Have you ever felt, that you own so much stuff, but are not sure where to start learning it? We'll take DVDs for example. I looked at Jay Sankey's Greatest Hits DVD set. I've had it for awhile, but never really looked at it vigorously. I knew there were a lot of good, easy effects on it though. So today I figured, let's soak in all of this material. I put the performance DVD in the player, and played it all the way through. I pulled out my Handy-Dandy notebook, and wrote the name of each trick, and a brief description of what occurs in the trick, and whether I think I'll ever use it. I came out with about seven tricks that I could totally see myself using easily, and another three that I would do further work on, and maybe I will use them. I did the same with all of my other DVDs, and came up with a ton of tricks that got by me the first time I watched. With all these effects written down, I could look at them any time I want without popping in the DVD, and remember the performance (Of course, if you are using a single trick DVD like Thread or TNR or something else, this is unnecessary.). Then, when I'm ready, I'll sit down and learn the mechanics of each one. So, the moral of this story is, check out all the DVDs you have, and write down every effect, with a description, and whether you think you will use it. It will bring a ton of good. With over 35 usable effects on hand for me, who says DVDs are no good?
