This is a DVD rip for Jody Fisher's 30-Day Guitar Workout. Inside, you'll find 18 separate avi videos, pick up what suits you best. Note that it's a good idea to have the fingerstyle videos even if you only play with a pick as Jody recommends. Video 1 - Opening Credits & Introduction: Content: Jody playing a bit, explanation on how you don't need the book of the same title to get a lot out of the DVD, how to use the DVD, valuable guidance. Duration: 2 min 24 s Video 2 - Basic Technique - Holding the Guitar: Content: Holding the guitar, sitting, wearing a strap even if you play seated. Duration: 42 s Video 3 - Terms And Directions: Content: Terminology (playing up/down the neck etc.), strings, left and right hand fingers' names. Duration: 1 min 02 s Video 4 - Left Hand Technique: Content: Thumb placement, fretting. Duration: 2 min 53 s Video 5 - Right Hand Technique: Content: Using a pick (holding the pick, picking with rest strokes, matching the sound of up and down strokes etc.), Fingerstyle picking basics (finger placement, chord pinching etc.) Duration: 4 min 20 s Video 6 - Warming Up, Main Squeeze: Content: Why warming up, warm up for the left hand: the main squeeze exercise (to develop strength and fingers independence). Duration: 6 min 17 s Video 7 - Alternate Circular Picking (Tremolo): Content: Warm up for the right hand (making down and up strokes even in terms of volume and tone), Tremolo technique, Alternate circular picking technique, Fingerstyle tremolo. Duration: 5 min 40 s Video 8 - Digits of Dominance: Content: A left hand exercise on making a finger fret multiple strings on a fret without assistance from other fingers (all fingers must be separated from each other) in order to develop strength (things get tough when you get to the 3rd and 4th fingers, but that's the point). Duration: 6 min 39 s
Video 9 - Fingers of Freedom: Content: Last warm up exercise for the fingerstyle right hand where you arpeggiate a chord while moving it up/down the neck and from a set of 4 strings to another. Duration: 5 min 20 s Video 10 - Workout Structure: Content: Explanation on how to apply the 30-day workout, what exercises (which next videos will cover) for how long and how, in order to develop speed, dexterity accuracy and chordal technique + picking and fingerstyle techniques. Duration: 1 min 46 s Video 11 - Flexercise: Content: Just watch and do it (I'm getting lazy here). Duration: 4 min 40 s Video 12 - Picking Options: Content: Doing the Flexercise with alternate picking, only up or down strokes, alternate picking beginning with an up or down stroke or fingerstyle. Duration:1 min 16 s Video 13 - Chordiac Drill: Content: You learn some chords at first (C Maj 7, D min 7, E min 7, G Dominant 7 etc.). You strum the first chord, then arppegiate the second, then strum the 3rd and arppegiate the 4th and so on, exercise is then played on different keys. Duration: 7 min 12 s Video 14 - Flexercise 10: Content: A different version of Flexercise that allows you to play major triads all over the fretboard. Duration: 4 min 24 s Video 15 - Cordiac Drill 10: Content: A good stretching exercise. Duration: 2 min 27 s Video 16 - Flexercise 14: Content: Helps extend the distance between 1st and 2nd fingers (which is important to play a lot of chords with ease). Duration: 3 min 26 s Video 17 - Cordiac Drill 17: Content: New chords, you move, just like previous Cordiac Drills, between chords (things get complicated at this stage and one needs the book to figure things out). Duration: 3 min 13 s
Video 18 - Conclusion and Final Credits: Content: What to expect from the workout, final credits. Duration: 1 min 46 s _______________________ Quality: DVDRip Format: AVI Video: XviD, 640 × 480 (1.33:1), 29.970 fps, ~ 574 kbps avg, 0.062 bit/pixel Audio: MP3, 48 kHz, 1 ch, 96.00 kbps (CBR) Even if you're already familiar with some techniques explained here (Tremolo picking for example), Jody gives very useful insights even advanced players could find helpful. Not to be discouraging for beginners, this comes with a lot of exercises that can improve your flexibility, strenght etc. that require no prerequisites. Now let's talk about the book. There is a complete PDF out there (you can get it here from Demonoid), but it was scanned so badly it's hardly readable. What I have here is the first 13 pages that will get you through the first 7 videos (plus pages 38, 40, 41, 45 and 47) that I got from Google Books in 800x1076 pixels PNGs. That's all I can find for now. Is it just me or are these headless Steinbergers ugly as hell?
