Ken Perlman is one of the most celebrated clawhammer banjo stylists performing today. In this new DVD, he teaches how to play this exciting style, with ample close-ups and clear explanations of techniques such as: hand positions, chords, tunings, brush-thumb, single-string strokes, hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides. Songs include: Boatsman • Cripple Creek • Pretty Polly. Includes a transcription booklet. 60 min.
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In this outstanding DVD, author/clinician/recording artist Greg Koch teaches the trademark riffs and solos of SRV, the man responsible for reinventing blues and rock on the guitar. Greg analyzes these eight classics in detail: Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up on Love • Couldn't Stand the Weather • Crossfire • Empty Arms • The House Is Rockin' • Riviera Paradise • Scuttle Buttin' • Stang's Swang.
Also available: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Greatest Hits Guitar Signature Licks DVD – 00320256.
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Swing rhythm never left, but it's getting harder to find someone to teach it! Noted swing rhythm guitarist Ranger Doug of Riders in the Sky takes you step-by-step through the process of expanding your technique on swing rhythm. Whether you play in a swing band, a cowboy quartet like Riders in the Sky, or gypsy jazz, this DVD offers you an absolutely unique and up-close look at chord forms, patterns, right and left hand technique, and insider tips by a swing rhythm master who has been playing this style for over 30 years. In addition, two western classics, “Wah Hoo” and “Tumbling Tumbleweed,” are not only broken down and explained in detail, but are performed by 2-time Grammy winners Riders in the Sky in a mini-concert, so that the lesson on those two tunes is exemplified in live performance. Saddle up, saddle pal, and ride the Rhythm Range with Ranger Doug! Includes transcription booklet.
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This DVD is the ultimate source for learning the secrets of funk bass, in a player-friendly menu format. Covers: instruction on slapping, popping, left-hand integration, dead notes, and more dangerous techniques; a dedicated groove for each new technique; grooving with a drum machine; funk history – the hallowed grooves of the Funk Triumvirate; slow demos, tips on sound, and creating your own grooves; and much more! Includes a booklet with notation and tab for all examples.
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This fantastic collection features country lead lines, phrases, and riffs thoughtfully presented by pro guitarists John Heussenstamm, Josh Tovar, and Chad Johnson. Each and every authentic lick includes a walk-through explanation and note-for-note, on-screen tab. Normal and slow-speed performance demos are included to really help viewers master the licks. 4 hours, 12 minutes.
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This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include:_scale exercises; classical, blues, and jazz etudes; ear training; reading exercises; walking bass and comping; rock, jazz, and blues demonstrations. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying lesson booklet. Professor Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the guitar. Professor Fujita has been teaching at Berklee College of Music since 1993 and continues to be one of the most sought after and effective guitar and ensemble teachers. He has played guitar with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent, and has shared the stage with notables such as Phil Collins, Roomful of Blues, and Darryl Jones and the Saturday Night Live Band, to name a few. Additionally, Tomo is the winner of Boston's Best Guitarist Competition, and he has won critical acclaim in Guitar Player and Guitar Shop magazines.
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Louis Johnson, bassist, writer and producer, is considered one of the foremost bass players in contemporary music. With this DVD, you'll learn a fantastic selection of popular bass techniques like thumping, choking, snapping and slapping. Louis takes you step-by-step through an unbelievable assortment of blistering licks, grooves and solos. 51 minutes.
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This DVD has been called the most shocking guitar instruction and performance DVD of all time! In this first-ever DVD from John 5 you will not only take a journey into his twisted mind, but you will also learn some of the techniques that have set him apart from guitar players everywhere. Included here are full live performances of four songs as well as exclusive lessons and instruction on techniques such as: banjo rolls, behind the nut bends, tapping, arpeggios, double stops, country bends, chicken pickin', pedal steel bends, and more. This DVD is not for the faint of heart and is unlike anything you have seen before! PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT
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Renowned jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli shares his take on the key elements of jazz guitar style. Filled with dazzling demos, insightful lessons and great anecdotes, this DVD is perfect for newcomers looking to get their feet wet, or for experienced jazzers. Filmed in hi-def with onscreen music for many of the examples. 1 hour, 28 minutes.
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In 2006, the Zildjian company launched its third “Mission from Gadd” North American clinic tour giving drummers across the country an opportunity to experience Steve Gadd's humility, generosity, and creative genius firsthand. On this DVD, Steve is featured in an intimate master class setting at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, May 2006. Longtime fans of Steve, as well as younger drummers just discovering him, will treasure his wisdom and insights on a wide variety of topics: funk patterns, rudiments applied to the kit, playing with a click, tips for the studio, brush patterns, odd phrases, Mozambique/Latin ideas – it's all here! The extensive Q&A segments allow Steve to discuss several of his legendary performances, including “Aja,” “Nite Sprite,” “Late in the Evening” and “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” Steve also performs solo pieces that contain the essential tools and techniques that comprise his incredibly influential style and approach. 2 hours, 53 minutes.
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The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hands close-up. Each DVD includes great songs that all guitarists will want to know! Volume 29 includes: And I Love Her • Can't Buy Me Love • A Day in the Life • Eight Days a Week • Help! • Michelle • We Can Work It Out • Yellow Submarine. 1 hour, 31 minutes.
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Associate editor of Guitar World, Andy Aledort discusses and demonstrates the unique guitar solos of this blues giant! Features lessons and tips on re-creating the Albert King style through an in-depth analysis of 8 tunes: Angel of Mercy • Blues Power • Born Under a Bad Sign • Crosscut Saw • I Wanna Get Funky • I'll Play the Blues for You • Laundromat Blues • Oh Pretty Woman. 79 minutes.
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Joe Walsh, inspirational rock 'n' roll guitarist, takes you through how to set up your guitar for perfect intonation and more in this DVD. It covers: stringing your guitar • adjusting your truss rod • perfect pitch • how to clean your pots • pick-ups • G-tuning • E-tuning • using the slide • creating your solos • and more. 47 minutes.
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This lesson demonstrates the techniques Johnson used to create his remarkable guitar parts for seven songs: Come on in My Kitchen • Cross Road Blues • Drunken Hearted Man • Kindhearted Woman Blues • Ramblin' on My Mind • Sweet Home Chicago • Walkin' Blues. Includes a guitar techniques section, jam-along songs, and practice tips. 66 minutes.
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Visit with the legendary Honeyboy Edwards, one of the last links to the classic Delta blues of the 1920s and '30s. He imparts wisdom and wit while reminiscing about his life and friends, including Robert Johnson. Features detailed demos and thrilling performances of solo country blues, slide & lead guitar, boogie bass lines and more, with a detailed booklet of key musical examples. 64 minutes.
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Go inside the mind of one of the most accomplished guitar instructors in history. Troy Stetina unveils hundreds of key insights to mastering the electric guitar. Topics covered include: the path to unlimited speed, control and articulation • ultimate shred picking secrets • non-standard phrasing ideas and bending approaches • secrets to playing in the pocket and building engaging riffs • arrangement tips and compositional ideas • and more. Also includes an inside look at six songs from Second Soul's Beyond the Infinite CD, guest appearances by Mark Tremonti, Michael Angelo Batio, Eric Friedman and Bill Peck, plus a tablature booklet. Approximately 3 hrs., 30 min.
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Guitar instructor/host Dave Celentano teaches innovative and diverse ways of playing the pentatonic scale in rock and heavy metal. He covers: the five position patterns for the pentatonic scale; sequences, string bending, connecting the scale patterns; string skipping; two-hand tapping pentatonics; a complete pentatonic solo played over backing tracks; and rhythm backing tracks for the student to rehearse soloing over. All examples are notated in tablature and included on the DVD as a printable PDF file. 60 min.
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The legendary drummers for James Brown, funk masters Clyde Stubblefield and John “Jab'o” Starks focus on the grooves they made famous, in the songs: Cold Sweat • Funky Drummer • I Got the Feelin' • Mother Popcorn • Give It Up or Turnit a Loose • Licking Stick • Sex Machine • Super Bad • Make It Funky • and Doing It to Death. They demonstrate these patterns and rhythm combinations, and analyze their performances and techniques while looking back and discussing their activities in the James Brown era. Features exclusive reunion performances with special guests and former band members, including Fred Wesley, Fred Thomas, John Scofield and John Medeski. 80 minutes.
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Learn to play eight great Skynyrd songs, including: Don't Ask Me No Questions • Free Bird • Gimme Three Steps • I Know a Little • Sweet Home Alabama • That Smell • What's Your Name • You Got That Right. 1 hour, 51 minutes.
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The master of slap bass, funk bass giant Larry Graham shows you an hour of intensive bass work, featuring exclusive reunion performances with special guests: legendary rock/R&B group Sly & The Family Stone's original drummer Greg Errico, and Graham Central Station's original keyboard player Robert “Butch” Sam. They play several songs, analyzing performances and techniques while looking back and discussing their activities in the '60s and '70s. With his lifetime musical partners, Larry's funk spirit explodes on this DVD. Experience “real” funk history! 62 minutes.
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John Hammond is regarded as one of the most prolific and outstanding solo acoustic blues guitarists on the scene today. His career has spanned more than four decades, and he has recorded and appeared on nearly 50 albums. In this in-depth interview taped in 1991, you get an inside glimpse of John's aspirations, his style and techniques that distinguish him as a unique and inspiring solo blues guitarist. In four performances, John demonstrates and discusses his slide guitar technique, finger picking, string dampening, and his unique use of string effects, open tuning and time shifts. He also discusses his vocals and harmonica playing, accompanied by 6- or 12-string guitar, and demonstrates in live performances. His intense and seductive harmonica playing creates a mood with riveting vibrato, dynamic voicing, bending and phrasing. This DVD will keep you riveted to your seat, as John reveals his influences, aspirations and experience as a solo acoustic blues act. In the accompanying booklet, John teaches you licks and phrases from the blues masters, both in standard notation and guitar tablature. 60 minutes.
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In this course designed from MI core curriculum programs, Ed Roscetti unlocks the secrets of odd time signatures, covering studies in 3/4, 5/4, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and other odd-time meters. Includes complete song charts with play-along CD tracks, rhythm guides and detailed analysis, the Five Steps to Musicality and more!
“This approach helps the student and professional drummer to develop a library of rhythmic ideas for grooving, turnarounds to outline phrases, and soloing. I highly recommend Ed's book and CD.”
– Joe Porcaro
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Learn the guitar styles and techniques of John Denver. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. This DVD features in-depth analysis of eight songs: Annie's Song • Back Home Again • Follow Me • Leaving on a Jet Plane • My Sweet Lady • Rocky Mountain High • Sunshine on My Shoulders • Take Me Home, Country Roads. 83 minutes.
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This DVD is an encouraging “self-tutor” that supplies the advice and knowledge of Ken Perlman's years of teaching experience. He explains simply and step by step how to play fingerstyle guitar in a progressive and rewarding way.
If you want to play folk, blues, fiddle tunes or ragtime on guitar, this DVD can help you master the basic musical skills and fingerpicking techniques you need to play these styles. Whether you're a beginning or advanced guitarist, Ken Perlman will help you develop such skills as the alternating bass, pattern picking, hammering-on, pulling-off sliding and much more.
This DVD is best used with Ken's Fingerstyle Guitar book (HL00000081), a definitive reference instruction manual for both students and teachers alike that has become the fingerpicker's bible. Approx. 85 minutes.
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Here is a modern, unique learning system that starts from the beginner level and progresses through advanced techniques. This comprehensive method covers melody, rhythm, chords, scales and even lead guitar techniques. Learn theory, dynamics, syncopation, the major scale formula and how to apply it all to the guitar. Learn the basics of blues, rock and many songs and progressions. Over 120 professionally recorded audio backing tracks and playing examples on the included MP3 CD will guide you through each lesson. Use the in-depth quiz system to gauge your proegress at each step and help ensure an effective learning experience.
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No matter what style of guitar you play, you will love this DVD! This DVD helps viewers think like musicians. Using familiar tunes, Fred Sokolow teaches the movable fretboard patterns all the pros use. Guitarists will learn how to solo and play back-up in all keys, all over the fretboard • play movable chords and chord progressions • play chord-based licks and arpeggios • jam or play melodies with the blues box and with pentatonic and major scales • and much more. The accompanying booklet comes complete with easy-to-follow notation and diagrams which correspond exactly to the DVD. 62 minutes.
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This is the first instructional program by drummer's drummer and Grammy Award winner Steve Jordan, who offers a fascinating look into how and why he plays. Long awaited by drummers around the world, this DVD includes live performances by Bob Cranshaw, Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, and Bernie “Dr. Woo” Worrell. It also features commentary from Jackson Browne, Leroy Clouden, Levon Helm, Keith Richards and the late Timothy White, Billboard editor-in-chief.
“One of the funkiest drummers of all time? Steve Jordan shows he's all that and more on this excellent DVD, a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the legendary groove-maker.”
– William F. Miller, Editorial Director, Modern Drummer Magazine
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A feast for the fingers served up by the master of guitar histrionics! The inimitable Greg Koch discusses and demonstrates his twisted but tasty take on the guitar in gory detail. The menu includes full-band demos of select Koch tunes, and lessons on the techniques therein: “Zoinks” – The B-Bender • “Spank It” – Chicken Pickin' Fricassee • “Torn Asunder” – Behind-the-Nut String Rustling • “Death of a Bassman” – Hybrid Picking Wrongdoing • “Tonus Diabolicus” – Fun with Delays and “The Devil's Interval” • “Chief's Blues” – Blues Playing and Giving. Total running time: 1 hour 12 minutes.
Greg Koch's virtuosity, sense of humor, and articulate nature have led to a successful career as a bandleader, studio musician, author, clinician, and recording artist with Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. A multiple award-winning string manipulator, he divides his time between international clinic tours, writing, recording and performing in Greg Koch and the Tone Controls (featured on this DVD).
“Imagine Chet Hendrix meeting the Kings (Albert, Freddie, BB) at the first annual 'Zeppelin/Holdsworth Coffee Guzzler's Hoedown.'”
– Guitar Player magazine
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Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Tony MacAlpine, Virgil Donati, Dave Weiner – Live in London! If you couldn't be at the Astoria for these extraordinary shows, then this DVD is the next best thing: an unbelievable concert video featuring backstage and behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, band biographies, a Vai discography, rehearsal coverage, and 21 songs – nearly 4 HOURS of footage! Also features Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, PCM Stereo, Audio Commentary, and Instant Chapter Access to Songs.
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One of the most comprehensive and detailed volumes on hand technique ever produced, Jojo Mayer's Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer is recommended for drummers of every age, style and skill level. The double-DVD, 3-hour set covers a wide range of information on drumming technique, from the most fundamental to the most advanced. Yet, Secret Weapons is more than just the ultimate instructional method and reference guide: it also showcases the inspiring artistry, musical philosophy and groundbreaking technical abilities of one of today's most progressive performers and educators. 3 hours.
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