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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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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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NEW! 5 Order Options for Blues Alchemy

1 Download Complete Course Now!
Download and burn your own DATA-DVD disk. Order and then download from "My Downloads" within 48 hours.
  $49
2 DATA-DVD (for computers)
Complete interactive video course on a DATA-DVD disk with TrueFire's Lesson Player and all lesson assets.
  $59
3 Standard DVD (for DVD Players)
Abridged version of course (No rhythm lessons!) on standard DVD with secure PIN to download lesson assets.
  $29.99
4 DATA-DVD + Instant Download
Download course immediately and then we'll ship you the full DATA-DVD version.  Order & download from "My Downloads."
  $64
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