Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book! Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs and translated into Spanish, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash creativity. No music reading is required.
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Learn the guitar styles and techniques of the legendary Bob Dylan! Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. Nate LaPointe provides in-depth analysis of eight songs: Buckets of Rain • Corrina, Corrina • Don't Think Twice, It's All Right • Girl from the North Country • I Shall Be Released • Just like a Woman • Like a Rolling Stone • The Times They Are A-Changin'. 81 minutes.
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Learn the techniques and styles of today's most popular country guitarists! A fixture on the Los Angeles country music scene, Troy Dexter takes players step-by-step through classic country style licks that can also be used in blues, rock and rockabilly. He demonstrates pedal steel licks, bluegrass licks, cascading licks and licks using harmonics, intervals, triads, bends, chromatic passages, arpeggios, open strings, double stops and more. All licks are played in context, then slowed down and explained, and the DVD comes with an instructional booklet. 61 minutes.
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Three-and-a-half hours of great material! Groove Essentials is based on the definitive collection of contemporary rock, jazz, R&B, funk, and world/ethnic drumming styles contained in the poster of the same name, developed by world-class drummer, teacher and author Tommy Igoe and Vic Firth drum sticks. On this DVD, Tommy demonstrates 47 of today's most popular drum patterns, including a performance of each with a rhythm track played by some of New York's top players. This unique feature lets the student hear what each groove sounds and feels like with real music played by live musicians. Included among the drum patterns are 8th-note, 16th-note and half-time rock; jazz waltz, shuffle and swing, R&B, hip-hop and funk as well as world music styles, including New Orleans second-line, reggae, Bossa Nova, Samba, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Bolero and Tango. As a special bonus, the package includes a free Groove Essentials poster (courtesy of Vic Firth drum sticks), which contains fully-notated examples of every one of the 47 grooves on the DVD! Running Time: 3 hours, 40 minutes.
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In this 1999 session, Son Seals provided an extraordinary personal lesson on how to play tough, no-nonsense blues guitar in a variety of rhythmic settings. An inspiring teacher along with being an awesome performer, Son was direct in his explanations as he was in his guitar playing. He put his heart into each song segment, which includes shuffles, slow blues, funk blues and minor blues, interjecting humorous anecdotes and practical playing advice for guitarists at all levels of experience. In addition, he was a master at up-tempo shuffles, demonstrating clearly how to pace and build a solo. By observing Son's technique in such an intimate setting, you'll see that the secret to his power and energy was in his fingers and not in excessive amplification. An easy-to-follow booklet is included that contains transcriptions of essential musical examples.
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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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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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Dave Celentano teaches many new and innovative ways to use tapping with pentatonic and diatonic scales, sequences, and arpeggios. Features great tips and pointers, lessons on soloing over chord changes, and an intense two-hand tapping arrangement of the “toccata” section from J.S. Bach's famous “Toccata and Fugue” in D minor. All examples are in standard notation and tab on a printable PDF file on the DVD. 85 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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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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This DVD features Michael Thompson, one of rock's most talented session players and a Berklee College of Music graduate, presenting solid acoustic guitar basics that are used by every popular musician today. Michael introduces the guitar by starting with the instrument and its parts, followed by tuning. He shows you fundamental chords, chord progressions and arpeggiated chords, also demonstrating minor pentatonic scales, strumming patterns, finger picking and more. Covers all the basic fundamentals every guitarist needs to get started, and the knowledge it takes to get the top gigs. Includes a lesson book. 37 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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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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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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