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Richard Thompson Guitar School (2/3)

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Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2008

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.

In this clip, watch out for the most self-satisfied smug in history at 2.16!

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  • Richard Thompson reminds me of Chris Martin,

    only talented...

  • The man is a genius. Pure and simple!

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  • Interesting.

    Nice overview for getting people interested in guitar playing, demonstrating the various things they can learn. I'd recommend Justin Sandercoe's lessons for anyone who wants something a bit more in depth - I've used some of his videos to advance my own playing.

  • AHHH!! At 7:25 RT shows us the secret of how Robbie Robertson gets all the amazing harmonics he uses to such great effect in his solos. Previously, it always seemed like Robertson was effortlessly pulling harmonics out of impossible places.

  • gotta love those strats

  • 1. This is a pick.

    2. ?

    3. This is syncopated fingerpicking a Mixolydian scale.

  • Thompson is the only sober one in this video :)

  • @ugmodude wtf? I am unable to post comments for some reason

  • Was thinkin the exact same thing

  • This is great - I've been playing 20 years and I learned something here.

  • sounds gay to me.

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