Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - Guitar Play-Along DVD Vol. 16

I bought this DVD and am very happy with it. I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to learn these songs. Here's my review:PREREQUISITES: Before you buy this, remember that this is David Gilmour being taught on this DVD, so beginners will most likely struggle with a lot of this. Know how to do bends, especially at the lower frets where you need a lot of finger strength (and calloses!). Also know quick hammer ons and pull-offs, feel comfortable moving up and down the neck, and also jumping frets quickly for chord changes. I would recommend being comfortable with those before attempting this DVD, or at least be patient with yourself as you learn these parts. :-)PROS: (1) The instructor is both a very good player and as well a very good teacher. At the start of each song, he breaks down which keys the songs use and which chords you will be playing, and demonstrates how to play them, as well as move from one chord to the next. He plays VERY cleanly and VERY smoothly, so its very easy to see what he is playing and also reassuring to know it's the right way to play it. (2) Multiple camera angles. For each song, you can choose different camera angles to watch: 3rd person view (like you are an audience member) or 1st person view (like you are the player). All views are very clear and very close up, so its very easy to see what he is doing. (3) TAB. No matter which view you choose, you can see the tab at the bottom. (4) Main guitar tracks and solos. He teaches all the main stuff, so you will learn both the main guitar tracks and all the solos as well. (5) Real arrangements! The instructor does not dumb down anything. He plays it as it is on the album -- whether easy or hard -- so you are learning the real parts, not some watered down arrangement.CONS: (1) A few songs are left off this DVD: "On the Run", "Great Gig in the Sky" and the cut'n'paste intro "Speak To Me" (no big loss there). The first two, OTR and GGITS, should have been included even if they are largely keyboard pieces, since there's still plenty of good guitar work in there. (2) The instructor moves at real time thoughout the song, so you will definitely need to stop and replay many parts as you learn this. I would highly recommend watching this on a computer DVD player, which usually has a progress bar that you can click on, and quickly and accurately go back to replay a part you are working on. With a conventional DVD player, you will need to frequently stop to rewind and it's not nearly as easy to replay specific sequences. (3) Missing fills. While they give you the main guitar part as well as the solos, there are still fills and overdub pieces that are not included. Not a biggie since you get the vast majority of guitar parts, but nonetheless they are missing.That's about it. Even with those couple cons, I still give this 5 stars and highly recommend it. This DVD really has been a HUGE help for me in learning these songs, way above tabs alone. And I hope they publish more DVDs for other Pink Floyd albums too.QUICK NOTE: The reviewer that wrote the first review on this page apparently intended to write a review for the book/CD version and erroneously posted it for this DVD version.

As I stated before on the title, it is just great as a complement of any other paper material (book-tabs), that one already owns...having said this, and on my reviews of other dvds on the same series and player (Doug Boduch), don't expect any kind of tutorial, it's just a performance, a very good one, by the way, that for me took away some doubts that I had , specially on the type of fingering used, and some questions on the timing. I started off on guitar with tab magazines, then with tab books, after that with the playalong series, and I topped it of with the dvds...pricey, but whose counting!!!! To wrap it off: buy it if you already know how to play the songs, and you wish to polish them, or else skip it.

Look Look I love Pink floyd i have the so called "fab four CDs" "dark side, i wish you where here, animals, and the wall" I also "play a mean guitar" so i fugred i would learn how my man Gilmour plays his rocking gutair riffs. weeeell foks you will baraly get anything out of this. first off the guy dosn't theach you ANYTHING oh he might show you a few chords but he wont go stoep by step on showing you how to do the solos on any of the songs. i mean jesus christ i was totaly by myself learning the solo for TIME. AND Money. they do have Tabs but Tabs are for losers who don't like to study up on sheet music there just fools that go on the interent and spend all their time learning songs and never learning music graaaaaaaa .... ok i'm sorry i got off topic i'm just in a bad moood right now. be that as it may this DVD still deservs 1 star IT WONT SHOW YOU ANYTHING!!!! people please you must listn to me if you want to get some good DVDs Hal Leanard does have them try the allman brothers or ecric clapton now those guys will go step by step with the songs. oh and did i mention that on this DVD they won't slow the song down for you when you try and learn the song NO they just play it at normal tempo so your are going to have to make love to your pause and rewind buttons

This dvd is good if you are looking for accurate transcriptions of songs, I do wish there was more explanation on how to play the song, technique, approach, and so on. It would also be nice to have a detailed look at the effects used and how to recreate those sounds. I know there is a lot of material online for that, but give this is an item you are paying for it would be nice if they included it.I could be wrong but it would also be a nice bonus if there was a way to print out the tab. Again this is an item you are paying for, they could just include a pdf for you to print. How hard would that be?

I am a strong Pink Floyd fan. Dark Side of the Moon has Eclipse which is my fav recording of theirs - it helped me heal from environmental poisoning

This video had very little actual members of Pink Floyd playing instruments. Most of the video footage was very blurry. Most of the footage was from concerts that are available on other videos that are clear or sometimes in HD. A lot of the music is not the members of Pink Floyd. The only saving grace for this entire video it the interview with Claire Tory about how "The Great Gig In The Sky" came to be. Other than that, it is a waste of money!

Enjoy this group

Thought I was getting a DVD of their concert. It was not...it's a msking of DVD. Not a fan!! I want the music.