DVD menus and lesson breakdown:

Video lesson menus and content:

• Jamming & Licks – in these lessons Larry shares some of his favorite soloing and improvising secrets and techniques. Learn killer minor pentatonic, major, and relative minor licks, hybrid picking techniques and licks, pivot point licks, country sounding doublestop licks, target note soloing using slides, cool hammer-on and pull-off licks, adding the wah pedal to licks, and fun practice exercises. You will also learn some of Larry’s favorite bluesy licks and devices. Learn lick ideas that you can move around the fretboard, chromatic ideas, connecting ideas across the fretboard, adding the blue note to licks and phrases, open string licks and runs, doublestop licks and runs up and down the neck, phrasing and scale options and much more!
• Arpeggios & Warm-Up – in these lessons Larry teaches devices and techniques when jamming over a progression. Learn arpeggio warm up exercises, how to add arpeggios to minor pentatonic, and how to add in the blue note for color and tension. You will also learn a fun warm up exercises using all the harmonized arpeggios in a given key, how to connect the arpeggios down the neck, connecting arpeggios to scales and phrasing them together and how to use these arpegios in practical playing scenarios.
• Building Solos & Gear – in these lessons Larry discusses building solos. He teaches how he comes up with ideas and concepts to build solos. Larry then demonstates a solo and breaks down each part and teaches the techniques and concepts behind the parts. Learn about establishing melody, concepts of starting simple and low, the importance leaving space, tap harmonics, dynamics and urgency, the power of repitition, and many more soloing tips and devices. Larry also makes it a little funky and teaches some funky chords and rhythms, octave/fuzz effect, and reverse delays. Larry also goes over his gear, effects, guitar, amp, and sounds in the gear section of the lessons.
• Political Rain Soloing – in these lessons Larry goes over his soloing concepts and devices used in his song “Political Rain”. Larry plays the complete solo and breaks the solo down section by section. He and demonstates the licks, concepts, and ideas on how he built the solo. Learn devices, tricks, melody building, arpeggios, use of delay effects, and all about building solos in these killer lessons.
• Major Melody – in these lessons Larry teaches how to play scales horizontally across the neck by combining shapes. You will also learn how to change directions along the way as well as killer fretboard navigation. You will also learn different ways to practice these techniques, and many other licks moving aroun the neck. Then Larry teaches melody building with doublestops, moving doublestops arund on the neck, doublestops with bends and hammer-ons, sliding doublestops around the neck and more.
• Learn killer arpeggios and arpeggio techniques and devices:
  
  
  • Learn arpeggio warm up exercises
  • Learn how to add arpeggios to minor pentatonic scales
  • Learn to harmonize arpeggios in a given key
  • Learn how to connect the arpeggios down the neck
  • Learn how to connect arpeggios to scales
  • Learn how to use these arpegios in practical playing scenarios.
• Learn all about how to build a solo:
  
  
  • Learn how to add melody within your soloing
  • Learn the various components in building a solo
  • Learn soloing concepts and the power of repitition
  • Learn about soloing dynamics and the concept of space
  • Learn every aspect of one of Larry’s all-time favorite solos
• About Larry Mitchell
  Larry Mitchell is a Grammy award-winning producer, engineer and performer who has toured the world playing guitar with well-known artists including Tracy Chapman, Billy Squier, Ric Ocasek and Miguel Bosé.
  
  In his original compositions, Larry skillfully weaves guitar textures that showcase his virtuosity as a solo artist and ensemble player. As an artist, he has released six solo records and won a San Diego Music Award for best pop jazz artist and in 1986 and 1987 he won the New York City Limelight Guitar solo contest.
  
  As a producer-engineer, Larry has won 26 New Mexico Music Awards in various categories from pop, adult contemporary, rap, rock, country and Native American. He won a Grammy Award for producing, engineering and performing on "Totemic Flute Chants".
  
  Larry is currently touring with his own trio as well as with Native artists Shelley Morningsong, Dawn Avery, Joy Harjo and Robert Mirabal. He has many long-standing endorsements and relationships with companies such as Ibanez Guitars, D'Adarrio Strings, D'Marzio Pickups and Fractal Audio.
  
  Larry’s influences include Eric Johnson, the Edge, Jeff Thall, Steve Stevens, Nile Rogers, Prince, Neal Schon, Steve Via, Andy Timmons, Andy Summers, Prince, Kings X, Dan Reed Network, Tony James, Jeff Coplan, producers Nile Rogers, Daniel Lanois, Jeff Coplan, Trevor Horn, and John Kurzweg