Category: Lead Guitar

I was sorting out a file with some old links on it, and I found a Youtube video from Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets so I thought I may as well mention it again. After all the hype with the launch it has proved to be popular with guitar students as are all of Dan’s courses.
The course contains four DVDs: 7 hours of video instruction (170 individual video segments). Nearly all the video includes fretboard close-ups (many with two cameras: one on left-hand and one on right-hand). The DVDs are not region encoded. This means they can be played on any standard DVD player anywhere in the world, or on a computer (PC or MAC) that has a DVD drive and DVD player software.
DVD 1 Topics:
How to build finger strength, agility & picking speed
Pentatonic scale in all five positions & all keys
Connecting the five positions of the pentatonic scale
Horizontal & vertical fretboard movement
2 & 3 string ascending/descending patterns
3-string box positions of pentatonic scale
DVD 2 Topics:
Intro to major scale & the 7 modes
The 7 modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
Solo licks 1-50
DVD 3 Topics:
You’ll learn 14-solos. Each solo was written to teach a specific solo technique: string-bends, common rhythmic patterns & licks, hammer-ons, pull-offs, alternate picking, slides, horizontal/vertical fretboard patterns, tone, etc. All the solos are explained in great detail, played at full-speed, then played again slowly. Each solo is accurately transcribed with tab & notation in the book.
DVD 4 Topics:
Rhythm guitar parts for 14-solos: explanation, instruction & fretboard close-ups
In depth study of how scales & chords relate
Understanding modal theory
Scale harmonization: what it is, how it works & why it’s important
Sale-chord relationships (how to choose the right scale for your solo)
Intervals, scale degrees
Major, minor, diminished & augmented chords
Minor scale & power chord harmony
Here’s the YouTube video

And you can get free, instant access to three video guitar lessons by visiting Lead Guitar Secrets Blog

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If you are the lead guitarist in a band, you take your place as a part of a group. You support and are supported by the rhythm gutiarist, keyboards player, bassist and drummer. Until the solo. Then it’s your moment of glory! Wind back in time to . . . er, now, I guess. What kind of lead guitar player are you going to be? Sure you have your favorite players who inspired you to begin studying the guitar, but how do you make the solo you are playing “your own”? Stamping your guitar playing with your own character starts with the WAY you play. Whether or not you just learn riffs and/or scales without any real repetitive practice to get your finger strength up is going to show in the way you present your guitar solos. It boils down to your physical control of the instrument. The degree to which you are master of this particular domain!
If you are interested mainly in blues music, then your choice of which scales and modes to learn is going to be governed by your relationship to the blues. If you need a little more versatility to play different kinds of music, you will need to look at expanding your repertoire of scales and chords.
Also knowing the fretboard up and down and inside out is a must. Simply let your familiarity with the guitar neck build up with time, as you learn more songs and scales.

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