Arpeggio Madness: Insane Concepts & Total Mastery

I highly recommend Rusty Cooley's "Arpeggio Madness."An "arpeggio" is the sounding of the notes of a chord individually, one after the other, ascending or descending, perhaps spanning more than one octave. This course will help program your fingers to rapidly play arpeggio patterns (patterns that hit on the notes of a chord); this skill will greatly improve your ability to play lead throughout the changing chords of a song.This three-DVD set is cheap: you would need to spend many hundreds of dollars to receive this training from a guitar teacher. But then, how many guitarists who play at this level (like Rusty) are willing to teach this material? Not many. Rusty is really generous to offer this training to us mere mortals."Arpeggio Madness" is for advanced guitar players; before you start this course, you should have previously learned all of the following.- Instant note recognition of all notes on the fretboard- Keys (notes in every key)- Chord construction (notes in any chord)- Guitar chords for any given key- Major and minor scale patterns (played in any key).In short, you need to have previously completed training equivalent to  Rusty Cooley Fret Board Autopsy- Scales, Modes & Patterns Level 1,  and  Fretboard Autopsy - Scales, Modes & Melodic Patterns - Level 2 - DVD  (or, perhaps,  Fretboard Theory Book and 4 DVD Bundle 25% Off Desi Serna ).This product comes with a great instruction booklet (of approximately 100 pages) in PDF format. There is a copy of the booklet on each one of the three discs. Just copy the PDF file to your computer, then print out the entire booklet or only the pages you are working on each day. I am really impressed with the instruction booklet.Rusty Cooley is, of course, a great guitarist; but he is also an excellent instructor. He does a great job on these DVDs explaining the concepts. I felt that Rusty's "Fretboard Autopsy" course did not have adequate explanations and graphics. "Arpeggio Madness" certainly does not have any such problems: Rusty's explanations in this course are nearly perfect (clear, concise, and easy to understand). He communicates very well. I also appreciate how he has integrated his spoken explanations with references to the booklet. The booklet is loaded with good-sized graphics, as well as text explanations.It will probably take most folks several years to master the skills taught in this course. I (sadly) will never achieve the level of skill required to master the material on the third DVD. Even so, it is great to have a guitar instructional program that is so challenging. Thanks to Rusty and the production team for making such a great DVD course.In this instructional DVD, Rusty Cooley uses his Rusty Cooley signature, seven-string Dean guitar which he tunes down one-half step. While he uses his seven-string guitar, all of his instruction is limited to the standard six strings. However, students will need to drop tuning one half step to exactly follow Rusty's examples (i.e., change tuning to E-flat, B-flat, G-flat, D-flat, A-flat, E-flat). I feel that he should have used a six-string guitar in standard tuning for this course.This product allows you to gain free access to the Rock House website, where you will find lots of free supplementary learning aids. For example, you can download the "backing tracks" (drum and bass rhythm tracks) for these lessons. I play these through my guitar amp via my iPod. Such backing tracks are more fun than a metronome.Also check out the book  Arpeggios For The Modern Guitarist BK/CD .

When it comes to guitar playing, Rusty Cooley is a great technician. However, speed for the sake of speed often results in a lack of musicality, originality, and emotion. I'm not saying that Rusty doesn't possess these traits, I'm just saying that you will have to find a musical way of reproducing these arpeggio studies to use in your own playing.Although this DVD set shows you many ways of playing arpeggios, I was surprised that some of the fingerings I myself use to play arpeggios were not there - I guess the guitar really is limitless.Rusty Cooley's Arpeggio Madness provides a systematic approach to arpeggiating many different chords types. I recommend it to intermediate and advanced guitarists.One issue that I did encounter was that at the end of Disc 2 with 4 seconds to go it just stops, chops off the piece of music before he finishes it. Not a big deal I guess, just a glitch in the Matrix, lol.To sum up, Rusty clearly explains all of the concepts on this 3 disc set.It is a great set of instructional DVDs for those wanting to breathe new life into their playing.Review by Guitar Teacher/ComposerMichael Groebel ofwww.ParamountGuitarTuition.com

So I have at least 50 instructional books, and some dvds about advanced stuff like arpeggios/scales/licks etc etc on and on. Some are great, and some are duds. But this 3 DVD Set (which comes with a 104 page book in pdf file format) blew my mind. Well, I say the first DVD is kinda for beginner to intermediate players for sweeping to get things started. The second DVD gets a little better with some cool licks and string skipping sequences etc, but the 3rd DVD is just mind blowing to me. Especially the 3 note per string triad licks (wide stretching with the left hand) which is like playing a chord scale as if it was a normal 3 note per string scale as arpeggios ascending all 6 strings!!! Wicked!! and some wicked licks! and shows you about every arpeggio shape possible (in a nutshell). This will definitely give you some new ideas. I say buy it for sure!

dvd #3 was cracked but a lot of information on first two

This I was 'somewhat' Disappointed in. I 'could' never get the Tab for this?

Rusty does a great job of teaching. Most shredders dont know how to articulate their modes of thinking when it comes to dissection of their licks. Rusty does a great job.Very useful info is divulged.

rusty cooley takes you back to shred school. great playerfor that style of shredding(less melodic/scale oriented)but this guy is super fast which to me is always cool!!!!

All I have to say is buy it because Rock House is the BEST and RUSTY is the scale and modes MASTER and a Great Teacher