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John Petrucci - Rock Discipline | 
 enlarge | Director: Tim Landers
Actor: John Petrucci
Studio: Warner Brothers Pub.
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.95
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 26725
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 904154
ISBN: 0757995500
UPC: 654979041542
EAN: 9780757995507
ASIN: B00006L57W
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: December 1, 2002
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Description
G3's own John Petrucci provides instructional material, along with live G3 Tour Footage, backstage material with John, hilarious bloopers, the interactive feature of John's Ernie Ball Guitar, a Dream Theater discography, DVD-ROM features, lots more.
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 a great instructional DVD October 5, 2008
Perry Davis (alabama)
Everyone knows(or should know) that there's no such thing as the perfect guitar DVD, but this comes closer than anything i've ever used. It's a little pricy but if you want to get better fast, get this. If you have to sell every other guitar book you have, do it! This will increase your speed and accuracy like you won't believe. I noticed improvement very quickly, although I still need to work on it. It's best to run through the whole DVD at once, not worrying increasing speed on anything, and then go back and increase the speed. Use the metronome, it will help you build a solid sense of time(which is very useful for recording). Get this and the Guitar Grimoire series of books. Check the spelling on that because i'm not sure about it. The Scales and Modes book will be the most important for lead guitarists. It's a little confusing at first, but once you learn the theory behind it you'll be fine. Good luck
 Good Exercise July 9, 2008
Steve K
Have had the DVD for quite a while now and the exercises help. The dvd/tab book cover a good variety of techniques (discussed at length in other reviews) and the demos start slow for a clear understanding of what's going on. There's a lot of material to practice and even those who don't particularly want to learn any theory should find most of it useful.
The reason I didn't rate this as a 5/5 is because I really would have liked to see more demonstration of exactly how to hold the pick and proper form to achieve speed. If you're not using proper technique (and I wasn't for the longest time) this dvd won't help much in my opinion.
Price wise I think it's a decent value considering what live lessons run now days per half hour. Summary: I think you get what you pay for; which IMO is a bunch of exercises to improve your speed and dexterity, not a lesson in how to better understand and play the guitar. If that's what you're looking for I doubt there's much out there that can top this.
Rock Discipline book January 19, 2008
Mountainquiet (Green Bank, WV)
I bought this for my husband for Christmas. He is a fan of Petrucci and is enjoying the book immensely.
ONE OF THE BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS EVER!! September 26, 2007
J. (Somewhere In Time)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been playing guitar for a long time, but I have always been intimidated when it comes to soloing. For some reason, I felt that it was long over due that I started to learn how to play lead, and this video was critical to learning!!
First, for anybody who doesn't know who John Petrucci is, he is the virtuosso guitarist for the progressive/art metal band Dream Theater.
The video is broken down in many segments and each one will expand your ability. The beggining consists of streching exercises that guitarist commenly overlook, but are very critical to playing without developing carppel-tunnel, or even worse, tendonitis. The next part consists of a series of warm-up exercises for both the right and left hand that may take a little time to nail, but once you have it down, it will increase your accuracy dramatically!! Next, he demostrates how to build speed and accuracy with a simple A minor pattern. He shows, in detail that one should start off SLOW and make sure that not only should you make sure that the notes are clean and clear, but the space between the notes should be even and consistant. As he plays the patterns, he plays with a metronome, wich is a 'click' device that substitutes for the drums. It is VERY important to understand the 'time' and 'beat' of a musical pattern, as well as sub-dividing the 'beat'. As he demonstrates the different patterns, he gets faster and faster! Next, John demonstrates how to create what he calls fragments, then combines them into full blown solos. One, interesting thig, he takes just one fragment and plays it repeatedly, but changes the speed of it, to show how to expand on just one 'lick'. In addition, he includes string skipping wich WILL improve a players accuracy!! After which, he plays an improvised solo with all the fragments and scales he went over to show how to put it all together. Next comes the arpeggios. I have ALWAYS had a problem with arpeggios, notes in any given chord picked individually with a consistant down, down, down, and up, up, up, pattern. this may sound easy, but when you apply the left had technique and the speed required to make it sound right, it becomes very hard. Next he demonstrates 'Legato playing' which is a series of hammer on's and pull off's with the left hand. This will give your fingers of the left hand a SERIOUS workout, and should be played slow at first, and slowly increase speed. If one jumps into this to quickly, severe damage could be done to your hand!! Finally, John shows how to create different 'voicings' by adding 7ths and 9ths to traditional 'power chords' to give them a unique 'color' and 'flavor'.
This video is 2 hours in length and VERY much worth the price tag, he11, even if it was twice the price it would still be worth it!! Because people learn in different ways, in addition to having the visual(video) lessons the DVD comes with a TAB/notation booklet containing ALL the info. on the DVD!! One thing that needs to be addressed is that if your looking for a video to help out with scales, modes, and music theory in general, this video is not for you. The video is exclusively for mechanics and technique!!
I cannot recommend this video enough because it opened a door for me and made me a much, much better player!!
a wealth of information July 4, 2007
Ryan J. McCloskey (Dallastown, PA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i have to say, this is the best instructional DVD i have ever come across. plenty of metronome drills to build speed, plenty of different phrasing exercises, and even stretches to maximize your practice time (which i seem to get less of every day)!! a great product that i would recommend to any guitarist that wants to get faster and expand their musical possibilities....
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