Scotty Anderson: Red Hot Guitar

WHEN I SAW DANNY GATTON PLAY, IT JUST BLEW MY MIND. I DIDN'T THINK ANYBODY COULD EVER TOP THAT. THAT IS UNTIL I PURCHASED THIS DVD. THIS GUY IS JUST INCREDIBLE, HE'S GOT IT ALL. WHY HE IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME IS BEYOND ME. I BELIEVE YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE ON THE GUITAR TO BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND THIS FANTASTIC PLAYER, BUT YOU CAN ALSO BUY THIS JUST FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT. THIS DVD HAS MOTIVATED ME TO BECOME A BETTER PLAYER, IT SHOWS YOU JUST WHAT CAN BE DONE ON THE GUITAR. YOU HAVE TO JUST DIGEST A LITTLE AT A TIME AND ADD IT TO YOUR PLAYING. BUY THIS DVD, THIS IS FANTASTIC!

Like the others before me I agree Scotty Andersons playing is beyond compare.First though ,you should know the tab book that comes with it is so full of mistakes,it is useless.Throw it out. It will only take what is already difficult and make it impossible.A discussion of the type of intervals making up these runs would have been helpful.The only way I can see to prosper from this is to flood my ears with Scottys sound and slowly backengineer his runs one brick at a time.

Obviously not for a beginner. Awesome watching Scotty play and getting ideas. Not as much of an instructional as it is to pick up ideas and licks and flesh them out. Good video to watch for inspiration or to get depressed. Highly reccomend for late intermediate/advanced players!

There's enough here to keep any muso busy for years!!!

If you want to see someone play some amazing hot licks for just inspirational purposes, then this will wet your appetite. If you want to play this way, then get ready to give up your life, and spend 10 hours a day practicing like a robot. No guarantees with that routine either. Some people are just physically gifted. If you practice your scales, arpeggios(with your eyes closed), and learn some harmony, you could be happy. You won't be Scotty Anderson.

When I watch this DVD as I have a dozen or so times, I imagine walking into a guitar center and hearing some guy in the corner playing this stuff. I'd faint. It's a shock sorta, how good he is. I find the DVD , if nothing else, and it is far from nothing else, very entertaining. Instruction-wise, I, unlike other posters here, found the tab useful. Maybe not perfect, but useful. The real issue is, aside from comparing yourself to Scotty, can you afford to convert your nails to this style? Brent Mason also uses fake nails and a thumb pick--it's the only way to even attempt this style, which is sorta like classical in it's multi-string approach, or, it's a polyfonic approach, even for lead lines. Scotty ain't the best teacher, for sure. But he may be in the top 5 or 10 best guitarists around the planet now.

Scotty is a great player but unfortunately, he's not a very good teacher. You can learn some good stuff from this video it you know how to absorb it between watching the video and deciphering the accompanying book. Scotty says right in the video that he doesn't know much about theory, at least he's forthright about it. It's too bad, too because he could be so much more if he did understand the theory behind what he is doing.

I just got back from seeing Scotty Anderson perform live in Southern Indiana, and it was an unbelieveable show... what a fine man and an amazing musician. Talent like his does not come along every day. Scotty's playing is utterly unique, no one else can play what he routinely does on his Telecaster. The video is great for listening to and seeing him in action, but do not expect to pick much up. As is typical for so many Hotlicks products, the all-important details of Anderson's mind-boggling technique and style are glossed over. No RH or LH-fingerings, and the transcription book is not at all accurate (in fairness, whoever tried to transcribe Scotty earned his pay, it can't have been easy). With a player of this caliber, with such an intricate and sophisticated style, leaving details out means not getting it. Too bad the producers - Arlen Roth et al. - didn't try harder to pin his playing down.