The Robben Ford Clinic: The Art of Blues Solos
by Robben Ford
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Actor: Robben FordDirector: Robben Ford
Brand: Hal Leonard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 320845
Studio: Guitar Axis
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- Published by Guitar Axis
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- Artist: Robben Ford
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DVD Review: An Excellent Primer For Blues Based Soloing
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased both of the new Robben Ford instruction videos (Art of Blues Rhythm Playing and Art of Blues Soloing). These videos were produced by Don Mock. If you know anything about guitar instruction books or tapes, you should be intimately familiar with Mr. Mock. He has been in the business of educating guitar players for 30+ years. This video has extremely high production quality both in terms of visual clarity and audio quality. I'm delighted about this because so many instruction videos look and sound like they were created with amateur equipment.
Robben is presenting fundamentals of blues based soloing. He covers simple pentatonic based concepts and expands into more advanced territory, venturing into the jazz realm - but without getting too technical too quickly. It does help to have somewhat of a decent background in music theory. But it's not necessary because he (Robben) does such a good job at explaining the concepts in detail. He goes into some diminished concepts - and I learned a couple of new things (and I've been playing guitar for 26 years).
Robben takes each concept and provides live examples of how he incorporates these ideas. He's frequently accompanied by a bass player and a second guitarist (who provide a rhythmic and harmonic back drop for Robben to do his thing). Another FANTASTIC thing he does - which I really loved is how he demonstrates using different pickups, tone and volume settings on the guitar itself to shape the tone. He compared the front pick up to a tenor sax tone and the back pick up to a trumpet tone - obviously in reference to the multiple jazz influences he has. I've never thought about it that way before, but in retrospect, it makes sense.
Robben explained his guitar equipment (picks, strings, amps, effects, and guitars). The guitar he's playing in the video (btw) is a 1957 Les Paul Goldtop which he got from his friend Larry Carlton. It sounded AMAZING in the video. Another gem he presented was his use of a little pedal called a "Zendrive". It provides users with a tone similar to what he gets with his Dumble amplifiers (which are impossibly expensive and impossible to find). It's nice that he can help us real people approximate his tone with real world gear.
I believe the running time on this video exceeded 1.5 hours. So you're definitely getting not only quality content, but ample quantity to keep you busy for a long time. As I said, I've been playing guitar for 26 years (since 1984) and have collected a LOT of videos. I think these new DVD's are excellent and highly recommend them.
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