Learn and Master Blues Guitar DVDs Review: How To Create Your Own Blues Solos?

Learn and Master Blues Guitar Spotlight with Steve Krenz is designed to be an “in depth, step by step, course in Blues Guitar Playing – the real nuts and bolts and not just a couple of Blues licks. You’ll get what you need; the musical understanding, the concepts, chords, techniques and riffs that allow you to enter the world of serious blues guitar playing.”

About The Author

Steve Krenz , according to the Learn & Master Guitar web site, has a degree in music and has played professionally with a broad range of bands from symphony orchestras to the well known “Fifth Dimension”. Steve is currently an active guitarist playing and recording in Nashville, Tennessee. Besides having taught thousands of lessons to students of all ages and skill levels he has held guitar playing and music workshops all over the world.

Steve is soft spoken and down to earth with out being boring. His teaching was logical and thorough while moving along at a good pace. He cleverly offers short , fun and impressively inspiring performances as transitions between many lessons.

Who Will Benefit Most From The Blues Guitar Spotlight?

This blues guitar course is not for absolute beginners that have never touched a guitar. However, you don’t need a lot of experience either. An experienced beginner that has not necessarily mastered the following skills but, has at least been introduced to them should succeed: barre chords, the notes of at least one Major scale, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending strings, sliding and understand the music staff, tabs and chord diagrams.

Are These Lessons Designed For Electric or Acoustic Guitar Players?

While you need to learn and understand many of the same techniques for acoustic and electric blues this course has a focus on the electric blues.

What Is Included With This Blues Course

1.  6 DVDs of over 8 hours of practical instruction
2.  Jam Along DVD & CD with over 20 songs in various styles for practice
3.  In-depth interviews with legendary blues guitarists Jack Pearson & Johnny Hiland
4.  Downloadable book
5.  Easy to follow on-screen music and key ideas
6.  Essential blues guitar techniques explained thoroughly and simply

The Negatives

The companion lesson manual has to be downloaded from the internet then read from your computer. Another option is to print it out on your printer or take it to kinkos to print and bind. All of these options are somewhat inconvenient but this download method does greatly reduce the cost of the overall course.

Support and Guarantee

An Online Support Community is available to each student. A 60 Day Money Back Guarantee is standard on all purchases from Legacy Learning Systems.

Price

The stand-alone Blues Guitar Course is USD plus shipping (ships world wide)

The Bottom Line

What this course offers that so many others miss is a complete, detailed and thorough presentation that teaches the “why” of blues guitar. In fact Steve Krenz often warns the student to not just memorize a series of licks but instead learn to understand and actually hear the music. This is essential for developing your own unique brand of blues guitar soloing.

The fact is that if you are diligent about working through the dvds and practice sessions you will well on your way to being able to sit in with an unfamiliar band and instantly play a song you have never heard. The only instructions the band leader might need to tell you is to play the blues in “A” and you’ll know exactly how to proceed.

This course offers an award winning guitarist and gifted instructor, a logical progression of the lessons, excellent video production values and a fair price. For these reasons, I have absolutely no problem recommending the Learn and Master Blues Guitar Spotlight with Steve Krenz.

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Is Art and Music Education Essential for All Kids?

The moment we speak about complete education, we instinctively associate art and music to the core curriculum. Art and music add value to the overall development of a kid’s psychology. It affects the little one’s perceptions about the things around him, making him a better and reasoned person as an adult. From the time a kid associates himself with the world, the first thing he recognizes is his mother’s lullaby. It is this lullaby that is a kid’s first association with music. Have you ever noticed the glow in the kid’s eyes when he hears Kids personalized music? It’s the beginning of a life long affair with art and music.

Art & Music – A Kid’s First Teachers

Music for a kid is the art of expressing emotions. The kid learns that the subtle language of love and care is different from the other noise around him. The very first thing he learns is the education that reaches his soul, purifying his thoughts and reasoning process. If we talk about science, mathematics, history, social science, all these subjects come later in a kid’s life. All this education would prove meaningless, if the kid doesn’t grow up to be a responsible, logical and sensible human being.

By helping the kid’s reasoning sense develop well, kids personalized music helps develop great problem solving attitude in him. Art and music ensure that the kid develops self-confidence, empathy, logical attitude, creativity and social responsibility. Our foremost desire should be to make the education system complete in all respects.

Communication Made Simple

As music and arts help communicate effectively, kids love to express their emotions in terms of music or a painting. The melody, rhythm and harmony in music reach his brain in waves teaching him to differentiate between good from bad. Similarly, when he learns to draw his first amateurish painting, he learns how to express himself in colors. Kids learn functional communication, cognition, and interaction, hence adding getting into academic learning in a more proficient manner.

You may have noticed young kids making hand and facial gestures while listening to kids personalized music, it makes them overcome the fear of expressing themselves in public. They communicate with ease and in a better manner than ever.

Art and Music Build Strong Personality

Kids are like wet clay which needs to be given a proper shape from childhood. Strong morals and sense of responsibility is built through a kid’s participation in various forms of art and music. We can not build a race that has strong morals if we can not get to touch their souls. And, expression via music and arts is one way we can provide subtle lessons that would stay with them for their life.

You can try making your kid listen to personalized kids CDs, which are full of nice songs with a moral hint to it. Music is generally loved by kids, and you would not have to force anything on the kid. You would notice that without much effort you have instilled essential values in your kid.

Academic and Sensory Education

Even though one may think how art and music affect our daily life, the answer is simple. While other subjects only mean academic, arts and music are not only academic but also sensory, meaning they please the senses. These activities involve imagination and judgment that are essential for the complete development of a kid’s growing body and mind.

It is crucial that the syllabus designed for them integrates the physical as well as mental needs of a student. It should sensitize the neuromuscular system in the body that helps the kid meet challenges through out his life. Arts and music invigorate the kid’s mind sharpening the thought process by developing reading and hearing skills. Personalized kids CDs are an added advantage as they build the interest into music and pave the way for kids to a new motivating and fascinating world.

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Inventions for Use in Audio and Music

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Ty Cohen Presents A Review of the Top 3 Music Business Books That Every Artist, Singer, Musician and Rapper Should Read – Part 1

Being a professional means being informed. That is as true for musicians and singers as it is lawyers and doctors. Reading industry trade publications is one way to keep abreast of trends and news. But to study the music business in depth there is not better resource than books. In the first of a three part series, here are reviews of three books about the music business that are must-reads. Each author explores the music business from their unique perspectives, offering readers an honest view of the industry they strive to be part of.

Donald S Pressman’s All You Need to Know about the Music Business: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century is a detailed, frequently humorous look at the business of making music. Now in its eighth edition, the book is considered a bible for anyone wanting to know the ins and outs of the music business. Pressman is a Los Angeles-based music attorney with twenty-five years experience and his clients include everyone from record label executives, singers and songwriters to film companies and publishers. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential people in the entertainment industry.

His book offers many useful tips such as how to hire agents and managers, strategies for marketing one’s music and the steps needed to legally protect intellectual property. Pressman also guides readers through complex contractual issues such as recoupment, royalties, advances, and distribution deals. Being an attorney, Pressman stresses the need to protect oneself against copyright infringement, bad record deals, and unscrupulous business managers and agents.

The most recent edition has up to the minute information on how the Internet is impacting the music business and the performers’ bottom lines. The information is just as important for industry veterans as it is newcomers. Pressman explains how video streaming services work and how royalties are computed for digital distribution services. He also covers podcasting, music downloads, streaming and webcasting.

More than just nuts and bolts of how the business works, Pressman gives readers an insider’s guide that shows how to navigate potential pitfalls and how to establish successful relationship with other music industry professionals.

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