{"id":496,"date":"2025-07-26T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.litejam.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:01:50","slug":"news-updates-ep-00-the-story-behind-litejam-why-we-make-litejam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litejam.com\/it\/news-updates-ep-00-the-story-behind-litejam-why-we-make-litejam\/","title":{"rendered":"News & Updates \u2013 EP.00 | The Story Behind Litejam – Why We Make Litejam !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\tI imagined a guitar that could teach me visually \u2014 one that would light the path to learning and playing freely. That\u2019s why I created Litejam.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Hi, I\u2019m Bank Apisak<\/strong> , founder of Litejam.<\/p>\n

I started learning guitar back in high school. At first, I just wanted to learn a few chords so I could sing and play with friends \u2014 nothing fancy. I picked up a basic guitar book and started from there.<\/p>\n

Later, I decided to take formal lessons at a local music school. But on my very first day, the teacher had me play chromatic scales<\/strong>, over and over again \u2014 without any explanation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I remember feeling totally confused.<\/p>\n

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But that was only the beginning.<\/p>

Right after that, my teacher gave me an incredibly hard piece to learn \u2014 \u201cManhattan\u201d by Eric Johnson. I had no idea what I was playing The chord shapes were strange, the picking patterns were difficult, and the whole thing felt way beyond what I could understand at the time.<\/strong><\/p>

It wasn\u2019t what I expected at all.But something surprising happened.<\/p>

Over time, I began to enjoy it. The more I practiced, the more I fell in love with soloing,phrasing<\/strong> and melody playing<\/strong> \u2014 not just rhythm chords. That early confusion and frustration actually laid the foundation for what became my passion: lead guitar and improvisation<\/strong>.<\/p>

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\n\t\t\t\tI imagined a guitar that could teach me visually \u2014 one that would light the path to learning and playing freely. That\u2019s why I created Litejam.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Hi, I\u2019m Bank Apisak<\/strong> , founder of Litejam.<\/p>

I started learning guitar back in high school. At first, I just wanted to learn a few chords so I could sing and play with friends \u2014 nothing fancy. I picked up a basic guitar book and started from there.<\/p>

Later, I decided to take formal lessons at a local music school. But on my very first day, the teacher had me play chromatic scales<\/strong>, over and over again \u2014 without any explanation<\/strong>.<\/p>

I remember feeling totally confused.<\/p>

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But that was only the beginning.<\/p>

Right after that, my teacher gave me an incredibly hard piece to learn \u2014 \u201cManhattan\u201d by Eric Johnson. I had no idea what I was playing The chord shapes were strange, the picking patterns were difficult, and the whole thing felt way beyond what I could understand at the time.<\/strong><\/p>

It wasn\u2019t what I expected at all.But something surprising happened.<\/p>

Over time, I began to enjoy it. The more I practiced, the more I fell in love with soloing,phrasing<\/strong> and melody playing<\/strong> \u2014 not just rhythm chords. That early confusion and frustration actually laid the foundation for what became my passion: lead guitar and improvisation<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Even with the early challenges, I never lost my curiosity for guitar.<\/p>

One of the reasons I was so drawn to it was simple:<\/p>

Guitar looked cool.<\/strong><\/p>

It made me feel confident. It gave me something to work on every day \u2014 and every time I improved, it boosted my self-esteem.<\/p>

I started to take it seriously.<\/p>

I practiced regularly \u2014 not because someone told me to, but because I wanted to. Guitar became more than a hobby. It was my personal discipline, my creative outlet.<\/p>

I still remember how good it felt to finally play a song from start to finish and sing with friends.<\/p>

It gave me a sense of achievement and connection.<\/p>

At the same time, I was deeply inspired by guitar heroes<\/strong> like Steve Vai<\/strong> and Vinnie Moore<\/strong>. I dreamed of playing like them \u2014 fast, expressive, and free.<\/p>

And then something amazing happened on the internet.<\/p>

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Around 2007<\/strong>, one of the most viral videos on early YouTube was released:<\/p>

\ud83c\udfa5 Canon Rock in D<\/strong>, performed by Funtwo<\/strong>, a guitarist from Korea.<\/p>

It was one of the first guitar solo videos to break millions of views \u2014 and I was hooked.<\/p>

Watching Funtwo shred through that iconic melody opened a new door for me.<\/p>

It made guitar feel modern, global, and reachable. I remember thinking:<\/p>

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That video became my practice goal. I tried to learn every phrase. It pushed me to think about tone, dynamics, speed \u2014 and it kept me chasing the feeling of making a guitar sing.<\/p>

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As much as I loved guitar, I also struggled \u2014 a lot.<\/p>

I was hungry to learn fast, so I often turned to tab books and video tutorials<\/strong>. and memorized fret positions<\/strong>, but I didn\u2019t really understand the music theory<\/strong> behind. They gave me quick wins, but over time, I realized something was missing.<\/p>

I became too dependent on them and could copy songs, but I wasn\u2019t really growing as a musician.<\/p>

And that led to a long list of frustrating limitations:<\/p>