Larry Carlton: Instructional Guitar

Customer Review: Offers innovative ideas for intermediate and advanced players
I’m a professional touring guitarist as well as a clinician, and while this video is somewhat basic for a guitarist that has years of studying under his belt, it is also one of the most useful ones I have seen. Larry’s teaching approach is excellent and clear, and of course his playing is stellar. But it is the simple tips that he offers that expands one’s vocabulary in areas such as creating a more “jazz” like sound while sticking close to the pentatonic scales, licks, and simple triad arpeggios that we have played from the beginning (as opposed to completely transforming one’s mental approach to the instrument–which one can do with Frank Gambale’s more modal approach). As I find with most videos, if you learn only one useful thing from it, it is an incredible value. This didn’t have a lot of useful things for me, but the few things that it does have make it one of the most valuable DVDs in my collection. A little can go a long way if the information is good, and here it is great.
Customer Review: Puts his techniques with reach
For those of us who wondered how he came up with his sound this is an “aha!” experience. This is not just one of those videos that shows flashy playing and then moves on. The explanations make sense and though they are not always simple to follow, they are within reach. It’s nice to see that it is explained much more in terms of arpeggios and chords rather than scales since most of us guitar players are much more familiar with chord spelling than we are with mixolydian mode in the key of D or similar jazzspeak. Everything he does is tabbed out in the book that accompanies the DVD and for that someone deserves major props. “BUY NOW”