This isn't for wet behind the ears guitar players. In fact the backing track is a full orchestra and Charlie's guitar part comes into it when the written music calls for it.
X number of bars into it and in such and such a key for so many bars changing key when necessary. Its a distinct written part and you aren't strumming chords you still cant articulate properly.
No one is pretending germinating guitar seeds are going to learn to play the guitar from this lesson.
People who will benefit from this already know their own strengths and weaknesses. Tal Farlow's weakness was he couldn't read. Ha! Ha! We should all have such weakness. As lessons go, its pretty darn good and a real practicing guitar jazz aficionado is gonna love this.
Andy plays a brand new looking arch top with a floating bridge and 2 Florentine "f-holes". It says 'custom' on the truss rod cover. I can't make out the brand. I particularly like the song 'Grand Slam' because it has some boogie woogie bass lines that we need to learn. This could have been the very first guitar boogie woogie song. Its a jazz blues hipsters should know. Andy himself calls these licks a progenitor of heavy rock and roll and rockabilly - later much copied. Think I'll do that too.
Thing is, in most of the tunes, there are all these other musical ideas being expressed in the backing track - bass - drum - trumpet - clarinet. We don't get a backing track, without the guitar, for each of these songs. It would be nice to own the actual music, as well as this quality guitar lesson production. Whose major faults, like lack of backing track for each song and or any written material can be overlooked by an assertive student. In my opinion anyway.
For those not quite ready I highly suggest a real good guitar reference book w/visual, its a Jazz course and has 3 levels of reference book, see my review. Any guitar player will benefit from studying the first 40 pages of this book which is guitar basics. Its got material I have never seen so well laid out. There is no one perfect way or book or guitar lesson. But if you want to learn guitar from the ground up via a learned and considered jazz perspective, its as close as I can find for the money. Thus girdled for the fray then acquire this excellent Charlie Christian guitar lesson.
“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” ― Robert Schumann