DVD Version: Slice and Dice Left and Right! Play Ultra-Technical Phrases! By Hisashi Takai (et al.) Price: ¥3,630 Release Date: 2006.04.20 Specifications: Approx. 67 minutes / with musical score collection / Approx. 67 minutes Instructional DVD by Hisashi Takai, a skilled guitarist formerly of X. Challenge the limits of guitar technique! Shred extreme phrases! This is a "high-tech specialist" instructional DVD that picks up particularly difficult phrases from the highly acclaimed instructional book with CD, "Slice and Dice Left and Right! Play Ultra-Technical Phrases!", and thoroughly explains them with video. By checking the fine movements of the fingers with split-screen close-ups and slow-motion performances, and practicing with the included complete copy score, you will surely open the path to becoming a fast-picking master. In addition, the DVD version includes techniques introduced only on the DVD, and newly recorded, heated demo performances, making for a content-rich experience. Whether you can play fast or not, please give it a try! 【CONTENTS】 ■ Warming Up ■ Riff Section ◎ Riffs including picking harmonics ◎ High-speed riffs with 16th note obbligato ◎ Riffs using bounce beats ■ Alternate Picking Section ◎ 16th note alternate picking with outside & inside picking ◎ Classical phrases played with full picking * ◎ Pentatonic playing with alternate picking ◎ 6-note alternate picking * ■ Legato Section ◎ Legato phrases using pentatonics widely ◎ Stretch phrases * ◎ Tapping * ◎ Transition to tapping & chording * ■ Economy & Sweep Picking Section ◎ Economy picking basic practice ◎ Economy phrases with down-down-up picking ◎ Sweep phrases using strings 1-3 * ◎ String skipping & sweep picking * ■ Composite & Ultra-Technical Section ◎ Chicken picking A * ◎ Chicken picking B * ◎ High-difficulty tapping ◎ Tapping using the middle and ring fingers of the right hand ◎ Economy-packed style * ◎ Super string skipping phrases * ◎ High-difficulty harmonics ■ Demo Performance: Hisashi Takai & Ken Hada * Phrases marked with an asterisk (*) also include slow-motion performances. Hisashi Takai Born in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1963. Released the instrumental album "RadiantHeart" in 1994. Since then, he has participated in recordings and live performances of numerous artists. He is also an instructor at ESP Musical Academy.