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Guitar Grimoire Scales & Modes-DVD
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| Look elsewhere | 2007-11-05 | 1 / 5 |
| | I purchased this dvd along with the companion book, "The Guitar Grimoire". The book is rather confusing and droll. I would rather shoot myself then watch that video again. Not only was it basically a rote reading of the book, but the format was terrible. Throughout the entire thing the author wears a monks robe that hides his face, he continually makes these idiotic gestures like he's a magician, the whole audio is done with some annoying special effect on his voice and the content was just not that eye-opening. I have "A Modern Method for Guitar", volumes 1,2 and 3 by William Leavitt of Berklee music. I have found them to be far more valuable. Not only do you learn to sight read, but you also gain better theory and much of the same information offered by Cad-man in a much more mature presentation style. Sorry, Adam. You are obviously knowledgeable and talented, but writing books and making videos does not seem to be your forte. |
| A decent teaching DVD by a definite satan worshiper | 2006-07-08 | 3 / 5 |
| Out of necessity, I feel I must rate this DVD on two levels.
First, this DVD is clearly a statement by Kadmon on his personal cosmological beliefs. From his name alone, which means primeval man, you should know that he means to convey more than just how to play the guitar. His appearances on his throne are intentionally timed to take advantage of certain Tree Of Life ideas which I don't have time to get into here. But, he appears beneath the middle one of three six-pointed stars ... 666, get it? And, he is surrounded by four beasts, which is taken directly from certain prophecies in the bible, old and new testament. At opportune times, a picture of the Circle of Fifths flashes on the screen, which is common knowledge for any musician who has been formally trained. But, what musicians usually are not aware of is that the 12 keys in the Circle of Fifths, indeed even the 12 notes in western music, are both derivations of the 12 astrological signs of the Zodiac. Yes, my Christian friends, every hymn sung in your church every sunday (the pagan day of worship of the Sun) is in the key of one of the signs of the Zodiac. Christians and Kadmon have a lot more in common that they realize ...
Secundo .... Kadmon is right on that the proliferation of TAB notation has seriously dumbed down far too many guitarists. He spends the first half of his DVD on the piano because that is standard procedure in any formal music curriculum. Every formally trained classical or jazz guitarist understands this, and has been through the process. After he grounds you in musical theory from the piano's perspective, he then spends the second half of the DVD with his guitar in hand, showing you how to apply that knowledge to your guitar. This is the best approach to teaching musical theory for guitarists I have seen yet.
I haven't yet seen mention of something unique and quite valuable Kadmon does for guitarists. I purchased a couple of videos in the past put out by Frank Gambale to learn his sweep picking technique, but I felt his approach to teaching it, while it clearly works for him, was not particularly practical for me. Kadmon, on the other hand, presents a much more logical approach to sweep picking with his consistent 3 notes to a string patterns. |
| Too much cheese, not enough usable information. | 2005-12-08 | 1 / 5 |
| My review is pretty much an echo of the others presented. While there is some good information in this DVD, it's presented in such a bad way. You've got the book author dressed up in a wizard robe with a hood covering his face, sitting on a throne surrounded by weird symbols and gargoyles while fake torches burn on either side. And did I mention that his voice is digitized during the whole DVD, including the parts where he's explaining music theory and stops being theatrical? I really felt bad for the author and embarassed for watching it.
The DVD also contains essentially the same information that's presented in the book of the same name, and does not really provide anything new. If you already have the book, this may or may not be useful to you as a companion. I personally got more out of the book by itself, which is still an excellent resource. However, I do have a better understanding of of music theory now, but I learned more about how it relates to the piano as opposed to the guitar. Why they chose to give most of the examples on the piano instead of the guitar is beyond me.
So, in closing, it gets one star. It would have been higher had it had additional content or gone into greater detail about actually understanding scales and modes and their application. Unfortunately it just turns out to be some doofus in a robe reading the book to you, and I don't think that's worth the price of admission. |
| The books are excellent | 2005-08-10 | 2 / 5 |
| In the early 1990s I purchased The Guitar Grimoire, Scales and Modes. Eventually I purchased 4 other books from the series. These books are an invaluable source of information.
I mistakenly thought that the DVDs would be an excellent medium for the viewer to learn some of these concepts and their applications directly from Adam Kadmon.
While Adam is indeed the instructor in these DVD "lessons" (and almost everything else too), this is another case of "the book is SO much better than the movie."
I can't believe how bad the DVD is, especially considering how great Adam's books are.
A lot of time is spent explaining how to use the book, and in general repeating concepts and ideas from the book. The DVD adds little value, if any, to the book. To me it would have been more interesting to listen to some of the scales and modes in a variety of contexts, with explanations regarding scale/mode choice as well as note choice, exercises, progressions, or something that would make me glad I purchased the DVD. To me it was a waste of money.
I witnessed the equivalent of a really bad B movie (as mentioned by another reviewer). Who knows, maybe this one will become a cult classic too. I'm giving it too stars because there is some knowledge in the DVD. Unfortunately it does not add much to the material included in the book. |
| An investment in your future | 2004-11-13 | 5 / 5 |
| I have all the books and DVD's. They're brilliant. The pause,fast forward and rewind buttons are there to help you grasp the intense amount of info in these DVD's. Obviously some of you don't get it with the keyboard. It best demonstrate Harmony and theory. As for the Wizard thing, it's just his schtick. Nothing Satanic about it. In fact, he gives a little moral at the end of the DVD's like "music is power, don't abuse it." Which many today do. Evil is in the eye of the beholder. And maybe it's easier to critique or condemn something that is different. Adam, thanks for some excellent Books. The Wizard thing may have been over the top for some, but you had the guts to do it. More power to you. Not all of us are destined to go to Yale or Harvard or Berkely, some of us grow up on the streets and our only hope for that high a level of music education is you. Thank God for you. Looking forward to more of your stuff.
You get ten stars from me. |
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