Hot Licks - Learn Jazz Guitar Chords With 6 Great Masters! [DVD]

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An interesting introduction to slide but not sure at all that you could learn to play slide just from watching this Dvd as is implied in the title! It was very inexpensive so worth a few pounds just to see the techniques of these various players but not useful as an instructional tool really!

Not worth the money. The is really nothing to learn from this DVD unless its kinda of an awareness that these artists once existed on the planet.

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This compilation barely cuts it - it is VERY short at barely half an hour, and certainly hasn't been programmed with any care, unlike Eric Johnson's masterclasses.Buddy Guy, the reason I bought it, basically just goofs off for 5 minutes. Cool, but 5 minutes?Most of the lessons are throwaway, but one is inspirational - Ronnie Earl's. I'd never heard of him, but check the guy out - amazing player, and a great communicator. He has his own hot licks DVD and I recommend that over this lazy compilation.So 3 stars for Ronnie Earl.

Ce DVD est la reprise d'une VHS des années 90. Il se compose de six morceaux de leçons de guitare jazz tirés des fameuses vidéos "Hot Licks", dirigées par Arlen Roth. Comme l'ensemble dure environ 30 minutes, on passe donc en moyenne cinq minutes avec chacun des artistes-professeurs, ce qui peut paraître fort peu. Les professeurs sont des plus prestigieux, et ces cours sont l'occasion de revoir de grands guitaristes disparus, notamment Joe Pass, Tal Farlow et la regrettée Emily Remler. Sal Salvador ouvre le DVD en présentant l'harmonisation de la gamme majeure en accord de 4 sons, puis la progression I-VI-II-V, parfois agrémentée de l'accord III. Très accessible. Joe Pass montre ensuite toutes les substitutions d'accords que l'on peut appliquer à la progression I-VI-II-V : une belle leçon de musique ! Mundell Lowe explique l'art de la rythmique jazz, en faisant référence aux accords à 3 sons seulement de Freddie Green (Count Basie); il présente aussi quelques rudiments de "comping" (jeu en chords-melody). Charlie Byrd utilise une guitare acoustique à cordes nylon pour présenter quelques "dark chords", c'est-à-dire des accords joués sur les cordes les plus graves de la guitare ; c'est musicalement assez peu convaincant. Emily Remler explique, quant à elle, les rudiments de la rythmique jazz influencée par la bossa nova. Enfin, c'est un réel plaisir de voir le grand Tal Farlow jouer (généreusement), même si au fond il n'explique pas grand'chose ! Les artistes s'expriment en anglais ; les sous-titres (approximatifs) proposés seront cependant inutiles. Un livret rudimentaire en solfège et tablatures accompagne le tout.

I have a shelf full of musical instruction DVDs, and this is absolutely the worst one I've ever purchased. Usually I can pick up at least a couple of good tips from a DVD, but I went through this whole DVD last night and couldn't find any.Don't be fooled by the marketing message - e.g. "learn to play like Clapton, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards". The Clapton tip is to use the neck pickup; the Berry / Richards thing is a simple little boogie / blues progression that you probably learned your first week of playing guitar.This DVD appears to be a compilation of other lessons; all of a sudden you're dropped in the middle of a lesson, and at least twice the different presenters say "like we did before". Actually, we didn't do that before - at least not on this DVD.The only remotely interesting piece for me (and this is a real stretch) was James Burton showing the "Susie Q" lick. I've managed to live a long time without wanting to know that lick, but since it was there, I learned it. Even here, though, the tab was wrong. A big part of the lick is the thumb doing a constant quarter-note hit on the low E string; the tab didn't consistently show this hit happening, even though Burton was clearly playing it.As far as having the tab show up on the screen while the lesson is playing - yeah, that'd be kinda neat if you could read it. On my 55" inch TV, it was basically illegible.The best presenter of the six was probably David Grissom. I think it'd be worth it to find the DVD that the segment on this DVD was pulled from.The Lonnie Mack section was probably the worst, and the unnamed person interviewing him was not the least bit helpful. I suppose in the longer version we would have found out who the interviewer was; in the segment on this DVD, we don't have a clue. All we know is that he's not a particularly good guitarist, either on his rhythm playing or his soloing.Don't waste your money on this. Hal Leonard normally puts out really good material, but they failed miserably this time.