Joined: March 2007 Posts: 841
Location: CA | I've always had limited success with instructional DVDs or, formerly, VHSs. Depending on the way you learn things and where you are in your guitar playing, you can get a lot out of them. However, I find them a bit tedious in the parts where I already know what I'm doing (or think I do), and sometimes a bit fast or unclear in the parts I want to learn. Plus, being a non-music reader, there seems to be an awful lot of music lingo, even in DVDs touted to be for 'anyone'. In that sense, I suppose the ability to read and understand music would make learning from vid easier.
I always did best learning directly from someone else who I could talk to and ask questions. Second to that, I just listen to songs over and over until I figure them out. Third, and relatively new on my horizon, youtube has many 'tutorials' on various songs and they're free. I've found it fascinating to peruse all the tutorials on one particular song (as many as 6 or 7 different ones) and note that there's always one that — to me — is clearly the best. It's never the one where the guy talks a lot and explains everything in excruciating detail: "first finger on third fret of A string, second finger on ....." — and it takes about 15 minutes to explain one two-second riff. I like the ones where the guy just does it with minimal explanation and slowed down just slightly. Once I kinda get it, the super cool thing is then to find the actual artist playing the song elsewhere on YouTube (like David Gilmour playing Wish You Were Here) and double checking that's how HE does it.
Sorry for the blah blah blah. Guess I'm in a talkative mood. BTW, $59.95 is way too much for a guitar video, in my opinion. They have about three dozen different ones at any Guitar Center for less than half that. |
Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6268
Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Oddball:
youtube has many 'tutorials' on various songs and they're free YT has been my 'classroom' for about a year now. Try a YT search for 'guitar lesson' and 'guitar instruction'. There are several consistent posters that provide some nice lessons/hints. You'll wade through a bunch of crap but you'll eventually learn who has worthwhile info. When you find a consistent contributor, subscribe to that individual.
Good luck! |