ou have been dreaming about playing a
smoking’ hot guitar solo from
one of your favorite songs but just
don’t have a clue where to begin.
Or…
You have enough guitar skills to
memorize a few impressive guitar solos from your favorite songs but,
to save your own life, you can’t figure out how to create decent
solos of your own.
Or…
you would love to be
confident enough to sit in with a great but unfamiliar blues band
and instantly improvise heart stopping solos over songs that you are
hearing for the first time.
The Purpose
of the
“Lead Guitar
Secrets” DVD guitar lesson program is to teach you how to create
your own hot guitar solos and to play any existing solos with just
10 minutes of practice per day.
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 guitar lesson program
called
“Amazing Guitar Secrets” and a DVD based blues guitar program
called
“Blues 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:
Although learning to play lead guitar
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 will walk you through all of the fundamental
building blocks of playing lead guitar.
Is This Lead Guitar Course For Acoustic
Or Electric Guitar Players?
Since lead guitarists use both acoustic
and electric guitars to play solos, the short answer to this
question is both. It is actually a helpful educational experience to
play solos on both. If you do choose to use an acoustic guitar it
helps if you have a cut-away section near the body of your guitar
because some of the solos require access to the high notes way up on
the neck.
Most of the fundamentals taught in
Lead Guitar
Secrets 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 won’t experience the
intended sound if you don’t use an electric. Dan Denley uses and
electric guitar through out the entire course while demonstrating
each lesson.
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 some of the past guitar lesson
programs Dan would sometimes refer to a musical term before he would
define it and a few of the author’s explanations of terms were not
crystal clear.
Lead Guitar
Secrets shows improvement and polish. While not perfect, this
issue is not really a problem.
The Positives:
- The
author: Dan Denley is experienced at putting together effective
guitar instruction courses like “Amazing Guitar Secrets” and “Blues
Guitar Secrets”.
- The
author: Dan Denley is an expert, experienced guitarist and a
trained educator.
- The
author: has a relaxed, organized and easy-to-relate-to style of
communicating.
- This
course takes the mystery out of how to improvise solos on the
guitar.
- This
course is easy to follow and understand
-
excellent use of video close ups to clarify fingering chords and
scales.
-
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 the
student’s learning style requires more than reading a book alone can
provide.
-
Lead 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. Lead Guitar Secrets got this
part exactly right.
The Price Analysis:
Option One:
is $197 USD, (as of this writing ), and includes the
Lead Guitar
Secrets Lesson Program as described above plus 12
issues of Dan Denley’s Online Video Newsletter.
Option Two: is $149 USD (as of this
writing ), and includes the
Lead Guitar
Secrets Lesson Program as described above without
the 12 issue’s of Dan Denley’s Online Video Newsletter.
Lead Guitar Secrets by Dan Denley
contains the equivalent of 6 months to one years 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.
Lead Guitar Secrets comes with a 90 day,
unconditional, money-back guarantee.
Free Sample Lessons:
Lead Guitar
Secrets offers 6 “test drive before you buy” lessons sent by
email. Generous online audio samples are also available of some of
the solos you will learn as well as some of the exact video lesson
found in the course.
Click Here
For Free Sample Lessons
Shipping:
Shipping is available to any country in
the world.
The Bottom Line:
I have witnessed many guitar players
that have a nack for emulating a few classic guitar solos. While
that can be a lot of fun, it limits you to just a small part of the
total joy of playing the guitar.
Lead Guitar
Secrets offers an open window into the world of understanding
the building blocks that are at the root of every solo. With this
powerful new information you will be able to figure out and play
any solo, not just a few that you may have memorized. You will
also be well on your way to improvising your own leads.
I found this course to be organized,
thorough, easy to follow, lots of fun and priced exactly right. 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 master this beautiful
instrument. If you are ready to be transformed from a guitar
strummer into a lead guitarist then Lead Guitar
Secrets is the program for you.
