REVIEWS of Master The Major Scale

[groovebassgurl]

Hey Justin,

I'm on Lesson 7 and so far think the DVD is fantastic. 

Thank you for demystifying scales for me...

Bass has been my main instrument for over 10 years but at at the same time I played around a little on guitar.  For this entire time, I've always found scales to be BORING so I never really stuck to them.  I just couldn't get myself to play them up and down on a regular basis.  And I couldn't figure out how to apply them to songs.

Thanks to your DVD I finally get it!  My improvising has improved by 100%.  On guitar AND bass!!  In the past, when I jammed and improvised with my band and other musicians, I used to find myself falling back in to the same patterns, mostly pentatonic riffs. 

My improv has gotten so much more melodic since I started working on the melodic patterns, combining positions and working out the chord tones.   And I find the exercises so much more fun than just playing the scales up and down.

Thank you for breaking it down and really simplifying everything to do with scales.  I look forward to finishing the CD.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Liz     

[justinguitar]

Cheers Liz

Glad that it helping you and making sense of the scales

Good luck and take care, J

[JJ1990]

Hi Justin,

Just bought your DVD recently and the delivery was in time ! I only had two problems with the DVD ( not with the content on the DVD, but the DVD itself ).

First of all my laptop has a DVD slide rather then one that pops up out of my laptop. As a consequence of this, my laptop doesn't pick up the DVD half of the time. I never had this problem with other products of this website, so that's a pity 

On other computers, and my normal DVD player it works fine, but I just like watching it on my own laptop, because that normally works best for me.

Secondly all my DVD players read the DVD as more than 2 hours, while the DVD is about 20 minutes shorter. As a consequence of this I cannot select exactly where to go on the DVD. For example if I work on my laptop and slide the "time progress bar" to a point where a want to watch it just pops back and doesn't work because the time measure is incorrect. Again I only experienced this problem with this DVD and not with other products from this website.

Well that's all I got to say about my criticism, because the actual lesson material on this DVD is gold! I completed the whole DVD and my improvising skills have just increased enormously! Even my own guitar teacher was astounded when I returned to him after my vacation. The lesson method is very thourough and detailed, which makes it really easy to follow. It slowly builds up, so that every level guitar player can understand the whole DVD.

All I wanna say is thank you, and for everyone buying this DVD, take your time with it! Don't rush through the DVD in a day, because the learning benefits are way better if you just do it slowly!

JJ

[tubes2bits]

Just wanted to let everyone know that this DVD is super!  If you are just thinking about getting it, stop. Just buy it!!!

Also wanted to thank Justin and Jedi for their efforts and great work.

[normanramsey]

This is the best product I've ever bought for learning on guitar and I have bought a lot since I live in a small town where there aren't many opportunities to learn these things. This DVD will help you very much. I was going to buy the Intermediate foundation DVD's but after seeing about it I think that I learnt most of it from this DVD already so I'm just waiting on the style modules.

                         Thank you Justin.

[mattywarr]

I've had this DVD and have been using it for a few months now, and I wanted to post somewhere just how effective this DVD course is.

So far, I'm at the stage where I am memorising Pattern 3, but due to the techniques being taught (For example, highlighting the chord tones and root notes) I have already worked out how I can change the key of the major scale just by moving the root note of the position. I have to say, that was one of those "Eureka" moments. I've already been sneakily doing it in position 1 and 2 to prove to myself I know the position!

Learning this, alongside the Practical Music Theory is teaching me things I didn't even want to learn when I first started the beginners course. Now I am actually excited to get home from work and get practising them and learning how music is made. I think the key elements to the course are the melodic pattern studies and the exploring the position methods, which INSTANTLY make the boring subject of learning scales, sound cool.

I'm only halfway through and I can say with 100% confidence that this is one of the best investments I've ever made.

(Although saying that, maybe by the end Justin gets caught by the fuzz and the DVD ends abruptly :-D Once you watch it, you'll understand, and its just another reason why Justin's laid back style works so well - it was like he was sat in my front room)

[komani86]

I would like to add my (ahort) review about this DVD.
It is indeed an effective course, but it is aimed at beginners. Alot of the stuff Justin describes I figured out 'by my self' with the help of the text that is available on Justins website.

He takes you step by step, without rushing, which is good, but if you allready experimented on your own you can skip certain parts. I didn't skip the DVD yet though and learned from his tips and such during the videos. It really helps that Justin breaks the parts down and gives you a goal after each part.

I was halfway through the DVD (Gotta start at lesson 5) and then I just stopped with it, but I plan to complete the DVD soon. Oddly I can not use the timebar propely, it randomly skips if I try to skip something. I can skip chapters properly though.