Amazing Guitar Secrets Review

Amazing Guitar Secrets

If you are trying to find a DVD guitar course for under $100 bucks, this review of Amazing Guitar Secrets might be of interest to you. Amazing Guitar Secrets is a learn-guitar package that uses video, workbooks, and audio to accelerate the process of learning both the electric and acoustic guitar.

Even though Amazing Guitar Secrets is touted as a guitar course for beginners, a lot of the content is better suited for slightly more advanced guitarists. The course is fairly heavy on theory and technical guitar playing. So in other words, if you’re getting a guitar course for the kids, this probably isn’t what you’re looking for.

Amazing Guitar Secrets was designed and taught by guitar instructor, Dan Denley. Dan has a solid musical background which includes a degree in music from the University of Memphis, several years-worth of band playing experience, and classical training in piano and vocal performance. Dan Denley has also created several more advanced learn-guitar courses, such as Blues Guitar Secrets, Lead Guitar Secrets, and Acoustic Guitar Secrets.

Features

Parts of the course:

DVDs - The video portion of Amazing Guitar Secrets contains approximately 4 hours worth of content between 2 DVDs. Production values as a whole, while not exceptional by any means are definitely acceptable.

For the most part, the video quality is sharp and the audio is clear. When necessary, the videos show graphics and diagrams on-screen to better illustrate a topic. On the flip side, we had a few issues with the DVDs such as there weren’t any dual-camera views for showing right and left-handed views simultaneously. Other shortcomings of the course include different errors throughout the course, which really isn’t all that unusual for a guitar course. Also, Dan uses a lot of technical terms, and sometime doesn’t give a proper introduction to difficult topics, which can be a bit frustrating for guitar newbies.

Though not an extremely important point, it’s worth mentioning that the graphic design of the course materials, DVD menus, etc. is relatively substandard in terms of quality. True, it doesn’t make or break the course since the most important part is the actual lesson content, but still it would have been nice if it was better produced.

Jam Tracks – Included on the CD are 40 high-quality audio jam tracks in .wav format. These tracks are a nice addition to the course, but unfortunately aren’t nearly as useful as they could have been. They were recorded using only the guitar, and not with a full band, which is a lot more fun to play along with. You also can’t go solo when there aren’t any other instruments to play along with.

Workbook – The huge 401-page ring-coil binder contains 10 black-and-white workbooks that supplement the DVDs. You’ll get a progress tracker where you can keep an eye on how fast you’re learning, the Amazing Guitar Secrets Guide Book, and several smaller books, that help you learn more about guitar theory, rhythms, scales, and more.

CD – Contains .pdf versions of all 10 books that are included in the monster workbook binder as well as 30 flash tutorials covering in further detail how to:

• Read chord charts/diagrams
• Read and play barre chords
• Recognize rythmatic patterns
• Learn pentatonic scales
• Learn minor caged chords
• Learn 7th chords (Major and Minor)
• Learn Movable barre chords

The Amazing Guitar Secrets course should keep you busy learning guitar for many, many months. During that time you can expect to learn: How to build your finger strength which is an incredibly important part of learning guitar, how to play all sorts of essential chords and scales, and to recognize different rhythm patterns. Musical theory is also a big part of this course.

Support

Customers of Amazing Guitar Secrets receive a phone number that they can call if they have any questions. Email support is also available.

Amazing Guitar Secrets also has a mid-sized guitar forum/community where you can discuss any of Dan Denley’s courses or just guitar playing in general. It is a public forum, which means that you don’t have to be an AGS customer to join.

Note: When we were checking out the forum we found that it had been infiltrated by spammers, which injected a large amount of adult material into many of the forum threads. We expect that they will clean it up shortly and enforce some harsher security measures to keep the community clean.

Ordering Information

Amazing Guitar Secrets is available exclusively from their website. Payment methods are limited to PayPal and Major credit cards.

Since this is not a digital course, there will be shipping fees to consider. You’re looking at about $15 for shipping within the USA which puts the course at approximately $112 dollars. Shipping for international customers will come to $20-30.

Amazing Guitar Secrets’ customers are entitled to a no-hassle 90-day money back guarantee, which is longer than many online guitar lessons have. If for some reason, you don’t feel that the course is worth your time or money, you will have the option to return the course and get your money back (minus shipping costs).

Conclusion

If you want a guitar course that emphasizes music theory as well as some of the more technical aspects of playing guitar, Amazing Guitar Secrets isn’t a bad choice for the money. It covers a lot of the basics of guitar and gets you up and running quickly, though beginners may feel left behind due to the rapid pace.

However, when compared to other DVD guitar courses we’ve reviewed on this site, we’d place Amazing Guitar Secrets a distant second behind the Learn and Master Guitar course which is a much larger, more detailed, more structured, and overall better produced guitar-learning package.

Official Amazing Guitar Secrets Website