Learn to Play Songs From Jimi Hendrix Expierience: Are You Experienced?

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Summary: How great......still need tabs to find out how to play !!
Review: I agree with the comment of Lloyd Gomez. A total waste of your money !!!!!

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Summary: How great......still need tabs to find out how to play !!
Review: I knew Velvert personaly and can attest to the fact that he was a friend of Jimi's. As a matter of fact, I jammed with Velvert quite often.(drum's)I had also seen Hendrix five or six time's, center stage audience, and on stage as well. I can tell you that every wanna be, may never come as close as Velvert did, with maybe the exception of Ray Vaughn.(excuse the typo) At any rate, for those of you that want to give it a shot, Velvert is as close as it get's. He never felt personaly good about shadowing Hendrix. Thank's Velvert. May you guy's jam in peace.

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Summary: Hendrix-Velvert....
Review: I knew Velvert personaly and can attest to the fact that he was a friend of Jimi's. As a matter of fact, I jammed with Velvert quite often.(drum's)I had also seen Hendrix five or six time's, center stage audience, and on stage as well. I can tell you that every wanna be, may never come as close as Velvert did, with maybe the exception of Ray Vaughn.(excuse the typo) At any rate, for those of you that want to give it a shot, Velvert is as close as it get's. He never felt personaly good about shadowing Hendrix. Thank's Velvert. May you guy's jam in peace.

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Summary: Great Teaching Aid / Well worth the money
Review: I read the positive and negative reviews prior to ordering this DVD. I already own the Jimi Hendrix Experience tab book. What the tabs don't give you is the what I would call the "correct form".(Being a Novice Player). I have struggled with the lead to the Wind Cries Mary for a long time. Just getting this straightened out was woth the cost of this DVD. Hopefully Vekvert Turner is working on releasing another DVD with other Jimi Hendrix songs. I do highly recommend purchasing the Tabs in addition to this DVD. Between the book and the DVD you are sure to get it right. I am very glad I purchased this DVD.

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Summary: Incredible! Best Jimi Hendrix Translation Lessons EVER!
Review: I've bought other Hendrix lessons that play "in the style" of Jimi and was greatly disappointed. Heck, I could have made better ones than those and those aren't approved by Jimi's estate. This DVD was sanctioned by the Experience Hendrix, LLC Company and for good reason. It is the greatest translation of Jimi's songs on the planet....bar none! I am now proud to say that as a direct result of this DVD I am starting my own Jimi Hendrix Tribute Band called Are You Experienced. This DVD nails every single note with unerring accuracy to the point it had me shaking in my boots to see that some human could actually ever duplicate Jimi's songs with such total exactness. For me, watching Andy Aledort play the notes fast and then slow was all I needed. That's the beauty of DVDs! Just hit pause, jump back a second or two and no tapes wearing out and rewinding. What's so difficult about that? If they were to go into an "analysis" of Jimi's rapid fire lightening solos for 17 songs as Lloyd mentions, it would take many DVDs at probably a cost of several thousand dollars. Even so, for me being a Hendrix fanatic, I would have gladly payed over a grand for this DVD alone because after 30 years of practicing these songs by ear I have never been able to duplicate these songs to this level and now I can! Every part, chord, intro, solo and outro is there note for note. There is also brief analysis before each song and part introduced by Velvert Turner and then played by Andy Aledort with fantastic brief footage of Jimi playing live in between that I've never seen before. That amazing footage was probably supplied by Jimi's estate but don't quote me on that. I went out and bought the tabs companion book as well, but having never learned tabs and playing by ear for the past 30 years it all looks Greek to me. Not knocking tabs and Andy himself encouraged me to learn them, but I'd rather watch and hear somebody play something any day than read tabs and not understand the feeling or intensity something is played at. That's right...Andy himself. I wrote to Guitar World where he is an editor and he immediately answered all my questions about equipment used etc. which was nothing out of the ordinary that is already plastered all over the net about equipment Jimi used such as a Fender Strat, a Marshall Plexi, an Octavia, Clyde McCoy Wah, Univibe, etc. The majority of the sound however, comes from the intensity, syntax and execution at which the notes are played and that's what this DVD nails down to the tee. Lloyd also mentioned that you might as well go out and buy a Hendrix concert DVD and watch Jimi playing the notes. Good luck! Almost every Hendrix concert ever filmed is poor quality, dark, grainy, focuses on his strumming hand instead of his neck playing fingers or his feet during his most killer solos, with the exception of Woodstock which shows a few great riffs in bits and pieces. If you want to learn Jimi's songs note for note, this is the factotum DVD to get. If tabs are your bag, get the companion book. However, get the DVD if you want to see and hear it being played firsthand, which is almost mandatory if you want to try and duplicate Hendrix exactly, this DVD will definitely show you how to get REALLY Experienced!

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Summary: Not worth it
Review: If you're looking to learn how to play songs from Are You Experienced, you're better off buying Andy Aledort's "Jimi Hendrix - A Step By Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques" book and CD for [PRICE]. The problem with this DVD is that while Andy obviously knows his stuff, he spends less than 5 minutes per song (they cram all 17 songs into 2 hours) and there's no real "analysis" of how to even play it. What's worse is that there's no on-screen transcription of what Andy is playing -- he just plays and you're expected to mimic what you see. You might as well get a Hendrix concert DVD and learn from that. A better idea would have been to package the book I mentioned above with this DVD.

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Summary: Best Teaching Aid Yet!
Review: Let me start saying that I had used Instructional VHS/DVDs for a couple of years including the "MVP In The Style Of" series and some other ones featuring modern guitar virtuosos like Al DiMeola, Paul Gilbert and Eric Johnson. The MVP series is crap, but was one of the first ones available. The others are good but follow a presentation that only acomplished guitarrist will benifit the most. Imagine going to a one Day workshop with your favorite guitarrist.

This DVD is the Best one yet. You have two great instructors, one playing the tunes, one explaining the tunes. They cover all the songs from the are you experience album and all the parts of the songs: Intros, Verses, Chorus, Solo, etc. The explanations included some basic theoric explanitions of the scales and roots of the songs or passages inside the songs as well as right hand, left hand techniques need to acomplish the sounds.

If you are an advanced beginner, know some basic theory, right/left hand techniques and understand the minor and major pentatonic scales you will benefit greatly from this DVD.

Those Hendrix fans who are intermidate and advanced guitarrist can probably incorporate some of these songs to their gigs in little time!

The only con that ther is is that there is no tablature, but you can get the Tab Book from amazon for around $20. Yet I had the book before I got this DVD but was very diffucult to use as nothing compares to actualy seeing some one playing the songs to get a grasp of the right/left hand techniques which is somethig difficult to do from a Tab Book.

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Summary: Waste of money
Review: No tab, liner notes, adds nothing to material already available

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Summary: An excellent work
Review: This DVD is definitely worth buying if you're a Hendrix fan. Velvet Turner and Andy Aledort go through each song on Are You Experienced and discuss the basic elements of the song. The tone that Andy Aledort gets from his Strat is absolutely excellent. The downside is that they did not discuss what equipment they were using. Although you can tell by looking at Andy's guitar that he's playing a 68 Reverse Headstock Strat, also known as the Hendrix Voodoo Strat. But I strongly feel that these videos should discuss equipment also.