This Guitar Instruction DVD brings you almost 2 1/2 hours of guitar lessons based on the top-selling guitar method 'Master the Fretboard' from the site joedocmusic.com; a top selling guitar method on Ebay for over five years. You will learn to visualize the guitar neck in a way that makes it not only easy to learn the notes of the neck, but to also understand music theory as applied on the guitar. The method is aimed at players who wish to play lead/melodic lines on the guitar, but who are either confused as to how to come up with the proper notes, or who have become stuck in the standard 'box' type scale shapes that many guitarists use. Joe Dochtermann teaches in a relaxed, one-on-one lesson style, emphasizing the key points with a sense of humor and an enthusiasm for guitar playing. Examples are practical, and some examples work with ideas from popular rock songs, breaking the licks down into ideas which viewers can then distill into their own new riffs and solos. Joe emphasizes the old adage, 'Assimilate, Imitate, Innovate'; an apt expression for music in the 21st century. With all the input pop music has given us in the last 50 years, how can one come to grips with all that information, and still create something new? Interestingly, this method is based on the style of improvisation used by early jazz guitar innovator Charlie Christian, who was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an 'early innovator'. Charlie Christian heavily influenced players such as Barney Kessel, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, T-Bone Walker, and B.B. King, who in turn influenced the rock greats of the 60's and on. By applying these views of the guitar neck, players gain a gut-level understanding of the way the notes of the guitar neck come together into chords, scales, and arpeggios, and are then used to create melodic ideas - this gets it all under your fingers in one fell swoop. Accompanying the DVD, customers can receive the two top-rated ebooks from joedocmusic.com - 'Master the Fretboard' and 'The Chord & Harmony Guide'. Customers are granted immediate access after forwarding the purchase receipt to the contact at the joedocmusic.com site (email cannot be shown here due to spammers!) So if you've been wondering how notes, chords, scales, arpeggios, music theory, and guitar licks come together - this is the DVD for you. Break out of a playing rut, and dig into a whole new perspective on the guitar fretboard.
