Guitar Grimoire Scales & Modes-DVD
Customer Review: Look elsewhere
I purchased this dvd along with the companion book, “The Guitar Grimoire”. The book is rather confusing and droll. I would rather shoot myself then watch that video again. Not only was it basically a rote reading of the book, but the format was terrible. Throughout the entire thing the author wears a monks robe that hides his face, he continually makes these idiotic gestures like he’s a magician, the whole audio is done with some annoying special effect on his voice and the content was just not that eye-opening. I have “A Modern Method for Guitar”, volumes 1,2 and 3 by William Leavitt of Berklee music. I have found them to be far more valuable. Not only do you learn to sight read, but you also gain better theory and much of the same information offered by Cad-man in a much more mature presentation style. Sorry, Adam. You are obviously knowledgeable and talented, but writing books and making videos does not seem to be your forte.
Customer Review: A decent teaching DVD by a definite satan worshiper
Out of necessity, I feel I must rate this DVD on two levels.
First, this DVD is clearly a statement by Kadmon on his personal cosmological beliefs. From his name alone, which means primeval man, you should know that he means to convey more than just how to play the guitar. His appearances on his throne are intentionally timed to take advantage of certain Tree Of Life ideas which I don’t have time to get into here. But, he appears beneath the middle one of three six-pointed stars … 666, get it? And, he is surrounded by four beasts, which is taken directly from certain prophecies in the bible, old and new testament. At opportune times, a picture of the Circle of Fifths flashes on the screen, which is common knowledge for any musician who has been formally trained. But, what musicians usually are not aware of is that the 12 keys in the Circle of Fifths, indeed even the 12 notes in western music, are both derivations of the 12 astrological signs of the Zodiac. Yes, my Christian friends, every hymn sung in your church every sunday (the pagan day of worship of the Sun) is in the key of one of the signs of the Zodiac. Christians and Kadmon have a lot more in common that they realize …
Secundo …. Kadmon is right on that the proliferation of TAB notation has seriously dumbed down far too many guitarists. He spends the first half of his DVD on the piano because that is standard procedure in any formal music curriculum. Every formally trained classical or jazz guitarist understands this, and has been through the process. After he grounds you in musical theory from the piano’s perspective, he then spends the second half of the DVD with his guitar in hand, showing you how to apply that knowledge to your guitar. This is the best approach to teaching musical theory for guitarists I have seen yet.
I haven’t yet seen mention of something unique and quite valuable Kadmon does for guitarists. I purchased a couple of videos in the past put out by Frank Gambale to learn his sweep picking technique, but I felt his approach to teaching it, while it clearly works for him, was not particularly practical for me. Kadmon, on the other hand, presents a much more logical approach to sweep picking with his consistent 3 notes to a string patterns. “BUY NOW”