Learning with JamJews
Your personal journey with Jewish music
Beginner Guitar Course
Educational, accessible, and fun
To help Jews of all ages find an easier entry point to Jewish life and deepen Jewish identity, JamJews worked with the Auerbach Foundation to create this one-of-a-kind Jewish guitar curriculum.
Our guitar curriculum is the first comprehensive course that approaches learning to play the instrument using Jewish music with the intention of playing in and with Jewish communities.
The course teaches fundamentals necessary to play guitar using a repertoire of the most popular Jewish music, drawing from contemporary and traditional Jewish artists and community builders.
Our goal is to create a clear path that helps as many Jewish students as possible find their way from first hearing Jewish music, to picking up the guitar with the intent of singing with their community, and preparing the next generation of Jewish songleaders.
Our course uses transliteration of Hebrew text to teach songs, meaning that our course is accessible students with any level of Hebrew knowledge.
Private Lessons
Get personalized instruction
Schedule private lessons with our educators, Learn guitar , singing, or Hebrew with one or both of our instructors! Lessons available in Denver, Baltimore, or via Zoom.
Our teaching approach is patient, and can supplement our guitar curriculum, material covered in one of our events, or other topics that you are interested in pursuing in your personal music journey.
Residencies
Bring experiences to your community
Residencies include unique tefillah (prayer) services, Torah study, and a concert! Common topics for our residencies to focus on are finding rhythm in the everyday, discovering your singing voice, taking the fear out of music reading, hands on guitar intensives, and exploring improvisation for performing of all kinds!
Curriculum Consulations
Let us help you build your music education curriculum into an experiential masterpiece!
Whether it is creating simple chord charts, teaching students guitar using our prerecorded curriculum, or live instruction, we can work with you to create a plan unique to Kol Dorot.
We work with organizations to meet music learning objectives and focus on the repertoire you want to teach. We can also recommend and teach new music that would work well with what you've already got.
Our program also uses participatory approaches to community development that involve a wide range of stakeholders in the conversation of what building a vibrant singing community will entail to your synagogue. We help communities find what role song has played in the past, means today, and what it can look like in the future
Let us know your budget and we'll work with you to create something amazing! We've got a pricing menu to meet different needs!