Product Details

• Actors: Tommy Igoe
• Directors: Gregory McKean
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hudson Music
• DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Run Time: 240 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0031SUP26
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,977 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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TOMMY IGOE:GREAT HANDS FOR A LIFETIME - DVD Movie

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Lifetime" benefit....., February 11, 2010

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W. Fleming "FlemFlam" (Greensboro, North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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I've had this dvd a little over 2 weeks now and I can already tell it's going to be something that I can use and refer back to forever. As Tommy explains in the intro-with the influx of various drum videos on the market--this one is specifically geared toward the development of the hands--which are an essential part in playing the drumset. As with the previous reviews above--I think a lot more practice pads just got moved in front of the living-room TV!!! This is an EXTREME value for your $$$. Not only do you get the dvd, the foldout poster of the rudimental exercises and a smaller, foldout version of the poster--but Tommy also includes a 50+ page pdf file of even MORE exercises, insights AND some mp3 files of various exercises played with and w/o a click. One of the things that I've found most helpful so far is Tommy and a cast of drummers of various skill levels playing thru the exercises. It really made me listen to myself AS WELL AS the others to keep myself in check to make sure I was playing correctly. I would rank this right up there with the Joe Morello and JoJo Mayer dvds as far as importance of hand development. If you are a serious student of drumming, this is a "MUST HAVE".....!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tommy Igoe: King of NY music scene, February 11, 2010

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Michael J. Monaco - See all my reviews
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I studied with TI on and off over the past 6 years. This dvd served as a summary of all of the great things we worked on during lessons. This guy only focuses on concepts that will translate well over to the drumset. He stresses that even though its great to try different musical activities like drum corps, one must be sure to not stay involved with it for too long. Simply, take the best of all the different types of music you have played and blend it into the most practical set of skills that you can apply to actual musical jobs that drummers get hired to do. There are no secrets kept when dealing with Igoe. He tells you EXACTLY what you need to focus on in order to become successful in the world of music. As soon as I decided to listen to him and focus on those essential skill sets; I've been hired nonstop playing in musicals and paid band gigs. Get this dvd, watch it, focus on these concepts, and your drumming will improve greatly.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A highly useful tool for drummers of any experience level, February 10, 2010

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Jeremy J. Smith (Fort Dodge, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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As a Vic Firth PDT and Hudson Music TIP member, I had been waiting (like many) for the release of this. I already use Groove Essentials 1.0 and 2.0 with my private middle school and high school students, and Groove Essentials is on the syllabus for my college students. Needless to say, I got what I was expecting...not just another drum "video", but technique concepts that can be applied not only to my students, but to myself as well.

I've participated in clinics before where a drummer on stage plays some 4-way coordination piece of 5 in the right foot, 3 in the left foot, 11 on the right hand and 7 in the left hand, yet when asked how drummers can get to do that, the answer was "practice". Yeah...that doesn't help. One of the things I try to work with my students is getting them to not only establish a practice routine (you gotta make the time commitment!), but on what to do during this practice routine.

GHFALT can be incorporated to any practice routine, and I'm sure you will see amazing results. I've ordered numerous books (Don Fam's Weaker Side, Chafee's Technique series, and more) in search of that which can take my own playing to the next level. Yet, once I took hold of a great concept in this video - playing simple concepts at a high level (Sorry Tommy if I didn't the quote exactly right. That's why I didn't use quotation marks, and I didn't want to take the time to scan through the video right now.) - it made me rethink my approach. Once I began sharing it with my students, they began to be challenged - at what they thought would be simple.

GHFALT is not just another drum video, and it's definitely not a video you can just sit back and watch. The poster went up in the room with my drum set. The ebook is printed off to use. The mp3s go on the ipod. More importantly, my metronome's out of the bag more often, and the extra practice pad that was in the closet is now on a stand in front of the tv. Even my 4 year old was engrossed in it.

GHFALT is a MUST HAVE for your collection.