have you learned anything or everything from videos? how did you do it?

[diverse379]

I have all of wheat works videos about 17 in all


plus all of jermaine griegs stuff

and jamal hartwell videos

plus I have guitar videos and bass videos george duke videos

the list goes on


In the beginning I didnt get much from them

I am getting much more use out of them now probably because I am more advanced
Those early wheatworks videos were really for advanced players not beginners like I was


My tip and sebastions is that you need to digest the material bit by bit dont just watch it like a movie

but learn each concept and when you understand it and can play it and have worked it out in a few keys then  come back and learn the next bit

most of the tapes out there if you take the time with that rewind button will give you most of what you need to take your playing to the next level.


If you have learned from a video or Dvd tell us how you did it


learning is an art form and some of us could use the suggestions on how to learn

[rjthakid]

I've found that the key is to NOT just imitate what they're doing.

If so, you may be able to play the song that they're playing EXACTLY like them, but that's it.

But take the chords you learn, find the NAME of the chord (they don't always give you the name) and then apply it in a diffferent song, so that you can add it to you vocabulary, as opposed to just mimicing the instructor.