Anyone Can Play Electric Blues Guitar

Product Description This course is designed for the beginning guitarist who wants to start playing the blues. No note-reading ability is required in this course, but a basic knowledge of open and barre chords is necessary. These types of chords are taught in Mel Bays Anyone Can Play Guitar, Vol. 1 and 2. This video will teach you new chords and chord progressions as applied to blues music. You will learn blues techniques, licks, and scales that will enable you to perform complete blues guitar solos. Also included are rhythm tricks so you can practice your chords and licks with a complete blues band. Includes an instructional booklet at http: //www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp. 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.