Guitar World -- How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experiences Axis Bold As Love: The Complete Guitar DVD
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Actor: Jimi HendrixBrand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 56 31970
Studio: Alfred Publishing
Product features:
- Titles:"EXP""You Got Me Floatin'""Up From the Skies""Castles Made of Sand""Spanish Castle Magic""She's So Fine""Wait Until""Tomorrow""One Rainy Wish""Ain't No Telling""Little Miss Lover""Little Wing""Bold As Love""If 6 Was 9"
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DVD Review: A Powerful Tool for Learning Hendrix
Summary: 4 Stars
"Guitar World: How to Play The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love" is an amazing tool to help the intermediate or advanced guitarist get a handle on how to approach the tunes on Axis: Bold As Love" by Jimi Hendrix.
Firstly, Andy Aledort, is at the centre of the strengths of this video. Mr. Aledort is an exceptional player who has a personal affinity for the playing of Jimi Hendrix within his own professional career. When this man says "This is how most people play this lick, but Jimi really plays it like this." one has confidence that what he says is exactly so. He has the playing, tone and, more importantly, the timing to get these phrases sitting just right. This is important in this kind instructional video format.
The format of this video is "watch and play" approach. Aledort plays with a backing drummer at full speed and distortion and then repeats at a slower pace with explanation of what chords or scales are being alluded to in the musical passage being analyzed. We get a close-up of his left hand on the main screen and an inset close-up of his right hand work at the same time. He turns down the distortion/effects when playing the slower versions. Typically he instructs on the playing of the backing guitar track first and then moves on to the melody or solo part next playing it over the background tracks. As mentioned before the playing is of exceptional quality throughout.
Aledort explains details of musical explanation as he works the way through the video explaining, say, the pentatonic minor in the first tune and mostly just referring to it at later points in the video. If you aren't working your way through the video in order you may find this annoying but if you are, or you are a more experienced player, you'll be thankful to be saved some of the repetition.
This isn't a great video for a beginning player in terms of understanding the musical theory behind what Jimi is playing. Aledort explains it as if he is referring to concepts to people who already have a understanding of musical concepts. For example, when he says that "Jimi adds a 9 to the chord" here, he does so with the understanding that his audience will understand what he is talking about. The novice player would still know how to play the chord by watching the video though so it is not as if the video does not hold anything for the less experienced.
I would have liked a few things to be added to take this video to bring it to the highest imaginable level. I would have liked to have seen an inset picture of his foot when doing some of the more involved wah-wah work. Aledort doesn't go into enough detail about how he achieves the excellent, authentic sound on the video for the different tunes. He indicates that a particular track has Fuzzface or an Octavia on it and there is a plug for a reissue of a Marshall amp that Jimi often used, but there is no discussion of levels and, often, he has delay and other effects on and makes little or no mention of them. A gross oversight is the fact that for 90% of the tunes he doesn't mention which pick-up he is selecting and the close-ups rarely allow one to see which pick-up he is using despite the fact that when we do catch sight of them they are often different for different tunes. For another artist's work this might be less important but for getting down the tunes of Jimi Hendrix, the tools and tone are an integral part of the songs.
Overall, I would rate this video highly and what's more I would say that it is a tremendous value for the money. Despite this being an instructional video, I enjoy just listening to Aledort play, as I do Hendrix. Aledort puts into our hands a great tool for coming to understand the playing of Hendrix in a detailed way and the video while perhaps not having every note on the album has as much of it as one would possibly expect to be included.
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