Post by JerseyJazz on Dec 19, 2005 11:54:42 GMT -5
Apparently, the Hotlicks video website still advertises the videos for sale. I would just double check to make sure that there are no hitches to buying and receiving videos from Hotlicks because I know that there were some problems for awhile there.
They are worth taking a look at if you are looking for a different approach to improvising. If you have ever seen Jimmy Bruno play, he is a total technique monster. I agree that the videos don't tell you everything that you ever wanted to know about polytonal theory, but I do think they give you some sort of foundation from which to build complex polytonal lines.
The first video series goes into a variety of topics which are useful, but definitely geared more toward advanced beginning / intermediate jazz guitar players. The 2nd video series is more geared toward improvising and a different way to approach it. If you are looking for something that gives you all the answers you ever wanted to know in a neat little book or video, this isn't the series for you, but then again, I don't know that you will ever find such a thing. For me, these videos at least gave me some sort of framework to use when practicing. I learned where the chord tones and scale tones were. I internalized them. Then I played around with altering those tones while improvising over different tunes.
They are worth taking a look at if you are looking for a different approach to improvising. If you have ever seen Jimmy Bruno play, he is a total technique monster. I agree that the videos don't tell you everything that you ever wanted to know about polytonal theory, but I do think they give you some sort of foundation from which to build complex polytonal lines.
The first video series goes into a variety of topics which are useful, but definitely geared more toward advanced beginning / intermediate jazz guitar players. The 2nd video series is more geared toward improvising and a different way to approach it. If you are looking for something that gives you all the answers you ever wanted to know in a neat little book or video, this isn't the series for you, but then again, I don't know that you will ever find such a thing. For me, these videos at least gave me some sort of framework to use when practicing. I learned where the chord tones and scale tones were. I internalized them. Then I played around with altering those tones while improvising over different tunes.