Blues Alchemy - Instructional Guitar Pack Featuring David Hamburger

With just beatnik blues this would have been valuable. David Hamburger is a very skilled and versatile player. I also have his 50 jazz blues licks dvd..equally awsome and a great sideways introduction to some theory. That dvd is a little more daunting than alchemy but in this DVD you get whole songs, rhythm, solos, variations et al and they are truly performance quality tunes. Amazing instruction on a wide, wide variety of blues! Just buy it and learn! I wish he would do a Jazz Alchemy!

with this and the other TrueFire DVDs I have recently bought...Because they cut down the lessons from the online purchase you make from TrueFire themselves???...meaning I bought this,started watching and practicing along when the video would cut short??? (or somtimes be out of order???)...so i checked on their website and learned they cut all lessons down for the DVDs...So now I had to buy the computer based FULL COURSE and rewatch????...but trying to loop something on your computer is twice as hard as a DVD player???...how easy is the "A-B" switch on my DVD remote!!!!...The lessons themselves are ok for advanced beginner/intermediate and David himself has several good book/CD and DVDs but LickLibrary products are much better and more thorough....

This shows how to change the notes you play as the chords change. An eye-opener for the self taught.

I appreciate the clean way he has at presenting the blues. It has filled in a gap in my guitar technique. I think truefire is the best at guitar instruction.

Blues Alchemy contains 10 lessons on how to play blues in 10 different styles. Each lessons contains solo and rhythm playing demonstration - both in tempo and played slower - with discussion of each element - showing the fingering and the flow of the music (call-response) very clearly. For both solo and rhythm part there are additional lessons discussing possible variations. Each lesson is available as video and transcription including tablature as PDF. Also as PowerTab files. Generous jam tracks in each style are included.General approach in Blues Alchemy is to help players transcend playing minor pentatonic scale over entire blues progression. This course will teach you how to switch between major and minor pentatonic sales (and blues scales) to outline the harmony in much more interesting way then using minor pentatonic all the way through. David discusses each style of blues covered and he picked each solo to very clearly demonstrate important aspects that style. This is one of better courses for advanced beginner blues guitarist out there - if you cover several lessons then I bet that you will survive without too much stress playing for the first time at your local blues jam.