Course Catalog

Take advantage of the years of trial and error with my private students. What you see here is the full Blues Guitar Unleashed program catalog. Every course and product serves a purpose and provides fast results. These are the best programs available for learning blues guitar and every one of them comes with a 365 day money-back guarantee... so they are risk free for you.

Blues Guitar For Total Beginners

Beginning Blues Guitar is designed to be easy enough for someone who has never picked up a guitar before, while still covering enough material to allow you to move on to any style of music you choose. It is, of course, the perfect companion to the Blues Guitar Unleashed or Soloing Without Scales courses as it was designed to feed into either course.

If the thought of playing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” or “Merrily We Roll Along” doesn’t inspire you to pick up your guitar and practice… songs like the “Sitting Easy Blues,” “The Muddy A Blues,” and “Hideaway Blues” will do the trick. Read More… or  

Essential Blues Chords is a short, single DVD course that gives you the chords you’ll need to play blues fast. This is all about jumping right in and learning the shapes so you can jam with friends or be able to play the songs you want.

Most chord books give you a thousand or more chords, but 99% of them aren’t useful… even if they are playable. My 30+ years of experience has shown me that having a small set of the “right” chords is much better than a large set of useless ones. Read more…  or  

Blues Guitar For Intermediate Players

Blues Guitar Unleashed is still my most popular “flagship” blues guitar course. This is the most complete and comprehensive blues guitar course I’ve ever seen.

It was born out of my frustration with the other blues guitar courses I had seen on the market. I wanted a system I could use with my private students so that I could have something that I knew would produce results quickly. After looking high and low for material I wanted to use, I made my own and haven’t looked back. Read more… or   

Soloing Without Scales (The 4 Note Solo) is the most cut-to-the-chase blues guitar soloing course ever. This was created over the course of almost 2 years working with private students.

The goal was to break blues soloing down to the bare essentials – small 4 note “Blues Blocks.” The end result is a system that will have you soloing in minutes… not hours, days. or years like you may have been told. Read more… or  

Introduction To Slide Guitar is just that. It covers basic slide techniques in standard tuning. One of the biggest challenges a lot of people have when trying to get into playing slide is the open tunings often associated with slide playing.

In reality you don’t have to retune your guitar, and you don’t have to have a spare guitar that’s all setup just for slide. This DVD will give you the basic techniques and show you how to use the 4 Note Solo approach with a slide for fast results. Read more…  or   

 

Specialty Blues Guitar Courses

The Slow Blues Supplement isn't just for the slow blues, but it uses the slow blues as a place to completely master the concepts of using the major and minor blues sounds together - the essence of blues guitar player - in such a way that it becomes effortless and happens for you on autopilot.

These concepts are covered in Blues Guitar Unleashed and in Soloing Without Scales. But the level of execution in The Slow Blues Supplement would put you in the top 5% of blues players on the planet. Read more... or  

Pentatonic Scales And Technique Mastery is all about playing faster, smoother, and in more control than you ever thought possible.

It works based on something that you probably don’t realize that you do… and that is to practice scales up and down thinking that somehow the repetition is what increases the speed. In fact, your ear is likely what is keeping you from playing faster, and your inability to subdivide beats.

Also, you may not be practicing scales in melodic patterns – the way the scales are actually often used in melodies (solos) and not just playing them up and down. Read more… or  

Guitar Theory Made Useful is just like the name implies - music theory for guitar players who don't want to get bogged down in all the useless mumbo-jumbo found in most theory courses.

This is another course borne of necessity - in trying to teach theory to my own private students, I found that most books and videos already available started with the assumption that you already know a little about music, and they move too fast without enough practical examples to really be able to use what you learn. Read More... or

Jam Tracks And Extras

29 Blues Jam Tracks is a collection of very high quality and well played jam tracks.

I cannot take credit for the original recordings… but what was lacking was a companion book with the best rhythm parts and chord changes written out in TAB and chord charts.

I also added notes for each track on what soloing options might work best over the track. Read more… or  

 

What Students Are Saying...

"I Am So Much Better Than I Was A Week Ago..."

I can tell you, from someone that has invested $1000's in guitar instruction, that finding first an instructor that knows what he's doing, teaching a genre that is meaningfu,l through a medium that is easy to manage, in a method that makes sense, is priceless. I find no surprises about the success of your program.

This is really good stuff. It is exactly what I was looking for - a 'step-by-step do not proceed till you mastered this' approach. I am going to take my ability to the next level. In 3 segments of your course so far I am so much better than I was a week ago. -- Andy, USA

"You Have A Lot Of Teaching Experience"

I live in London, England and I am aware of the poor postal service at this end but the product came in a very reasonable time and was complete with the bonus DVD, all as promised and no extra taxes to pay at this end.

I can tell by the way you anticipate most of my questions that you have a lot of teaching experience and have used that knowledge to pace the course. -- Tim, UK

"I am now learning how to play..."

This is the best course I have ever used. Its simple ,easy and most of all its fun. That's the key to any course is to keep it fun. it is also well structured,and very well taught. I am now learning how to play in phrases and how to keep the music fun and exciting.

Keep up the great work. and thank you so much for what you do for all of us aspiring guitarists. -- Joe, NH

"Speed is improving..."

My fretting hand strength is slowly increasing, timing is getting a bit better, & speed is improving(eg, Pentatonic box 1 pattern played in 16ths up from low 60′s to 76 bpm. It’s starting to translate into my playing as I’m getting much closer to playing BGU Solo 6 at full speed than I was before I started this course. -- Steve, CA

"I'm surprised..."

I was surprised at how soon my speed started to pick up. Also I’m becoming more familiar with the later box shapes – my previous tutor really just taught 1 & 2 and sort of vaguely referred to the rest as something I should probably look at later. I like the tight focus you keep on your courses. The objectives are clear and you keep to them.

So my recommendation would be to continue to maintain that focus in each course. It gives me a lot more confidence, when choosing to buy one of your courses, that I’m going to get exactly what I’m paying for. -- Jeremy, UK