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PLAYING THROUGH THE BLUES
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Griff Hamlin has been on the scene for 20 years playing as a professional
guitarist, bassist, singer, teacher, and songwriter. He’s studied music at the USC Thornton School of Music, has
played on several independent albums and countless demo recording sessions. He has also performed in many different
countries around the world including Poland, Korea, Italy, Turkey, and Lithuania, released two 2 blues-rock style Cd's, and
is very fluent in many styles of guitar including rock, blues, jazz, country, classical, and flamenco. In his own personal quest for materials that would help him
to grow and expand as a player and teacher, Griff could never find any reasonably-priced lessons or materials that would
satisfy or exceed his expectation. His thirst and passion to keep striving to improve as a player and teacher inspired him
to create a unique approach to laying down the foundation of blues, utilizing audio and video over the Internet, while
systematically layering each lesson upon the previous lesson to give you a basic understanding of the blues over a two to
five-week period. The intent of course is to learn “blues single string theory”,
but you have to learn the foundational theory of blues first. Crawl before you walk, walk before you run, you get the
picture. What is most striking, is the simplicity of his lessons. Griff only
tackles one or two elements at a time during each lesson thereby making it really easy to assimilate the info. One
of the things I really struggled with early in my own playing in regards to blues single string theory, was when to use
the minor blues or the major blues scale while soloing. Chapter ten of Griff’s book, goes into this issue
and demonstrates it really well. If you haven’t been playing very long, don’t let the content of each page fool
you and scare you off; it looks hard, but like I said, Griff Hamlin did a superb job of KISS! (Keeping it simple stupid) So the question you’re asking yourself, what’s in it? Playing
through the Blues comes with a 50 page book choked full of all kinds of useful tips and tricks not only for playing the guitar
in general, but covering all the basics to playing blues guitar. Each lesson is accompanied by an audio and/or video file
that you download when ready and if you can’t read music, the book includes TAB, but standard notation is also used
in all of the examples. Playing through the Blues also comes with a technology introduction video
on how to use the different files and formats, and how to get the best use out of the audio and video available. If you are
fairly computer savvy, you probably won’t need it, but for newbies, it’s a good place to start. Also included: Over 65 minutes of solid, broken down blues theory video lessons.
20 bonus “turnarounds” with easy to understand ending licks, 10 jam tracks, including chord charts,
and my favorite, “Lessons from the masters”. Griff gives you solos from Eric Clapton, Albert King, and B.B. King,
with rhythm tracks to practice, chord charts to see the chord and licks, and video breaking it all down, it’s hard not
to like Playing through the Blues with Griff Hamlin. We’ve all seen the traditional blues DVD/Book sets that cost as much
as $200! Griff Hamlin gives you everything for the cost of one private guitar lesson, and whenever there are updates to his
web site, you have immediate access to all the new material for life. Playing Through The Blues by Griff Hamlin will give you all the single string theory fundamentals to Playing Blues Guitar. Today,
guitar lessons range from $25.00 to $100.00 per hour. For the price of one private lesson, you can have a life time of access
to everything you need to get started Playing Blues Guitar. Griff did an excellent job of breaking down the blues and organizing it into
simple to understand, easy to grasp lessons. Guitar
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