Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom, Melodic Speed, Shred & Heavy Riffs Level 1

Great video, but doesn’t come with a booklet, just a file you can print it from. Kind of misleading.

This is a Great DVD. I feel that a couple other reviews are a little negative, especially the one where the guy says, "it seems like you get the feeling Alexi doesn't really want to be there," is very negative. He doesn't seem that way at all. He just seems like he's just kickin' it, giving a really cool personal guitar lesson. One guys review says yada, yada, yada and ect. ect. ect. It's perfectly fine!!!Now, it does say "Level 1," Implying that it's a beginners dvd. THIS IS NOT A "BEGINNERS" DVD, although you CAN slow it down to see what he's doing; which many people will have to do anyway. He does play it fairly slow and does give tabs right after each thing he does. The difference between beginners and intermediate & Advanced is how "Fast" one can play, so YOU can slow this stuff down and learn one string on one fret at a time, learn a part of it and keep practicing that over and over and over until you get faster and faster and faster.A GREAT quote unquote "Beginners" DVD is the House of Blues Metal Guitar. You can actually learn how to play guitar JUST from watching THAT. This is good to learn many things such as, new arpeggios, which is, not strumming but, going from one note to the next, Eddie Van Halen style OR after you watch this DVD....Alexi Style!!! (=

This shows you how he applies Pentatonics, Arpeggios, Pivoting and other things to his music, he'll play a riff slow, then fast, then with a backing track. It doesn't show you multiple variations of Scales and Arpeggios. Being it focuses on his own music it won't give you good overall instruction for Metal guitar, it will show you some of the things he does that you can apply to your own music.

Not a single thing to dislike here! Very fun to watch and learn from, just like the other one.

Although Alexi may play very good, the DVD lacks depth into his style, notes, reasons of composition and what he is doing.... if you just wanna copy and really know nothing else.... this is it....each song is just a sampling 2 - 3 tabs most on a smallest scale of his songs......I'm glad he paid a bunch for making this DVD....he seems a bit nervous most of the time in his demonstrations of techniques etc..... this DVD is just a hook to get you to sign up online for their onile guitar bass, drums, vocal programs. Other than that its kinda nice to see his guitars and how he dresses usually.

for me, alexi is the best guitar god nowadays. learning from him on this DVD are the best thing. i love the way he use alternate picking. but, the disappoint, thare are no songs to learn from first three albums.Alexi is not ego maniac. he willing to share his skills, powerful licks and heavy riffs.

I didnt recieve the book that is to go along with the dvd, but I was still able to figure out most of the information. I own the beginner rock guitar course with John McCarthy and the two lessons that follow. This lesson doesnt even compair to the Beginner rock guitar dvd. Even though it is not heavy metal guitar, he still teaches you everything you could learn from this dvd, plus much more. You could learn something from this but I would advise to go with the other one I mentioned. Good luck

Alexi is amazing, but this video is BAD. No explanation or anything- it's basically "Hi. Here's riff 1 slow, now fast, now with backing track. Here's riff 2..." I got to the section on how to sing and play guitar at the same time and thought here will be some helpful info. But no, his super helpful advice to help you is just "It wasnt really ever hard for me to do both at the same time." Wow, thanks, that really helps. Also, the camera angles arent great and it's hard to see what frets and strings he's playing. I'm sorry to say, there are MUCH better videos out there for learning guitar.

Comprato per regalarlo ad una persona che suona la chitarra già da anni e piace il genere musicale. Detto da lui ben strutturato ed interessante.

内容としてとても素晴らしいですが、ドロップＣにあわせるのが面倒でした。