsed)
8. Borderline (featuring Andy James and Mats Haugen)
9. Spacewalk
10. My Mind Is Up

For Fans Of: Dream Theater, Marco Sfogli, Andy James

Standout tracks: The Unbreakable, Farewell

UK Release Date: Available NOW
 
 

Jonas has recently been added to the impressive roster at jamtrackcentral.com, check out this video of him playing Zenith from his first album Sharp Guitars From A Flat Planet:

The Lick Library team are hosting one of the guitar events of the year on Saturday December 4th at The Garage in London:

Not only will you get to see some of the UK’s top players but you get to see the next generation of idols perform at the Guitar Idol Final.

A Guitaraoke competition will also be running for those brave enough to get up on stage and jam with members of the Lick Library team with the best jam of the day winning a fantastic prize!

Some tickets are still available here.

All 4 video blog videos of this year’s Monkeyfest have been uploaded!

Captures the great vibe of this year’s festival as well as a glimpse at the sheer amount of talent, notes and general mayhem

Footage of Rob Chapman, Godsized, Lyle Watt, Sam Coulson, Alex Hutchings, Jess Lewis, Andy James, Mike Dawes and Amy Turk, Laurie Monk, Emir Hot, Fred Brum, Sacred Mother Tongue and a little interview with a knackered looking me

(No footage of Guthrie Govan and The Fellowship, currently, as they didn’t want video uploaded)