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Title: The only way to learn...
Review: I have tried looking at tabs and sheet music (I am a 30+ year trained pianist and musicologist) and I have never been able to get from what's on the page to the sound of these old blues. This DVD works - you can sit there and watch Ernie's fingers as he takes apart the songs, you can rewind and look at each lick as much as you want, and get all the questions that the tab doesn't answer answered. (What chord are you fretting there? Which finger takes that note? How do you pick that?)Hawkins is very calm and mellow on the DVD. The songs are all the ones you want to play. Only one caveat: Hawkins plays the songs authentically, on a 12-string tuned down 4 half-steps (low bass note = C), so you can't play along with him on a regular 6-string guitar, unless you get all tuned-down and floppy. But that's OK - I just watch a section about 25 times, and then try to do it myself.Highly recommended.
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