Hi All,
If you’re a beginner or an intermediate player with room for improvement looking for a complete guitar theory course (without the hefty $45,000 price tag of Guitar Institute), then look no further.
Today we are looking at Dan Denley’s, Amazing Guitar Secrets – The ultimate no-holds-barred, super guide to instantly improve your guitar playing.
At first glance, I have to say wow… what a title! But the question is… does this course live up to its name? Let’s dig in and see.
The Amazing Guitar Secrets Guitar Course arrived at my front door via UPS in 3 days. That’s fast!
The course comes with so much good material I couldn’t decide where to begin. Fortunately, it comes with a quick start guide.
I spent an entire week combing over this material, and there is no way I can cover everything here. But I’ll certianly try.
Here is what the Amazing Guitar Secrets Guitar Course comes with:
- 1 12-step quick start guide
- 2 DVD’s (4 hours of one-on-one instruction)
- 1 massive 2-inch thick manual (about 400 pages)
- 41 video tutorials & 135 audio examples
So far I’m impressed, and I haven’t even opened the guitar manual yet. OK, let’s continue.
According to the quick start guide, my first step is to sign my Personal Commitment Statement on the progess tracker. I don’t know how many guitar courses I’ve purchased over the years, but this is a first. Dan Denley is putting me on the spot and asking me to make a commitment to myself to improve my playing.
Here’s just a small sample of what is suppossed to be in Dan Denley Amazing Guitar Secrets Guitar Course:
- How to read tablature
- How to build finger strength
- How to increase your dexterity
- How to form the five most common guitar chords
- How to tune your guitar with and without a tuner
- How to use a metronome to increase speed
- How to use power chords
- How to choose strings for your style of music
- Right and wrong picking
- Right and wrong hand positioning
- Chords and progessions
- Introduction to scales
Some of the advanced techniques to be covered:
- Tapping
- String Bends
- Double String bends
- Unison String bends
- Ghost String bends
- Hammer-ons
- Pull-off’s
- Slides
- Trills
- Vibrato
- Tremelo, and even more tricks
One-on-one DVD covers:
- How to string your guitar
- When and how often to re-string
- Identifing the different parts of the guitar
- String names and why they’re important
- Major chord forms — C, A, G, E, D
- Basic rhythms
- How to read and play tablature
- The Pentatonic scale
- Finger strength and training
- How to tune your guitar with and without a tuner
- How to tune your guitar using harmonics
- Identify notes on the fretboard
- Sharps, flats, naturals: what they are and how they work
- The major scale formula
- Whole steps and half steps
- The Major scale on one string
- The Major scale on three strings
- The Major scale in one octave
- The Major scale in two octaves
- Movable major scale patterns
- A Major scale in all seven positions
- Solo ideas in major scales
- Power chords (with and without the octave)
- Intervals: what they are and why they’re important
- Scale degrees: what they do and how to use them
Guess what? It’s all true! Every word of it. There is even more in there than that. Not only will you learn guitar theory, but practical application is inlcuded with each lesson to solidify what you’ve learned. You’ll get your money’s worth.
Dan does a fantastic job of breaking down each musical element (scales, chords, neck positions etc.) and organizing it into easy to read, easy to understand information, and then breaks it down even further by grouping information together into short courses. Just short of going to college, this is the most concentrated, condensed guitar theory course that I’ve ever seen.
Amazing Guitar Secrets will give you all the fundamentals you need for a quality guitar theory education.
If you’re looking for a solid foundation to build your guitar playing on, then this course is worth every penny you pay. It comes with a 90-day, unconditional money-back guarantee. Which means… touch it, play with it, use it, digest it, assimilate it, make it apart of you, and if you’re not 110% happy, do what I would do, get your money back.
So does the Amazing Guitar Secrets make the grade?
Presentation: A
Material: A
Quality: A
Usability: A
Shipping: A (Very fast)
Our recomendation: A Strong Buy
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5 users responded in this post
Thanks for this review Sixslinger! I had never heard of Amazing Guitar Secrets before this review, and it seems to be really nice.
I’m glad I found your site, too, because I am a fellow guitar lesson “reviewer”, and I plan to refer people here for extra guidance.
Take care Sixslinger,
Kyle
Hey Kyle,
Yes Amazing Guitar Secrets – By Dan Denley is an excellent guitar course. His guitar lessons are worth every penny. You will get an incredible education.
SixSlinger, Thanks for the review, the link, and the shout out at Stratoblog. I appreciate it greatly and I will be sure to get my hands on this software.
drop me a line sometime,
robintate@gmail.com
Well I have purchased Amazing Guitar Secrets and Blues Guitar Secrets. Everything started out fine until I found out that all the Minor Scales provided were incorrect. (It upset me because it wasted a lot of my time. Anyway I emailed Dan to point out the mistakes that I had found. That’s when I found out that Dan does not read his emails. Anyway I ended up ringing his US office from here in NZ, only to be told that Dan does not speak to customers or students and that if I waited, I would be sent an updated version of the course with no errors in it. 3 months later I am still waiting……. Apparently reading his forum others have found problems with the DVD’s. and they are still waiting for fixes. What are we supposed to do? Put our guitar playing on hold until he can be bothered to send the right info.
Hi NickT, thanks for the heads up and letting us know! We didn’t catch that either. Hopefully dan will fix that soon.