Amazing Guitar Secrets Review

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Billie in Online Guitar Lessons Reviews

Reviewer: Billie Wyatt

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Website Reviewed:Amazing Guitar Secrets

Amazing Guitar Secrets is a Guitar Instructional DVD course designed and taught by Dan Denley. Dan Denley is a professional musician and guitar instructor. Except Amazing Guitar Secrets he has several other products are also worth to check out, like Acoustic Guitar Secret, Blues Guitar Secret, Lead Guitar Secret and Ultimate Guide To Chords.

Amazing Guitar Secrets is a course designed for guitar players from all levels (beginners to intermediate players). Even you are an advanced player, this is also a very valuable resource for you to refresh. This is not a course only talk about a particular style of guitar playing. It covers skills and techniques of both electric and acoustic guitars.

What’s inside of Amazing Guitar Secrets

2 DVDs (Approx. 4 hrs):
How to string & tune your guitar
How to read & play tablature
Chords: maj, min, open-position, barre, 7ths (dominant, maj, min), extended (9ths, 11th, 13ths)
Scales: maj, min (natural, harmonic, melodic), 7 modes, pentatonic (maj, min, blues). Note: scales taught in all positions and all keys over entire fretboard.
Finger strength exercises to increase speed, stamina and ability to fret difficult chords
How to identify notes on the fretboard
Sharps, flats, naturals: what they are and how they work
Intervals, accidentals (sharps & flats) scale degrees,
Solo skills: bends, vibrato, hammer-ons/pull-offs, tapping, sliding, tremolo/speed picking, trills
Composition techniques (how to write your own music)

1 CD-ROM:
41 video tutorials (Approx. 3.5 hrs)
How to read chord charts & diagrams
Intro to music notation
Soloing with pentatonic scales

401 pg. Amazing Guitar Secrets book:
All tab & notation for DVDs
Guitar Theory Made Easy
Mastering The Major Scale
Minor Scale Mania
How To Solo With The Major, Minor And Blues Pentatonic Scales
30, Simple And Ready-To-Play Chord Progressions
Quick And Easy Way To Play Rhythmic Patterns
Progress Tracker

Bonuses ($160 total value):
20 strength & agility exercises ($29 value).
40 jam tracks ($25 Value) mp3 download.
Progress Tracker ($35 Value). Chart your daily progress & shows you what to do next
Subscription To “VIP” Owners Club ($59 Value). Ongoing series of articles (email) and video-tutorials to keep you motivated.
Quick-start guide ($12). Exactly how to use the material in your course.

What you can learn from Amazing Guitar Secrets

#1 Finger Strength

Playing guitar requires finger strength at some level. You need to train your fingers to “do what you tell them to do.” In this course there are specific exercises to build strength&speed. If you can keep working on it for a few months, you will be surprised about your finger strength progress.

#2 Scales

Scales are the backbone of all music. Everyone who plays guitar must learn scales. In the scales session of Amazing Guitar Secrets, it covers all the details of scales. I can tell you if you seriously work on everything in this session, you will have a solid understanding of what scales are and how to apply them.

#3 Chords

Just knowing how to play a chords is pretty limited. but knowing how to create a chord progression is the key to making music.

In the chords session, you will learn almost everything about chords.

Open-position chords or “cowboy chords”
Barre-Chords
7th chords: Major, Minor, Dominant
Extended chords: 9ths, 11ths, 13ths

It does not only let you know how to play chords, but also know how to create a chord progression. Knowing how to create a chord progression is the key to making music.

#4 Rhythm

I don’t have to say too much about rhythm. You know rhythm is the root of music. They rhythm lessons of this course can give you a solid understanding of basic rhythmic patterns which will make your playing sounds better.

#5 Application

To only understand the fundamentals are not enough. Amazing Guitar Secrets has also included tips of how to apply them to your playing and write your own music.

One thing I like very much about Amazing Guitar Secrets is it contains a Progress Tracker alone with those books. The Progress Tracker allows you to put in dates that you master each concept, exercise and skills. You can actually track what you’ve already learned, go back to review and what you need to work on next.

I personally think this is the #2 Guitar Instructional DVD program. Learn and Master Guitar is just a little bit more organized and better for beginners. The big advantage for Amazing Guitar Secrets is the price. If you have money issue, this is the best Guitar Lesson DVD to check out. If money is not an issue, I suggest you to check out Learn and Master Guitar. You can also read our Learn and Master Guitar Review.

Price:

Amazing Guitar Secrets Gold $129.00
Amazing Guitar Secrets Standard $97.00

NOTE: there is a small shipping fee on top of the course price since this is a physical product that is mailed to your home.

I also have done some mathematics for my friends about the price.

Private lessons: $30/hr x 4 lessons/mo = $1,440 per year

The result is as clearly as you can see!!!

The difference between Gold Edition and Standard Edition is:

The Gold Edition includes everything in as introduced and the Standard Edition does not include the Playing Chord Progressions in any Key and the 41 additional Audio Tracks. The bonus package is included in both editions.

Right now Amazing Guitar Secrets also offer another bonus which is not list in the bonus package. If you order any Edition you will have a 30-day free trial membership to Guitar Theory Secrets. The Guitar Theory Secrets is an online membership community where you can login to access all kinds of theory concepts information.

Anyway, I strongly suggest you to visit Amazing Guitar Secrets and watch the sample videos.