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Entrada Archtop Guitar
Scott Tarulli
Berklee Professor Reviews Lefty Entrada

See Attached Video Review by Scott Tarulli of Boston, MA

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Vol. 4 - Ticket To Improv
gerald mckinnon
volume four

Super excellent

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The Jazz Lines
Jack Marchewka
Just getting started

Worked though the first two lessons of the Jazz Lines book (more to go), but it opened a door for me. I’ve come to understand there is a difference between theory and harmony. This is about learning harmony. If you want to play jazz learn harmony.

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Vol. 4 Wave
Mike Sanders - Las Vegas, NV
One of Conti's Best Solo Lessons

All of the Robert Conti DVDs are top-notch, but this one takes the cake. He takes what some consider to be a harmonically complex tune and breaks it done into the simplest of terms. From here, the viewer is taken through the lesson a few measures at a time, with each concept explained in detail and with care. Once you have the lesson under your hands, you not only have an impressive solo but an increased vocabulary of lines to use on other songs and a better understanding of how to approve improvisation over any song. Great fun and well worth the effort. If you are new to improvisation, I recommend learning from a few of Conti’s “Ticket to Improv” DVDs first as you will internalize the lesson much faster and have a greater understanding of the concepts presented.

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Preferred Gauge Strings
Jack Marchewka
My choice of strings

For my Entradas. These strings came with my Entradas so I’m sticking with them. Live the wound 3rd string. Great tone and playability!

Chord Melody at Its Best!

This is a great DVD to start building your chord melody repertoire. Mr. Conti walks you thru the classic “Since I Fell for You” and provides you with several ways to approach the tune using a series of different chordal harmonic arrangements. Besides learning to play the song several different ways, Mr. Conti is at the ready with his famous “Off the Sheet” tips. These are items that not part of the regular lesson plan, but are sure to help take your chord melody playing to an even higher level. Of the Chord Melody arrangements, this is my personal favorite, but after finishing the DVD, I purchased ALL the other Chord Melody DVDs as I was so inspired to learn more.

Play Pro Chord Melody Vol, 3,4,5

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I reviewed the first two DVD’s in this series in the November issue. In these Three DVDs Bob teaches you arrangement of Danny Boy, Poor Butterfly and Indian Summer.  Once again his method is to teach you measure by measure, chord by chord so when you are finished with the DVD you have an understanding of how to play different versions of the arrangement. I viewed Indian Summer first. Check out his new Parker archtop on this one.

He begins by playing the chord melody arrangement slowly with great closeups of his hand position. He always has something going in in the bass accompany the melody. Bob shows various ways to harmonize the same melody line which I found interesting. He’s not big on teaching theory as his goal is to learn the arrangement and then apply knowledge and ideas to other songs.

It’s extremely easy to follow along as you can stop and repeat any line to go over that section until you’ve got it under your fingers. You can also stop the DVD at anytime step by step to learn a specific chord or movement. Sure beat rewinding VHS tape. The key, after learning the tune, is to apply what yo’ve learned to new material.

All the DVD are taught in a smiliar easy going manner and a student with a little knowledge of the guitar can easily the chord forms and work their way around the neck developing the chord melodoy solo.

A bargain at $19.95. you can’t take a lesson for that price. This is terrific opportunity to learn from one of the best in the business. Highly recommended.

  • Volume Three Danny Boy, 2 hr 3 min
  • Volume Four Indian Summer, 1 hr 38 min
  • Volume Five Poor Butterfly, 1 hr 44 min

Reviewed by Ed Benson for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine

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