Good show !! bad teaching
Ohad viki | israel | 02/10/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"ths show is great .. frank at hes best ... very good. but i buy this for learning to .. as he said that he going to learn some new stuf. dont buy this only for the lessons !! if it for that reason dont buy it at all.."
Could have been more
Jon Rittmann | Tucson, Arizona | 05/22/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Good video but lesson was only 30 min, should have been longer than the performance part."
Adequate, but that's all
An Amazonian | Massachusetts, USA | 01/06/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Mr. Gambale seems kind and unpretentious, but I found this DVD unexciting. It's divided into two halves: a concert with his trio, and a set of about twenty improvisation exercises. I found his compositions rather dull, perhaps because all his melodies are unending strings of eighth notes. And the improvisation exercises were rudimentary to anyone who knows a bit of jazz, while at the same time they might be hard to understand for anyone who doesn't.
Personally, I'm really digging the Jody Fisher jazz guitar method books right now, and would recommend those to people curious about jazz improvisation. The first in the series is this one, I think:
Beginning Jazz Guitar (Book & DVD)"