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Hey players, I've had this DVD for quite awhile and with this Covid-19 crap keeping me indoors and all, I've decided to try to work though it. I think Frank made the DVD back in the early days of VHS video's in the early 1980's! It's a fun DVD in that it's a bit corny with the girls and all, reminds me of Big Time Wrestling!! That said, looks to have plenty of great exercises which really helps if you're mega slow on the fretboard like myself! Anyone ever work though this? Any comments?? I'm only on page 10 and I can already tell I'm in for some challenges!
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10-28-2020 06:43 PM
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I'll be interested in hearing of your experiences with this. Gambale is a great player and this technique certainly works for him... but the snippets I've seen seem to highlight numerous rules to remember about whether there are an even or odd number of notes in the phrase, whether it starts on a downstroke or an upstroke, and that sort of thing. Seemed too complicated (for me) to want to try to do in real time. But maybe these techniques are something that you can feel naturally once mastered; maybe they just sound really complicated when you verbalize them.
Like I said, let us know how it goes!
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
Most of the stuff he goes through in that vid is using alternate picking. It's a workout routine running through scales and arpeggios in the style of those '80s Jane Fonda exercise videos.
I've gone through some of the pentatonic and triad arpeggio sections, but I've never tried going through the whole thing like a guided workout.
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
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Of all the guitar "exercise" materials floating around there, I think this is the best one.
But it's tough. I've never been able to play through the whole thing start to finish at tempo. Don't be afraid to slow it down.
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Originally Posted by dasein
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I worked with this for a little while, but as with all my other courses, never went to the end.
It was amazing to me how I would lose concentration trying to repeat the same lick over and over and over. It showed me something about myself. I think my fingers would get tired, too.
Now, I use "speeder-upper" software, which varies the tempo to higher and higher speeds over time. I have found that with this, I actually can repeat licks over and over and over.
I am going to pull out that old book and have some fun with it tomorrow. And, see if I have advanced and can do it now, maybe.
Thanks for bringing it up again.
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Originally Posted by AlsoRan
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I've hit a wall, this guitar workout is pretty intense! I hope I have the motivation to stick with it, so far it's not a problem but going forward is gonna be a bitch! On page 14 it starts with combination triplets and 16th notes and every mix in between. I figure even if I just stick to the predictable exercises and I just work on those I will benefit but I gotta be honest! This is not easy for me at all. It may be easy for shredders but I'm not the one!
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Just keep at it. We all hit plateaus; eventually, you'll break through - think how great that'll be!
BTW, I assume you can turn Frank off and just play along with the rhythm track, right?
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I just focused on a small section, especially ones that gave me trouble. I made it a part of my warm-up when I was doing it. Now, I warm-up on memorized lines.
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
This thing was shot on film back in the early '90s. It's just Frank and two stand-ins sitting in a living room, playing through the material, and you follow along or get left behind. Frank is the only one who's plugged in. The other two guys look like they can play most of the stuff, but if they flubbed, we'll never know.
As I said in my earlier post, this was done like one of those exercise videos sold to housewives in the '80s. You're supposed to watch the beautiful people onscreen and follow along fantasizing about one day looking like them. In this case you have Frank, sporting a mullet, in sleeveless rock star attire, showing off his prodigious crop of arm hair and two half-way decent looking guys.... but whatever.
That YouTube vid is somebody's home edit where they took screen grabs of the play-along booklet and grafted that over top of the soundtrack for the video.
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
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It is a great stuff for every guitarist!
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