Product Details

• Actors: Diane Zeigler, Artie Traum
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• VHS Release Date: December 1, 1993
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005YDUG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,851 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A good accompanist adds depth, sparkle and excitement to a song, punctuating it with improvised lines and well-placed chords, then stepping forward to take a solo. Artie Traum has accompanied dozens of top performers, and here he shows guitarists how it's

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4.0 out of 5 stars Record Demonstrations on DVD and Separate Lessons into Pairs of Chapters, August 8, 2007

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Dr. Kasumu O. Salawu (Maplewood, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitar Accompaniment: Playing Lead for a Singer/Guitarist [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This VCR tape is a good artistic production by guitarists Artie Traum and Diane Zeigler. Numerous demonstrations and tips inspire one to create, improvise and experiment with lead lines garnished with slides, bends and vibrato and well-placed chords. Schematics of specified harmony chords, fretted in the best positions, could be added to the musical scores so that the accompanist may determine the relationship of his notes to the notes in the chords or even attempt to arpeggiate.

The technology of producing tutorial music videos such as this has improved tremendously since this VCR tape was made in 1993 and the artists may wish to bring this recording in line with ambient practices so as a make a good product better! Working with videocassettes on VHS players is not only laborious but it is very susceptible to wear and tear due to frequent play-stop-rewind cycles to aid repetition and learning.

Diane and Artie may not have to add another note to the product but they'll need to engage sound engineers not only to put the entire session on DVD or SVCD or CD but also to create and add tracks of Diane playing alone after each mini lesson. The best way students will learn from this product will be to accompany Diane on their own immediately after they shall have seen Artie demonstrate the proper lead exercise and technique.

As such, the DVD would have to be broken up into lessons - variable-time intervals for recorded separate chapters indicated in the accompanying booklet -- each with two parts, one with Artie's demonstration and the other without. This is a better arrangement than alternatively muting Artie's parts by turning knobs to control outputs at various speakers.