The sooner you realize why you need to know your C-A-G-E-D shapes and inversions the more motivated you will be to practice the shapes.
Reggae and Funk are both good and fun ways to put triad shapes to good use. Some of the full shapes like G are daunting with gnarly string stretches. But quickly you learn you can make smaller or partial chords if you know where to put your fingers.
The heartening thing is that there is a .PDF pamphlet on the disc which has the Guitar World Articles that this lesson accompanied. I guess what we are taught here is or was available on the Guitar World Magazine site. Its a good magazine. Guitar Player is also good. As is the U.K.'s "Guitarist Magazine" which costs over twice the price for some reason.
So I am advising a Buy and Grab Your Guitar status here. This is quality guitar instruction and you can watch it over and over again. I recommend the Reggae section as an introduction to playing music to any guitar player however wet behind the ears.
Now for the Funk critique. The funk part of this guitar lesson starts off with nine or ten 16th note rhythms patterns where we are supposed to gain the skill to accent each beat perhaps like Niles Rodgers himself. Definitely like Niles if we can pull it off!
We crank up a TAB chart from the .PDF which has guitar rhythmic notation on it. Good so far. But oddly enough Andy does not count the time out loud for us. Its unheard of. I mean unheard. Meaning you don't hear him going one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a one e and a ....And showing you slowly where to put the accent. If you need previous rudimentary training in this I have just the cure for you.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou