So I spent my morning practice hour digging into Jam Play and at least a part of the song catalogue as posted on its website (see link above). If there is a broader catalogue somewhere please share.

And this was not to support either JP or GT, I support several learning sites such as True Fire which was mentioned as combining with JP? I wasn't aware of this.

So here is the analysis for Artist listed under "A" ( I wasn't going to spend my entire day going through both catalogues)

Jam Play lists 30 songs - Guitar Tricks lists 33 songs - pretty close.

But it is the make up of those songs and the artist that I think needs closer scrutiny. Jam Play lists artist such as "Animals as Leaders" - I actually know this band, "Arsis" and "Atreyu". I had to look these last 2 up. All of these bands can play. No question. But in the business of music - and music is a business - how does the cost to license their work stand up to a band like AC DC? The answer, which only takes a little bit of research time to discover - is that it doesn't compare. Frankly these 3 bands would be thrilled to be listed in a song catalogue just for the exposure. 

So, to each his own and we all spend our money how we choose and musical taste differ. But I don't think broad stroke comparisons like number of songs or even artists tells the full story. There will be people who love Arsis and can't stand AC DC for example. But I think the market swings towards the latter.

And then I looked at what I would consider foundational stuff for someone hooked on guitar and maybe to be fair of a certain age - I grew up in the 70s. Chuck Berry, The Stones, Kiss, Elvis, Zepplin, Van Halen. 

Anyway, full disclosure, this is probably my last month with GT for a while. Not because of the song catalogue - I still think it's great. But because I have begun a study of SRV with a local teacher and it is taking up all my practice time. Although having said that, I needed a break the other night and dug into ARS's "I am so into you" and got that down the same night which was a nice break from SRV.

PS: I don't know why the website does this, but way down below I pasted a copy of my overview by artist and site. Just scroll to the bottom.

ARTIST	SONG	JAM PLAY	GUITAR TRICKS
216	On The Line	Yes	No
38 Special	Back where you belong	Yes	No
AC DC	Back in black	No	Yes
AC DC	Dirty deeds done dirt cheap	No	Yes
AC DC	Hells bells	No	Yes
AC DC	Highway to hell	No	Yes
AC DC	Highway to hell made easy	No	Yes
AC DC	TNT	No	Yes
AC DC	You shook me all night long	No	Yes
AC DC	You shook me all night long made easy	No	Yes
Al Jolson	Avalon	No	Yes
Alan Jackson	Don't rock the juke box	Yes	No
Alan Jackson	Its 5 oclock somewhere	Yes	No
Alan Jackson	Its time you learned about goodbye	Yes	No
Alan Jackson	Three minute positive not too country uptempo love song	Yes	No
Albert Collins	I ain't drunk	No	Yes
Alice Cooper	No more mr nice guy	No	Yes
Alice Cooper	Schools out	No	Yes
Alice in Chains	Man in the box	No	Yes
Alien ant farm	Movies	No	Yes
Allman Brothers	Blue Sky	Yes	No
Allman Brothers	Ramblin Man	Yes	No
America	A horse with no name	Yes	No
America	Don't cross the river	No	Yes
America	Lonely people	Yes	No
America	Sister golden hair	No	Yes
America	Tin man	Yes	Yes
America	Ventura Highway	Yes	Yes
Andy James	Jam play shred	Yes	No
Animals as Leaders	CAFO	Yes	No
Animals as Leaders	On Impulse	Yes	No
Animals as Leaders	The price of everything and the value of nothing	Yes	No
Animals as Leaders	Thoroughly at home	Yes	No
Anita Cochrane	Girls like fast cars	Yes	No
Aretha Franklin	I say a little prayer	Yes	No
Ariana Grande	Thank u next	Yes	No
Arlo Guthrie	Alice's restaurant	Yes	Yes
Arlo Guthrie	Coming into Los Angeles	No	Yes
Arlo Guthrie	The motorcycle song	No	Yes
Arsis	A diamond for disease	Yes	No
Arsis	The face of my innocent	Yes	No
Arsis	The promise of never	Yes	No
Arsis	Worship depraved	Yes	No
Atlanta Rhythm Section	So into you	No	Yes
Atlanta Rhythm Section	Spooky	No	Yes
Atreyu	Becoming the bull	Yes	No
Atreyu	Congregation of the damned	Yes	No
Atreyu	Ravenous	Yes	No
Atreyu	Storm to pass	Yes	No
Atreyu	You were the king now you're unconcious	Yes	No
Avenged Sevenfold	Bat county	No	Yes
Avenged Sevenfold	Unholy confessions	No	Yes
The Alarm	Sold me down the river	No	Yes
The Allman Brothers	Jessica	No	Yes
The Allman Brothers	Little Martha	No	Yes
The Allman Brothers	Ramblin man	No	Yes
The Allman Brothers	Statesboro blues	No	Yes
The Animals	Bring it on home to me	No	Yes
The Animals	The house of the rising sun	No	Yes
The Animals	We gotta get out of this place	No	Yes

 

edited 9 months ago