Product Details

• Actors: Bryan Sutton
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Homespun
• DVD Release Date: September 15, 2006
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JK8O90
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,234 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This extraordinary DVD lesson is filled with spectacular picking, detailed instruction and invaluable advice for aspiring bluegrass guitarists at all levels. Bryan Sutton thoughtfully and methodically lays out his tricks of the trade to help you play any tune and improve your flatpicking speed, power, timing and musicianship. Bryan addresses many of the problems that he sees in aspiring pickers, and passes along tips on how to keep your picking hand and arm tension-free and your fretting hand supple and quick. He provides drills and exercises, teaching an arsenal of licks, bends, double stops, slides and other devices that will help you build powerful and memorable solos. In a special section on rhythm playing, Bryan plays backup to Cody Kilby's lead solos and shows how, by varying his chords and bass runs, he builds a groove and enhances the tune. He breaks down, in detail, famous bluegrass jam session tunes - Daley's Reel, Texas Gales, Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag - each of which shows a different aspect of the flatpick experience. "Once your technique and fundamentals are down you can just play and let the ideas take over." - Bryan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars new hero, but not a great teacher, August 29, 2007

By	Michael Williams "snaphooks" (Oceanside, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bryan Sutton is my new hero. Though not a great teacher, like Steve Kaufman, he's a superb player, and I learned a lot from watching him play. The solos in Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag are really cool. I wish there was more meat to this DVD. They give you a tab for Texas Gales, which is kind of useless because Sutton just uses it to demonstrate practicing slowly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent flatpicking dvd, March 24, 2007

By	R. Soule (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Watching Bryan play and talk about his experiences is worth the cost of this dvd. He does share some secrets behind his picking technique (right hand) and that was what I was most interested in. There's some good tab that comes with the disk. I would recomend it to those players interested in this style of music. He's one of the best pickers out there.