Lead Guitar Secrets by Dan Denley is a new guitar learning course that has been created with the objective of teaching soloing and lead guitar skills. Playing the lead guitar is quite different from playing rhythm guitar. While rhythm guitar supports and accompanies the lead solos and melodies by providing a basic structure on which the whole song is based upon, the lead guitar refers to soloing in a song, by providing continuous, high-pitched melodies. But for being able to play lead guitar, the learner must learn about scales, arpeggios, riffs and several advanced techniques of lead guitar playing such as hammer ons, pull offs, tapping, bending, vibrato, slides, etc.
With Lead Guitar Secrets program, the challenging task of learning to play lead guitar becomes much more easier and fun-filled. You will get to learn to read music notations and tablatures, learn about scales (major, minor as well as pentasonic scales), ear training, chord recognition and advanced chords, in addition to learning a large number of techniques, such as tapping, bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, sliding, vibrato, natural harmonic, pinch harmonic, palm-muting, etc. and several other important guitar playing aspects that are useful for learning to play lead guitar.
The learner also learns some really useful soloing techniques for guitar blues, rock, jazz and several other styles using this program. Soon after you have learnt some of the prominent soloing techniques, you can practice and play along with the Jam along CDs that contain a lot of songs and some of the best guitar licks and practice until you are confident enough. This program also provides you with several useful tips and exercises for improving your finger dexterity and finger strength.
This program provides you with a set of 4 DVDs, a jam-along CD, an interactive CD-Rom, a Lead Guitar Secrets book, as well as a bonus 10 minutes video tutorial – “Direct Chord Substitution”. While the first DVD covers topics like finger strength and pentatonic scales, the second DVD contains 50 solo guitar licks (blues-rock style), the third DVD focuses on translating whatever you have learnt into practical application and the last DVD unravels the greatest secret of the world of lead guitar playing. He teaches you a unique 4 step process for recognizing the scales and pitch, identifying the chords and the progressions, and most importantly, he teaches you about the unique scale-chord relationship through this DVD.
Unlike other guitar teaching programs which limit themselves to teaching guitar tabs, Dan Denley’s program teaches you to read conventional musical notation as well as reading guitar tablatures. The free guitar licks provided with this program, allow the learner to apply the skills that they have learnt through this program.
Unfortunately, Lead Guitar Secrets is not meant for every one who is interested in guitar playing. This program is best for only that category of guitar players, who want to specifically learn and master lead guitar skills and soloing techniques. Therefore, this program is very unsuitable for absolute beginners who lack the essential prerequisites in guitar training. Similarly, this program is also unsuitable for those guitar learners, who want to specifically learn playing rhythm guitar.