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Guitar Method: In the Style of Pink Floyd [VHS]

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This video was very dissapointing. I was expecting a fairly high quality lesson from a fairly intelligent teacher. Boy was I wrong. Its filmed with a camcorder in some stoners garage. Hardly worth the twenty bucks I paid for it. One of the most annoying things is that he never tells you the names of songs so half the time you don't know what you're playing. And, it only teaches you short little licks that arent really too useful. I can't imagine anybody saying: "Hey, I can play five seconds of a seven minute song! Cool!" This guy isn't even a great guitarist. Many of the things he plays are innacurate, uses slides when none are used, and his timing is terrible. He's also a bad teacher. Personally, seeing someone play something, then seeing him play it again only closer and slower(again with bad timing)doesn't really teach me anything. Anyway, I think that you get the idea that this video is a piece of crap. So whatever you do, DON'T BUY THIS!!!

Quite a sorry display, I thought... I was so looking forward to learning some of Dave's best riffs.. the video looks like it was made in someone's basement.. very disappointing for any true Pink Floyd fan

This tape is very low quality and has many notational errors. Curtis Mitchell shows you only a few licks of many different songs, leaving the player lost in learning the rest of the songs. Maybe if the viewer burnt a few 'bad ones', they could understand where Curtis is coming from. (I couldn't) Buy this video as a last resort to learning to plan Floydian music.

Curtis Mitchel speaks better that he can play. He shows only a few licks from the vast collection of Floyd songs and the licks that he shows are also not played like the original. They are played with the worst variation that Curt could probably think of. I am a beginer player with 5 years of playing strictly by ear and without technique or music theory and even i can copy Floyd songs better than what Curt plays in the video.

This video does not do David Gilmour or Syd Barrett justice. While this video might show you some tricks you never knew, it does also contain many, many, MANY errors. I felt as though it did not help my technique at all.

This video does not do Floyd any justice. The how-to is the worst! Gilmour deserves more than a third rate effort. If you want to learn how to play the Pink than just LISTEN!

Hosted by Curtis Mitchell, "Guitar Method's" video uses poor lighting, zoom techniques and audio which all add up to a waste of money for the player who wants to delve into David Gilmour's mastery of the Fender Stratocaster. END

Much of my thoughts are summed up by others. But maybe we should be fair. This tape does appear to be on the low end of the production scale and Curt doesn't really teach anything. Basiclly this tape is showing you the notes and you can see how he plays them.

If your looking to learn some cool pink floyd stuff, you can get some of the cool riffs on this tape. This tape isn't about teaching you to be a David Gilmore or anything other than to learn some good licks. If you want theory, stay away. If you want to learn song structure, stay away. If your a pink floyd nut, stay away. But if you like floyd and just want to pick up a few chops and not neccesarily play the entire floyd catalog from begining to end (or even a complete song for that matter), then this tape might be worth while.

As for the acuracy? I am not that good on guitar so I can't comment. But I have found over the years that players tend not to play what was recorded on the record for may reasons, so I wouldn't fret too much about it. It sounds like what Floyd does (except for his sound on his equipement is NOT like floyds). It is close enough unless your a purest, which ironically much of Floyd's work seems to be. Hmmm....

I have been playing guitar for over 20 years, mostly acoustic, and recently started getting more and more into electric. I bought this tape because I was hoping to find a professional step-by-step analysis of some of my favorite guitar solos, along with the useful tips. There is absolutely nothing useful on this tape! Yes, "run like hell" if you see anything with the name of Curt Mitchel on it! The rating of this video should be 0 (ZERO), not 1... This is the worst and the most embarassing "instructional" tape anyone can possibly imagine. DO NOT BUY IT!!! Don't accept it even if someone offers it for free. It is garbage. Just wasting 30 min of your time on watching it is not worth it. Don't believe the guy whose 8-year-old liked it. The 8-year-old may have liked it - for whatever reason, but there is nothing on that tape that will help you learn anything useful. If you are an advanced player already, you are better off figuring out the solos by just listening to the original Pink Floyd recordings. If you are a novice guitarist, you will not learn anything from this tape - or from any other tape by Curt Mitchel. I have made a mistake of purchasing two of his videos without reading the reviews first. The tapes are poor-quality home videos filmed in some kind of basement. The image is grainy and blurry, the lighting is outrageously bad and unprofessional. The instructor is quite a character, I must say... He looks (and sounds!) as if he has just stepped out of "Wayne's World", except he's not even trying to be funny. Sad, sad, sad! Curt is totally incoherent, speaks gibberish, and does not comment on anything he does. Yes, it is not a typo. There is absolutely NO HELPFUL COMMENTARY accompanying the exersises. None of the solos are complete. He just plays the first few notes of a solo, often hardly recognizable, repeats it with a very over-exposed and blurry close-up of the left hand only, then moves on to another lick. You can't see the right hand so you have to guess which strings are actually being played. You may as well watch the original Pink Floyd's live performances and hope to catch a glimpse of Dave Gilmour's fingers. The instructional value of that will still be higher than the one of this tape. Shame! Oh, and if you really want to see guys like Curt, you certainly do not need to buy a video. Every Guitar Center in the US has at least half a dozen of curt mitchels at any given moment - driving the other visitors crazy by playing the intros to the songs they can't finish. I am not saying that Curt can't finish his solos. It's just that he certainly doesn't bother to do it on this tape.

I bought this movie for $5 from cd warehouse. It came without the tabulature (if you can call it that) yet I still found it as equally worthless as the Beatles Curt Mitchell tape I have WITH the tabulature. Hes not fooling anyone with his lavish box with no picture of the band and EXTREME CLOSEUPS in bold print. This basement tape was most likely made for under $100. As you know he refers to the songs as "Riff 1, 2" ect. Its as if he is avoiding the songs name and playing just a few measures to avoid copyright laws. I have many favorite parts such as "Its a late 60s stratocastor, actually I dont know what year it is?" he says with that pateneted Curt Mitchell Dumb stare. He is poorly groomed and to be honest quite pathetic. Yet again my high hopes were dashed by the best 3 second riff player ever, CURT MITCHELL