Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Get Out Of My Yard - Instructional DVD

Posted by Jon in • Reviews

Paul Gilbert - Get Out Of My Yard DVD
A long time ago I bought a VHS instructional tape by Paul Gilbert called Intense Rock I think that was 1990 or something and it was a fantastic instructional video not only for the entertaining interludes from cheerleaders chanting for more distortion and a mexican band introducing “PAULO GILBERTOOOO!”, but also for amazing insights into Paul’s technique, 3 string scale licks and alternate picking. Anyway after buying Paul’s 2006 album ‘Get Out Of My Yard’ recently and loving every minute of it I started noticing clips on YouTube showing excerpts from some of the tracks and how they were played so I was excited to see there was a DVD available which was an instructional DVD explaining how he played each track on the album.

Now ‘Get Out Of My Yard’ the DVD seems to have been produced on the cheap, the cover looks like it was printed on a cheap desktop printer and unlike ‘Intense Rock’ there was no accompanying tab book but it was only $25 on Music44.com and for $25 you get 2 hours of 1 on 1 Paul Gilbert!!

I admit I was a little disappointed about the lack of Mexican Band interludes and crazy blue screen backgrounds like ‘Intense Rock’ but there is a whole load of great content. First of all Paul uses a fantastic array of Ibanez guitars from his signature models to an old 70’s Ibanez explorer and even a Hamer 12 string bass! (not sure it is this exact model Jol might be able to help out here?). Paul takes the best bits from each track and not only shows you how he played it at full tempo as well as slower speeds to help you get a grip on what is going on but he also expands on certain techniques used in the section. Let me try and explain that a little better, say he is showing you an excerpt such as the arpeggios in ‘The Curse Of Castle Dragon’ he explains how he prefers string skipped arpeggios to sweep picked and gives you an example of both to illustrate the differences in sound and technique. Paul also shows in depth his picking technique and shows plenty of alternate picking licks to add to your shredding arsenal. On top of all this he also illustrates differences in phrasing using vibrato and bends to enhance a lick and there are plenty of big bend E minor pentatonic licks played at blistering speed for Paul to contort his face to which is quite amusing in itself. And yes the Makita drill even gets a brief outing!

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this DVD as it felt a little rushed between track explanations but there is loads of great live footage of Paul playing with his band throughout as well as close up illustrations of every technique Paul uses in his playing and lets face it he is a technical master so there is plenty to take in. I know this is aimed at rock guitarists but I recommend every guitarist buy ‘Get Out Of My Yard’ on CD then buy the DVD, they are worth every cent!

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GuitarBootCamp on 07/16 at 01:08 AM

I think I have seen a couple vids of this DVD on Youtube.  Paul Gilbert is a great instructor with monster chops !

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