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Guitar Lesson Review – A Guitar Player Analyzes The Lead Guitar Secrets Course

Many guitar players spend hours and hours of exhaustive effort memorizing solos from popular songs. While that can be a lot of fun, it limits them to just emulating existing lead guitar parts. In order to improvise original solos it is essential to gain an understanding of the fundamental theoretical building blocks and riffs that form the foundation of every solo. This review attempts to analize the Lead Guitar Secrets DVD instruction program with this in mind.

The Purposeof the Lead Guitar Secrets DVD guitar lesson course is to teach you how to play popular solos and to learn the fundamental building blocks for creating your own solos in any key.

About The Author Dan Denley:

Dan Denley has been a member of 10 bands and has played in some large venue performances. Dan is a competitive music scholar, has a college degree in music and is a private guitar instructor. He is also the author of the highly rated and successful beginner through intermediate DVD instruction program called Amazing Guitar Secrets as well as a blues program called Blues Guitar Secrets.

Who Will Benefit Most From This Program:

Although learning to play lead does not require advanced playing ability it does help if you are comfortable with at least one of the movable major or minor scale patterns. However, the Lead Guitar Secrets course does cover all of the basic building blocks of playing lead guitar.

Is This Program Suitable For Acoustic Or Electric Guitar Players?

Most of the fundamental lessons and tutorials apply to both types of guitars but, to get the most out of this course you should eventually have access to an electric guitar. With many styles of music you just will not experience the intended sound if you do not use an electric. Dan Denley uses an electric guitar through out the entire course while demonstrating each lesson.

This Program Contents:

A. The Physical Parts

Plastic DVD / CD Organizer

Progress Tracker

4 Lesson DVDs

1 Audio CD

1 CD-ROM

1 200 page spiral bound lesson book

1 Introduction Letter

1 Quick Start Guide

A Partial List of The Lessons:

DVD 1

Finger Strength Exercises

The Pentatonic Scale

F# Pentatonic Minor: movable pattern, 2nd through 5th position

Connecting Scales Patterns

3 & 4 Note Vertical Patterns

Horizontal Movement: 2 and 3 String Ascending Patterns

3 String Box Positions

DVD 2

Major Scales & Modes

Modal Practicing Techniques

50 Solo Guitar Licks

DVD 3

14 Solos to Learn of different styles and modalities

DVD4

Scale – Chord Relationships

Background

Intro To Major Scale Harmony: Laying The Foundation

Taking a Position

Inversion

Major or Minor?

How Standard Notation Relates To Tabs

About Chord Charts

Breaking The Code of Chord Harmony

Real Life Example: How This Stuff Works

The Negatives:

With his past DVD programs, Dan would sometimes refer to a musical term before he would define it and a few of his explanations of terms were not crystal clear. Lead Guitar Secrets shows improvement and polish. While not perfect, this issue is not really a major problem.

The Positives:

- The author is an expert, experienced guitarist and a trained educator. He is also experienced at putting together other effective guitar instruction courses.

- This program is easy to follow and understand

- excellent use of video close ups help to clarify chord and scale fingerings.

- includes a Jam Track CD for developing essential skills for playing with a band.

- This course uses video, audio and the illustrated written word to appeal to all of the important senses when learning to play guitar. This is especially important if your learning style requires more than reading a book alone can provide.

The Price:

Lead Guitar Secrets contains the equivalent of about 6 to 12 months of guitar lessons and compares in price to about 6-8 sessions of private instruction.

Guarantee:

Lead Guitar Secrets comes with a 90 day, unconditional, money-back guarantee.

Sample Lessons:

Six test-drive-before-you-buy lessons are available by email. Online audio and video samples are also available for some of the solos you will learn as well as some of the exact video lessons found in the course. I found these to be accurate representations of the actual course.

Shipping:

Shipping is available to any country in the world.

The Bottom Line: Rated 10 out of 10

I found this course to be organized, thorough, easy to follow, lots of fun and priced appropriately. It earns my highest rating of 10 out of 10. I can, without hesitation, recommend this Lead Guitar lesson program for anyone that has a few basic guitar skills and a desire to be transformed from a guitar strummer into a lead guitarist.

Author: John Mackinnon

John Mackinnon started his love affair with the guitar over 40 years ago and still enjoys the learning process today. His website, CompareGuitarLessons.com is dedicated to reviewing DVD based and online guitar lesson programs. Also offered are free guitar lessons, related articles, an online chord finder and a free newsletter. Links for the sample lessons of the above program can be found at http://www.CompareGuitarLessons.com

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