A highly educational DVD that goes beyond “licks” to help you push your abilities to the next level. Topics covered include blast beat concepts and workouts, extreme fill-ins, speed around the kit, odd time concepts, reading concepts, practicing systems, general tips, and warm-ups. Also includes double bass speed, control, balance, and expanded vocabulary. 5 hrs., 14 min.
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Improving mandolin technique does not have to employ mind-numbing drills and exercises. Using our trademark Licks-ercises concept, Dix Bruce teaches licks, kick-offs, endings and solos that will hone skills and build repertoire. Songs include: Nine Pound Hammer • More Pretty Girls Than One • Amazing Grace • In the Pines • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • and other bluegrass classics. Includes music & tab. 2 hours. Beginner level.
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Marsalis on Music is the young people's music series of our time. The series is hosted by Wynton Marsalis, the most popular and acclaimed jazz musician of his generation, as well as a distinguished classical performer. Helped by his jazz band and students from Tanglewood, led by Seiji Ozawa, Wynton puts a fresh spin on music and music appreciation. His inspired instruction, reinforced by superb performances and exciting graphics, not only teaches the fundamentals of music, but also makes learning fun. This pack features four episodes: Why Toes Tap, Listening for Clues, Sousa to Satchmo, Tackling the Monster. Approx. 4 hours.
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World-renowned music educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman has created a practice system for singers that focuses on muscular facility. This system can help develop a vibrating palette that communicates spirit, emotion, and viewpoint – all riding effortlessly on the breath. It is supported by science yet connected to individuality. By guiding the exercises in silence first, this approach can prevent the tension and misuse that often occur when the main impetus for the creation of musical sound is fueled by a brew of yearning and fear mixed with a fixation on the end product.
Topics covered include: strengthening and “aerobicizing” the muscles of the tongue, lips, mouth, and breath support; balancing the non-dominant side of the mouth; as well as posture, vocal health, and the use of visualization.
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Part of being an artist is being a teacher. Directly or indirectly, through their work or their words, artists teach. In this series of DVDs, some of the most important jazz artists are presented in a unique master class setting. They perform, they talk about their lives and work, students play for them and they comment and instruct those students. Students discuss their expectations before the class and their thoughts after the class. Viewers will observe learning taking place, and come to understand how great artists think, perform and teach. This DVD features a Gatemouth Brown performance recorded in September of 2004 at Loyola University in New Orleans, with a master class, as well as an interview at Gatemouth Brown's home with Loyola students. Running time: 2 hours, 1 minute.
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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!
Includes: The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie • By the Way • Californication • Can't Stop • Dani California • Scar Tissue • Suck My Kiss • Tell Me Baby • Under the Bridge.
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The chapel organist, Johann Sebastian Bach, is enraged. It's bad enough his boss, Duke Wilhelm, stifles his creativity. Now the bumbling fool has given him a servant he suspects is a spy! But soon, the temperamental composer recognizes a kindred soul in his new 10-year-old assistant, Frederick. For both know too well what's its like not to be able to follow your dream. Set in 1717, Bach's 32nd year, Bach's Fight for Freedom passionately argues that the only master you can serve faithfully is your own heart. Formatted with English, Spanish and French languages. 53 minutes.
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In a kitchen in Italy in 1862, little Reliana helps her grandmother Rosalie make pasta sauce. As stream swirls magically through the kitchen, Rosalie argues with her oldest friend Martina and tells the story of an opera composer they once both knew. Soon, Reliana finds herself transported through time back to a theatre in Rome nearly 50 years earlier. She is invisible to everyone but the composer, Signor Rossini. She watches in alarm as one of the singers puts a curse on the production and everything begins to go wrong. Set in 1816, the year The Barber of Seville had its disastrous premiere, Rossini's Ghost is the story of three women who learn that friendship, like opera – or a great pasta sauce – requires nurturing, patience, and time. Formatted with English, Spanish and French languages. 52 minutes.
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This DVD can be used as a supplement to the Play Mandolin Today! Level 1 book, or alone as a great introduction to the mandolin. Simply follow along with the songs in the booklet as you watch the teacher on the DVD. Learn songs, chords, melodies and all the basics – including alternate picking and strumming – all at your own pace, and open the door to the wonderful world of mandolin music! In standard notation and tablature. 1 hr, 44 min.
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Features over 90 minutes of prog-rock video lessons from the world's best, including Carl Palmer, Gavin Harrison, Mike Portnoy, Neil Peart, Todd Sucherman, Gregg Bissonette and more.
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The Modern Drummer Festival 2011 took place at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, and Hudson Music captures all the action on this exciting and educational DVD set. On the main stage, Gil Sharone (Stolen Babies/Dillinger Escape Plan) expands on concepts found in his Wicked Beats DVD, Trevor Lawrence Jr. (Herbie Hancock/Dr. Dre) performing in hip-hop and fusion styles (including a duet with percussionist Taku Hirano), jazz innovator Jeff “Tain” Watts presents an incredible set with his stellar quartet, prog/metal star Aquiles Priester performs a blistering set of songs from Hangar and Freakeys, and, finally, drum superstar Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez performs with The New World Order, an all-star world music group put together just for the festival.
In addition to the main show, also included are two enlightening master classes. Jazz legend John Riley (Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) demonstrates rhythms that can be heard from various polyrhythmic perspectives, while top country drummer Jim Riley (Rascal Flatts) demonstrates and discusses his approach to versatility in various styles, and rudimental concepts. A printable PDF eBook is also included, containing transcriptions of select performances and other educational info. This DVD package presents not only a chance to relive the Modern Drummer Festival, but to study and learn the concepts presented by these great artists in depth and detail not possible just by attending the event.
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Get your blues grooves movin' with this great DVD! Al Ek teaches six different rhythm parts, each with its own solo, and shows how each solo can work over different rhythm grooves and keys. Designed for the beginning blues guitarist, everything on this DVD is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. Includes jam tracks for each style covered: Shuffle, Rock, Mojo Groove, Slow Blues, Boogaloo Groove, Backwards Shuffle. 1 hour, 45 minutes
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Watch and listen as Steven Adler demonstrates techniques, grooves and fills designed for the beginning rock drummer. He teaches: parts of the drums; the pyramid of rhythms; basic rock beats; rock fills; dynamics and more, discussing his own influences and history with the drums. 43 minutes.
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Interest in hand drumming is on the rise, and this DVD will get beginning djembe players up and running with everything you need to know quickly, while still providing accurate and educationally correct information about the traditions and techniques of the djembe. It contains a brief historical overview, an introduction to basic use of the instrument, a complete approach to basic sound production techniques, and a complete series of traditional and contemporary rhythms that can be learned at your own pace. Each rhythm is clearly demonstrated. Host Michael Wimberly is not only a world-traveling performer, but also a highly experienced educator, and his explanations are clear, concise, and fun. 1 hr., 12 min.
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This DVD can be used as a supplement to the Play Trumpet Today! Level 1 book, or alone as a great introduction to the trumpet. Simply follow along with the songs in the booklet as you watch the teacher on the DVD. This complete guide to the basics includes: assembly and maintenance • producing sound • music reading • playing songs with a backup band. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of trumpet music! 26 minutes.
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This DVD can be used as a supplement to the Play Flute Today! Level 1 book, or alone as a great introduction to the flute. Simply follow along with the songs in the booklet as you watch the teacher on the DVD. This complete guide to the basics includes: assembly and maintenance • producing sound • music reading • playing songs with a backup band. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of flute music! 39 minutes.
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Every instrument requires maintenance – including the voice! Presented by Mark Baxter, a renown vocal therapist with an international roster of clients, The Singer's Toolbox is jam-packed with essential information, exercises and tips for any style singer. No prior training's needed. Just slip this in your DVD player and learn: how your voice works – with clear examples and demos; four steps to keep your voice strong; performance tips; and how to repair vocal damage. 50 minutes.
Also available from Mark Baxter:
The Rock-N-Roll Singer's Survival Manual
00660176/$17.95
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Rich and successful, a dashing young musical superstar so adored that women faint when they meet him in the street, Franz Liszt is restless. He knows that something is missing in his glamorous life as the world's greatest concert pianists. He meets Josy, a naturally gifted young Gypsy street musician, and subsequently wagers that he can turn Josy into a world-class musician. The bet turns into a mighty struggle of wills – the worldly sophisticate against the resourceful Gypsy boy and a conflict of freedom vs. discipline, heart vs. brain, passion vs. technique. Set in 1846, Liszt's Rhapsody celebrates the miracle of talent and the triumph of dreams fulfilled. Formatted with English, Spanish and French languages. 49 minutes.
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Put fire in your bow! Learn the secrets behind how to build new mental skills that will enable you to enliven your bow arm, dip into the primal rhythms of your soul, and make everyone within ear's distance frolic, cavort, and dance! This DVD offers: rhythmic warm-up games designed to surprise and illuminate you • over two dozen rhythmic ear-training exercises • rhythmic skills such as syncopation, two against three, and emphasis on the off-beat • phrasing techniques such as scoops, wows, pings, and the placement of slurs, inflections, and slices of silence – all designed to enable you to create your own groove. 60 minutes.
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This DVD presents an informative and organized approach to rhythm, improvisation and blues. Exercises and demonstrations enhance the learning experience. Includes: playing in time • sight-reading rhythms • basic rhythms and their permutations • rushing and dragging • an innovative approach to the basics of improvisation • the blues and basic blues forms. Intermediate level. 56 minutes.
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Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of banjo music! Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching method, and this DVD is designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and on-screen banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples. Simply follow along with the music on the screen as you watch and listen to the teacher. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs, chords, and melodies • pinching, rolling, and picking • playing tips and techniques • music notation • and much more. 1 hour, 31 minutes.
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Hosted by R&B drumming sensation Chris Coleman (Chaka Khan, Rachelle Ferrell, New Kids on the Block), this DVD contains exciting lessons from drumming greats Steve Gadd (Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Chick Corea), Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting), Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Steve Smith (Journey, Vital Information), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree), Todd Sucherman (Styx), Benny Greb (international clinician), Jim Riley (Rascal Flatts), John Riley (jazz legend), Aaron Spears (Usher, American Idol), Pat Petrillo (Gloria Gaynor, Patti LaBelle), Russ Miller (LA studio ace), Thomas Lang (Stork, Gianna Nannini), Randy Black (Annihilator, Primal Fear), and Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny). Each of the artists teaches one or more amazing licks/concepts in his featured clip.
Priced affordably and containing a wealth of previously released material from the Hudson Music catalog, the titles in the Ultimate Drum Lessons series have proven to be very popular with drummers. In response to customer comments, the clips on these new releases have been chosen specifically for their educational/instructional content (less concert performances and more actual lessons).
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Nearly three years in the making, Alan Parsons' monumental ten-hour video series, The Art & Science of Sound Recording, is now available in a three-DVD boxed set! Narrated by actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton, the DVDs are divided into 24 sections, starting with a brief history of recording.
Parsons' illustrious career – as a recording engineer, producer, composer and artist – acts as both backdrop and inspiration for the series. Parsons worked with The Beatles on the albums Abbey Road and Let It Be, engineered Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and produced a string of multi-platinum hits for The Hollies, Pilot, Ambrosia, Al Stewart and other artists, as well as for The Alan Parsons Project.
Filmed in HD, this the most powerful instructional series ever created for music production. The Art & Science of Sound Recording looks at everything from soundproofing to mixing, and from recording guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals, to recording a choir. Fellow professional engineers & producers join Alan Parsons in this top quality, practical, and cutting-edge guide, including Jack Joseph Puig, John Fields, Elliot Scheiner, Jack Douglas, Tony Brown and Chuck Ainlay. Artists and musicians interviewed include Michael McDonald, Taylor Hawkins, Nathan East, Rami Jaffe, Carol Kaye and Erykah Badu. This invaluable instructional DVD set applies classic, old school recording experience to the modern recording scene, and is certain to be a standard work on the subject for years to come. Along with its fully interactive website, The Art & Science of Sound Recording is a complete course in modern recording.
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They listen to your song and you cough loudly every time that lame drum fill comes up. You wish you'd taken a drum programming course but, well.. Professionals across many different genres, including leading sound designer Dave Polich, provide hands-on tips and reveal industry secrets about programming drums using the latest beat generators from hardware drum machines, to plug-in applications, to plain old MIDI keyboards and DAWs. Drum Programming Secrets gives you the inside track on programming drums: how to set up your drum sounds on a keyboard, how to input the basic material, how to use both simple and advanced editing techniques, plus finger-by-finger instruction and insights into a whole range of different drum styles from rock, to world, dance, funk, and much more. Cough no more.
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Question: Why is so difficult for people in music stores to tell me what I need to know?
This is a top-to-toe look at the 2011-released Yamaha MOX6 / MOX8 music production synthesizers produced for Yamaha by KEYFAX NewMedia.
Phil Clendeninn-senior Yamaha product specialist and 'BadMister' from the Motifator.com forums-shows you how to find, apply and customize the MOX's entire list of incredible features.
In addition to looking at the MOX's own internal treasure chest Phil Clendeninn investigates the instrument's USB computer integration and audio interface capability.
Phil's delivery style is insightful, encouraging, and entertaining: having spent a lifetime in product support he instinctively knows what you need to know and how to explain all the features and processes so that you 'get it.'
Answer: technology has got too advanced and music store employees are probably not paid enough, either!
Key scenes include: Setting up and getting comfortable, voices, using pedals and assignable controls, applying effects, the performance creator, customizing performances, direct performance record, pattern recording & mixing, chaining patterns and recording songs and integrating with the computer. Run time: 2 hours, 30 min.
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Learn the most popular altered tunings in metal guitar – Eb Standard, Drop-C#, Drop-D, D Standard, Drop-C, C Standard and B Standard – all while playing licks, riffs and chords in the styles of Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Godsmack, Slipknot, DevilDriver, Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Shadows Fall and many others! 2 hr., 14 min.
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In this 2-DVD set with John Moyer of the multi-platinum selling band disturbed, he shares the bass techniques that have made him a key part of propelling the band into metal history! Learn how he uses his pick to attack the strings and create an aggressive sound and techniques like octaves and fifths, hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides. John teaches how he adds transition notes chromatically to make bass lines flow. He reveals his signature method for writing, syncopates bass lines and teaches you to combine simple and complex techniques to create a sound that “cuts” through. John created custom backing tracks for this program that you will use to apply what you learn. It's packed with techniques that every aspiring metal bassist must know!
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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This revised DVD can be used as a supplement to the Play Piano Today! Level 1 book, or alone as a great introduction to the piano. Simply follow along with the songs in the booklet as you watch the teacher on the DVD. This complete guide to the basics covers: music reading (notes and rhythms) • lead sheet notation for left hand • songs, chords and scales • playing tips and techniques. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of piano music! 1 hr., 30 min.
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A compelling story of prodigious talent, personal adventures and raw human vulnerability, 'JACO' presents the world of the bass guitar phenomenon Jaco Pastorius through the eyes of his family and various musical collaborators.
Produced by the Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, and directed by Paul Marchand and Stephen Kijak, this blistering biopic contains incredible unseen footage and photography from the Pastorius family archive, and takes viewers into the heart and soul of this hugely influential cross-genre artist. Featuring interviews with an array of artists (Flea, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Geddy Lee) and friends, 'JACO' unveils the story of his music, his life, his demise, and ultimately the fragility of great artistic genius.
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The year is 1868, the city – Vienna, the music – exhilarating, yet all is not well with Johann Strauss, Jr., the darling of waltzing Vienna. Haunted by the constant pressure to outdo himself with each new composition, Strauss meets Nicholas, a humble stable boy who fears his brutal stepfather. To their surprise, the composer and the boy find in one another a piece of life's emotional puzzle, discovering the healing bond of trust and embarking on a collaboration that will be music to the world's ears. Formatted with English, Spanish and French languages. 51 minutes.
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