Customer Review: For intermediate/advanced players
This DVD is jam-packed with useful exercises and demonstrations of how to practice to improve your technique, ear, and rhythm playing. Fujita is an excellent player and he shows just how much great music one guitarist alone can make through his demonstrations of different styles.

The DVD booklet has transcriptions of just about everything Fujita plays, but even with the transcriptions it will take most people a lot of repeated viewing and listening to get the subtleties of his playing in the different style demonstrations.

If you are looking for hand-holding, this DVD is not for you. For the more advanced player that is willing to put in the work of listening and thinking for himself, this DVD is a great value.
Customer Review: Definitely NOT worth the money!
I’ve played guitar for several decades and during that time have played in bands and studied with various teachers. I bought this DVD because there is always more to learn… but not from this DVD!

While Tomo is obviously a talented player, his teaching skills are nil. He explains nothing. His style is just “do what I do”. He uses a wide range of chords and shows you none of them. He uses some advanced picking and strumming techniques and again doesn’t show you how to do them. He uses some great jazz chord progressions and again fails to mention any theory behind them.

While I’m skilled enough to be able to painstakingly figure out SOME of the things he’s doing, I can just as easily listen to any record and eventually figure out what’s being played there as well. I was hoping to get a better understanding of some of the theories behind what he’s doing, but there’s none of that here on this DVD.

I own several other instructional guitar DVD’s and they are heads and tails better than this one! Frankly, I’m shocked that he’s a teacher at Berkley School of Music! If you want a DVD of a competent rhythm guitar player strumming a lot of chords in a blues/jazz/funk style, then I guess you might like this DVD.
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This video contains everything you need to take your lead guitar playing to the next level. Paul teaches you 10 hot lead guitar solos that will help you to learn all the licks, tricks, scales & techniques you’ll need to play lead guitar like a pro. Learn to improve your phrasing, develop your own style, build your chops, and play over the entire fretboard in any key. Paul’s unique approach to teaching lead guitar is easy to follow, and will help you learn to play rock & blues lead guitar like the masters. Contains on-screen tablature & Split-screen close ups, so you won’t miss a lick, (Tab booklet included) Includes: Major & Minor pentatonic scales, Blues Scales, The natural minor scale, Phrasing, Building a solo, The octave pattern, Inventing your own scale patterns, Hybrid picking, & much more.
Customer Review: Pretty Good
Yes it’s true, Paul Lidel is not as poised nor as comfortable in front of the camera as Steve Wyatt nor is his DVD as polished as it could be. HAving said that, if you make an effort of watching this DVD through and through, chances are you’ll pick up a few (or many) good tips. Overall, I really liked this DVD… although it did took me a while to truly appreciate it.
Customer Review: Great DVD for Beginner to Intermediate players
The format on this DVD is great. Unlike other instructional DVDs, Paul Lidel goes over all the fundalmentals from which each solo is built (left hand technique, scales, picking). Understanding the building block scales to each solo makes you a better guitarist. This I find sorely lacking in many instructional DVDs that focus on solos. I also found other DVDs to be either way too advanced or too beginner for me, even the ones that say intermediate. This DVD is right in the middle, perfect for the intermediate player wanting to add some blues riffs to their repetoire. The DVD may start out a little slow for the intermediate player, but it is fundamental stuff that doesn’t hurt to go over again. All of the solos in this DVD are pentatonic or blues scale, so for those that want to learn solo styles other than blues you may want to consider something else. For those that criticize Paul Lidel’s camera personality. Alright, he’s not the most charismatic person, in fact he’s flat out lobotomized in this DVD. But I do think he is an effective teacher. He performs every solo standing absolutely still so that you can easily follow every movement. His technique is clear and easy to follow. And lastly, he is thorough. “BUY NOW”