Product Details

• Actors: Greg Koch
• Format: 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: Hal Leonard Corp
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008G90N
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,988 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Learn the trademark riffs and solos of the man who reinvented blues and rock on the guitar. An in-depth analysis of 8 classic songs. Presented by Greg Koch.

Customer Reviews

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greg Koch really shows Vaughan's style -- A++++, August 3, 2004

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Hal Rogers (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Greatest Hits - Signature Licks DVD (DVD)

This is a very informative and instructive DVD. In fact, I'm looking for more DVDs done by Greg Koch and hope Hal Leonard Corporation has a few others. If you like SRV's style, and want to learn something, this DVD is well worth it.

This is the first "Instructional" DVD (of this kind) that I've purchased, and I wish I'd bought it years ago... it would have reduced a lot of frustration trying to figure out what SRV is doing to generate his fantastic guitar sounds.

Get it, you'd pay 10 times as much, or more, for live lessons, and with this DVD go through the instructional parts as many times as you wish.

38 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This Instructor Can Play, August 7, 2005

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Mark (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Greatest Hits - Signature Licks DVD (DVD)

If you've read any of my other reviews, you'll know that I was a huge fan / admirer of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

And over the years, I've seen numerous transcriptions of his music in guitar magazines and have attempted to learn many of his songs.

However, this guy comes as close as is humanly possible to "replicating" the riffs of Stevie. He's a great guitar player and has obviously done his homework.

However, the one thing that can't be captured on an instructional DVD - and I throw this out not as a "negative" - is the "feel" behind Stevie's music.

Stevie's sound didn't come exclusively from his Number 1 Strat, Fender amps and heavy strings with the action set relatively high. Greg - the instructor on this tape - to his credit, uses a strat (tuned down a half a step a la SRV - and the same amps and effects pedals that SRV used - and comes close to getting the same sound.

But Stevie's sound came from his "attack" of the strings and his "in-your'face" attitude towards the blues. And no instructor can duplicate this. Stevie's sound came from his hands and his "soul".

I was reminding my wife that when we visited the Louvre many years ago, you would see many artists camped in front of a famous painting with their easel "copying" a painting of some master - i.e. Da Vinci or Rembrandt. And while many of them were great artists and to the untrained eye their work may be indistinguishable from the original, there would be a difference.

This DVD is similar. It comes very, very close, but there was only one SRV.

This DVD does pass along many insightful observations about SRV's style - i.e. SRV's Albert King like licks / his attack and popping style when attacking the strings - and, in my opinion, this was invaluable. However, for young guitarists, this DVD can save the player countless (possibly frustrating) hours trying to figure out how to play his licks armed with just a magazine.

I know that I came away with alot of new ideas and tools and I've spent years listening to Stevie and trying to learn his licks with guitar tab magazines.

If you're a fan of the blues and inparticular this gifted guitarist, I would not hesitate to recommend this DVD.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Great help learning the SRV style!, March 24, 2006

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E. Shivvers "Dubzoo" (Chicago Chicago!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Greatest Hits - Signature Licks DVD (DVD)

I am a hack guitar player who picked up SRV tabs off the web. My frustration told me to throw away the crap tabs and buy this SRV DVD. I did and I am happy. I also picked up the corresponding SRV tab books for the songs covered on this DVD. (highly recommended) My only beef with this DVD is Hal Leonard's omission of tab sheets so you could work along with Greg. Greg is very solid in his teaching of SRV's licks but you need some knowledge of the blues and scales. If you want to learn Stevie licks and get a history lesson of where SRV's roots lie, this is an excellent product. Will buy the other one soon.