Your favorite instructional videos?

[Ricklh]

I'm new to this forum, been hanging out mostly in the Fostex forum, but just thought I'd ask others here your opinions on learning new riffs & licks from videos/DVD's? If you like learning this way and have some videos you'd recommend to others, let us know. I'm concentrating on acoustic fingerstyle and have a few videos that are pretty good: one is by Rick Ruskin, and another is by Buster B. Jones: Fingerstyle From the Ground Up, Vol. 1. I've also got a couple of Mark Hansen Christmas videos but haven't got to them yet (too late for this Christmas!) I play by ear, not by music, never had any theory, so videos of this sort work well for me. And, of course, you can take all the time you need and run them back as many times as necessary to get the part you're trying to learn.

Any guitar videos you think are worth recommending to others?

 

[onlyfingers]

I've used a few from Homespun Tapes. Etta Baker has a great video on piedmont-stype fingerpicking. I've also got Happy Traum's Easy Fingerpicking Favorites, which is nice because each song is presented "straight" (most notes on the beat) and "syncopated" (some notes off the beat). I also have the Happy Traum's two-tape beginning blues tapes, which I have just started. (I'm set for life, even though there are plenty of other great tapes and DVDs there--Roy Bookbinder, Rory Block, Jorma Kaukonen…)

www.homespuntapes.com

 

[Ricklh]

I've used a few from Homespun Tapes. Etta Baker has a great video on piedmont-stype fingerpicking. I've also got Happy Traum's Easy Fingerpicking Favorites, which is nice because each song is presented "straight" (most notes on the beat) and "syncopated" (some notes off the beat). I also have the Happy Traum's two-tape beginning blues tapes, which I have just started. (I'm set for life, even though there are plenty of other great tapes and DVDs there--Roy Bookbinder, Rory Block, Jorma Kaukonen…)

www.homespuntapes.com

I could spend a fortune in the Homespun catalog! They've got so much stuff, too much.

 

[iceberg]

I like the Hotlicks series. Especially the fingerstyle one by Tuck Andress. man he is incredible and I have learned so much from it.

 

[musicsdarkangel]

Paul Gilbert's instruction video is awsome.

Frank Gambale's is also good.


BUT the best ever is Shred Is Not Dead (get it with the dvd if you can, available at guitar center's) by Terry Sydek

I studied guitar with this guy over the summer at the National Guitar Workshop, simply amazing, and his teaching abilities are even better. Get this book, it's exellent. Goes over odd time signatures, picking chops, arpeggios, exotic scales, everything you need. Practice that stuff a bit every day and you're set.

 

[coolasvanillaic]

JP

John Petrucci has a really diverse video. He covers lots of things like warming up, developing speed, sweeps, soloing better etc. He has a very detaied way of practicing and teaches you how to get the most out of your playing time.

Matt

 

[c7sus]

Introduction to Tantric Sex was pretty good.

 

[tf5_bassist]

haha... lmao...

Hmm... since the topic is up... Any really good bass videos? I'm really getting into Stu Hamm, more odd Claypool, Jaco, etc etc... I've been trying to learn more slap/pop techniques than the same one's i've been doing for the past year or so hehe, and really digging the two-handed tapping stuff too... I just want to learn a very diverse range of bass skills. Any suggestions?