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context = window
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rest = context.JK.Rest()
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@JamClassTeacherLandingBottomPage = React.createClass({
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render: () ->
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`<div className="top-container">
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<div className="row awesome jam-class teachers">
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<h2 className="awesome">What Makes JamClass Awesome?</h2>
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<p>Online music lessons offer obvious advantages. You can teach students who live more than 30 minutes away – even students across the country. Teach during normal “off hours”, when students in your area are tied up at school or at work. Avoid the time and cost of travel to and from lessons. And our online lesson marketplace can bring students to you, helping you grow your income without requiring the time, effort, and cash needed to attract new students.</p>
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<p>Several companies have built online marketplaces of music teachers, but these markets – and online lessons in general – haven’t taken off like other online Internet markets. Why? Because every one of these companies relies on Skype or similar apps – built for voice conferencing – to deliver online music lessons. This is a major problem. Voice technology makes music sound awful in online sessions – so bad that teachers can’t assess the student’s tone and sometimes even the pitch of what they are playing, and so bad that it steals away the joy of playing music. These apps also have very high latency – a technical term that means that the student and teacher cannot play together, another critical requirement for productive lessons. Since Skype wasn’t built for music, it also lacks many other basic features to support effective lessons, like a metronome, support for backing tracks, etc.</p>
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<p>At JamKazam, we’ve spent years designing, patenting, and building technology specifically to enable musicians to play online live in sync with studio quality audio. We’ve built a wide variety of critical online music performance features into this platform. We’ve built a lesson marketplace on top of this foundation to match students to teachers, and now we are investing in marketing to drive students into the market.</p>
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<p>If this sounds interesting to you, read on to learn more about some of the top features of JamClass by JamKazam.</p>
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<div className="testimonials jam-class teachers">
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<h3>JamClass Kudos</h3>
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<div className="testimonial">
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<img src="/assets/landing/Julie Bonk - Jam Class - Speech Bubble.png" className="testimonial-speech-bubble"/>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Julie Bonk - Avatar.png" className="testimonial-avatar"/>
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<h4><strong>Julie Bonk</strong></h4>
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<div className="testiminal-background">
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Oft-recorded pianist, teacher, mentor to Grammy winner Norah Jones and Scott Hoying of Pentatonix
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="testimonial">
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<img src="/assets/landing/Carl Brown - Jam Class - Speech Bubble.png" className="testimonial-speech-bubble"/>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Carl Brown - Avatar.png" className="testimonial-avatar"/>
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<a rel="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvnfBBzEizi1T5unOXNCxdQ"><img
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src="/assets/landing/Carl Brown - YouTube.png" className="testimonial-youtube"/></a>
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<h4><strong>Carl Brown</strong> of GuitarLessions365</h4>
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</div>
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<div className="testimonial">
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<img src="/assets/landing/Justin Pierce - Jam Class - Speech Bubble.png" className="testimonial-speech-bubble"/>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Justin Pierce - Avatar.png" className="testimonial-avatar"/>
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<h4><strong>Justin Pierce</strong></h4>
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<div className="testiminal-background">
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Masters degree in jazz studies, performer in multiple bands, saxophone instructor
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="testimonial">
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<img src="/assets/landing/Dave Sebree - Jam Class - Speech Bubble.png" className="testimonial-speech-bubble"/>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Dave Sebree - Avatar.png" className="testimonial-avatar"/>
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<h4><strong>Dave Sebree</strong></h4>
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<div className="testiminal-background">
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Founder of Austin School of Music, Gibson-endorsed guitarist, touring musician
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="testimonial">
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<img src="/assets/landing/Sara Nelson - Jam Class - Speech Bubble.png" className="testimonial-speech-bubble"/>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Sara Nelson - Avatar.png" className="testimonial-avatar"/>
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<h4><strong>Sara Nelson</strong></h4>
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<div className="testiminal-background">
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Cellist for Austin Lyric Opera, frequently recorded with major artists
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">1</div>
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Play Live In Sync From Different Locations
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</h3>
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<p>
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<div className="video-wrapper right">
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<div className="video-container">
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<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/I2reeNKtRjg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"/>
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</div>
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</div>
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<p>Teacher and student need to be able to play together to enable effective lessons. As any teacher who has
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attempted to teach using Skype will tell you, Skype doesn't let you play together. JamKazam's patented
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technologies deliver on this requirement at an amazing level. Click the video above to watch 6 bands play
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together from different locations to see our tech in action. And for an even more impressive feat, <a
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zk7-04IAx4" target="_blank">watch this video</a> with a band
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playing together from Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, and Brooklyn using JamKazam tech.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">2</div>
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Studio Quality Audio
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</h3>
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<p>
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<div className="audio-wrapper">
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<a href="https://www.jamkazam.com/recordings/94c5d5aa-2c61-440a-93a4-c661bf77d4a8" target="_blank">Sample
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Session Audio #1</a>
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<div className="sample-audio-text">Electric Guitars & Drum</div>
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<a href="https://www.jamkazam.com/recordings/4916dbfe-0eeb-4bfb-b08a-4085dfecedcb" target="_blank">Sample
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Session Audio #2</a>
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<div className="sample-audio-text">Acoustic Guitar, Bass & Voice</div>
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<a href="https://www.jamkazam.com/recordings/5875be7e-2cc3-4555-825c-046bd2f849e7" target="_blank">Sample
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Session Audio #3</a>
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<div className="sample-audio-text">Trumpet & Keys</div>
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<p className="listening-note">These audio links will open a new tab in your browser. When done listening,
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close the tab and return to this page.</p>
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</div>
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<p>Skype was built for voice - for people talking with each other. It uses something called a "voice codec".
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This just means it processes all audio as a spoken human voice, and the result is that music, whether
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instrumental or vocal, sounds very bad in Skype, as it has been processed through tech built for talking.
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JamKazam delivers very high quality audio. You will be amazed at how good it sounds. It sounds like you're
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sitting next to each other playing. This is also critical for a good lesson. Poor audio is hard to endure
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in lessons.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">3</div>
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Get Student Referrals from the Marketplace
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</h3>
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<p>
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<img className="teacher-marketplace awesome-image right" src="/assets/landing/marketplace.png" width="221" height="223"/>
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<p>You can use JamKazam's superior applications and services to conduct better online music lessons with your existing students, and to attract new students through your own marketing efforts. In addition, most teachers find it challenging to attract new students, as it requires significant time, effort, and cash. JamClass adds value to your business in this area as well, as JamKazam invests every month to drive new students into our marketplace, and delivers these qualified students to you, set up and ready to go for online lessons. This is explained in more detail later on this page.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">4</div>
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Record Lessons & Student Performances
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</h3>
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<p>
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<div className="video-wrapper left">
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<div className="video-container">
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<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OcnIxqmfkfU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"/>
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</div>
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<div className="cta-text">watch this sample video recording from a lesson</div>
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</div>
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<p>Many times a student thinks they've got it during a lesson, but they get home and realize "I don't got it", and then they've wasted a week. In JamClass the instructor can record all or portions of a lesson that the student can easily refer back to later. You can also have students record their performances, and you can review them together.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">5</div>
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Use JamTracks to Motivate Students
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</h3>
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<p>
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<div className="video-wrapper right">
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<div className="video-container">
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<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/07zJC7C2ICA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"/>
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</div>
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</div>
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<p>Teachers usually apply the techniques taught in lessons to playing songs - ideally songs your student loves. JamKazam makes this better too, as we offer a catalog of 3,700+ songs. Each song is is a complete multi-track recording, with fully isolated tracks for each part of the music - e.g. lead vocal, backing vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keys, bass, drums, etc. So your student can listen to just the part they're learning in isolation, turn around and mute that one part to play along with the rest of the band, slow down playback for practice, record and share your performances, and more. It's really fun! And a great way to keep your students movitated and engaged.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">6</div>
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Broadcast Recitals
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</h3>
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<p>
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<img src="/assets/landing/YouTube Logo.png" className="awesome-image right" width="264" height="117"/>
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<p>Recitals are an important tool for teachers, but recitals are lost using Skype. With JamClass, you can live broadcast video and audio of student recitals through YouTube. This enables other students, family members, and friends to "tune in" for recital performances. And when students share the link to their recitals with their friends, it can also serve as great exposure for your lessons, attracting friends of your existing students as new students.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">7</div>
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Apply VST & AU Audio Plug-In Effects
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</h3>
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<p>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Top 10 Image - Number 6.png" className="awesome-image left" width="350"
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height="240"/>
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<p>The free JamKazam app lets you easily apply VST & AU plugin effects to your live performance in lessons.
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For example, guitarists can apply popular amp sims like AmpliTube to get any kind of guitar tone without
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pedal boards or amps, and vocalists can apply effects like reverb, pitch correction, etc.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">8</div>
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Use MIDI Instruments
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</h3>
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<p>
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<img src="/assets/landing/Top 10 Image - Number 7.png" className="awesome-image" width="320" height="257"/>
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<p>The free JamKazam app also lets you use MIDI instruments in online lesson sessions. For example, keys
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players can use MIDI keyboard controllers with VST & AU plugins to generate traditional piano sounds,
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Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ, and other classic keys tones. And drummers who use electronic kits
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can use their favorite plugins to power their percussive audio.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome-thing jam-class multi-para">
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<div className="awesome-item">
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<h3>
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<div className="awesome-number">9</div>
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And So Much More...
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</h3>
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<p>
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<p>There are many other features that are specifically useful for online lessons built into JamClass by JamKazam, including a metronome feature, the ability for either teacher or student to open any audio file and use it as a backing track for session acccompaniment, and too many more to list.</p>
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<p>In addition to the lesson features, the awesome bonus is that once you are set up as a teacher to play in online lessons, you can also play completely FREE with anyone else in the JamKazam community any time to gain exposure to prospective students, meet other musicians, or just to enjoy playing music with others, without having to pack up gear and find rehearsal space. There are thousands of online sessions played every month on the JamKazam service, including open jam sessions set up by our user community, and you can hop into these sessions, create your own improptu sessions, schedule sessions with a particular focus or song list, etc. It's a vibrant and welcoming community of fellow musicians, and it's open to you anytime, anywhere.</p>
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<div className="clearall"/>
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome jam-class">
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<h2 className="awesome">What Do You Need to Play in JamClass Lessons?</h2>
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<p>
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At a minimum, you need:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>A computer running either
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<ul>
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<li>Windows 7 or a later version
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</li>
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<li>Mac OS X 10.7 or a later version<br/>
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<a className="how-do-i" href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201948" target="_blank">how do I know which version I'm running?</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>A built-in microphone and built-in webcam on your computer</li>
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<li>Internet service with at least 500kbps upload bandwidth<br/>
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<a className="how-do-i" href="http://www.speedtest.net/" target="_blank">how do I know how much upload
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bandwidth my Internet service delivers?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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To have very high quality audio in your sessions, rather than using the built-in microphone on your computer
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to capture your instrumental and/or vocal audio, we recommend using an external audio interface. An
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audio interface is a hardware product that connects to your computer and processes audio better than your
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computer alone. If you already own/use an audio interface, you can use the one you have. And if you don't,
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please <a href="https://jamkazam.desk.com/customer/en/portal/topics/564807-gear-recommendations/articles"
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target="_blank">refer to this set of help articles</a> that recommend the best gear based on your instruments and/or vocals. You can pick up a perfectly good interface very inexpensively, typically for less than $50. And you can
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use your new interface not just for JamClass, but also to make home recordings of your performances, and also to play in online JamKazam sessions with other musicians. So
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it's a great thing to have for any musician.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you feel worried or confused about getting set up because you're not a "tech genius", we are happy to work
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with you 1:1 to answer your questions, and walk you through picking gear and setting it up. We'll even hop
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into an online test session with you, show you around the key features, and make sure you're ready to rock and
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roll online! Just email us at support@jamkazam.com, and tell us you need help getting set up for JamClass. We
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do this all the time.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div className="row awesome jam-class">
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<h2 className="awesome">How Do the Business Aspects of JamClass Work?</h2>
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<p>You can use JamClass by JamKazam to teach your own existing students if they'd like to take online lessons, and it’s free to use in this way for individual teachers, much like Skype.</p>
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<p>If you would like JamKazam to bring new students to you through the JamClass marketplace, we will be making substantial marketing investments in attracting, equipping, and delivering these students to you. JamKazam will bill and collect payments directly from these referred students. We will retain 25% of lesson revenue from these students, and we will transfer the balance of 75% of these lesson revenues to you.</p>
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<p>Also, please note that to participate in the JamClass marketplace, you will need to opt in to participate in our TestDrive program. TestDrive is a core component of our JamClass marketing programs, providing students interested in taking online lessons with discounted introductory packages to get started. To participate in the marketplace, you must be willing to teach at least 2 TestDrive lessons per week. You are paid $10 for each 30-minute TestDrive lesson, and some TestDrive students will become long-term students who pay your normal rates. You may opt to accept more than 2 TestDrive lessons per week if you would like to grow your student base more rapidly.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="what-now" className="row awesome jam-class">
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<h2 className="awesome">What Now?</h2>
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<p>If you're ready to sign up to join our community and teach through JamClass by JamKazam, just scroll back up to the top of this page, and enter your email address and a password to sign up. Once you've done this, we'll provide instructions and engage with you to do the following:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>You'll fill out your musician & teacher profile to tell prospective students about yourself and to price your lessons.</li>
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<li>Our JamKazam staff will give you all the 1:1 help you need to get your gear set up for online lessons.</li>
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<li>Once you’ve started teaching, you’ll need to set up a Stripe account to get paid for the lessons you teach.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>While you're getting this done, if you want to learn more about all the nifty features you can access in JamClass and in JamKazam in general, you can check out our online <a href="https://jamkazam.desk.com/customer/en/portal/topics/926076-jamclass-online-music-lessons---for-teachers/articles" target="_blank" >JamClass User Guide</a>.</p>
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