Anyone Can Play Blues Guitar

Product Description This course is a fun, easy way for a beginning to intermediate guitarist to learn how to play the blues. You'll learn blues chord progressions as well as a variety of blues strumming and picking patterns. This course also presents basic blues scales, lead guitar techniques, and combination rhythm and lead playing. The basics of slide guitar and open tuning are also covered. No music reading is required for this course, but the student should understand basic chords and strumming as taught in Mel Bay's Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1 video. This method was created and is taught by Vern Juran, who has an extensive background in teaching and performing blues music. About the Actor Vern Juran was born was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota. Vern's father played guitar and bought him a Harmony guitar when Vern was ten years old. Vern spent hours listening and playing along with the Ventures and other early guitar groups. In his teens Vern began playing in various garage bands and took lessons from various local guitar teachers. Upon graduating from high school and technical college Vern continued performing with local dance bands and began giving private guitar lessons. Vern continued teaching for twelve years while developing his skills as a guitar and violin repairer. The years spent with beginning guitar students allowed Vern to develop the various methodsand teaching skills which are now presented in Mel Bay's "Anyone Can Play" video series. Vern's first video, Anyone Can Play Guitar, was introduced in the mid '80s. Vern's goal was that this video would become the "Mel Bay Book One" of guitar teaching videos. Ironically this goal was realized when William Bay, then-vice president of Mel Bay Publications, Inc., saw the video and secured distribution rights for the product. Vern has released several guitar teaching videos since then including Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 2 and other Anyone Can Play videos on Note-Reading Guitar, Rock Guitar, Blues Guitar, Electric Blues Guitar, and Praise Guitar. Vern is currently residing in Austin, Texas where he has found an abundant source of his favorite music, the blues. Titles by this Author: