Robben Ford - The Art of Blues Rhythm DVD
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Actor: Robben FordBrand: Hal Leonard
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 320708
Studio: Hal Leonard Corp
Product features:
- Series: DVDPublisher: Guitar AxisMedium: DVDArtist: Robben Ford86 minutes
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DVD Review: Great stuff. Money well spent!
Summary: 5 Stars
Just got my copy today and just finished to watch it for the first time. I was a bit worried as a previous reviewer had mentioned that it contained a lot of "Junior stuff". That's not the case.
The teachings in this video can all be applied to club and jam session situation. Trust me, if you play the rythms in there as well or pretty close to Robben's level you won't be kicked out of any jam sessions...
I like the pace of this video. Ford spends a couple of minutes telling people how he got into music, the it is bang, bang, bang. The producers were smart enought to cut all the slack.
In a previous review I destroyed the video set of Paul Gilbert (a shredder) as there is too much goofing and almost no playing, not tab.
That's not the case here.
Also, there is 39 pages of tab that is pretty detailed and accurate. It is important because Ford is an extremely slick rythm. Many people might underestimate him as he is not as explosive as Stevie Ray or Gary Moore in their wildest moment. However, Ford would have had no stress jamming with Stevie and Gary. His rythm is obviously spot on and musical.
Also, Ford is a good teacher. You can see that he cares a lot about music and guitar. It comes across every second.
Finally, Ford uses a Les Paul and a Fender amp so he play with a very basic sound than is not that hard to imitate. I have seen many "blues" DVD's for either rythm or solo where the guys have either some thin heavy metal-like sound or some cosmic studio sounds that you would never hear from the blues great. One guy who is like that is Brad Carlton from True Fire. Carlton is a great studio player but he plays all his blues stuff with an ultra modern sound + he plays too clean. Sounds like Kenny G on guitar. We needs to hear some scratching here and there.
Ford shows a very, very important lesson: it is 95 % in your hands.... it is not the equipment who creates the groove.
It is a perfect fit for the intermediate guitar player that wants to have some serious grooves for jam sessions.
If you want to slow down the DVD (like I do) you can do it with Quicktime or WIndows Media. However, what I do in order to loop the whole thing is that I use AVS to transform my DVD's into a .mov (quicktime) file. THen I open it in a software called "Transcribe!" which allows me to loop and slow down the whole thing.
CHeers!
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