Rating: 9.5 out of 10
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets by Dan Denley
The
Purpose of the “Acoustic
Guitar Secrets” DVD guitar lesson program is to teach a
beginning through intermediate student mastery of the acoustic
guitar.
What are some are the essential
elements that make a great guitar lesson program?
1. A great instruction program will go
beyond the limitations of just reading a book by offering clear
audio and video demonstrations of each lesson.
2. The program’s author should ideally
possess the following credentials:
- play
well themselves
- have
played in a band
-
toured with a band
-
recorded
- must
be a gifted and preferably experienced, formally educated guitar
teacher.
About The Author Dan Denley:
Dan Denley fits the above definition of
the ideal guitar instructor well. He 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
guitar instructor. He is also the author of the highly rated and
successful beginner through intermediate, DVD based, guitar lesson
program called “Amazing
Guitar Secrets”, a blues guitar program called “Blues
Guitar Secrets” and program designed to teach soloing and
improvisation called “Lead
Guitar Secrets” .
Dan has an easy to listen to voice
coupled with a relaxed style of communicating. He wisely leaves in
some playing mistakes while demonstrating the lessons. This is one
of the reasons that makes Dan easy-to-relate-to and therefore
effective in his teaching.
Who Will Benefit Most From This
Program:
Rank Beginners that have never even held
a guitar through intermediate players.
Styles Covered:
A total of 43 songs are taught which
cover blues, bluegrass, country, fingerpicking, rock, pop and Jazz.
The Physical Parts
(1)
Plastic DVD / CD Organizer
(5)
Lesson DVDs (7 hours of video)
(2)
Audio Cds (127 tracks of solo acoustic guitar play-along music)
(1) 135
Page Spiral Bound Training Guide with tabs and 158 examples.
A Partial List of The Lesson Content:
A
total of 43 songs are taught which cover blues, bluegrass,
country, fingerpickining, rock, pop and Jazz.
Indepth Study of Chords Including: Open, Barre, maj/min, 7th,
dominant, 9ths, 13th, alt. Dom.
Chord Progressions, Fills and Embellishments
Fingerstyle Techniques
Blues Song Forms: 12-bar, shuffle, ragtime and delta
Country Styles: Travis picking, bluegrass and old time
Exploring Jazz Progressions and Song Forms
Bonuses Included:
Online Support Forum for
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets Owners Only
Progress Tracker
Quick Start Guide
Fast-Mover Bonuses: for the first
1000 programs sold before 12/14/07
The
Ultimate Success Secret e-book
1
hour interview with Jazz Master Chris Standring
1
hour interview with guitar virtuoso Will Landrum
Discover the #1 mistake nearly all guitarist make and how to
avoid it. Andrew Koblick interviews Dan Denley.
Mini Lessons on Modes that include a video tutorial with tab and
downloadable Jam-track.
25
minute tutorial on Pentatonic Scales
The Negatives:
At times Dan Denley rambles and mumbles
a little which can be a little distracting. Some of the video shots
could have benefited from a re-take or two.
I wish that
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets would have gone into more depth on the importance
and power of learning how to practice. While Dan does touch on this
subject it is only given a surface treatment. This is somewhat
remedied because by default each lesson is structured so that you do
what he does which makes an acceptable practice routine. For more
detail on setting up a more powerful practice routine read an
article on this site called
“Learn To Play Guitar Twice As Fast While Practicing Half as Much”.
However, none of these issues should be
a deal breaker.
The Positives:
- The author: Dan Denley is experienced
at putting together effective guitar instruction courses like
“Amazing Guitar Secrets”, “Blues Guitar Secrets” and “Lead Guitar
Secrets”. Each have received excellent reviews from me with Lead
Guitar Secrets getting a perfect score of 10 out of 10.
- The
author: Dan Denley is an expert, experienced guitarist and a
trained educator.
- The
author: in general, has a relaxed, organized and easy-to-relate-to
style of communicating.
- This
course is easy to follow and understand
-
excellent use of video picture-in-a-picture close ups to clarify
fingering chords and scales.
- 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 the
student’s learning style requires more than reading a book alone can
provide.
-
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets is primarily a video course with written support
materials and not the other way around. I have found that it is less
effective and more difficult if you must first read an instruction
manual then find a video snippet on your computer that supports the
book lesson. I like the much richer experience of watching,
listening then emulating a live instructor demonstrating an entire
lesson. It is much more effective to use the instruction book only
as a means to clarify the video lesson. Acoustic Guitar Secrets got
this part exactly right.
The Price Analysis:
Option One: $129 ( $70 discount
35%) for the first 1000 buyers before December 14, 2007. This
includes the 6 fast-mover bonuses.
Option Two: is $199 USD, if you
wait until after the first 1000 copies are sold or Dec 14th,
2007 which ever comes first. This will not include the 6
fast-mover bonuses. They are only available to the first 1000 buyers
before December 14, 2007.
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets by Dan Denley contains the equivalent of 6 months
to one year’s worth of guitar lessons if you were to space them out
as if you were taking weakly lessons from a local guitar instructor.
A local instructor typically will charge anywhere from $20 to $50
per weekly lesson. Your minimum cost, ( not including materials ),
at only $20 per lesson for 6 months would be at least $520.
The choice comes down to:
- the
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets DVD Program at $129 to $199 or
- a
local instructor at $520 to $1040.
Guarantee:
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets comes with a 90 day, unconditional, money-back
guarantee. No receipt is required.
Free Sample Lessons:
Acoustic Guitar Secrets offers 5 “test
drive before you buy” lessons.
Acoustic
Guitar Secrets Free Lessons
Shipping:
Shipping is available to any country in
the world.
The Bottom Line:
There are so many guitar lesson programs
that are skimpy on substance and poorly organized that they never
even make the cut to be reviewed on this site. Acoustic Guitar
Secrets is a breath of fresh air. It is filled to the brim with
thoughtfully organized lessons that touch on so many essential
aspects of learning the guitar completely and yet in a way that is
fun. I especially like the fact that after you have learned the
basics you can skip around to any section that catches your
interest. (My favorite was the fingerpicking section.)
Acoustic Guitar Secrets Earns a high
rating score of 9.5 out of 10 points. I can, without hesitation,
recommend this acoustic guitar lesson program for anyone that has a
strong desire to go beyond learning just a few guitar songs and
really dig into the much more satisfying and enjoyable process of
actually mastering the guitar.
The bottom line is… this program works.
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