DVD Guitar Tab Instructions, Concerts and Performances

A GUIDE TO DOBRO® REPERTOIRE AND TECHNIQUE HL 00641970

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DVD One: Soloing and Improvisation
Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun
Medium: DVD

Author: Stacy Phillips

This lesson in resonator guitar will have intermediate-level players picking better than they ever dreamed they could! Stacy details use of picks, the bar, hammer-ons, pull-offs, right-hand rolls, chord positions, and more. Songs include: Little Rosewood Casket, Nine Pound Hammer, Trouble in Mind. Includes tab. Early intermediate level. 75 minutes.

BASS DRUM & HI-HAT TECHNIQUE HL 00320537

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Applying the Moeller Technique to the Bass Drum
Series: DVD
Medium: DVD

Artist: Michael Packer

Michael Packer teaches the mechanics of the bass drum pedal and provides tips to improve playing in this step-by-step DVD. Includes three soulful performances by the Bryan Pezzone Trio and a booklet with hundreds of exercises. 1 hour, 29 minutes.

Blues HL 00320431

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Series: DVD
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Medium: DVD

Author: Greg Koch

Learn the trademark riffs and solos from eight great blues classics: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) • Born Under a Bad Sign • Dust My Broom • Frosty • Killing Floor • The Sky Is Crying • Sweet Home Chicago • The Things That I Used to Do. 60 minutes

Carolina Clawhammer, Lesson One (DVD) MB CT106

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The Piedmont & Western Mountains. Taught by Bob Carlin

North Carolina is rightly known as producing some of the finest banjo players in southern traditional music. Within these two DVD's, Bob Carlin, one of the state's most accomplished pickers, teaches some of Old Time Music's best-loved tunes. Many of these pieces Bob learned first-hand, sitting at the feet of master musicians no longer with us. Others have taken Carlin years to decipher from old recordings.

DVD One covers the Piedmont and Western Mountains

Each song is played at a moderate tempo, and then broken down, section-by-section, to highlight crucial left- and right-hand techniques. Tablature for each piece is also included.

Carolina Clawhammer, Lesson Two (DVD) MB CT107

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Round Peak. Taught by Bob Carlin

North Carolina is rightly known as producing some of the finest banjo players in southern traditional music. Within these two DVD's, Bob Carlin, one of the state's most accomplished pickers, teaches some of Old Time Music's best-loved tunes. Many of these pieces Bob learned first-hand, sitting at the feet of master musicians no longer with us. Others have taken Carlin years to decipher from old recordings.

Volume Two concentrates on the well-known "Round Peak" style.

Each song is played at a moderate tempo, and then broken down, section-by-section, to highlight crucial left- and right-hand techniques. Tablature for each piece is also included.

CHICAGO BLUES HARMONICA HL 00320511

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Featuring Billy Boy Arnold
Series: DVD
Medium: DVD

Author: Billy Boy Arnold

Billy is an unparalleled source of historical information about the development of the harmonica in this century. After delivering an informative and entertaining introduction about the instrument he loves, Billy walks and talks you through the important aspects of the styles of both Sonny Boys and the two Walters. Each artist's work is demonstrated by a performance with rhythm section backing and then a clear, concise explanation. Topics covered include playing in first, second and third positions, note bending, trills, back up accompaniment and playing minor blues. Billy shows it all with diatonic and chromatic harmonicas, spicing his musical analysis with anecdotes and gentle humor. A booklet with the main musical examples transcribed combines with the DVD in the definitive method for learning classic Chicago blues harmonica.

Developing Your Vocal and Performing Style HL 00641912

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Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun
Medium: DVD

Artist: Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur shares her years of experience, giving practical advice, “tricks of the trade” and helpful tips for anyone who wants to get up on a stage and sing. Bonus: Audio tracks of Maria's personal vocal warm-up exercises. For all levels. Includes practice segment. 90 minutes.

Dobro® Workshop MB 98266DVD

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by Phil Leadbetter

Although designed for the intermediate Dobro® player, resonator guitarists at all levels can benefit from the topics discussed in this workshop video. Phil addresses: creating breaks, building speed, backing up a vocalist, dynamics, and working in a band, and offers lots of shortcuts to playing the Dobro®. Several songs are performed with split- screen views of the left and right hands, and many licks are tabbed out onscreen. Additional topics include: proper microphone techniques for stage and studio and tips for buying a resonator guitar. This comprehensive workshop DVD covers all the bases!

ED SHAUGHNESSY AND CLEM DEROSA HL 00320465

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Taste, Time, Technique & Timbre
Series: DVD
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Medium: DVD

Author: Clem DeRosa
Author: Ed Shaughnessy

In this must-have DVD for every ensemble drummer and band director, world-renowned drummer Ed Shaughnessy and conductor-arranger Clem DeRosa take you through a survey of jazz, swing and Latin styles from the drummer's perspective. Through live performances, demonstrations, and insightful discussions based on decades of professional experience, they reveal: the “Four T's” (the essential role of time, taste, technique and timbre in successful musical performance) • the do's and don'ts of effective brushwork, fills and dynamics • swing, shuffle, Latin and ballad drumming techniques.

Every style and concept is illustrated by a live big band performing Clem and Richard DeRosa's classic arrangements propelled by Shaughnessy's impeccable drumming, followed by concise analysis and drumset close-ups.

Also available separately, Show Drumming – The Essential Guide to Playing Drumset for Live Shows and Musicals – 06620080/$16.95.

ELECTRIC SLIDE GUITAR HL 00320507

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Series: DVD
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Medium: DVD

Artist: David Hamburger

This DVD will introduce you to the world of playing electric slide guitar in the open G and open E tunings. David begins with the basics of getting a good slide sound, takes you through slide scale patterns and riffs in open position and up the neck, and demonstrates step-by-step how to create riffs, solos and backup parts in the styles of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Duane Allman and Ry Cooder. The accompanying booklet comes complete with easy-to-follow notation and diagrams that correspond exactly to this DVD. This is truly a unique opportunity for you to receive a private guitar lesson from one of today's finest writers and guitar instructors. 60 minutes.

FIREPLACES, FISHTANK & LAVA HL 00320634

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Series: DVD
Publisher: Global Creative Group
Medium: DVD

Transform your TV with these three soothing visuals! Warm yourself with a selection of comforting fireplaces, give any room an aquatic vibe while enjoying the relaxing fish tank, or chill out to a full screen of lava bubbles in perpetual motion, made with real lava! 2 hours with auto-loop feature.

GEORGE SHEARING - LULLABY OF BIRDLAND HL 00320561

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Series: DVD

Artist: George Shearing

This jazz piano legend's artistry is captured forever in this DVD that features him and bass sensation Neil Swainson caressing the songs of Rodgers & Hart, Hoaggy Carmichael and Charlie Parker: Isn't It Romantic • Donna Lee • Estate • Memphis in June • Lullaby of Birdland. Recorded at the Paul Masson Winery in 1991. 55 minutes.

Guitar Soloing 101 HL 00641917

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An Easy Guide to the Fingerboard

Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun Video
Medium: DVD

Artist: Marcy Marxer

Even novice guitarists can start playing melodies and improvising lead parts with this beginner's method. Marcy Marxer's user-friendly course brings all the notes, frets and strings into clear focus, providing an invaluable roadmap to the guitar fingerboard. Beginner level. Includes music & tab. 117 minutes.

Guitar Styles & Techniques of Jerry Reed MB GW953DVD

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Series: Grossman Gtr Workshop. Taught by Buster B. Jones

Jerry Reed's playing style is a unique blend of syncopated rhythms, banjo-style rolls, and brilliant chord voicings that have brought a new dimension to fingerstyle guitar performance. Walking bass lines, chromatic runs, double-stops and contrapuntal melodies are seamlessly joined by Jerry's unique "claw" style right-hand technique. It is the mastery of these techniques that is the key to emulating Jerry's sound. In this video lesson Buster B. Jones teaches the essential elements of the Reed style, and don't doubt for a moment that he is up to the task! Jones delivers fabulous performances and teaches the fine points of: Reedology; The Claw; Jiffy Jam; Jerry's Breakdown; Down Home; Papa's Knee; and Lord Mr. Ford. Includes a free instructional booklet in notation and tablature. Intermediate level.

HERBIE HANCOCK TRIO - HURRICANE! HL 00320563

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Series: DVD

Dazzling pyrotechnics and stellar musicianship from Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Billy Cobham on drums. Live from Switzerland, this state-of-the-art, 7-camera production includes “Eye of the Hurricane,” “Willow Weep For Me” and “Dolphin Dance.” Three masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of jazz. 60 minutes.

Hot Tuna - 25 Years and Runnin' MB 13020DVD

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Live at Sweetwater

Long before MTV unplugged, Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady thought it would be cool to perform a few old blues as a set-breaking contrast to the Airplane’s acid-and-revolution epiphanies. This ‘novelty act’ of the psychedelic circuit evolved into Hot Tuna, and Jesse Block’s concert documentary, 25 Years and Runnin’, celebrates the simple sustaining powers of blues, bars, and Tuna. Jorma and Jack reflect on their influences and musical partnership since playing in a high school garage band, while their fans explain the Jorma/Jack chemistry that’s kept them tuned into Tuna for a quarter century. The documentary’s subtitle, Live at Sweetwater (a Bay Area landmark club), is the crux of this DVD, ‘live’ performances of ragtime blues standards and Tuna originals that exemplify the free spirit that’s kept Hot Tuna runnin’ all these years. Jorma and Jack are ably assisted by Tuna mates Michael Falzarano (guitar, vocals, mandolin) and Pete Sears (keyboards, accordion). The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Maria Muldaur guest on a romp across Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm.

Titles include: San Francisco Bay Blues, Trial By Fire, Let Us Get Together, Pass The Snakes, Hesitation Blues, Embryonic Journey, I Know You Rider, I War The One, 99 Year Blues, Maggie’s Farm, Folsom Prison Blues

Bonus tracks: Walkin’ Blues, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, I See The Light, Ice Age, Genesis, Good Shepherd, Parchman Farm

Instrumental Artistry of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt MB 13068DVD

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Series: Vestapol

This DVD presents Bhatt, accompanied by tabla master Sukhvinder Singh Namadhari, performing four ragas and a folk tune, among them the majestic Yaman, a cornerstone of Hindustani (North Indian) classical music. Bhatt introduces each performance with detailed commentary about his music and musical life, as well as fascinating remarks about the Mohan Vina, including specifics of tunings and technique. Guitarists and Indian music aficionados alike will find much to admire, enjoy and study in this combined concert DVD and self-portrait of an artist who alerted the West to the guitar's radical new possibilities within India's classical music tradition.

Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment MB WM1444DVD

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by Gavin Ralston

This DVD tutor teaches you how to accompany Irish traditional music on the guitar. Alternative chords, flamenco rolls, capo slide key changing and bass runs are just some of the brilliant techniques you'll learn with this action-packed video. Learn everything you need to know to become a truly great session player. The DVD also features live stage performances featuring Gerry O'Connor on banjo and Paul McNevin on fiddle.

LAGQ Live! MB 21047DVD

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Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

The Grammy Award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) recorded a live concert at the world-famous Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri on March 20, 2005. This DVD features many of their concert favorites including Pachelbel’s “Loose Canon”, “Gongan”, “La Fiesta de la Tirana/Tarantella” and the highly requested “Nutcracker Suite”. This concert also features the LAGQ’s only recording of “Hungarian Rhapsody #2” by Liszt. Filmed in widescreen, this DVD offers an unforgettable concert from four of the world’s best guitar players. Special features include interviews, and a look behind the scenes of their forthcoming CD. This DVD is a must-have for the serious LAGQ fan!

LAVA BUBBLES HL 00320633

Endless Motion TV Light Lamp
Series: DVD
Publisher: Global Creative Group
Medium: DVD

Get that stylish 1960s vibe on any TV screen with these great VJ visuals featuring six groovy color schemes made with real lava! The special auto-looping feature gives you endless vibrant lava motion as it lights up your screens. Works in every atmosphere. 2 hours