REVIEW: Lead Guitar Secrets Transforms Strummers Into Soloists

Does this sound like you?

You 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” , a blues guitar program called “Blues Guitar Secrets” and a program called "Acoustic 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.

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.

The choice comes down to:

- the Lead Guitar Secrets DVD Program at $149 to $197 or
- a local instructor at $520 to $1040.

Guarantee:
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.

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