Price: US $99.00

Pros:

• 6 DVDs of over 8 hours of practical instruction
• Jam Along DVD & CD with over 20 songs in various styles
  
• High Quality, Beautifully Presented Product
  
• Comprehensive Guide to becoming a Master Blues Player
• 60 day money back guarantee
• Proven and Trusted Market Leader in Guitar Instruction Courses
• Practical and easy to understand teaching style
  

Cons:

• The only con with Learn and Master Blues Guitar is that the price may exceed some people's budgets.

Review Detail

Learn and Master Blues Guitar is the latest offering from Legacy Learning Systems, whose flagship product, Learn and Master Guitar we have previously reviewed and awarded the highest possible rating of 5/5. It is a Winner in the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players' Choice Awards, as well as two Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education. It has been the benchmark for quality guitar instruction courses in recent years. The man behind that success, Steve Krenz is also the author of the Blues guitar Series. Steve has a degree in music, and has played professionally for more than 20 years. He is currently a professional guitarist, playing and recording in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Highlights

• Covers all aspects of blues playing from basic progressions to advanced soloing
• Standard Blues guitar techniques including Slide Playing
• Easy to Follow DVD menus and onscreen graphics
• Jam along Tracks played by Professional Session Musicians
• One on one in-depth interviews with noted blues guitarists Jack Pearson and Johnny Hiland
• Downloadable book & access to an online support community
  

Legacy Learning Systems have a consistently produced very high quality products and Learn and Master Blues Guitar is no exception. It is a professionally produced, comprehensive course that covers the musical understanding and concepts behind blues guitar, not just a bunch of chords, techniques, solos and riffs.

Each of the 6 DVDS includes an instructional session where Steve Krenz teaches blues guitar concepts in detail. This is followed by workshop time where the concepts are then practiced them together. The on-screen graphics are very easy to follow, and the detailed DVD menu provides the ability to jump quickly between topics. The Jam-Along DVD & CD provide 22 backing tracks specifically designed to give the student a variety of blues playing experiences. 8 of the tracks feature a band consisting of Nashville studio Musicians including Dino Pastin (Keyboard player for Alabama,Barbara Mandrell, Gladys Knight, CeCe Winans), Chris Tyrrell (Drummer for Tim McGraw and Love and Theft), and Tony Marvelli (Bass player Andre Crouch, American Idol Mandisa, Point of Grace, Mark Schultz, & Denver & the Mile High Orchestra). This is where Learn and Master Blues Guitar has the edge over the competition, the pedigree of the people involved in it's production is impeccable.

Conclusion

Learn and Master Blues Guitar is the Ferrari of blues instructional courses. There are other cheaper but still respectable options available, but for production quality, ease of use and depth of content, Learn and Master Blues Guitar is the best investment you could make.

What you get

• 6 DVDs of over 8 hours of practical instruction
  
• Jam Along DVD & CD with over 20 songs
• Downloadable book & access to online support community
• In-depth interviews with legendary blues guitarists Jack Pearson & Johnny Hiland..
• 60 day money back guarantee