Product Details

• Actors: Ernie Hawkins
• Directors: Ernie Hawkins
• Format: Box set, 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: 4
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Grossman's Guitar Workshop
• DVD Release Date: October 29, 2002
• Run Time: 355 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000SKUBEM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,440 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hawkins is THE teacher of the Rev. Gary Davis, January 11, 2009

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Peter Hyatt (Orrington, Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gospel Guitar of Rev. Gary Davis (DVD)

Another classic from Ernie Hawkins on Rev. Gary Davis.

Not everyone knows the music of Gary Davis, but if you are a fan of the Rev. Gary Davis, or if you are just a fan of the blues and would love to learn some very unique songs and fingerstyle play, this is a terrific opportunity to spend many hours with a master player and teacher.

Hawkins is a gifted teacher who is an expert on the music of Rev. Gary Davis, including many of the lesser known songs. This collection has some wonderful songs not normally known by many; the early religious songs of Gary Davis.

Hawkins is a low key, patient teacher, who like all skilled teachers, is able to anticipate where his student will struggle. For this reason, he will slow down at certain points, repeat himself, and bring the student along with great skill.

For the intermediate guitarist, or for the high drive late beginner, this DVD set equals months of great lessons at an incredible value. Ernie Hawkins also taught the terrific C-A-G-E-D series, helping the student learn the fret board, which is here at Amazon.

This is a very generous teaching, and this will provide the student with many months of "private lessons" which would be impossible to afford, should you be able to land one of the country's top teachers for private lessons.

Plan to spend an hour a week or more with the DVD, using the Pause button often, and learn these terrific songs.

Primarly for the Intermediate guitarist (or early Advanced), someone who is late in the Beginner stage who has the drive to push forward, will benefit greatly from Hawkins' teaching.

See Ernie Hawkins' other DVDs for more excellent acoustic blues lessons.

Between his slow, methodical teaching, his easy going personality, terrific selection of songs, and skilled camera work, you are purchasing months of "personal" lessons with one of our country's best teachers of acoustic guitar.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Instruction, October 25, 2008

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P. Adams (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gospel Guitar of Rev. Gary Davis (DVD)

This is my first experience with Ernie Hawkins guitar instruction and I am very impressed on a number of levels. The clips of The Rev are truly inspirational and the respect (almost reverence) of Ernie for his teacher is inspirational as well. The connection of the teacher, in this case Hawkins, to the music is a powerful component to this DVD set. The care and pace of repeatedly going over every musical detail was, for me, very similar to a personal lesson and enabled me to learn and play while "watching and pausing" the video without the necessity of going back to earlier sections again and again. Ernie, obviously, knows this music extremely well and is a Master of this style. Technically, the DVD is outstanding with excellent sound and video. It appears (not sure) that Ernie does the instruction on Rev. Davis' personal guitar! Great stuff.

5.0 out of 5 stars a great teacher of these "holy blues", November 23, 2010

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T. Furneaux (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gospel Guitar of Rev. Gary Davis (DVD)

Obviously most Rev.Davis songs are not for the beginner or newly intermediate player.... but ( yes, for even you!) Ernie Hawkins is your man for learning these *great* songs.

I learned how to play guitar by learning Gary Davis songs. His gospel tunes are among his most profound & fun to play. This dvd clearly shows you how to tackle these precious songs so you can add them to your repertoire. Ernie Hawkins is a great teacher. I know what it's like to take lessons from a really good teacher (I took lessons from Duck Baker weekly for 3 years) Mr. Hawkins can teach you these songs for a fraction of what private lessons would cost.

These songs are part of my permanent repertoire. If they become part of your repertoire, you will feel so thankful you bought this excellent dvd set.