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As
anyone who squeaked through 10th grade history knows, the alchemists were a
semi-scientific posse of medieval individuals utterly hung up on the notion
of transforming lead into gold.
 Of
course, their efforts did not lead to economic good times, but Blues
Alchemy addresses a much more useful and likely kind of transformation:
turning those leaden, everyday blues licks and chord progressions into tasty
and intriguing improvisational gold.
Blues
Alchemy is about learning to play the changes, but not in the sense that
jazz musicians do – it isn’t about learning every arpeggio and mode under
the sun. Instead, on ten diverse chord progressions, master blues alchemist
David Hamburger will teach you how to transform your blues bag into gold by
learning how to target tones and "play the changes."
 Blues Alchemy is a hands-on playing course, which guides the student
through 10 distinct blues rhythm patterns and variations, 10 distinct solos
and variations, plus dozens of extra blues licks and tricks of the trade.
Blues
Alchemy includes 80 video lessons, text overviews, standard notation and
interactive Power Tab. Blues Alchemy is presented in TrueFire’s
multi-media video player, which features zoom, speed
control, looping and other useful instructional functions.
Here's how Blues
Alchemy is presented …
 Ten
blues instrumentals are broken up into a rhythm lesson and a solo lesson,
each demonstrated in context against a drum and bass backing track.
 The
video rhythm lessons demonstrate the parts as written and then expands the
parts to illustrate alternate voicings and fills to stretch the rhythm part
out with.
 The
video solo lessons first demonstrate the solos as written, then breaks them
down note-by-note, as well as demonstrating extra licks and variations.
 Each
pair of lessons (rhythm and solo) feature a jam backing track for students
to practice over to help nail the parts being covered and expand on as well.
 A
text description provides an overview of the tune along with some background
on artists and/or techniques synonymous with the blues style being covered.
 Power
Tab is included (interactive tablature for PC users), so you can see, hear
and slow down the tablature and notation.
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VIDEO SAMPLES
NEW
OPTIONS!
Blues Alchemy features 80 video lessons with PIP video of picking hand,
text manual, practice rhythm tracks, tab, standard notation and
interactive Power Tab so that you can "see" and "hear" the tab played out
at any tempo without change in pitch.
DATA-DVD and Download formats include complete course with TrueFire's
Lesson Player with PIP, zoom, full-screen, slow motion, looping and other
handy controls.
Standard DVD is an abridged version of course (no
rhythm guitar lessons) and includes a secure PIN for download of lesson
assets.
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Interactive Video
