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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.

Steve Lukather, the Grammy Award-winning lead guitarist with the super group Toto, is considered one of the foremost rock guitarists of today. Steve has performed or recorded with a plethora of top artists like Carlos Santana, Larry Carlton, Les Paul, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Michael McDonald, to name a few. He has won several Grammy Awards as a songwriter, producer and guitarist. On this DVD Steve takes you step by step through a spectacular assortment of his best licks and solos in this video session recorded in 1985. You'll learn the licks and leads to such hits as Rosanna, Carmen, Hold the Line, and Lovers in the Night. He also shares important tips and techniques in speed picking, position shifting, traveling scales, false harmonics, and melodic phrasing, as well as equipment and effects demonstrations. You're carefully taken through every lick, which you can follow in the accompanying instructional booklet. However, there's no need to read music, because the booklet comes with fretboard diagrams. This is truly a unique opportunity to receive a private guitar lesson from one of the most influential and versatile guitarists today, whose musical compositions have helped shape the sound of popular music. 36 minutes.

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.

Learn the trademark riffs and solos of the man who reinvented blues and rock on the guitar. An in-depth analysis of eight classic songs presented by Greg Koch: Honey Bee Lenny Love Struck Baby Pride and Joy Rude Mood Say What? The Sky Is Crying Tightrope. Also available: The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Signature Licks DVD - 00320257.

Known as the Father of Electric Blues Guitar, T-Bone Walker has influenced virtually every blues, jazz and rock guitarist from B.B. King, Kenny Burrell and Chuck Berry to Jimi Hendrix. His tasty, economical and expressive lead lines have come to define the essence of cool blues guitar soloing, and the power of his dramatic and soulful phrasing is undiminished by the passage of time. In this DVD, T-Bone Walker expert and Roomful of Blues founder Duke Robillard reveals all of the major aspects of T-Bone's style, note for note, chord for chord, and with Duke's 30 years of experience showing through. Songs include: You Don't Love Me Love Is a Gamble T-Bone Shuffle T-Bone Boogie I Get So Weary. Every guitarist should make it a priority to be thoroughly versed in the dynamic style of the immortal T-Bone Walker. 57 minutes.

Now available on DVD! This is the first video exclusively for the folk harp that teaches the student how to play the instrument, step by step. Each of the 12 lessons includes instructions, exercises and folk and classical pieces using the new skills and techniques taught in the lesson. This is an excellent video for any student, regardless of previous musical training.

Whether you want to learn a new style, be ready for anything that comes up at a jam session, or meet the demands of new orchestral scores with ease, this DVD will help you develop the necessary right- and left-hand skills. Julie Lyonn Lieberman has examined the technical demands of all the alternative styles (such as blues, swing, rock, Celtic, Cajun, Flamenco and more), and organized the most essential right-hand skills into one DVD. Part I - The Bow Hand includes: four essential bow control techniques ten approaches to rhythmizing the bow contemporary techniques you can use to navigate the bow so that each note speaks and much more! Part II - The Left Hand covers: basic set-up thumb hinge trampolene fingers chromatic motion vibrato ornaments (trills, slides, grace notes, turns, jazz embellishments) double stops (unisons, octaves and chords) playing on chord changes walking bass lines slap technique and more. Julie is assisted on cello by Martha Colby. 100 minutes.

The incomparable guitar genius and firebreathing intensity of Ted Nugent have carved him a permanent place among the legends of rock. Hailing from Detroit, his prodigious talents, earshattering volume & over-the-top onstage antics quickly earned him the moniker of Motor City Madman, along with international acclaim. Recognized as the world's #1 guitar showman, Nugent's no-holds-barred career spans four decades of multi-platinum hits. From the groundbreaking Journey to the Center of the Mind, to classics like Stranglehold and Cat Scratch Fever, to recent chartbusters like Don't Tread on Me, and classic-in-the-making Fred Bear, Ted Nugent's rapidfire sonic assaults continue to sell out venues around the globe. The sounds he wrings from his almighty Gibson Byrdland will leave you gasping for breath and begging for more! 61 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