Electric Guitar Lessons Review - Metal Method's Innovative DVDs For Learning To Solo

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Who Will Benefit Most From This Program:

This instructional course is designed for anyone interested in learning to improvising lead solos on the electric guitar. While the emphasis is on Heavy Metal music, the fundamental techniques and theory are common and essential to Hard Rock, Classic Rock and Blues Rock.

About The Author

Doug Marks has been playing in bands, recording and teaching for over 23 years. (Hawk is the name of his current band.) His Metal Method Video Guitar Lesson Program was born in 1982 as a result of meeting the needs of his guitar students.

The author freely admits that he was never one of these naturally talented guitarists that could hear a song and instantly play it by ear. In his own learning process he required lots of detailed explanations which eventually turned into the lessons that formed this instructional course.

The Quality Of The Videos

The quality of the video production on each DVD is excellent. The lighting is well done which is absolutely necessary to view the details. The close up shots, which often make or break guitar lesson DVDs are especially well done. They show very clear video of the left hand and the right hand super imposed in the same frame.

The Physical Parts

Plastic DVD Organizer Case,

6 Lesson DVDs ( up to 12 available for more advanced learning ).

Animated, Play along tabs that give you timing information and play back speed control.

Printable Reference Files

A Partial List of The Lessons:

DVD 1 - Stage One

Advice To Parents With Young Students, Buying a guitar, How To Tune A Guitar, String Names And Numbers, Identifying The Parts Of The Guitar, The Meaning Of Sharp And Flat, 4/4 time, Learning To Fret Notes All Over The Neck Comfortably, Reading Tabs, 3 Different Picking Techniques

DVD 2 - Stage Two

Common Chord Shapes, How To Play Smooth Chord Transitions, Dropping D Tuning, Major Scale Intervals, 5th Intervals, Power Chords, The Notes On The Fretboard, The Chromatic Scale, The Minor Pentatonic Scale, How To Use The Minor Pentatonic Scale To Play Lead, Reading Combo Tabs That Contain Both Rhythm And Lead Parts, Playing 5th Intervals, Rhythmic Strumming, Copying Rhythmic Patterns From Your Favorite Songs

DVD 3 - Stage Three

The 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale Patterns, Dominant 7th Chords, Techniques: Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs, Bends, Learning Licks With The 5 Minor Pentatonic Shapes and These New Techniques, Combining Licks To Form Solos, Determining The Key Of A Song By Ear

DVD4 - Stage Four

Major Pentatonic Scale Patterns, Techniques: Vibrato, Vibrato Bends, Slides, Tapping, String Muting, Chime Harmonics and Pick Harmonics, 4 New Barre Chord Shapes: Major, Minor, Minor 7th, Dominant 7th, Natural Minor Scale: The Most Popular Scale In Hard Rock And Metal Music, Learning A Solo That Incorporates These Techniques

DVD5 - Stage Five

Blues Chords And How To Use Them, Improvising, Chords and Licks, Your Own Style, Pick Raking, Chromatic Runs, Tremelo Picking, Applying Harmony To Solos, Monster Solo, Practice Tips

DVD6 - Stage Six: Music Theory

The Negatives:

The written support materials are located on the DVDs and need to be printed for convenience sake. When I printed them from my home computer, (it took about 15 minutes), I discovered that they were not labeled with the stage, chapter and disc with which they belonged. Doug did mention on the phone that he is currently working to improve the support materials.

Also, the course would benefit from more topical details on the video titles. It can be a little confusing if you wish to return to a specific lesson.

Fortunately, none of these things effect the quality of the lessons. They are just minor irritations.

The Positives: What Makes Metal Method Unique?

The Author: does an excellent job of breaking complicated tasks down into learnable bits.

Animated Tabs: add timing information and audio which makes the lessons so much more understandable. As a result this speeds the learning process. Also, as a direct result of student feedback, Doug Marks has added special tab files that allow you to control how fast the tabs play.

Continually Improved and updated lessons for over 20 years.

The free internet guitar forum has a high rate of participation with well over 1000 entries. This means that you have a much greater chance at connecting with someone that can answer your questions.

Price and Payment: This has got to be one of the most affordable complete guitar lesson programs I have ever seen. Not only is the price much lower than the competition but you can buy just one DVD at a time.

Guided Practice Sessions: The built in structure of the animated practice sessions prevents wasting time. It is almost like having your teacher helping you at every practice session without the additional cost. This will greatly speed up your learning time by improving the effectiveness of your practice time. This can also eliminate some bad habits before they have a chance to form.

The Price options:

Buy only one DVD at a time for $14.95 each plus $8.95 shipping

Buy 2 of the 6 DVDs at the same time for a total of $24.95 + Shipping (save $4.95)

Buy all 6 of the DVDs at the same time for a total of $69.70 + shipping (Save $20)

The Cost analysis:

Metal Method Video Guitar Lessons contains the equivalent of about 6 months worth of guitar lessons if you were to space them out as if you were taking weekly lessons from a local guitar instructor. A local instructor typically will charge anywhere from $20 to $50 per lesson. Your minimum cost at only $20 per lesson for 6 months would be at least $520.

The choice comes down to:

- The Complete Metal Method DVD Program at $69.70 to $89.70 (depending on how many lesson you purchase at a time).

- or... a local instructor at $520.

Support:

Metal method offers email, phone, mail and a student forum to answer questions. They also offer a fairly exhaustive frequently asked questions (FAQ) section at their website for quick reference.

Shipping:

Metal Method DVDs are shipped world wide. The DVDs are also compatible for playback in all countries. The set I ordered had to travel across the United States and I received it in about 4 or 5 days.

Guarantee:

Metal Method Video Guitar Lessons comes with a 60 day, unconditional, money-back guarantee.

The Bottom Line:

I have reviewed so many guitar lesson programs that show some good potential but they always have one or two fatal flaws. Metal Method Video Guitar Lessons is solid all the way through. It is one of the most thorough, polished and well thought out programs I have ever seen. It is obvious that Doug Marks has actually been listening to his students for over 23 years and using that feedback to continually refine each element of his lessons.

If you are serious about learning the electric guitar this DVD series is a must have. According to the Metal Method website they were picked by Guitar World Magazine for being essential guitar DVDs and I could not agree more.

Playing Through the Blues Review - The Perfect Guide to Learn Blues Guitar

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Many guitar players tend to get tired of playing the same thing over and over again and want to learn something new like playing the blues guitar. There are many sources available online through which you can learn to play the blues lead guitar but most of them are crap and don't provide the results expected. Having said that, a lot of people have found the online guitar course "Playing Through the Blues" really effective since it provides a comprehensive knowledge about everything that one requires to master the blues.

It is designed by Griff Hamlin who is a very experienced guitar tutor. An important issue to note is that this training program will not benefit the complete beginners a great deal because the lessons have been structured in a way assuming that you are aware of the basic principles of playing the guitar.

"Playing Through the Blues" guitar learning program includes a main e-book that contains useful lessons to provide you with a complete knowledge of different licks, scales and solos. You will also get the Rhythm and Chords e-book that contains vital lessons on blues chords and rhythm guitar techniques. The lessons in the e-books are accompanied by more than 180 minutes of videos in which the producer Griff Hamlin will be explaining everything inside out. It also consists of audio files that cover all the examples in the lessons.

You will also receive several bonus materials along with the main package. One is "the masters section" where students will be able to learn various essential tips on how to play blues from some of the blues experts. You will also be provided with 10 useful jam tracks to enhance your ability to play blues. Also the members area will be updated with new lessons and examples on a continuous basis and you are able to enjoy them without having to pay anything extra.

"Playing Through the Blues" guitar learning course together with all of its main components and bonuses can be purchased at a fairy good price of $47. You would probably pay the same amount to a good professional teacher for just one blues lesson. Just imagine how much you would have spent at the time you feel that you have learned a lot and are pretty good at it. Why waste money on them when you can have the same lessons through this course, taught by an expert in a comprehensive manner at a price as low as $47.

The author Griff Hamlin also provides you with a 56 day-100% money back guarantee if you are not happy with the guitar training program.

"Playing Through the Blues" is an extremely useful guide ideal for anyone interested in mastering playing the blues. The well structured and easy to understand lessons will enable you to follow them at ease and will help you to become a proper blues lead guitarist by the end of the course.

Jamorama Review - Most Popular Guitar Lesson With High-Valued Bonus

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If you learn to be the Jamorama guitar in a game fast and fun, as you choose. With over 40,000 customers and a collection of positive reviews from critics, who will be extremely useful to find the instructions of Jamorama, whatever you want to know how to write and perform their own songs on the guitar or just hundreds of songs for fun.

Ben Edwards, the creator of Jamorama, is to lead people to a passion GuitarPlayers. With a course of training and teaching experience in more than a thousand students, you know what you need and what they want to disclose. He is also the guitarist of the band, grades K released a single entitled It's Worth.

It is easy to imagine how you feel bored about the large number of theories and tasks from other online guitar lessons available on the Internet. Jamorama makes learning fun for guitar. You can improve your guitarExpertise not only with the step-by-step video and eBook, but also traces of high quality and jam games. When you learn with Jamorama, you do not want to write your guitar more.

What Jamorama takes you from exactly? If 2 of them, eBook with 252 pages and 44 chapters. You will learn all basic and advanced techniques that you can find more like guitar lessons. However Jamorama offers more.

For example, you will discover theSecret method to eliminate the painful and awkward fingers while playing guitar. The solution to this problem that will most guitarists, you can play the music more fluently and accurately.

Of course, all instruction will be to tell the 148 easy to follow video and audio. Both right and left hands of the master are shown in the screen that you see so clearly the right way to put your fingers and strum the strings in the same period. TheAudio files can imitate you, you play in class, and you will be prompted to create the practice in the same tone.

I have already said that the Jamorama guitar learning fun? Yes! With 26 Jam Tracks are exclusive, you'll never find, learn to play guitar bores me. You can jam tracks in different genres, including rock, jazz, country, blues, hip-hop and dance, with a real band. If you are tired of theories, only to turn the Jam Tracksand put into practice what you learned. And 'the fastest way to improve your guitar.

Although the guitar is material which is inherently useful for a student guitar Jamorama you anymore. 5 super-six awards, including GuitEarIt!, Jayde Musica Pro, Guitar Tuner Pro Jamorama Metronome, and 30 days access to SongPond. All of them will help you be a professional musician in a shorter time.

Use GuitEarIt! as an example.Makes your ears and ask you to guess what he plays for the attention of the software. With this software ear training may be considered capable of transcribing all the songs on the radio soon. This software is priced at $ 29.95, but now you can do it for free with Jamorama. This is what guitar lessons the others you can give.

Some people may get confused if they choose to purchase Jamorama-2 programs that are Jamorama and Jamorama Acoustic Guitar.The only difference between them is that Jamorama Acoustic Guitar focuses only on acoustic guitar. They will only learn the techniques and songs for the acoustic guitar in context.

But I insist that a serious guitar students all about the guitar, like, learn to play different types of music, methods for the reproduction of different types of guitar. I would not advise you in choosing Jamoram but if you Jamorama Acoustic GuitarI'm really excited acoustic guitar.

You'll have a lot of fun, if you choose to learn the guitar with Jamorama. And 'the lesson that you like your guitar is. Its price is reasonable and they offered a 100% 8 week money back guarantee. There is absolutely no risk. To purchase Jamorama and learn how to make a great guitarist in a fun hour.

Guitar Lesson Review - Blues Guitar Secrets by Dan Denley

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Question

What has this to Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and John Mayer have in common?

Answer:

In addition to the award, only some of the most important guitarists of the past 60 years, came from a Blues background or at least a strong sense of the beauty of this type of music.

Question

As styles of music from modern country, rock, metal and pop music in shareshave in common?

Answer:

They represent some of the many musical genres, which are often influenced by the blues.

Playing alongside the pure pleasure of blues, is also a highly recommended to increase the musical instruments that a student can use to write, accompany or individuals with many types of music. This can be a smart, progression of education for all pupils with a guitar, at least some knowledge to use some basic scales and agreements bars.

TheThe purpose of the "Blues Guitar Secrets" DVD guitar lesson program is to learn quickly the students:

-12-bar blues in different variants

- Agreements and Blues progressions

- Scale of Blues in all positions and keys

- Blues solo improvisation

Guitar Lesson Every program must contain at least the following elements:

-The education program will go beyond simply reading a book of clear audio and video --Demonstrations of each lesson.

The author-program ideally have the following dates: Play well, have played in a band have recorded the music, a teacher of talented and experienced preferred, guitar formally educated.

About the Author Dan Denley:

Dan Denley fits the above definition of the ideal guitar instructor well. He was a member of 10 bands and has played in some shows for large spaces. Dan is a competitiveMusicologist, has a degree in music and is a guitar teacher. He is also author of the highly successful and rated beginner to intermediate guitar lesson program called "Amazing Guitar Secrets" and a new solo program called "Lead Guitar Secrets" .

Who will benefit most from this program?:

Although necessary for learning to play the blues guitar background he advanced ability to play helps ifcomfortable with at least one of the models of furniture scale and agreements more or less bars. However, the Blues Guitar Secrets course will walk you through the basic components that includes the blues pentatonic scale.

Blues Is this course for acoustic or electric guitar?

Both. Although the author over the interesting details of his explanation begins to set up e-guitar, he points out the lessons with a mixboth electric and acoustic guitars. One of the sections lecture entitled "Acoustic Guitar Blues Riffs".

The contents of Secrets Blues Guitar:

A. Physical parts

- (2) Blues Guitar Lesson DVD

- (1) * Jam Tracks (including the Gold Edition only)

- Symbols (1) Book - DVD Companion: The Essential Blues notation, tab and chord

- (Explore 1) Book - "Mastering the pentatonic scales and blues: the secretsTo create your own blues solos and riffs killer

- (1) Book - Complete Step By Step Guide To The Jam Tracks * CD! - Includes cards, symbols of the agreements, keyboard diagrams and a detailed theoretical analysis of each song jam * (included in the Gold Edition only).

- (1) Progress Tracker

- (1) Intro Letter

- (1) Step by Step Guide: How To Use Your Blues Guitar Secrets Course "

* Jam Tracks include short blues songs that create the opportunity to practiceImprovised rhythm parts and solos when playing with a band of support included.

A partial list of lessons:

- Introduction to blues

- The Minor Pentatonic Scale Patterns in Mobile 5 positions

- The Blues Pentatonic Scale Model Mobile

- Blues Chord Progressions

- Use Minor 7th, Dominant 7, VI, Major 7, Dominant 9 Minor and 9 Ropes and ladders, and all forms

- 12-Bar Blues: Open Position Chords

--Acoustic Blues Guitar Riffs

- Classic Blues licks individual

- Blues Runs

- Solo practice techniques

- Curve Addition

- Strumming Techniques

- Use of syncope

- Bonus Video

The negatives:

- Dan sometimes refer to a musical term before he defines it. Some observations of the author of these concepts are not clear. This can sometimes frustrate novice players, but in general I have found that this is a greatIssue.

- If you are the jam track CD only with the small speakers on a laptop, you may find that hearing can not hear the bassist easy, too. With headphones or listening to the jam tracks on a standard CD players just seemed to eliminate this problem.

- It would be nice if this course comes with a protective case or organizer to hold together all the materials.

- None of these issues are important but are only smallTrouble.

Well:

- The author: Dan Denley is an expert, the guitarist with experience and a college-trained educators.

- This course is easy to understand and follow

- An excellent use of close-ups to clarify fingering chords and scales.

- Includes a CD track to jam the development of basic skills for playing with a band.

- This course is primarily a course in video with written material to support and not vice versa. I noticed that they are lesseffective and more difficult when you have a manual first then find a video snippet on your computer that supports the book is read the lesson. I like to see the experience much richer, hearing emulates a live demonstration of the teacher each lesson, beginning end. It 'much more effective to use the instruction book only as a means to clarify the video lesson. Blues Guitar Secrets this part absolutely right.

Price:

The Standard Edition is $ 127 USD (at the time of writing), and contains all the information listed above in "Content" section above, without the Jam Track CD or a book.

The Gold edition is $ 159 USD (at time of writing), and contains all the information listed above in "Content" section above, including the Jam Track CD and book.

Craft: Around the world

Guarantee

Blues Guitar Secrets returns with a 90 day unconditional money ---ensure.

The Bottom Line:

I can unhesitatingly recommend this course for any blues, the basic skills of guitar and the desire, the essential bases of blues guitar, including how to improvise solos to learn. The course is organized logically and low price.

Guitar Lessons Review

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In today's context, it is much easier to learn to play guitar. This is because there are more opportunities for all who are willing to learn to play guitar. However, try any of these decisions would be virtually impossible, so the best to do is to leave the guitar lessons review to determine whether those decisions are appropriate for your needs.

But before turning to review guitar lesson, you need a few things about your knowledgeneeds. Here are some common questions you may need to ask yourself first.

Which music type do you want to master?
What guitar type do you want to pick up?
What is your current skill level?
What is your learning style?It does not matter if you are an absolute newbie or accomplished guitar player. You will still need to know what you are seeking before you choose the guitar lessons you need. For example, if you are one of those people who prefer personal Counseling, books, DVDs, online lessons you can not adjust well. It would be better for you to join real guitar lessons with a guitar teacher.

If you do not have, you analyze, you may end up finding that the lessons are not taken to fit your style and ability to learn. As such, it can also happen that it is a waste of money, even if the guitar lesson package has received many positive reviews.

So before rushing toSign up for guitar lessons, it is better that you all have read reviews guitar lesson and take into account your personal learning needs. This way you can be sure that your money is spent on guitar instruction.