If you play the guitar, you gotta love Redd Volkaert and his mastery of the Fender Telecaster.  Redd wants to teach you how to play Country Blues in his fantastic and warm and funny DVD, “TeleTwang.”  


You fall in love with Redd because he’s a regular guy with tremendous playing talent and his reassuring teaching style promises that if Redd can do it, so can you.

Redd, in the midst of teaching us, shares stories about his life.  He doesn’t read music, but he has a good ear.  When Redd was a child, his guitar instructor dropped him because Redd was imitating what was taught instead of reading the notes on a page.

As we witness Redd and his massive ham hock hands flickering up and down the fretboard — we are left to wonder why reading music matters — and we think there must be a better way to help train the non-traditional musician who just wants to play instead of being formed into middling mindset.

Following Redd’s teaching style is simple and flowing.  When you’re done with the DVD, you can really play like Redd!

Redd is direct, not full of a lot of patience, and you better keep up or he’ll leave you behind:

Redd Volkaert is my favorite kind of kin — he’s strong, amusing, a no-b.s.-sorta-guy and he can play a Telecaster like it was grown from his fingers.

All DVD tutorials should be filled with such love and passion — with Redd Volkaert’s TeleTwang, you get both — in a neverending honor to his brilliant, natural, talent.

6 Comments

  1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    Gordon Davidescu says:

    Now that you have offered up these three excellent instructors, David — which one would you suggest if one were to have to choose only one? 🙂

  2. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    Oh, we have tons more instructional videos to share, Gordon! I take a little bit from each one and I jump around to see what I understand now from one teacher will help me understand more in the future. The most thorough series I have is “Blues You Can Use” — it’s pretty strict and straightforward and I refer to it every day.

  3. Kathakali Chatterjee – Hyderabad, India – Professionally, I have an interesting concoction of experience -- from entertainment industry to retailing to executive education -- the journey is still on. When I don't work, I love to travel, read, listen to music and watch movies.
    kathakali.chatterjee says:

    I think a good ear and sense of music matters the most or else there is no room for improvisation…

  4. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    I agree. Redd has a magical ear that could reproduce and imitate precisely what his teacher played as an example each week. Instead of honoring that learning style, Redd’s teacher made fun of him by turning the sheet music upside down and asking Redd to play what was on the paper. Redd played it — from ear memory the week before — and his teacher told him of the intentional deception and dropped him as a student.

  5. Redd sure sounds like a character, David. Watched him on You Tube videos and thought he sure was funny.

  6. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    Redd is sort of a YouTube star, Anne. He’s a real person and he is fake in no way when he teaches.

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