Regular Price $14.95

Starring: Dave Rubin, 
Directed By:
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Release Date: 1999
Studio: Hal Leonard
Format: Closed-captioned,  Color,  DVD-Video,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about 12-Bar Blues - Featuring Dave Rubin: Instructional Guitar

Product Description
This DVD is a complete, one-hour course in the song form that is the single most important influence in the history of American popular music. Blues authority Dave Rubin teaches in detail boogie, shuffle and riff-driven patterns, along with a wide variety of major, minor and jazzy chord progressions. In addition, intros, turnarounds and soloing are covered, as well as piano-style boogie woogie. Each example is played and explained clearly. As an extra bonus, several progressions are performed as solo guitar pieces combining rhythm and lead. For serious guitarists who want to expand their practical knowledge of 12-bar blues, this DVD and its accompanying booklet will provide a wealth of new material. 61 minutes.

Customer Reviews for 12-Bar Blues - Featuring Dave Rubin: Instructional Guitar

Demonstration NOT Instructional
This DVD is not particularly well filmed. Nonetheless, this is certainly how I would like to be playing blues/jazz guitar in the not too distant future.

This DVD is a demonstration of various styles and techniques to be sure, but unless you are truly advanced, and I am not, it is of no value other than an end goal. It is not instructional in any way, shape or form. The other dvds on the subject I have purchased were instructional, took the time to explain the fingering etc. and learned with no trouble.

At the end of the day, this is the style I want to play but I am not going to be able to learn it from this dvd.

The fret markers on his guitar were square Gibson pearl inlays and inconsistent with most guitars and there dots, so trying to follow where he was on the fretboard at times was an exercise in frustration.

It is too bad really, because if he had taken the time to instruct versus demonstrate , and I am not making too fine a point of it believe me, it would have been first rate.

They would still have to clean up the video image and his finger nails on his fret hand were too long, obscuring the fingering most of the time. It was also too fast paced to be a learning tool.

Too bad, it could have been a winner.12-Bar Blues - Featuring Dave Rubin: Instructional Guitar