Guitarists
Blues Campus Video Course
If you’ve always wanted to learn the blues but found it just too hard and complicated, it’s time to get Blues Campus. . .
Finally an innovative approach to teaching the Blues...
This innovative video training course goes way beyond presenting some guitarist showing a few licks and riffs. You’ll learn how the Blues is built, from the ground up, and how to build YOUR OWN style in a logically presented, easy to follow course.
Please Note: We also highly recommend that you also work with theGuitar Technique and Physiology Courseso that you learn to play the blues with the proper technique. This course gives you a comprehensive approach to playing guitar.
Blues Campus connects the dots and fills in those missing pieces.
Blues Campus provides a full education in the blues so you can play anywhere. . . with anyone. You won’t be confined to a few techniques or a couple of commonly played keys.
Turn some heads with your playing...
At last, you’ll have all the information you need to be the one who plays dazzling solos or jams effortlessly with total strangers.
In Blues Campus you will discover. . .
- How to learn to internalize the blues so you know it from the inside out, one step at a time.
- Why there’s no need to be a copycat guitarist. You can learn how to play the blues in your own voice and your unique style.
- How you can learn music theory almost without any extra effort at all. With Blues Campus, theory is not isolated from the video lessons. You will absorb the theory as you learn the patterns and structure of the blues.
- How to play classic blues as well as more advanced forms of the blues. This includes techniques such as reharmonization, approach notes and advanced scales.
- Three levels of training – beginner, intermediate and advanced – including 3 1/2 hours of video training, accompanying PDFs with chord charts and chord diagrams, plus 60 jam tracks.
Blues Campus Beginning Level
Beginning Level:
- 70 minutes of video
- 24 Jam Tracks
- Chord Charts with Chord Diagrams
- Learn all the necessary articulations like bending and hammer-ons, plus scales, chords, phrasing, comping patterns and chord progressions…
- Contains crucial information on how to hear the blues, develop your aural comprehension and take your playing to another level…
- Includes a host of licks with in-depth explanations of the embellishments and articulation that are crucial to understanding a blues guitarist's unique approach to melody…
- Exercises to get you playing in tune and building strength…
- Chord progressions and 24 jam tracks help you apply this information in every key, while having fun jamming…
- Title of each video:
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- 12/8 Feel in the Blues
- Importance of Articulation
- Bending Notes
- Bending Note Exercise
- Blues Lick 1
- Blues Lick 2
- Blues Lick 3
- Blues Comping 1
- Blues Comping 2
- The Blues Scale
- Double Stops
- Blues Prog 1 and Chord Voicings
- Embellishing Chords
- Turnaround 1
- Turnaround 2
- Contextual Vs. Interval Ear Training
- How to Hear the Blues
Here is an example of the videos found in Blues Campus Beginning
Bending Note Exercise
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Blues Campus Intermediate Level
Intermediate Level:
- 63 minutes of video
- 24 Jam Tracks
- Chord Charts with Chord Diagrams and Turnaround list
- More advanced licks, chord progressions, comping patterns…
- Tons of new ideas on how get the most out of the blues scale…
- Plus additional scales that can be applied to a blues progression…
- Contains loads ofturnarounds and comping ideas to spice up your soloing and chord playing…
- Ear training information included to help you learn exactly the right approach to hearing blues progressions and scales…
- 24 jam tracks to help you apply this information in every key while keeping the fun of jamming in the learning process…
- Title of each video:
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- Intermediate Blues Lick 1
- Intermediate Blues Lick 2
- Intermediate Blues Lick 3
- Intermediate Blues Lick 4
- Intermediate Blues Comping 1
- Intermediate Blues Comping 2
- Major Pentatonic
- Minor Pentatonic
- Mixolydian Scale
- Dorian Scale
- Modal Sequencing Blues Scale
- Modal Sequencing in 6ths
- Blues Progression 3
- Blues Progression 4-Stormy Monday
- Turnarounds Chords
- 1-6-2-5 turnaround
- Ear Training and Blues Progressions
- Understanding Key Centers
Here is an example of the videos found in Blues Campus Intermediate
Blues Scale and Modal Sequencing
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Blues Campus Advanced Level
Advanced Level:
- 78 minutes of video
- 12 Jam Tracks
- Chord Charts with Chord Diagrams
- New concepts of soloing and reharmonization explained in depth…
- Understanding of advanced melodic and harmonic techniques that can be integrated into the Blues to great effect…
- Techniques such as sequencing, approach notes, chord tone playing and turnarounds are thoroughly discussed in clear, down to earth language…
- Chord progression reharmonization concepts that will add fresh sounds to both your chord playing and your soloing…
- Crucial advanced ear training concepts show you how to control key centers while soloing…
- Much of the information presented here can also be applied to jazz situations…
- …Once the concepts contained here are mastered, your playing will develop a unique sound, and have countless creative options…
- Title of each video:
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- Advanced Blues Lick 1
- Advanced Blues Lick 2
- Advanced Blues LIck 3
- Advanced Blues Comping 1
- Advanced Blues Comping 1
- Advanced Blues Comping 2
- Symmetrical Diminished Scale
- Sequencing Scales
- Modal Sequencing Major Pentatonic
- Modal Sequencing Minor Pentatonic
- Modal Sequencing Dorian Scale
- Blues Progression 5
- Dominant Chord Superimpositions
- Soloing with Chord Tones
- Alternative Turnaround
- Demystifying Turnarounds
- Approach Notes to Scales
- Approaching 3rd of Chord
- Modulations in the Blues
Here is an example of the videos found in Blues Campus Advanced
Symmetrical Diminished Scale
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So what are people saying and how to they feel about working with Blues Campus Video Course?
- What people are saying:
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- I guess I'd call myself an "advanced beginner" because I can strum through just about any popular song but my lead ability is zilch. I thought I'd get my blues playing together, since I love the solos. Here are some comments I have on the course: First off, this guy Bruce Arnold can PLAY. So I'm a believer, and I want to get that good I mean he's smokin'. Second, he's a good teacher. No mystery, no attitude, just solid info to get you where you want to go. I've learned a lot and feel like I've improved in ways I didn't expect. I learned what a 12/8 feel is... If you don't know this you ain't playing no blues. Articulation?? I didn't even know the word... Turns out that's why I sounded so bad when I was soloing. Add some articulation and BAM in my opinion I'm sounding 100% better. The Blues Licks were not over my head; they were something I learned in a few days and Bruce's ideas about making them your own by altering them really worked. Chord playing? As Bruce points out in the videos, most of the time you are playing chords when you are playing the blues. He has these super simple chords that sound killer and are completely easy to play. I had them down in a day! The Blues Scale: I knew the blues scale before getting this course and and I could play it up and down. BUT It never sounded great to me. Add in some articulation, throw on some distortion and man that scale is singing! Some things are still kicking my butt. Double stops were hard for me so this is something I'm still working on. Sorry for rambling on here but these are my reflections after working a few months with the course. J. Simmons
- I was looking for a course that would give me a structural understanding of the blues so I could run with it on my own. I saw the Blues Campus course and it looked like it was what I wanted, but first I contacted Mr. Arnold. Based on our emails, he recommended I get all three levels. Now, there were a couple of things were not that useful because I already knew a lot of the licks in the first two levels. But, I found the bending note exercise very helpful in the beginning level because my bending has been hit or miss pitch-wise. Also, the information about ear training in the first level was really on target. I just needed someone to put it all into focus, which Bruce does. Working with the Modal Sequencing stuff in Intermediate is where I started to get happy, and the Advanced Level is where I found LOTS of new, exciting stuff: Tons of new scale ideas, the use of approach notes, understanding a jazz blues chord progression and the alternate turnarounds. Overall, if you want to have someone show you the theory behind what you have been doing for years and make it logical and easy to understand, and then also lead you to an advanced phase that gives you the freedom to develop your own thing, this is it. P. Campbell
- Blues Campus is logically put together. The course builds in a way that makes sense, so you can absorb what you need, when you need it, and it is very thorough.I've been buying Bruce Arnold books and videos for years. Like all the other products, it does what it says it will do, you just have to practice. H. Martinez
- Recommended books to use with Blues Campus Video Course
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- Depending on your current level certain books may be more appropriate than others for your additional study. We recommend you contact Mr. Arnold at the email address at bottom of page to make sure what is the best course of study.
- Chord Workbook for Guitar Volume One
- 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist
- New York Guitar Method Volume One
- Ear Training One Note Complete
- Rhythm Ear Training Series
- What should I work on after Blues Campus Video Course?