This DVD is designed to give the drumset player a bird's eye view of the Afro Cuban drumming experience. If you've always wanted to get into Latin styles, this is your chance! Using two of the most popular styles of Afro-Cuban music, players of every level can learn from the very beginning. Start out by seeing and hearing the patterns played on the original instruments then learn how to adapt everything to the drumset. There are close-ups and detailed explanations. It also includes asection on how to apply these patterns in a rhythm section. By adding one percussionist at a time, you see and hear the function of the drumset in Afro Cuban music! 131 minutes.
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A performer and instructor at the Drummers Collective in NYC, Jason Gianni presents a complete primer for beginning drummers. Topics include: unpacking and assembling your drums, adjusting your pedal, fine-tuning the snare, stick selection, tuning, basic hand and pedal techniques, an intro to rudiments, five basic rock beats, and much more! 1 hour, 20 mins.
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The second edition of the best-selling original Groove Essentials features a DVD and companion book/CD package with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players. Students will learn the difference between ghost and grace notes (while being encouraged to experiment with both in all six groove “families”) as well as important “go-to” grooves, like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats. For more advanced players and professionals, GE 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction, interpretation and manipulation- training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential. The DVD features more than 70 new songs covering 4/4, 2/2, 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures, with three levels of difficulty for 5/4, 7/8 and 9/8 meters. On the 3-hour, 45-minute DVD, Igoe discusses and demonstrates each groove in multiple tempos, alone and with a band, with many patterns shown on both acoustic and on Roland HD-1 and TD-9 electronic drumkits. The grooves span rock, funk, R&B/hip-hop, jazz (sticks and brushes), world/specialty, extreme tempos, all-purpose, hybrid, rideless, classic and odd-meters. The companion play-Along book and CD contain over 90 tracks, including every song from the DVD in their full-length versions, minus the drums; allowing drummers to expand their skills by playing any of the grooves with a band and recording themselves on audio or video (optional) to helpfacilitate the learning process. These tracks also supply a variety of fill-in and soloing opportunities to challenge advanced players. In addition, the book features Igoe's extended “global tours” that will test even the most seasoned professional's chops, creativity and stamina and, as a “first of its kind” bonus, there is a full-length orchestral play-along track designed to provide a taste of playing in a full orchestra, complete with multiple moving tempos, dynamics and feels. Languages: English, Spanish, German, Japanese
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John (Jack) S. Pratt, U.S. Army retired, is one of America's greatest rudimentalists and percussion composers. His published works have become standard rudimental curriculum for more than half a century. This DVD will reinvigorate your study of “traditional” ancient rudimental drumming and provide material for your practice, instruction, music library and drumming pleasure. It features: classic Pratt solos (The Sons of Liberty; The All-American Emblem; The Little Toy Drum) • new Pratt solos (Interstatesmen A.B.C.; Swiss Crazy Army Variant 1) • four original Pratt compositions in the “Spirit of 1776” rope tension snare and bass drum duets with Ben Hans • traditional drumming standards (The Downfall of Paris; The General; Hell on the Wabash; The Three Camps; The Connecticut Halftime) • the 26 traditional American drumming rudiments • Swiss drum rudiments • drumming tips and stylistic comments • on-screen notation • and printable scores on disc.
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Denny Rauen is a nationally acclaimed master luthier whose clients include many top musicians and collectors from around the world – Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, Leo Kottke, Roger Glover and many others. In this must-have instructional DVD, Denny personally teaches: installing a pickup; shielding a guitar (taming the single coil hum); wiring modification (Telecaster); adjusting the truss rod; adjusting intonation; tools of the trade; tech secrets; and more. Includes printable wiring schematics! 1 hr. 57 min.
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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 12 includes: Back in the U.S.S.R. • Blackbird • Day Tripper • Get Back • A Hard Day's Night • I Feel Fine • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • Ticket to Ride.
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In this in-depth instructional DVD, funk/fusion guitar master and GIT instructor Dean Brown explains and demonstrates: two-hand rhythmic independence; developing rhythm patterns over a variety of grooves; creating rhythmic variety & texture; improv tools and concepts; and more. Includes a lesson book, embedded play-along tracks, and bonus live performances featuring an all-star band. 2 hours, 23 minutes.
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This companion to Sultan's bestselling book (HL00000181) lets intermediate guitarists learn the techniques and interpret the styles of blues legends Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, and Big Bill Broonzy. 110 minutes.
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This DVD features a technique that's taking the rock guitar world by storm. The “Hybrid Picking” technique has been used in country music and blues for many years, and is now a tour de force in the rock guitar world, with players such as Michael Lee Firkins and Carl Verheyen bringing it to the forefront. This DVD includes 51 licks using Hybrid Picking for many ideas and phrases such as rapid fire pentatonic licks, ascending and descending runs, blues scale ideas and much more.
The hybrid picking technique uses plectrum and finger or fingers to play fast and accurate licks that simply cannot be played the same with conventional picking techniques. This DVD will give you an excellent insight into developing this exciting technique, not forgetting to mention adding 51 killer licks to your repertoire.
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This bestselling course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy starts with the basics: the parts of the guitar, proper hand position, and tuning. Learn essential chords and common song structures that are used in thousands of songs. Scales, patterns and all the key components of acoustic guitar are covered. On Disc 2, move on to techniques like strum patterns, fingerpicking, acoustic slapping and soloing. John also introduces you to songwriting by showing how to put chords together and form progressions. Everything is covered to get to the advanced level of playing acoustic guitar!
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Bill Kelliher is known as the rock-solid foundation of the hardcore punk and thrash metal band Mastodon. In this feature-length documentary, Bill reveals all that he has sacrificed to achieve his dreams – and what he learned from fifteen years on the road. From the lowest of lows, to international success as one of today's biggest metal bands, it's all here. Includes interviews, song tutorials, guitar instruction and technique, and live concert footage. A downloadable tablature PDF is also included. 4 hrs., 34 min.
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A performance/instructional video from Brazilian metal drummer Aquiles Priester. Recorded in the studios of the Harman Experience Center in Los Angeles, CA, All Access to Aquiles Priester's Drumming brings, besides the institutional lesson, themes that the drummer registered on Hangar's last album, Stronger Than Ever, tracks from the three albums he recorded with Noturnall and the two new compositions by Edu Falaschi executed by the same musicians of his solo tour “Rebirth of Shadows.”
In total, the 17 tracks show all of Aquiles' competence and musicality. The material was recorded with 12 cameras by the production company Foggy Filmes and idealized by producers Aquiles Priester, Junior Carelli and Rudge Campos, in partnership with Adair Daufembach, who was in charge of the audio monitoring.
“I'm very happy with the results of this video,” says Aquiles. “My performance was incredible and the manner in which Foggy Filmes positioned the cameras makes the viewer feel he's playing the drums with me.”
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Running time: 278 minutes
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In the digital age, the playing field has been leveled regarding the access to recording studio technology and its use by average people. Mastering mixes, an area once reserved for professional engineers, is now a process that can be affordably learned and implemented by anyone who has a decent computer, workstation, and audio gear. In this book, authors Michael Costa and Chad Johnson shed light on how to apply mastering techniques in the following areas: mastering stereo mixes and stems • fixing problematic mixes • equalization, compression, limiting and dither • mid/side processing • and more.
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Learn the riffs and solos of Eric Clapton's early years with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos! Eight classic songs are taught note-for-note: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) • Bell Bottom Blues • Can't Find My Way Home • Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) • I Ain't Got You • Layla • Sunshine of Your Love • White Room. Bonus features include: guitar techniques section • jam-along songs • practice tips. 63 minutes.
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Learn licks, turnarounds, bebop lines and more! Musicians Institute instructor Bruce Buckingham demonstrates the essential licks for the chords and progressions common to jazz II-V-I licks, turnaround licks, chromatic bebop lines, licks for altered chords and major and minor vamps, and more! He illustrates these licks in several styles, such as: swing, bossa nova, samba, swing 16ths, funky fusion and bluesy shuffles. With an accompanying instructional booklet, this DVD is a must for all jazz guitarists! 61 minutes.
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Dave Navarro, ace guitarist for Jane's Addiction and formerly for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, demonstrates his unique guitar style and techniques. He discusses his rhythm style, showing chordal licks, double stops and chord structure, and breaks down many of his favorite riffs and solos, both from Jane's and RHCP hits. He takes the viewer step-by-step through his effects, demoing multiple delays, wah-wah pedal and ebow tricks, and much more. The accompanying booklet includes easy-to-follow diagrams and notation that corresponds exactly to the DVD. 60 minutes.
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This instructional DVD breaks down advanced concepts into simple ideas that can first be understood, then applied to the drum kit. Topics covered include: hand exercises that will make expressing easier by developing the technique to play your ideas • how to develop good time and more important, a good feeling groove • getting started with ghost notes • soloing ideas • understanding the parallels of 4/4 and 6/8 • metric modulation • 2 drum solos that feature all of these ideas in a musical context. DVD Bonus features include a live performance featuring Steve with his trio, Altered, plus multiple camera angles allow you to watch the band or just the drums. 71 minutes.
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This Les Paul DVD presents a rare and historical view of the living legend who revolutionized the recording industry. Les not only invented the electric guitar; he also perfected the technique of multi-track recording and developed the first filtration devices for reverb, delay and phasing. This interview interspersed with performance clips takes you up close with Les Paul for a fun, humorous, and incredibly educational view into the awesome world of music as seen by one of the truly great guitarists, musicians and innovators of all time. 90 minutes.
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In this information-packed DVD, master jazz drummer and clinician Peter Magadini reveals the essential ingredients of jazz drumming. Inspirational live performances, concise explanations, demonstrations and exercises provide a comprehensive overview of traditional and contemporary jazz drumming styles and techniques, including: playing the jazz ride cymbal • playing with a “two” feel • the ride cymbal and independence • jazz form and structure • Latin and Latin jazz patterns, including Samba, Cascara and more • techniques for improvising on the drumset • playing fours and eights • how to trade solos with the band • brush technique • interpreting drum charts in all styles • jazz-rock fusion • and more. Includes a booklet with notated examples of the exercises and patterns on the DVD, with extra details of on-screen demonstrations. 72 minutes.
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In this DVD session, Rick gives his personal insights on achieving effective and powerful results in your slide playing. He covers a wide range of topics, which include his invaluable tips on: setting up your guitar correctly to achieve great slide tone; simple phrasing that produces dramatic results; changing your sound using different types of slides and amps; expanding your playing using the slide in standard tuning; transferring blues foundations to rock and beyond; G/A tuning, plus D/E tuning essentials; developing your personal approach and feel; and more! 66 minutes.
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This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Anthony Vitti shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to freely express yourself on the bass in many musical styles. Professor Vitti is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and has been teaching there since 1990. He is known for his contemporary style of playing, particularly for knowledge and instruction in slap bass, fingerstyle R&B, and sightreading. He has played all along the East Coast with a variety of artists including Sammy Davis, Jr., Liberace, Toy Caldwell, Steve Smith, and Blues Saraceno, and currently tours with Herb Reed & the Platters. This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: • scale and sol-Feg • improvisation and rhythm studies • slap bass technique • fingerstyle groove. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying booklet. 60 minutes.
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In Constant Motion features over seven hours of instruction as well as live and studio performances of virtually all the music Mike's been involved with since his award-winning “Liquid Drum Theater” video. Packed with state-of-the-art audio and video, special features and printable transcriptions of selected performances, the depth and diversity of this package is unprecedented and recommended for drummers of all interest and ability levels! Disc 1 focuses on music from the last three Dream Theater albums; Disc 2 covers Mike's side projects, including his work with TransAtlantic, OSI and all four of his tribute bands; Disc 3 features bonus material including tracks from Dream Theater's 20th Anniversary tour, live drum duets with special guests, and more.
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An in-depth look at today's extreme metal drumming styles by one of the genre's emerging leading practitioners, Derek Roddy. This DVD covers extreme styles such as speed metal, grindcore and death metal but is also designed to improve speed, coordination, endurance and independence as well as balance and breathing that are crucial for all styles of playing. Drummers, teachers, and students will learn the history and evolution of this underground playing style that includes bomb blasts, hyper blasts, freehand blasts and traditional blasts while also learning the essential techniques needed to develop and execute the high-speed patterns.
Having had an interest in music from an early age, Derek Roddy came to be a fan of music long before becoming a musician. Although Derek is capable of playing many instruments and styles, he is known throughout the Death Metal community for his phenomenal, physical, inventive and inspiring drumming. He has performed with such bands as: Serpents Rise, Traumedy, Hate Eternal, Malevolent Creation, Nile, Divine Empire, Aurora Borealis and Council of the Fallen.
Running time: 2 hours, 49 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 multiple viewing options; fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hand close-up, and others.
Songs: Christine Sixteen • Heaven's on Fire • I Stole Your Love • I Was Made for Lovin' You • Lick It Up • Love Gun • Rocket Ride • Shock Me.
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You may never have touched a banjo before, but Pete (Dr. Banjo) Wernick will have you picking right from the opening minutes of this DVD. By the time you finish, you'll be accompanying songs, playing solos, and will have learned basic chords, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, right-hand “rolls” in the three-finger bluegrass style and lots more. More than a dozen easy bluegrass songs are taught, including: Buffalo Gals • Mama Don't 'Low • Columbus Stockade • Shady Grove • Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms • and lots more.
100-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 1
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Taught by Keb' Mo', Mike Dowling, Hans Theessink, Roy Book Binder, Bob Brozman, Catfish Keith, John Hammond, Rory Block and Steve James
Some of today's greatest proponents of traditional bottleneck/slide guitar playing teach the soulful sounds that started in the Mississippi Delta and forever changed the world's musical landscape. Songs: Sitting on Top of the World • Rollin' and Tumblin' • She Did You a Favor • Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King • Henry • Ramblin' on My Mind • The Cuckoo • Drop Down Mama • Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • 115 MIN.
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In this in-depth DVD lesson, popular MI instructor Danny Gill leads guitarists on an exploration of the techniques, scales and fundamentals used by the greatest legends of rock guitar. Topics covered include: pentatonic and diatonic scales • bending, vibrato and lead licks • sweep picking • harmonics • and more. 42 minutes.
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Learn the trademark riffs and solos behind one of the most influential metal bands of all time. Each riff and solo is played up to speed, then broken down note-by-note, then played at a slow tempo. An in-depth analysis of eight songs: Battery • Blackened • Damage, Inc. • Fade to Black • Jump in the Fire • Master of Puppets • Seek & Destroy • Welcome Home (Sanitarium).
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One of the most comprehensive electric guitar methods ever developed for beginners. Renowned guitarist and instructor John McCarthy will guide you step-by-step through more than 100 minutes of one-on-one lessons. Learn chords, song rhythms, strum patterns, scales, and lead techniques. Develop the skills to play any style of music on your electric guitar including blues, rock, metal, funk, and reggae. Complete with full band backing tracks for you to feel the excitement and energy of playing in your own band.
Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience, links with instructors, download backing tracks, access message boards, and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.
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In his first-ever instructional program, Gary Hoey reveals the secrets that have helped him amass 16 albums, five top 20 Billboard® hits and a spot on the list of top 100 greatest guitar players of all time. Learn his favorite scales, patterns, blues scales and the modes he uses to create soulful leads that grab the audience. Gary shows how he uses bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and reveals how he developed his signature vibrato. He covers his tricks for fretboard visualization, syncopated timings, melodic phrasing, string skipping intervals and the elements that give him command of a variety of musical genres. Gary digs deep to reveal his closest-kept secret weapons. You'll even learn to play many of his complete signature leads with full band backing tracks right from his CD recordings!
Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience, links with instructors, download backing tracks, access message boards, and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method. Authored for Zone 0.
Includes: 2 hours on 2 DVDs in 25mm Amaray case, iPod-ready video, more than 40 lessons, 36-page interactive tab booklet, behind-the-scenes photos and video, interview and live performances.
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