REO Speedwagon
GENERAL SERIES INFO:
This DVD contains a series of lessons from a regular
guy who is also a guitar teacher
with 30 years experience playing, writing and teaching. The goal was
to create a series of no-frills
instructional videos each of which are the equivalent of many individual private
lessons. The emphasis is on easy to follow lessons, light on ego and
flashy production techniques but full of instructional value: showing, teaching
and explaining rhythm and lead lines to some of
the worlds greatest classic rock tunes. This series of DVD's personalizes the
process and covers each
lesson completely through demonstrations, explanation
and close up views of the fingerings. You progress at your own pace -
playing easier parts first and picking up more each time you play it!
This DVD series includes lessons that are designed to benefit a wide ranges of ages and abilities. Good basic guitar abilities are a prerequisite of this series and it is gear toward a range within the intermediate category. Early intermediate students can find months of material to work on in each DVD - starting on easier songs and working up to the more difficult. The more experienced players may still find surprises in the easier material or just move more quickly to the more advanced details of the chords, riffs and leads. This series does NOT include any TAB or written material - its designed to teach thru visual and audio instruction and demonstration. By watching and playing along with guitar in hand, the student is also training his ear with the ultimate goal of being able to pick out songs on their own. (The series focus is on the fingering hand, while picking hand shots are included when deemed necessary, most basic strumming and individual note picking is understood at this level.)
NOTES ON REO DVD:
Great guitar progressions, riffs & songs!
This is about average difficulty for classic rock and doesn't have very large lead breaks but the ones there are can be a bit tricky. Its does have songs with very well known guitar-based riffs and progressions that got huge amount of radio airplay. The early stuff like Keep Pushin and Ridin the Storm is very jam-friendly classic rock 'n roll that still shows its connections to the blues-rock family tree. To me, the earlier guitar tones are a bit more vintage overdriven Marshall that progressed into more heavily distorted and sustained tones. Their later stuff like Roll with Changes, Time2Fly, Lovin' You were very radio friendly tunes but still has some interesting multi-chord progressions and hooky guitar melody and lead lines. If you love REO and enjoy learning from this series, then this is a must DVD!
REO guitar DVD!
You get 1 DVD that includes lessons with instructional demos (20-30 min each) for each of the songs listed below.
Roll with the Changes
Time 4 Me 2 Fly
Keep Pushin' On
Keep Lovin' You
Ridin' the Storm Out
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(over 2+ full hours of guitar songs study)
Purchasing the original recordings is encouraged if its not already owned, to play along with once you learn the songs - they are great songs and have been re-mastered and re-released on digital CD from their original analog format.
This instructional series in general has material which can be used by a range of levels from late beginners thru very early advanced. It is NOT designed for absolute BEGINNERS w/o basic abilities of electric guitar technique or very ADVANCED players wanting the whole DVD spent on detailed/advanced lead work - it is geared mostly toward beg-adv intermediate players who want to learn the complete songs w/ techniques and leads made popular by these artists. The DVDS are sold as an individual set of lessons for one individual - they are not to be used, copied or sold to any other party. (However, repeated and multiple use by the original owner is suggested and creating a DVD backup for long term personal storage & use is both permitted and encouraged.)
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