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Welcome to Jon's Online Jamming Room
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Jon's Online Jam Room is a Windows Media page where you can listen and jam with backing tracks for free. As others submit their jams, you can hear how other students are doing.You are always encouraged to applaud their efforts and make comments and positive critques. You too are welcome to submit your entry and receive the feedback of other students and players.

The music comes from Jon's teaching CD/booklet, Rockn' Blues Harmonica volme III, "Jon's Jam Room." To see a PDF Document of the 20 page booklet, click here.

Order the entire 73 minute teaching CD

To get Windows Media, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx

How it works:

Step 1.
Go to the Jam Room to jam to the tracks, to hear and comment on the submissions of others. This is free and will provide you with a great educational and jamming benefit..

Step 2.
Download selected tracks on Windows Media, or get the music files from the CD "Jon's Jam Room."

Step 3.
Record your harmonica on a separate track, and use a mixing program like Cool Edit to add your harmonica.

Step 4.
Mix, listen, and mix some more to get a good representation of your playing.

Step 5.
Encode file and submit to Jon's Jam Online Jam Room*

Step 6.
Reaction, conversation, community about your music occurs here.

Some technical details from the webmaster: "To listen to the jams, you need the free Windows Media Player. When you upload your solo, it needs to be in Microsoft's 'Windows MediaFormat'.

The free Windows Media Encoder can convert your WAV or mp3 to Windows Media, wma format. If you use Windows 98 then you must use Windows Media Encoder 7.1. If you are using Windows XP or 2000 then use Windows Media Encoder 9.1.

After using the tool you want to end up with a file with a ".wma" extension. Use the "Audio for Dial-Up Modems (56 Kpssterio)" profile.

ENTER JON'S ON-LINE JAM ROOM

HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND "OWN" THE TRACKS
You can obtain WINDOWS Media for free at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx

Step 1: Click to download the track. This takes about 10 minutes. Step 2: Once track is downloaded, fill out the form, and make credit card payment. Step 3: Our web site will issue you a license to play and "own" the download. You will now be able to play it unlimited times on your computer and burn it to cd.

*About encoding : Keep in mind, when you go to download the Windows Media Encoder the download area is not on the page you are directed to. You have to click on the dropdown menu at the top of the page and click on "Windows Media Encoder" to get there.

When you go to convert your file using Encoder version 7.1 use the "Audio For Dial Up Modems" Profile. If you're using Encoder version 9.1 convertto "CD Quality Audio

If anybody gets stuck trying to enter the jam, please e-mail Mark Wilson iwilsmar@yahoo.com and he'll give you a hand.