Instructional Guitar Videos or CD's

[dsm]

Are there any How-To-Play Guitar videos or CD's that you've found particularly helpful and well worth the $$$?

My favorite is Eric Johnson: Total Electric Guitar.
I'ts not for beginners, intermediate and up.

I also have Eric's two-video set that came out after this one, they're really good too.

Any video I've seen by Curt Mitchell is good, and usually only $19.99. I have five in his series of around 40 or 50.

The Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time


Guitar Method in the style of Eric Clapton.



Guitar Method in the style of Pearl Jam


And finally his Classic Rock volume 1 & 2.


Curt Mitchell has two videos in the style of Eddie Van Halen, and one or two on Stevie Ray Vaughan. My friend has the first Van Halen one, and one of the Stevie Ray videos. They look really good (I'll eventually get around to borrowing them from him).

Here's Curt Mitchell's site listing everything he has, but any music store that sells videos can get them. Curt Mitchell: Learn To Burn.

Yngwie Malmsteen has four tapes, the first one in the series has some traditional blues licks that I play a lot (not the linear stuff he made famous). It's the most expensive single video I've seen (usually around $59.00, but that was a few years ago), it's simply titled Yngwie Malmsteen and is the one I like best of the four. Maybe it can be found on Ebay for half price.


Also, I just bought a Tascam CD-GT1 Guitar Trainer less than a week ago, and it's great. I highly recommend it.


It slows CD's down from 8% to %50 of their normal speed without changing the pitch. You can easily loop the parts you want to learn to play over and over seamlessly. You can break up the lead into a bunch of few-note segments if it's particularly tough. It does a lot of other things too, but that is its primary feature. Don't buy one without the AC adapter (I heard they eat batteries), sold separately for $25.00. The Guitar Center threw it in for free, but you gotta ask them to make you that deal. If they don't, find another salesman or go to another Guitar Center or Sam Ash.

-dsm