Product Details

• Actors: Paul Lidel
• Directors: Dan Huckabee
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Musician's Workshop
• VHS Release Date: October 10, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1584961236
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Blake Cartwright Austin, Tx

"Beginning Rock Guitar" is excellent, riffs are easy to learn, I was able to learn each one in 5 minutes."

Product Description

Why not just start right in with the fun stuff? Because it’s too hard for a beginner? Not at all! Actually many of rock’s most exciting, famous, & popular "guitar-parts" are easy enough for the complete (first-day) beginner! Paul Lidel knows what’s fun & he knows what you need to learn to get you started off on the right foot. Hey, if it ain't fun.....why do it? Includes cool guitar parts from: Metallica, Black Sabbath, George Thorogood, Van Halen, Live, Deep Purple, The Beatles, Aerosmith, OzzyOsbourne, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machine, Alice In Chains, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Guns & Roses/Dylan, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix Also Includes: How to read TAB, tuning & how to use a tuner, & tune without a tuner, how to hold the pick, holding the guitar, left & right hand position, what the knobs & switches on an electric guitar do, Amp settings for clean & dirty sound & much more!

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Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative!, November 19, 2001

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"jmnutt" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Rock Guitar - The Fun Approach with Paul Lidel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is the bomb! It goes over EVERYTHING one needs to know about playing the electric guitar, starting from the very basic to actual riff playing. It is awsome! The important stuff however, is too mixed in with the riff teaching. You have to do a lot of rewinding, fast forwarding and note taking of the time that each section occures. But it really wouldn't be fair if I rated this video based on its VHS format. This really needs to be on DVD!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent beginner's video, January 13, 2006

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This review is from: Beginning Rock Guitar - The Fun Approach with Paul Lidel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is just what the doctor ordered to make beginning guitarists even more excited about learning guitar, even acoustic players. Not only does he cover the basics such as tuning and playing styles, amp effects, explaining the components of the guitar, but he also teaches you so much about chords, finding notes on the fretboard, and intersperses some cool riffs that we all recognize, note for note with ONSCREEN TAB, which so many other instructional videos sadly fail to provide. I myself and not a beginner, but I watched this with a youngster in the family whom I bought it for. Lidel's approach is perfect for any one who is just learning. He clearly recognizes the audience this was intended for without being disrespectful or condecsending. Fun and instructive at the same time - you can't beat that!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great video, February 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Beginning Rock Guitar - The Fun Approach with Paul Lidel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you're new to the guitar and want to play some tunes - this is the video of you. Paul does a great job throwing out some basic instruction mixed with some cool riffs. You won't be disapointed.