Andy Summers: Guitar (DVD and Booklet)
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Actor: Andy SummersDirector: Arlen Roth
Brand: HotLicks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hot Licks
Product features:
- Andy Summers not only teaches some great guitar parts from his years with The Police, he demonstrates some more advanced playing plus jazz and blues styles. You'll learn about chord group memorization and clusters, special suspensions, visualizing the root, mapping out the neck, modal interchanges, "squeezing" the chords, and a whole lot more. Plus some great live performances by Andy playing
DVD Reviews of Andy Summers: Guitar (DVD and Booklet)
DVD Review: If you like Andy's playing...
Summary: 4 Stars
You'll enjoy this video. It's like sitting down with a very gifted guitar instructor who has a deep understanding of music and is just letting it flow. In other words, keep the pause button handy. When he goes through chords he like they just keep rolling with little chance to grab one before he hit another. Of course that's what the diagrams in the booklet are for. Andy's presentation is pretty "low key" with that dry British sense of humor. If you enjoy that it's even more fun to learn from him.DVD Review: A Must Have for Police and Andy Summers fans
Summary: 5 Stars
I actually bought this by accident. I quickly picked a few books online and this turned out to be a DVD instead. It turned out to be a great purchase and a much better way to learn the material and learn tricks and tips from Andy than trying to decipher the songs out of a book.
This is a nicely organized selection of lessons and information from Andy Summers with some Police stuff and some of his other work. It offers great insight into what makes Andy tick and offers a lot of info and tips beyond just learning to play a few songs.
It starts out with learning some chords and helpful info. Then for each of the songs on the DVD Andy shows how he plays each part of the song, after which he plays it with his band. It's really a great structure. Work through the pieces of the song, then watch the whole song played and play along. The DVD works on my PC but is better on my DVD player hooked up to my TV due to bigger picture, better sound and the remote control to zap back and forth through the lessons.
The DVD also comes with a book in the DVD jacket. Each lesson has documentation but due to the size of the booklet, the entire lessons and songs are not documented. Considering the limitations of the size of the book, you can't expect too much more, however.
I will be buying more of the Hot Licks DVDs and I hope all of them are as good as this one.
DVD Review: Fantastic chord instruction!
Summary: 5 Stars
Highly recomended for learning chord "colors." What a huge difference they make on songs and in composition. DVD Review: A unique and useful approach to the Guitar
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched a number of these guitar instructional DVD's so far. For the most part I have enjoyed all of them to one extent or another. But this one really stands out, and it does so for a number of reasons. Andy Summers has a very good point to make regarding "interesting" chords and chord progressions -- with a "twist of lemon" as he likes to say. In talking about his Jazz background he mentions the quick tempo chord changes that don't always let one fully appreciate the character of the more complex harmonies that there are to be heard. The entire first section is dedicated to a chord library that has numerous variations on harmonies that most guitarists have probably never considered. It is doubtful that anyone will use all of these. But it is likely that any guitarist, even a lazy hack like myself, will be interested enough to pick up a guitar a learn a few of these and find a use for. Many of the chords are finger exercises in themselves, which also makes them useful.
There is a section devoted to his years with the Police. Though most of us probably managed to learn the Police standards when growing up it is worth while listening to him talk about his approach to the songs. I was interested to hear him talk about how few guitarists can really play a straight 4 by themselves. It's also quite interesting to hear him talk about his years with the Police. He almost sounds like he's apologizing for them. Which is interesting because he appeared, in 1997 when this was shot, to be something of a British schoolmaster behind a green hollow-body electric guitar speaking cautiously, and almost hesitantly about the songs being what he used to do. All this was well before the Police went on reunion tour in 2006 -- go figure.
There are also several of Summers' solo works which are worth listening to. In both sections he alternates explanations with a studio band performance, that's usually quite good. Most of the time he is playing a Gibson 335 and the tone is superb.
Fan of Summers or not, this is one to check out. Enjoy
DVD Review: Secrets revealed
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally, the answers to the question "How did he do that??"
Straight from the man himself, you'll learn the intriguing chord voicings, rhythms and compositional concepts behind our beloved Police classics. Also, Andy shares some refreshing ideas about how to think about chords, melody and composition in general, and shares interesting and often funny tidbits of information regarding the genesis of some of the Police tunes and his years in the band. There are some nice segments where he plays Police and other tunes in a trio setting to drive home the musical discussion points.
Description of Andy Summers: Guitar (DVD and Booklet)
Andy Summers not only teaches some great guitar parts from his years with The Police, he demonstrates some more advanced playing plus jazz and blues styles. You'll learn about chord group memorization and clusters, special suspensions, visualizing the root, mapping out the neck, modal interchanges, squeezing the chords, and a whole lot more. Plus some great live performances by Andy playing with his band!General DVDs
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