Good guitar instructional DVDs (and guitar hangers)?

[Dakine]

this is his website so you can see all his works and see some pages etc.;

http://heavyguitar.com/product.html

[_tom_]

Thanks Nick. I'll probably go for the books if thats what you recommend. Apparently the Eric Johnson dvds are also pretty good.

[Dakine]

Tom
everyone learns differently (as I said) but if you are at all 'curious' and not just wanting 'put this finger there, and this here and strum....' etc., but actually wanna KNOW why things work together, I DO recommend the Richard Daniels books. I am gonna get the last 2 , Blues and Lead myself I think (as my others are in a transit bow somewhere :( keeping me LP,Ovation,SG,speakers etc. etc. company).

[_tom_]

Yeah that sounds good, I guess if you know how it all works then technically you should be "better", then again it could make you over-analyse everything :lol: I'd ideally get some good lessons but I just cant afford it really.


About the guitar hangers, I was looking at Hercules Auto-Lock ones or whatever they call it. The string swings seem a bit dangerous as theres nothing to stop the guitar falling off if it gets nudged or something?

[Muttley]

I just bought 3 Hercules (GSP39-WB) hangers (put them up yesterday in fact), and they seem very good.  They have a spring-loaded systyem where when you lower the guitar onto them the front closes around the neck, and it's really easy to take guitars off them too.  Lift the weight off the hanger and the front opens again.  :)

Bought them here (need to get 1 more as now they're up I've found their fine for my acoustic too):  http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Hercules---GSP39-WB~ID~4268.asp

Muttley

[Muttley]

Oh, and for the instructional stuff it might be worth looking at the subscription at licklibrary.com

You get a few instructional videos for songs a month available for download (with mp3 backing tracks to play along with later), plus technique lessons for download as well.

As an example, this month the song tutorials where:

Whitesnake - Is This Love
Alice In Chains - Man In A Box
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

All of the videos are selected from their main DVD releases, so you can always buy the DVD to get the rest of the songs if you like.  Members also get a discount off the DVDs (up to 50%).

Muttley

[mikeitup]

I highly recommend the following books :

Guthrie Govan : Creative Guitar Vols 1 & 2

and

Troy Stetina : Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar.


My technique and lead playing has improved immensely since I got these.

Troy's covers all techniques and  stuff.

Guthrie's books are great and in my case made me re-evaluate my playing and goals.

[maliciousteve]

I'd say get yourself some theory books. This'll help you with expanding your playing. It got me into learning the harmonic minor scale and melodic minor, it really helped my playing alot.

Also,

Frank Gambale's Modes:No More Mystery DVD is also pretty good. Thought excuse his cheesy clothes.

some Paul Gilbert stuff is also pretty good.