Richard Thompson Guitar School (3/3)

Rare instructional video for guitar players, hosted by extremely accomplished musician Richard Thompson. Also featured in the video are Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones and Michael Schenker of UFO and Scorpions fame.

I found this video very useful when I was starting out myself because of how it teaches you the very basics of guitar anatomy, tuning and open chords as well as interesting techniques for the left and right hand, scales and more.

Excuse the quality; the film was rescued from an old VHS tape, so withered in fact that I had to splice it together with tape. Swedish subtitles.

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[hotzki]

@frogpondium This seems to only the first part of the video. Are there more parts than those three?

[frogpondium]

@hotzki I assumed the same thing, but I've been unable to find any other parts.

[Hardwyck]

Guve Michael a break; he's speaking a foreign language after all. And I don't find Ronnie Wood less articulate than most people I hear on BBC Radio 4.

[45a66]

U are right. I'm danish and for me it looks like these english are born with a guitar, they do like it's the most natual thing.

[psychobollox]

@ajwasp yeh. i'm just hoping they weren't mangled in the chew-up that would require video-edit :S

[ajwasp]

any further responce to the next parts of this video. Where are parts, 4,5 & 6? Anyone????

[czgibson]

3:05 C major scale starting on the 7th fret? 7th position, more like.

[Mouldytone]

Thanks for uploading the the these clips frogpondium. They`re fantastic!

Tony

[astoundingchimp]

They make it look so easy, don't they? These three short videos basically sum up my entire knowledge of the guitar; it just took me twenty years to gain that knowledge.

[pickinpedaler]

great humor in Mike not knowing "luthier", given his frequent need for one.

[WhatnotProd]

Whoa. Thanks a lot for posting this.

[toastedmonkee]

This is really fun to find. Been playing slide in open D for years, never occured to me to play with D modal for any reason. I've been having a ball with it for the last few days. Can't put my old Guild down. Thanks a bunch.