Best instructional video

[mattfnk]

what is the best instructional video that has helped your playing the most??

Is anything better petrucci or gilbert??

[Arpetude]

Cooley, COOLEY


http://www.chopsfromhell.com/advert_cooley_sgm_DVD.html

:)

[BlueJakester]

I have been getting a great deal of learning and information out of "Getting Started With Electric Guitar by Keith Wyatt" ... it is a DVD produced by Fender, and comes in an "Acoustic" version too.

It starts out at the very beginning, like how to hold your guitar, and works up to lessons on blues and rock solos. I bought my copy from Amazon for something like $20. Worth every penny!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000639G7/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/102-7688545-9071304?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846

[DemonSorcerer]

I'd say Gilbert's Intense Rock I, Garsed's Rock Fusion and Friedman's Melodic Control...all three in the same level.

David

[silent-storm]

This topic was covered rather extensively about a month ago.

Use the search option and you should find it.

[waterborne]

check out some of frank gambales stuff. i am thinking about buying like three of his vids. rock discipline is pretty good.

[Bande]

I'd say i liked John Petrucci's Rock Discipline the most. Very good technique stuff cool licks and excercises can be learnt from it.

[EricV]

As silent-storm pointed out, there was another big thread about it a while ago.

Anyway, this might be like a "middle of the road"-type answer, but seriously, I can´t narrow it down to one video, especially since I think that there are too many aspects of playing to get it all from just one video.
What I mean by that is that "Intense Rock I" did help my picking technique a lot, and some of the string-skipping licks and legato-runs on that one were quite helpful too. At the same time, from watching "Intense Rock II" I learned more about phrasing ( the second half of the video ), from Brett G´s video I learned some legato-stuff, from Ross Bolton´s videos, I picked up some great ideas and exercises for funky rhythm playing, Carl Verheyen´s vid taught me a bit about improvisation, Eric Johnson´s vids were interesting regarding tone, phrasing, using pentatonics, different kinda chords, Greg Howe´s video gave me some neat new tapping-ideas ( so did Dave Celentano´s hard-to-find Starlicks video ), Steve Morse´s video has some great alternate-picking exercises ( different from the Gilbert-stuff ) etc.
I have owned even more vids, and each one helped me to work on different things. It´s in the nature of things that no video can cover all the topics ( it also depends on what you wanna do, where you wanna go with your playing etc. )
I picked up even more from books and from listening to players or watching them live.
So I, for one, am not really able tonarrow it down to one, or even answer the question what helped me out the most. After all, even though you boost your picking-chops up to light-speed by watching the Gilbert-vids, there are way more areas to work on... things that will make you a more complete, versatile player.
Eric

[77fp]

The best video I've seen was of the late great Jeff Porcaro. Nothing to do with guitar, of course, but that's where I got inspired to play the drums. It was great. He explaned exactly how he came up with certain grooves, and he had all sorts of tips for a beginner. And every time I get to sit at a drumkit, I still just have to play that "Roseanna" shuffle.

That's what a video should do.....inspire.

[flathead]

Well the instructional Cd-rom that helped ME the most was Rusty Cooley's Extreme Pentatonics. Its certainly not for everyone and only focuses on certain aspects of playing but it helped ME and MY playing the most. In a VERY close second would be Mike Campese's CD-rom Rock and Fusion concepts.

[xcdrn]

my favourite video has to be Paul Gilbert's Most Terrifying Guitar Trip. I don't even know why i like it so much, it's mostly good guitar humour. I find the tuning segment to be rather ridiculous however.