The reason I differentiate the two guitar lessons is because Johnny Winter himself is actually in this other guitar lesson and a willing if some what laconic participant in it. Maybe not teaching it himself but at least showing how its done for our benefit.
This other lesson exclusively teaches Johnny's slide guitar technique while the plank spankin' learning fest we have here, devotes only one song, of the five songs, to slide guitar. The rest of this guitar lesson is flat picked.
Another reason I am a bit leery of this digital presentation is that TrueFire, this guitar lessons parent company isn't using technology. Technology is using TrueFire.
To annoy me. TrueFire has various markets for their productions such as: download only, 'download and disc' and physical digital disk guitar lessons. They all have the 'TrueFire player' or at least the ones I have in my possession do.
In my opinion the 4 lessons I downloaded to my Mac work great except for one thing - no full screen. Its a .zip file that opens itself. In the folder are 3 players, staying within the folder, just click one of them and the interface opens to that particular lesson-file - we are now interacting with the computer using the TrueFire player.
Why? I want to watch a guitar lesson not be prompted to do all these mouse move things to continue. I fail to see the value in this. A well designed and organized teaching menu YES! I want that! Excuse me but this TrueFire player interface seems like busy work.
I feel like a martinet. A meat puppet. A rat in a maze. Furthermore its over-engineered gimmick that doesn't really enhance anything better than a regular format disc. What do we really need this interface for? To differentiate ourselves?
It says you get full screen which is a cruel joke. My screen is 1/4 size in the interface window. In some versions of the player you can expand it a little and it has tunings for you too. You can not get it full size and it remains cramped and constraining. If you wear glasses like I do, you notice this stuff, and likely even if you don't wear glasses.
In the downloaded to my Mac version, I expand it and OK its a bit bigger but still framed and only takes up a quarter of the TrueFire Players interface window. Me no like! And that's the good news.
The bad news is, that I got, on the physical product side, the whole 8 Kings of Blues Rock set and they wont play on my external player hooked up to my mac-mini. Oddly all the other digital discs I own work fine.
In TrueFires' case its a crime because they have great guitar instructional material. Why cram it into some dinky window and constricting software interface?
To clarify my experience, not only is the down loaded TrueFire product less money it works in Mac's too. Its the physical DVDs that don't.
Using the 2 TrueFire Player versions I have (Windows or Mac) you don't get full screen. The frame goes full screen but the player window stays the same size either way. How innovative!
Another thing that's a problem with Macs and TrueFire is TrueFire's Power Tab wont work in Macs. So they offer some weird convoluted work around to download and then try to interface and its just a huge pain.
I got 'TuxTab' its free but I cant get it to interface with the TrueFire interface and have begun to wonder if its worth the effort.
I've noticed its a good idea to root around in the folder of the downloaded file or DVD disc's root level. They do sometimes contain another .txt or .PDF file.
These files can help quite a bit with explanations. Be sure and open those extra files on the disc root level if they look promising.
Why not simply give me a pamphlet! Is that so wrong? You Lot! Reach out and touch me with something physical - I don't mean a baseball bat or a cricket mallet either! Show me that you care. Or let me print it out.
See Andy Aledort's Johnny Winter Guitar Lesson Page One, Page Two, Page Three
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