Product Details

• Actors: Brent Mason
• Directors: Arlen Roth
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hot Licks
• DVD Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GTLOR8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,928 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

BRENT MASON:NASHVILLE CHOPS & WESTERN - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great vid, but get ready to use the slow down a lot!, December 29, 2006

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David A. Kaplowitz (Havertown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brent Mason: Nashville Chops And Western Swing Guitar (DVD)

Brent is one of the best! There's no doubt about it. He's not that great of a teacher though, so he kinda' rips through some of these cool (but tough!) licks without much explanation. When an instructional video requires the slow down feature for just about every lick --and believe me, many are like that!-- I get to thinking "how does this beat just transcribing this stuff by ear?"

So, in short, if you're already a competent player who's a Brent fan, you have to have this and do what you can to learn all the licks. But if you're new to the country guitar genre or a relatively inexperienced player, you'd do better to get one of the vids by Johnny Hiland or Arlen Roth since those guys are really good teachers as well as great players.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Short on instruction, July 15, 2007

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John Ialuna "Jackson Moon" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brent Mason: Nashville Chops And Western Swing Guitar (DVD)

No doubt this guy can play but DVD provides almost nothing in the way of 'instruction'. There is a distinct lack of 1/2 speed and slow passage runs. Almost all exercises are played at full break neck speed which very frustrating to the learner. The info on Brent's guitar and gear is interesting but this is not what an instructional DVD is all about.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You'll be amazed if not informed, May 1, 2007

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A. Phillips - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brent Mason: Nashville Chops And Western Swing Guitar (DVD)

Brent Mason is an amazing guitar player and in this video, you get that. But he's not a very good teacher. He seems disorganized, he doesn't really explain much -- he's kind of a typical blue collar guy, about as charismatic as a shop teacher. I enjoyed watching this video, but I couldn't honestly say I learned a lot from it, which is a shame because I would like to understand how he does what he does, but frankly, I'm not even sure he knows.