Dimitri LeBel and Cathy Sunderland playing Tears of Joy from Tuck and Patty

Read the comments and be amazed that Dimitri learned how to play the song by ear.

Looking at the order page, it looks like this super-weekend sale will end on Thanksgiving Day itself, Thursday, November 27.

If you haven’t already, be sure to read my Learn and master Guitar review.

Looking at the order page, it looks like this super-weekend sale will end on Sunday, October the 19th, 2008.

If you haven’t already, be sure to read my Learn and master Guitar review.

When I visited their special sales page, I noticed that the sale will end on Thursday, October the 16th, 2008.

You get to purchase the course for $100 off the usual price.

Read my Learn and Master Guitar review to find out if this guitar program is suitable for you.

If you’re looking for quality free lessons, drop everything and head to JustinGuitar.com. I found his site when I was doing a Google search for tutorials on how to change strings on my electric guitar and bumped into this video made by Justin (he made a strong recommendation for DR guitar strings in the video). After viewing the video, I headed over to his site, and I was thoroughly impressed by the guitar lessons offered there (some are paid products but most are free) – hope you enjoy the visit too.

Guitar Scales

Guitarists.net: This has to be the best tool for practicing scales. You select a root note and then a scale type, and the site automatically shows you the notes for the scale for all fret positions. They also let you print out the scales.

Scale types run the whole gamut – you’ve got Major, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, Melodic Minor, Dorian b2, Lydian Augmented, Lydian Dominant, Hindu, Locrian #2, Super Locrian, Harmonic Minor, Locrian #6, Ionian #5, Dorian #4, Phrygian #3, Lydian #2, Alt bb7, Harmonic Major, Dorian b5, Phrygian b4, Lydian b3, Dominant b2, Lydian Augmented #2, Locrian bb7, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic and Blues Box.

… more to come …

Tuck Andress – Fingerstyle Mastery Part 3: Music Styles, Improvisation, and Melody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOnv9PQf00

Learn How to Play Jazz Guitar: Tips & Techniques for Creating the Jazz Sound : Walking Bass Chord Compin in Jazz Guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE5ZhBHy6Rs

Guitar Lesson – Jazz Blues with Walking Bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrbXGRLIDTc

… more to come …

Douglas Baldwin reviews the Ibanez SGT520VS Sage at AcousticGuitar.com and writes;
“The Ibanez SGT520VS is an ideal beginner’s guitar and good enough that any player looking for a solid second instrument would also be well served by checking it out. It’s highly playable, tonally satisfying, and shows every sign of being a well-made and long-lasting instrument that may well mature gracefully in tone and appearance. With a street price of less than $200, it’s safe to say Ibanez has taken a step toward reaching a new high at the low end.”

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I’m going to break down this post into two parts:

• Details about the deal
• Lead Guitar Secrets reviews

Here’s the Deal

Get 15% of your money back if you purchase the Dan’s lead guitar package through my site.

Let me say that again …

As an example, if you manage to get in on the introductory price of $129, 15% means I give you back $20 (yes, I round it up to the nearest dollar).

To take advantage of this best price offer, go through both steps below just before you make the purchase.

Step 1

Click Here to buy Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets course. Look for the “Order Now” link on the left menu bar, and select the package you’re interested in, and complete the order process.

Please remember to only perform this step when you’re ready to make a purchase. Purchasing through the link I gave you means that I earn a referral fee if you successfully complete the order, and it is this referral fee that I share a portion with you in the form of the money back deal.

Important! I recommend that you bookmark this page, close all your other browser and P2P (peer-to-peer software such as Gator, LimeWire, etc) sessions, and then return to this page. This is to ensure a higher chance of success that your transaction is linked to my account.

Step 2

As soon as you get a confirmation email, CONTACT ME with the following details:

Subject:
Lead Guitar Secrets rebate

Your Message:
State whether you want the “cash back” to be in the form of an Amazon.com gift certificate, or money in your Paypal account.

For the gift certificate, indicate clearly if you prefer the certificate from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, and so on.

For cash in your Paypal account, you’ll need to provide me with your Paypal email ID

That’s all there is to it!

Even if you don’t wish to purchase the course, you can always use the contact form to ask me further questions and clear any doubts you might have in your mind.

For those looking for more information on the course, read on …

Reviews

My personal review of the course isn’t going to be done in the usual manner.

As I have previously mentioned in my post about Dan’s Blues Guitar Secrets, I prefer to point readers to resources that actually showcase Dan’s skills as a guitar player and as a teacher.

I believe this is crucial because only you are in the position to judge whether “Dan the Guitar Teacher” has what it takes to make you a better guitar player.

I could go on and on about how great and excellent Dan and the course are, but it wouldn’t mean squat if you can’t “connect” with the lessons.

There’s always the money back guarantee that comes with the course, but we’d like to avoid having to go through the hassles as much as possible.

Without further ado, here are the resources:

Practicing tips video

Dan shared this video just before the launch of LGS. The video is taken directly from DVD #2 of the package and gives tips on practicing with three different rhythmic patterns.

Pre-launch video

Watch the pre-launch video where Dan talks about what will be taught in the course. I’ve captured screen shots of the most interesting parts below.

Styles covered – blues, rock, jazz, metal

Course components – 4 DVDs giving you 7 hours of video, 1 Audio CD that has 35 full-band jam tracks, 50 solo licks and 14 solos), 200-page book containing 188 musical examples (all come with tabs)

When Dan launched his highly-anticipated blues guitar package, many of you blues guitar fans are asking if the lessons contained in the course can make you a better player. Let’s try to address that question here.

Before you continue reading, let me lay out what I’ll cover in this post:

• About Dan Denley, the Blues Guitar Teacher
• The money back deal if you decide to purchase his course through my affiliate link

About Dan Denley, the Blues Guitar Teacher

You’re probably wondering why I didn’t just start with a full-blown review of the course.

There are a number of reasons, but the most important one is this:
It Really Doesn’t Matter What My Opinion Is To The Success Of Your Blues Learning Journey.

I mean it.

Guitar courses are notorious for receiving rave reviews from one group of students, only to get two thumbs down from another.

You have to realize that no single guitar course satisfies the needs or expectations of all students. We all come in at different experience levels, and with different sets of skills.

Personally, I’d rather review the teacher to get a better idea of the quality of the content that I can expect before I purchase any material from them.

In this respect, Dan has made it extremely easy for you to “review” him, because he’s published a ton of blog posts and free video lessons online.

I don’t know of any other guitar teacher who’s gone this far in being willing to display their playing and teaching skills (or lack thereof) for all to see.

So, without further ado, here’s a list (or catalog if you will) of what I think are Dan’s best blues videos, sample tracks and lessons, related blog posts, and my own summary of them. Hopefully, this will help you know for sure whether Dan’s the right blues guitar teacher to hand your money over to.

Jam track from BGS
This is the second track from the Jam CD (included in the $159 version of the package) that can be downloaded as an mp3 file, and you also get a peek into the tablature that’s written for that track (again, included in the Jam Tracks course book which is part of the $159 package).

In this track, Dan covers a typical 12-bar blues: 4 bars of I, two bars of IV, two bars of I, one bar of V, one bar of IV, one bar of I, one bar of V (a “turnaround”). The quality of the material is excellent, as the professionally-recorded backing music sounds like a full band (I even hear a bass guitar in there) and is certainly something you’d want to play on your sound system at full blast and play along to.

Customer testimonials
Dan’s course seems to have received a lot of positive customer reviews, and you can read them for yourself here.

The Money Back Deal

OK, about the offer that I was hinting at earlier …

All it takes is two steps (just so you know, it’s exactly of the same type I offer to customers of Steve Krenz’s Learn and Master Guitar program).

Step One

Important! Only perform this step once you are ready to make your purchase. I recommend that you first bookmark this page, close all your other browser sessions and P2P services (eg Gator, BitTorrent downloaders, etc) and then return to this page.

CLICK HERE to purchase Dan Denley’s Blues Guitar Secrets.

The link I just gave you is my affiliate link, and I will earn a referral fee (a.k.a. commission) if you make your order through that. I just want you to fully understand the implication of clicking that link.

Step Two

As soon as you get a confirmation email for your BGS purchase, CONTACT ME with the following details:

Subject:
Mention Blues Guitar Secrets rebate

Your Message:
State whether you prefer an Amazon.com gift certificate, or money in your Paypal account.

For the gift certificate, indicate clearly if you prefer the certificate from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, and so on.

For cash in your Paypal account, you’ll need to provide me with your Paypal email ID

That’s all! But I need to be clear about three things

First, after confirming your Order ID with the BGS system, I will immediately send you the rebate.

Second, kindly note that this is NOT Dan’s offer to you. It’s mine, so if there are any issues with my offer, it’s just between you and me. We have to be fair to Dan because legally, I’m not his agent, just an affiliate.

Third, and I’ve experienced this with my L&MG offer – there are occasions when the commission is NOT credited to me even if you purchase through my link.

This is always a major headache we affiliates go through, and if you’re interested in how this can happen, read this article about how spyware, bots and adware can steal our commissions. That’s why I asked you to close other browser sessions and peer-to-peer software running in the background, but even then, this is no guarantee that I get credited for your sale.

If I don’t get the commission, I won’t be able to pay you, unless I have customers who had elected NOT to ask for the rebate – in that case, I can then give you the rebate that was originally due to them.

Despite what I’ve just said though, I don’t want you to get the impression that commission theft happens all the time. So I strongly urge you to consider taking me up on my offer, as cases where I couldn’t send the rebate to my customers are extremely rare, less than 2% of all transactions.

Anyway, I’d like to wish you all the best with learning the blues guitar, and please, don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you need any clarification about guitars, guitar lessons or my offers.

Thank You!

The other thing to consider is whether it would be worthwhile spending a couple of hundred dollars extra to get the AL-2500 (which is seen as Les Paul knock-off), or the AL-2800, which costs approximately $310, or the AL-3000 series which goes for about $370.

Agile models in the 3000-series and higher tend to be of much higher quality, have more robust specifications, and gives you the greatest return on your investment. If you’re looking into taking your guitar for some serious gigging, the higher-priced models have higher levels of reliability, and you don’t have to deal with the unit breaking down half-way through your playing.

To help you with your quest, RondoMusic.net has a page which compares the specs and features of the following Agile models:

• AL-2000
• AL-2500
• AL-2800
• AL-2900
• AL-3000
• AL-3000 Slim Taper
• AL-3000M

You basically get better wood construction, electronics, pickups and strings with the higher-end models.

An alternative to consider if cash is tight is to purchase the AL-2000, which is already an excellent guitar in and of itself, and mod the guitar yourself. These modifications should be done to extract every ounce of performance and functionality from the unit.

Here’s a picture series of the Agile AL-3100 Wide posted by OsirisProtocol.

As mentioned previously, the basic Agile electric guitars are also frequently compared to the LP Standard electric guitars from Epiphone, but I personally dislike the way the Epiphone necks are built, and much prefer the Agiles.

I’m being quite picky here, and your hands are definitely not the same as mine, so you might want to go to the nearest guitar store and try both models out yourself. Experienced guitarists also cite poor build quality in many of the Epiphone models, so be sure to check this out also.

On another note, Gibson guitars are definitely superior to the Agiles, but you pay a hefty price for owning a Gibson.

If you’re interested in purchasing an Agile electric guitar, here are some additional resources that can help:

• Agile Guitar Forums – a very active online community that discusses everything Agile, from gear reviews to modifications to sound samples
• Extensive collection of user reviews at Harmony Central for each and every Agile guitar … and here’s Page Two.
• Agile user reviews at Ultimate Guitar – Not as extensive as the compilation at Harmony Central, but a useful addition nonetheless.
• Ratings data and best prices on: Agile AL-2800 | Agile AL-3000 | Agile Guitars