Reviewed by ReviewGuitarLessons.com
Overall Rating: 5/5Stars
Learn & Master Guitar Review:
Extremely High Quality Video
Most In-Depth Course: 10 DVDs, 5 CDs, & 107 Page Lesson Book
Expensive, But Well Worth The Extra Money
We would first like to thank Legacy Learning Systems for sending us a copy of Learn and Master Guitar for the purpose of this review.
The product arrived in less then a week and was very nicely packaged. You can tell right away that the people at Legacy Learning Systems set out to put together one of the best guitar lesson DVD courses available. The look and feel of this guitar course is impressive right out of the box.
Everything is nicely organized into a 3 ring binder. The DVDs, Jam Along CDs and 107 page lesson book fit nicely into the binder and helps keep everything organized. The course is broken down into twenty sessions. Each session builds upon the previous one, so it's designed for you to follow the sessions in order. Both guitar and musical concepts are introduced in a simple and logical sequence.
In our opinion anyone serious about learning guitar should check out this course. We haven't found anything else that compares to Learn & Master Guitar. If you do buy this course please come back to this site and let us know what you think!
What you get:
107 page detailed guitar lesson book.
10 full-length DVD's (over 20 hours of video), organized into 20 sessions.
110 "active" jam tracks (5 full CDs), including features for turning guitar tracks on, partial on or off, as well as slow, medium or fast play features.
Access to members only forum online.
Lots of supplemental files online (songs, music, guitar tabs, tips and tricks)
The DVD's
Session 1 Starting Off Right
Session
2 Reading Music & Notes on the 1st & 2nd Strings
Session 3 Notes on the 3rd & 4th Strings
Session 4 Notes on the 5th & 6th Strings
Session 5 Basic Open Chords
Session 6 Minor Seventh & Suspended Chords
Session 7 Barre Chords on the 6th String
Session 8 Barre Chords on the 5th String
Session 9 The Secret to Great Strumming
Session 10 Fingerstyle Guitar |
Session 11 Pentatonic Scales - The Foundation of Soloing
Session 12 Advanced Chords
Session 13 Playing the Blues
Session 14 Giving Your Playing Some Style
Session 15 Electric Guitars - The Heart of Rock & Roll
Session 16 Advanced Strumming - Going Beyond the Basics
Session 17 Going Beyond the First Position
Session 18 Jazz
Session 19 Soloing
Session 20 All the Chords You Need to Know |
Steve Krenz is the teacher of the course and he does a great job. The thing we like best about this program is that you can work at your own pace. If you need to go over something again the DVD's make it very easy to return to a previous lesson or pause the lesson while you work. The most impressive thing we found about Learn & Master Guitar is the fact that it really teaches music theory! Many courses show you a few chords and some tablature and that's about it. The Learn and Master Guitar Course really takes time to teach students to read music as well as understanding scales, chords, playing style and soloing.
Jam Along CD's
One thing that sets the Learn & Master Guitar Course apart from other guitar lesson courses is the addition of the Jam Along CD's. The course comes with 5 full CD's of backing tracks for you to practice with. We loved playing along with the Jam-Along CDs. There are "active" tracks that enable you to play the tracks with the lead guitar track turned on, off, or at partial volume. This is very cool!
We really like turning the lead guitar track off and then practicing solos with the band on the Jam Tracks. We should mention that the band used for the Jam Tracks is excellent! Legacy Learning Systems spared no expense on hiring professional players to lay down these tracks. The tracks for beginner songs enable playing each song at slow, medium or fast pace and this is very helpful if you are a beginner.
The only downside of Learn & Master Guitar is that it is pretty pricey. The full course goes for $299 but you can often find it on sale for $199.
Return Policy: If you are not satisfied with it for any reason, simply return it within sixty days for a full refund of the purchase price.
Buying Tip: Legacy Learning Systems is having a sale. They are selling
Learn & Master Guitar Expanded Edition Today for Only $199. ($100 savings) |
Just Updated!
Legacy Learning Systems is now offering a new expanded version of Learn and Master Guitar. They now offer an expanded edition that includes 20 DVD's and they are having a sale on it this week. Expanded Edition $299 on Sale Now for Only $199!
Here are the major differences between the original version and the newly expanded version:
What's the same? Everything that was included in the original version is also included in the expanded version. The same binder, the same lesson book, the same Jam-Along CDs, even the same 10 original DVDs.
What's new? They have added 10 more DVDs. They include additional songs, exercises, and workshops for each of the original 20 sessions that were included with the original version. Steve Krenz goes into more detail on each session's material and offers additional tips and tricks, and adds plenty of personal encouragement. They have also included a "You're Ready To Move On When..." segment for each session so that you'll know when you have the skills you need to proceed to the next part of the course.
How does it cost? The new expanded version has been priced only $50 higher than the original version. That's only $5 per DVD and twice as much content.
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