This is Volume 4 of 4 in our "Blues Rock Masters Series - Modern & Classic". This is in depth study & analysis of the playing styles of the greatest blues and blues rock guitarists of all time. Learn the techniques, tone, devices, scales, and styles of THE most epic guitar players of all time. Here in Volume 4 you will learn the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Warren Haynes.

As guitar players we all have our influences or players that inspire us. Players that when we hear them play its just pure magic to our ears. They inspire us to pick up our guitars and play, and they inspire us to create. And we all pull from our influences and add them into our own playing style. We then put our own spin on what we learn and develop our own style. So as guitarists we are all made up of combinations of our influences. We are all truly amalgamates of our influences. And with this course you can pull from the best players ever! 

Whether you are a beginner or advanced player, following these lesson will bring your blues and rock playing to the next level – guaranteed! Players of all levels will be inspired by these lessons and you will be able to quickly add these techniques and devices to your own style.

You will learn all about the gear, tones, licks, scales, devices, and playing styles and techniques of these four monster players. We also discuss their trademark tones and teach you how to get in the ballpark of their tones by using simple equipment, amps, and effects, that you probably already have at home. 

Then we teach you how to apply the techniques you are learning by playing over the included jam tracks. You get the same jam tracks that are utilized in the lessons, plus we throw in extra jam tracks in different keys and tempos so you have even more practice and application content. So you have the tools to practice and hone your playing skills to a sharp edge.

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The lessons in this course and taught by Next Level Guitar instructors Dave Nassie and Ben Zinn. This course contains 16 video lessons totaling almost three hours of video lessons, 30 jam tracks, and a coinciding 103-page detailed eBook. The eBook contains pages of written lessons, chord diagrams, jam track lessons, scale diagrams, music theory lessons, and much more. Its a great reference tool that you will find yourself utilizing throughout your guitar journey.

And learning is easy with our on-screen tablature. So you see all the licks and chords tabbed out on the screen. This makes it very easy to follow along. All rhythm and lead riffs and licks are broken down and explained and demonstrated at slow speed and regular speed. So you don’t have to keep hitting the rewind and pause buttons. Plus we break each section into digestible parts and we get you playing and rocking out in the fastest and most efficient manner.

And to make watching and learning as easy as possible, these video lessons also incorporate multiple camera angles, chord tabs, and close ups of the neck, fret and pick hands, so you see all the action up close and personal.

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In the Stevie Ray Vaughan lessons you will learn:

-All about gear and tone so you can get in the wheelhouse of his sound  

-How to play in Eb tuning

-Ho use thumb over the top of the neck           

-Lots of rhythmic lead lines and licks in this style

-How to experience playing in this style  

-All about the SRV clean tone playing style

-Lots of over the top aggressive distorted lead SRV playing devices

-All about the fierce digging in SRV big bends rip your head off style

-Lots of double stops, string raking, octaves, string bending, use fingers for added tones and more!

In the Slash lessons you will learn:

-All about gear and tone so you can get in the wheelhouse of his sound                           

-Lots of rolling hammer and pull licks     

-Lots of fingering tips for flowing lead lines and melodic soloing approaches

-Lots of repeated aggressive rolling licks as well as hybrid picked licks

-The “gateway” licks in the Slash style                        

-How to filter using a wah pedal in this style

-Lots of rhythm techniques and practice tips as well as fun with power chords

-Ascending and descending pattern licks

-How to incorporate the wah pedal into your licks

-All about the pickups and tone knob settings to get that Slash style tone

-How to add Dorian and Aeolian modes to Pentatonic Scales when soloing

-All about vibrato, string bending, volume dynamics, adding licks to rhythmic riffs, and more!

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In the Joe Bonamassa lessons you will learn:

-All about gear and tone so you can get in the wheelhouse of his sound  

-All about the hybrid picking Bonamassa style

-How to mix major and minor pentatonic scales as well as fingerstyle tones

-All about jumping around scale tones and string bending techniques

-All about minor third string bending, interval based playing, and modal playing

-About variation and tone changing while playing lead lines

-All about hybrid scales and mixing blues scales and modal playing

-How to take advantage of pickup settings and guitar tone controls

-How to combine classic blues vocabulary with modern blues lead concepts

-All about slide trills, grace notes usage, slides, double stops, string raking and more!

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In the Warren Haynes lessons you will learn:  

-All about gear and tone so you can get in the wheelhouse of his sound.   

-About finger style techniques and how to get maximum variety of tone

-All about string bending techniques and milking tone from every lick

-Lots of practice exercises

-How to move licks all over the fret board and lots of triplet licks

-About every other note runs and wide interval licks

-How to intersperse faster runs in with a more traditional blues vocabulary

-All about attacking the strings with the combination of fingers and the pick

-How to create similar theme type lead lines but add in different “tail” endings

-All about double pull off licks, string raking techniques, quick bursts of notes runs, and more!

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