- Andy Summers not only teaches some great guitar parts from his years with The Police, he demonstrates some more advanced playing plus jazz and blues styles. You’ll learn about chord group memorization and clusters, special suspensions, visualizing the root, mapping out the neck, modal interchanges, “squeezing” the chords, and a whole lot more. Plus some great live performances by Andy playing
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Andy Summers not only teaches some great guitar parts from his years with The Police, he demonstrates some more advanced playing plus jazz and blues styles. You’ll learn about chord group memorization and clusters, special suspensions, visualizing the root, mapping out the neck, modal interchanges, squeezing the chords, and a whole lot more. Plus some great live performances by Andy playing with his band!
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December 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Andy Summers is a great guitarist to learn from. Police fans will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 10:52 am
You’ll enjoy this video. It’s like sitting down with a very gifted guitar instructor who has a deep understanding of music and is just letting it flow. In other words, keep the pause button handy. When he goes through chords he like they just keep rolling with little chance to grab one before he hit another. Of course that’s what the diagrams in the booklet are for. Andy’s presentation is pretty “low key” with that dry British sense of humor. If you enjoy that it’s even more fun to learn from him.
Rating: 4 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I actually bought this by accident. I quickly picked a few books online and this turned out to be a DVD instead. It turned out to be a great purchase and a much better way to learn the material and learn tricks and tips from Andy than trying to decipher the songs out of a book.
This is a nicely organized selection of lessons and information from Andy Summers with some Police stuff and some of his other work. It offers great insight into what makes Andy tick and offers a lot of info and tips beyond just learning to play a few songs.
It starts out with learning some chords and helpful info. Then for each of the songs on the DVD Andy shows how he plays each part of the song, after which he plays it with his band. It’s really a great structure. Work through the pieces of the song, then watch the whole song played and play along. The DVD works on my PC but is better on my DVD player hooked up to my TV due to bigger picture, better sound and the remote control to zap back and forth through the lessons.
The DVD also comes with a book in the DVD jacket. Each lesson has documentation but due to the size of the booklet, the entire lessons and songs are not documented. Considering the limitations of the size of the book, you can’t expect too much more, however.
I will be buying more of the Hot Licks DVDs and I hope all of them are as good as this one.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Highly recomended for learning chord “colors.” What a huge difference they make on songs and in composition.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Finally, the answers to the question “How did he do that??”
Straight from the man himself, you’ll learn the intriguing chord voicings, rhythms and compositional concepts behind our beloved Police classics. Also, Andy shares some refreshing ideas about how to think about chords, melody and composition in general, and shares interesting and often funny tidbits of information regarding the genesis of some of the Police tunes and his years in the band. There are some nice segments where he plays Police and other tunes in a trio setting to drive home the musical discussion points.
Rating: 5 / 5