Neil Peart - A Work in Progress
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Author: Neil PeartBrand: Alfred
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 220 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 00-902839
Studio: Warner Brothers Pub.
Product features:
- Watch The Master At Work As He Demonstrates All Songs From The Test For Echo Album
- Includes Constructing Drum Parts And Technique
- Discusses The Drummers Role In The Band And Drumset Orchestration
- Includes Performance Only Feature And Interactive Drumset
- A Must For All Drummers
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Movie Review: Excellent DVD if you take it for what it is
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent DVD if you take it for what it is, and it is important to understand what it is before you plonk down your hard-earned cash for it.
In a nutshell, this is a drum instructional video as a portrait in time of Neil Peart as a drummer. It probably won't do much for you if you do not know anything about playing drums. It probably won't do much for you _as an instructional video_ even if you've only been taking drum lessons for a short period of time. The assumption here is that you're at least an intermediate student. That you can easily tackle at least basic grooves and fills and pick up the same by ear. That you are familiar with the basic ideas of drum playing, including rudiments, and that you are familiar with some of the common problems of drum playing and coming up with drum parts to fit songs.
There are two other very important things to keep in mind: (1) The emphasis for the "instructional" aspect is that Neil is going to demonstrate things to you by showing them to you--by watching him play. He does verbally explain some of what he's doing, but again, the assumption is that you can pick most of it up merely by watching him and listening. He spends more time explaining _why_ he's playing certain ways, from a compositional perspective, as anything else, and he also spends a lot of time talking about his evolution as a drummer and new techniques he's working on, but from a very general and abstract level--again, a lot of that stuff would only make sense and have significance to someone who is at least at an intermediate level as a drummer. (2) This video was made near the end of the sessions for _Test for Echo_, so those are the songs that are used for demonstration.
The second point in particular really turns a lot of people off of this video. But this is NOT a video to pick up if you merely want to learn how to play some famous Peart fills or something. The idea isn't to entertain you with a greatest hits package or some rare concert footage. The album used for demonstration here is really irrelevant. The point is to bring you into Peart's mind a bit--to understand why he plays the kinds of things he plays, and to give you food for thought as a player yourself (although these questions are not explicitly asked, they're implied)--how are you approaching playing your drums physically and mentally? Why are _you_ choosing to play the things you're choosing to play? Are you thinking about these things? Although any Rush album or collection of songs would have worked equally well for this purpose, using _Test for Echo_ as the example tunes for this is the best idea, given the date this was recorded--they had just finished making the record, and all of these things were fresh in Peart's head for these tunes.
So this is really like an extended private lesson with Peart, where you're an advanced student of his, one who already knows how to play fairly well, but it's time to think about some of the more abstract aspects of composing and playing drum parts.
It's not that other kinds of folks can't watch this and get anything out of it, but it's important to understand what to expect and why the material on this DVD is focused on the things it's focused on. You might be looking for different material, different information. If so, there are better DVDs for you. This one isn't bad just because it doesn't teach you how to play the "Tom Sawyer" fills, or show you a collection of live drum solos, or show you Rush goofing around in the studio a la the Beatles in Help! or something.
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