Review Of Playing Through The Blues

Introduction And Overview

Learning to play blues guitar is an immensely rewarding pursuit. It's especially cool to discover how the blues greats create incredible blues licks and solos from such simple musical materials like pentatonic and blues scales. They seem to be able to milk as much music as possible from so few notes. You gotta respect that!

I've bought a LOT of blues guitar books over the years, but Playing Through The Blues is the first online blues guitar course that I have purchased. So I was really keen to find out just how good it was.

Product Overview:

Playing Through The Blues is a downloadable blues guitar course that covers both rhythm and lead guitar. It was created by Griff Hamlin, who is a professional guitar teacher and a very experienced performer.

Playing Through The Blues is made up of the following components…

•  Playing Through The Blues e-Book. This is a 50 page e-book in PDF format that covers blues lead guitar. It teaches vital things like common blues licks, essential blues scales, blues guitar techniques and four full blues guitar solos.
• Rhythm And Chords e-Book. This ia a 52 page e-book that is in PDF format. It covers essential blues chords, progressions and rhythm guitar techniques.
• Downloadble MP3 Audios. Griff has recorded mp3s of all the musical examples in the e-books.
• Downloadable Videos. There are over two hours of videos that cover the material in the e-books. These are in both MPEG-4 format and WMV format.
• Bonuses. At the time of writing this review there are six bonuses that you get when you buy Playing Through The Blues. These include…
  • Bonus lessons called "Lessons From The Masters".
  • 20 essential turnaround and ending licks.
  • Bonus jam tracks.
  • Finding notes video.
  • Chord substitutions video.
  • Blues shapes video.

(For full details of the current bonuses offered, please visit the Playing Through The Blues website).

Pricing Information:The price of Playing Through The Blues is: $47.00 (US Dollars).

I feel that this is an extremely fair price. (It's roughly the same price as ONE lesson from a good guitar teacher).

 [IMPORTANT: The price quoted above is accuarate at the time of writing this review. Keep in mind that the price might change. So be sure to check out the Playing Through The Blues website for the most up-to-date price].

Guarantee:

Playing Through The Blues has a 56-day money back guarantee. This is good because it gives you plenty of time to evaluate the course materials.

 

What I Liked About Playing Through The Blues

I've been going through the course over the last few days. Here are some things that I like about Playing Through The Blues…

• Easy To Understand: I really liked the format of the lessons. Griff explains everything in a simple and clear way. He doesn't complicate things with unneccesary theory.
• Mutiple Learning Styles Catered For: Griff has created the lessons using written words, diagrams, audio and video. This allows guitarists to choose the learning method that they feel most comfortable with.
• Based On Experience: Griff is an excellent player who can definitely play blues guitar fluently. Because of this you can trust the information in the course. He teaches techniques, licks, chord voicings and other materials that will help you in real-life playing situations (such as playing at jam sessions or at gigs).
• No Unnecessary Information: Griff has done a great job of teaching only the essential things that you need to learn. This will allow you to focus on the critical things that will get you playing fluent blues sooner.
• Talks About How To Sound Authentic: A big part of sounding authentic as a blues lead guitarist is learning to use both the minor blues and the major blues scales. I was really pleased that Griff talked about this extensively because it's vital information to know.

What I Didn't Like About Playing Through The Blues

There were a couple of things that bugged me about this course…

• Headless Videos: On a LOT of the videos Griff's head wasn't visible. I found this a bit distracting at times. I would have preferred that they pan back a bit when shooting the videos so that Griffs head was included. This would have made the videos seem more like a one-on-one guitar lesson with Griff.
• No Fingerings Or Picking Indications In Playing Through The Blues e-Book: Although there was TAB for all the musical examples Griff played, there were no fingerings or picking indications shown on the TAB. Although most blues guitar books don't include these, I feel that if Griff had included them it would make it even easier for people to learn the course material.

The Bottom Line

 

I'm giving Playing Through The Blues a rating of 4-stars. I didn't give it the maximum rating of 5-stars because of the two criticisms I had for it.

With that said, I still feel that Playing Through The Blues is an excellent blues guitar course. So if you are interested in becoming a competent blues guitarist, I can definitely recommend checking it out. Just click on the link below now to learn more…

Click Here To Visit The Playing With The Blues Website