Amazing Guitar Secrets – Dan Denley

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Amazing Guitar Secrets is a course that combines video, audio, and printed workbooks, to accelerate the process of learning both the electric and acoustic guitar.

Though Amazing Guitar Secrets touts itself as a guitar course for beginners, much of the content is better suited for slightly more advanced guitarists. The course is fairly heavy on theory and technical guitar playing. In other words, if you’re just wanting a guitar course for the grandkids, this ain’t it.

Amazing Guitar Secrets was designed and taught by guitar instructor, Dan Denley. Dan has a solid musical background that includes a music degree from the University of Memphis, several years of band playing experience, and classical training in piano and vocal performance. Dan Denley has also created several more advanced learn-guitar courses, such as Blues Guitar Secrets, Lead Guitar Secrets, and Acoustic Guitar Secrets.

Features

Parts of the course:

DVDs – The Amazing Guitar Secrets DVDs contains approximately 4 hours worth of lessons. Production values, while not exceptional by any means, are definitely acceptable. For the most part, the video quality is sharp and the audio is clear. When necessary, on-screen graphics and diagrams are shown to better illustrate a topic.

On the flip side, we had a few complaints with how the lessons were produced, such as the lack of multiple cameras for showing the right and left hands simultaneously. When teaching, Dan tends to uses a lot of technical terms, and sometimes doesn’t give adequate introductions to difficult topics, which can be frustrating for guitar newbies. We also found errors scattered throughout the course material, which actually isn’t all that uncommon in self-published courses.

While not as important as the prior points, it’s worth mentioning that the graphic design of the course material is sub-standard in terms of quality. While it doesn’t make or break the course, it would have been nice if it was better produced, especially considering the price.

Workbook – This huge 401-page ring-coil binder contains 10 black-and-white workbooks that supplement the DVDs. You’ll find a progress tracker where you can keep an eye on how fast you’re learning, the Amazing Guitar Secrets Guide Book, and several smaller books that help you learn more about guitar theory, rhythms, scales, and more.

CD – On the included CD are 40 high-quality audio jam tracks in .wav format. These tracks are a nice addition to the course, but unfortunately aren’t nearly as useful as they could have been. They were recorded using only the guitar, and not with a full band, which is a lot more fun to play along with. Obviously, the ability to play solo isn’t an option either, since there aren’t any other instruments to jam with.

The CD also contains .pdf versions of all 10 workbooks that are included in the binder as well as 30 flash tutorials that cover how to:

• Read chord charts/diagrams
• Read and play barre chords
• Recognize rythmatic patterns
• Learn pentatonic scales
• Learn minor caged chords
• Learn 7th chords (Major and Minor)
• Learn Movable barre chords

The Amazing Guitar Secrets course should keep you busy learning guitar for many months. During that time you can expect to learn: How to build your finger strength, an very important but overlooked part of learning guitar, how to play all sorts of essential chords and scales, and how to recognize different rhythm patterns. Musical theory is also a big part of this course.