Guitar Insights-The Beatles, Vol.1

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Summary: No Tabs - No Chord Diagrams? Just try playing those solos.
Review: After reading the good reviews I went and bought this DVD and after watching it I have to say i'm very disappointed and completly disagree with those previous reviews. While this DVD does have alot of good features like looping and slow motion playing, it's missing one of the most important things: On screen or printed tabs/chords for each song. It does show you the leads, riffs, chorus parts but it's idiotic to not be able to know exactly what the guy is playing! You are going to have to watch each solo section 100 times or slow it down and write down for yourself exactly what is played on which fret, and even then you have to switch between close ups and wide angle to see exactly which string he did play. Would it have really been that much trouble to add onscreen TAB/Chord diagrams or a printed booklet? Unfortunately this DVD is just going to be an exercise in frustration for most people. There's no place on their website to download the tabs either. Novice guitarists will have alot of trouble with this DVD as there is no vocal instruction nor help or hints at how to play each song either. Plain and simple this DVD is just a guitarist playing Beatles songs with close ups of his hand. While it is a good first attempt by this company and really a decent price for the enormous amount of content as compared to the SongXpress series which only have 4 songs per DVD I would hesitate to recommend this to anyone other then Advanced players with good memories. I would have given it one star except that it does have pretty good sound for an instrucional DVD. Do yourself a favour and just buy a tab book as it's going to take you ten time longer to learn any of these songs by just watching this.

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Summary: By far the best Guitar DVD I've ever seen
Review: For an lazy intermediate player, this is a quick way to learn great songs. I just wish there were more of them.

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Summary: Nice breakdown of Classic Beatle Tunes
Review: I bought this DVD to get a better understanding of some of my favorite Beatles songs. In general, with Beatles songs, and most other music, there are many instruments layered on top of one another. It's sometimes difficult to discern the particular guitar part that you want to hear. This DVD breaks down each song into the various guitar sections, with each part played separately, slow and at normal speed. There are also multiple camera angles; you can get a close up view of the fretboard and also a wide view to see what the right hand is doing.

The DVD has a great feature that keeps looping back the chosen part so you don't have to keep hitting rewind over and over. The DVD does it for you, making the songs so much easier to figure out. Nice technology.

This DVD is much easier to use then TAB. To be able to see what is being played, makes the learning process much easier.

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Summary: Nothing instructional about it
Review: I got this DVD for Christmas and was exciting to learn some Beatles songs. My excitement quickly turned to frustration. The DVD is only a collection of up close videos of Mike playing his guitar. There is no tab, no music, no descriptions of any kind to tell you how to play any of these songs. I spent an hour trying to tab out the first few measures of Back in the USSR. At tempo or even in slow motion, this was impossible. Ask yourself if you can simply watch someone play and then play yourself without any instruction on what chords or notes to play. When I complained to GuitarSolutions.com, they suggested several books that I could purchase to supplement the DVD. I wish I had just received the books. I would be playing my favorite Beatles tunes by now.

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Summary: Learn Classic Beatles Tunes
Review: I'm 50 and have been playing for 35+ years, I learned some of these songs incorrectly as a young begineer. The looping feature of this DVD allowed me to clean up my act easily. This disk is ideal for the player who has basic chops but can't/doesn't want to read music and wants to learn to play these classic tunes. The selectable camera views and menu selection ease (lead rhythm) is 5 stars, very easy to use. The guitar tones are authentic the only suggestion I could make to this disk is to let us know how you set up your amp to get these killers tones.

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Summary: Amazing Sound and Easy to use!!
Review: I've tried to learn to play the guitar through many different approaches -- tabs from the internet, vhs instructional videos and even costly one-on-one instruction. None worked. This new DVD approach though has taught me more than all of the above combined!! The features intrinsic in DVD technology are fully implemented in this Beatles DVD - I'm able to reduce the speed of video in order to follow along with the fingering and the way that the video segments will automatically repeat lets you follow along until you get it just right. The song choice is amazing and ALL parts of the songs are covered -- with special attention to the leads. I can't wait for a Volume 2!!!!

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Summary: Amazing Sound and Easy to use!!
Review: I've tried to learn to play the guitar through many different approaches -- tabs from the internet, vhs instructional videos and even costly one-on-one instruction. None worked. This new DVD approach though has taught me more than all of the above combined!! The features intrinsic in DVD technology are fully implemented in this Beatles DVD - I'm able to reduce the speed of video in order to follow along with the fingering and the way that the video segments will automatically repeat lets you follow along until you get it just right. The song choice is amazing and ALL parts of the songs are covered -- with special attention to the leads. I can't wait for a Volume 2!!!!

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Summary: Ripoff
Review: It will take you forever to learn a song from this DVD. You cannot see what notes the guy is playing. His fingers block the view of the frets. No TAB or chords provided. The company should at least provide TAB on their web site.

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Summary: Good, useful > but has problems
Review: Like others, bought this for my son after reading positive reviews. However, like the other negative reviews, I'd agree that this program has a serious flaw that you should be aware of : without any on-screen image to match what the guitarist's fingers are doing, it gets pretty confusing, as you cannot tell what the fingers are doing.

However, the musicianship and musical insights are great : very authentic styles for all the guitar parts in all the songs.