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We've just finished looking at Griff Hamlin's latest package, Playing Through The Blues - A Guide For The Lead Guitar Player. Obviously we see a lot of products either because we're looking for something specific, or because someone wants us to promote their product.
Most of the time we're less than impressed, but this product has us quite excited because it is so different from anything we've seen in a long time. That is why we've taken the time to sit and type a review for all our members and the hundreds of people who visit the site every day to tell you all about it.
Learning the blues can be a very frustrating, in fact, learning the guitar can be very frustrating. It seems so simple, after all a lot of blues solos are quite slow, unlike the breakneck picking of some of the heavy rock solos, but only a handful of people seem to know the trick to really making it sound great. Griff and his team have put together what we believe is a really thorough, step-by-step method that has actually been tested and proven on his own guitar students over the past several years.
That's right, Griff still maintains a very busy individual teaching schedule alongside his work to provide tuition to his many online students.
The main book provides all of the scales, techniques, theory, and tricks that you need. It follows a simple and logical progression. Each chapter builds on the one before it and at the end of each chapter, you're told exactly what you need to be able to do before moving on to the next chapter. If you make sure that you don't move on before you master the work in the current chapter you can't fail with this.
The best part, however, is the audio examples and jam tracks. Every audio example comes with a full speed and slow speed version, so you can play along easily at first, and pick up the pace as you get better.
There are also 4 complete solos that really sound like they are from your favorite blues songs. You could memorize them and use them, as they are, at your next blues jam or gig. They demonstrate all of the techniques included throughout the book, and give a very good "real world" example of the techniques and approach.
Also, there are 6 jam tracks that come with the package, so once you get going you can just play along with the band. And the tracks are really good quality, just like you're jamming with a live band. It's a lot of fun.
As a bonus Griff has included an excellent book full of turnaround and ending licks. Some of them are pretty straight forward blues that you might have come across elsewhere, but a couple of them really blew us away!.
As we're sure you can you can tell, we're really impressed with this package, and the testimonials on Griff's website prove that we're not the only ones. No question about it, this is a very well thought out, tested, and put together system.
I don't want you to just take my word for it though, take a look for yourself at: Playing through the Blues
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