Playing & Understanding Jazz Guitar
by Fred Sokolow
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Actor: Fred SokolowDirector: Fred Sokolow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Grossman Guitar Workshop
DVD Reviews of Playing & Understanding Jazz Guitar
DVD Review: Helpful - but should have probably been longer
Summary: 3 Stars
The instructor on this video is fairly charming so it helps with the material pressentation which is really packed with info (but not at as much detail as implied in the product description).
Highlights:
-This dvd has the best explaination and demonstration of scalewise progressions that I've ever seen and it pays for itself in that info because the instructor shows how to practice these to hear and identify the movement as components of various popular songs. It was the best part of the material for me.
-There is also a very good pressentation of how to use your practice time on the circle of fifths productively and efficiently.
Lowlights:
- a booklet is provided, and the materials included are ok, but cryptic when it comes to the chord solos. Since the dvd clearly assumes a certain level of musical skill coming in, it would have been more helpful, to me anyway, if the materials for the chord solos were written in standard notation as well as tab - tab is fine, don't get me wrong, but what is provided here is really a sort of "tab short hand" and it doesn't stand alone by any means - the dvd demo is really necessary to figure out what they are trying to tab out in the materials.
- Also this was the first instructional dvd I've gotten on guitar topics that provided tab materials but didn't discuss how to read tab. I mention this to help point out the assumptions the dvd makes about where the student's skill level is prior to acquiring this series.
So overall, good dvd, interesting, really liked the discussion about the chord wise progressions big time, but found the pressentation of the majority of the material in the dvd as well as the booklet materials less detailed then the vendor description implied. Again, be advised that the dvd assumes the student knows the basics and will be able to handle and follow the information pressented here - it would not be a good choice for anyone expecting introduction to chord building or scales. Having said that then, as a more advanced instruction dvd, based on the price point, I expected more detail on each topic - it seems they wanted to cram a bit too much in one dvd in a set time frame.
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Description of Playing & Understanding Jazz Guitar
Playing & Understanding Jazz Guitar DVD Click for Larger Image taught by Fred Sokolow Jazz is one of the most challenging and satisfying styles of music you can play on the guitar. This video lesson presents a very clear and thorough introduction to jazz guitar. You will study all the licks, chords, scales and theory that you will need to know to get started. In this 75 minute lesson, Fred Sokolow shows you: Chord construction and chord types, including inversions and diminished chords Scalewise progressions and how to use them Circle-of-fifths progressions and how to play and recognize them Chord comping, chord soloing and playing single-note solos to standards like I Got Rhythm, Honeysuckle Rose and Watch What Happens How to improvise solos using scales and chord-based licks How to solo over II-V-I standard changes A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.Bestsellers in DVD
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