DVD- Essential Techniques for Dobro

Starring:Rob Ickes
Studio: Hal Leonard
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Award-winning instrumentalist Rob Ickes has created a comprehensive course to help you master all aspects of the resonator guitar, from bar technique to fingerpicking rolls. He covers everything you'll need to hold your own in a bluegrass band, from fine-tuning the strings to achieving good tone, timing and volume control.

Bar technique is the key to good slide playing, and Rob shows hammer-ons and pull-offs, string muting, "tilting" technique for cleaner sounds and the special hand positions necessary to play forward and reverse bar slants. Banjo-like forward and reverse rolls provide important workouts for developing a smooth right hand, enabling you to play a basic melody along with added notes to fill out the arrangement.

With Jim Hurst on guitar and vocals, you'll learn how to play back-up rhythm and fills behind a vocalist, create effective solos and a myriad of other important topics. His demonstration performances of Reuben and Flat Lonesome bring all the elements of this superb lesson together.

Description

Award-winning instrumentalist Rob Ickes has created a comprehensive course to help you master all aspects of the resonator guitar, from bar technique to fingerpicking rolls. He covers everything you'll need to hold your own in a bluegrass band, from fine-tuning the strings to achieving good tone, timing and volume control.

Whether you want to play bluegrass or explore country, blues, Hawaiian or other styles, these DVDs will get you on the right track - fast.

Customer Reviews:

Very Good Resource.......2005-04-26

To preface any comments I have about this DVD, I am a huge Rob Ickes fan. Any dobro player should model himself after Rob's for technique, clarity, and ubiquitous playing style. Rob starts with how to tune by ear, a good practice for any instrument. He then discusses in detail the techniques used first with the right hand, then with the left. He covers these very well. He then goes on the incorporate these techniques into songs. That is were I think the DVD lacks. Rob picks some pretty difficult pieces right off the bat. I've only been playing for four months, and I'm doing fine with this DVD, but many may get discourage quickly. A few, "Down in the Valley" and "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie" songs to start off would have been nice. He gets into rhythm chops and shows his variety, the muted strum, as well and the bar lift chop. The first DVD ends with his techniques for forward and reverse slants and how to use them. The second DVD dives into blues scales and finishes with how to back up a singer, a dobro's main job. I feel this DVD set is like many others, a very good teaching aid, but not a substitute for a good instructor. If you're just starting out, you may want to wait a while before tackling this video. It is well worth the price of three private lessons ($45).

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