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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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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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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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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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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Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesn't like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof – distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tell Michelle the story of the gypsy Carmen, her imagination is captured. For, just as in Bizet's opera, her soldier father is stationed in Seville...and she fears he will never return. Set in Paris in 1875, Bizet's Dream is the story of an unusual friendship between two people who share the ability to feel life deeply and a beautifully filmed testament to the power of music to set those feelings free. Formatted with English, Spanish and French languages. 53 minutes.
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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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Learn the essential techniques and secrets of traditional and modern salsa piano from Grammy Award®-winner Oscar Hernandez. This DVD includes: full band performances of Latin styles including Latin Jazz, Cha-Cha-Cha, Salsa, Bolero, and Danzon • tips on musicianship, practice and performance • an exclusive interview. 43 minutes.
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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 the 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. We hope this series will inspire others to videotape and document artists as teachers and teachers as artists. Songs performed include: Along Came Betty • Blue 'n' Boogie • Cool Mean Joe (Killer Joe) • Whisper Not. Recorded and filmed April 25, 2005 at Loyola University, New Orleans. 2 hours, 46 minutes.
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This unique DVD offers a variety of looping or straight countdown timing options. Choose from 60-45-30-20-15-10-5-4-3-2-1 minutes and also a 30-Second countdown. Use it as a workout timer, lesson clock, test timer and so much more! Adds a new, fun element to board games (see Music Triviology games) and card games, charades, Pictionary, poker and more. So simple to use! 120 minutes.
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The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and on-screen notation 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. Topics covered in this complete video guide to the basics includes: how to hold and care for the instrument • producing a sound • playing tips and techniques • standard notation. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of violin music! 1 hour.
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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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