DVD Guitar Tab Instructions, Concerts and Performances

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

LESSONS: BREAKING THE CODE HL 00320828

Series: Instructional/Drum/DVD
Publisher: Hudson Music
Medium: DVD

Author: David Garibaldi

Expanding on the information in his award-winning Code of Funk, world-renowned drummer David Garibaldi demonstrates and dissects the patterns he used for such Tower of Power classics as “Page One,” “Pocketful of Soul,” “Back in the Day,” “East Side”, and “The Oakland Stroke.” Multiple camera angles clearly show his feet, hands, and kit, putting the viewer one-on-one with the master drummer and teacher. Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes.

Loggins & Messina Live Sittin' In AP WEA970494

Series: DVD. Alfred Publishing.

Almost 30 years after their 1976 breakup, the hugely successful duo of Kenny Loggins and Jim Mesina took their hit-making magic on the road once again in 2005. This DVD captures them in front of their hometown audience on a sold-out national tour, playing the songs that were the soundtracks of the '70s including "Danny's Song", Your Mama Don't Dance", "Thinking of You" and "Vahevala". Extras include six bonus performances from 1973's Midnight Special TV series. Aprox. 146 min. Dolby Digital 5:1 Surround Sound. DTS and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo.

MURIEL ANDERSON'S ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHT HL 00641915

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Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun Video
Medium: DVD

Artist: Muriel Anderson

featuring Muriel Anderson, Peppino D'Agostino, Alex DeGrassi, Ed Gerhard, Tommy Jones, Laurence Juber, Phil Keaggy, Gayla Drake Paul, Preston Reed, Martin Taylor, and the Richard Smith Trio

Some of the world's greatest fingerstyle guitarists perform informally together on a single stage, creating a powerful and unforgettable set of guitar music. Performance DVD. 60 minutes.

Old-Time Banjo, Clawhammer Style HL 00641914

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Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun Video
DVD - TAB

Artist: Frank Lee

Frank Lee breaks down the traditional clawhammer style that has become his trademark. He teaches seven great tunes and the techniques that make his playing stand out in the field of old-time players. Beginner level. Includes tab. 55 minutes.

OSCAR PETERSON - MUSIC IN THE KEY OF OSCAR HL 00320560

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Series: DVD

Artist: Oscar Peterson

This riveting music documentary traces the history of piano legend Oscar Peterson, from his early days as Montreal's teenage boogie-woogie sensation through his meteoric rise to international celebrity. One highlight in the treasure trove of musical gems is the legendary Oscar Peterson Trio (bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis) who, after a twenty-year hiatus, reunited in order to “prove that it still had the magic.” Over 45 minutes of classic and contemporary performances complemented by rare film footage and in-depth interviews with a cast of jazz legends, creates a chronicle spanning four decades of Oscar Peterson's unforgettable music. 1 hour, 46 minutes.

Peter Gabriel Still Growing Up-live AP WEA970503

Series: 2 DVD Set. Alfred Publishing.

This 2 DVD set captures Peter Gabriel in all sorts of smaller and more intimate venues around Europe for the "Live" version (Disc 1) of the set. For the "Unwrapped" version (Disc 2), which explores the world behind the songs, Anna Gabriel took over the director's chair with the collaboration of award-winning director Hamish Hamilton. A simple approach suggested a different set list, and Peter, Hamish, and Anna were determined that this should be filmed in a very different style. It shows Peter Gabriel as many of his fans love to see him, just playing the music. Approx. 206 ins. In 5.1 Surround Sound & DTS. Songs: In Your Eyes, Red Rain, Sledgehammer, Biko, and Digging in the Dirt. Features the first ever extended interview with Peter Gabriel captured on film.

PRESTON REED IN CONCERT HL 00641966

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Series: Homespun Tapes
Publisher: Homespun
Medium: DVD

Artist: Laurence Juber
Artist: Preston Reed

See and hear Preston Reed “live” in concert as he creates the amazing sounds – rim shots, bongo hits, slap harmonics, double hammer-ons, two-hand tapping, right-hand fretting etc. – that have given his playing such notoriety around the world. Laurence Juber joins him in two spectacular duets. 60 minutes.

REVOLUTIONS HL 00320635

Series: DVD
Publisher: Global Creative Group
Medium: DVD

This highly anticipated visual journey takes you through the mind of Brad L. Cooper with the sound of “Vato Negro” (Matt Sherrod “Beck” and Juan Alderete “The Mars Volta”). This ambient, high-energy visual is an asset to VJs/DJs and club owners everywhere. 48 minutes with auto looping feature.

RHYTHM GUITAR HL 00695909

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The Complete Guide
Series: Musicians Institute Press
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Medium: DVD

Author: Bruce Buckingham

This in-depth lesson with Bruce Buckingham – an instructor at Musicians Institute since 1980 – is a comprehensive source for learning the essentials of rhythm guitar. It covers in detail rhythms, triads and seventh chords, inversions and alternate voicings, pentatonic and double-stop fills, and much more.

Also available in the MI series:

Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Guide

00695188 Book $16.95

RICK VITO - COMPLETE GUIDE TO SLIDE GUITAR HL 00320535

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Series: DVD
Medium: DVD

Artist: Rick Vito

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 & roll and beyond • G/A tuning, plus D/E tuning essentials • developing your personal approach and feel. 1 hour, 6 minutes.

ROCK ICONS: Psychedelic High MB 970065

Captured for posterity by the landmark Beat Club's cameraman and sound tech, the performances in this collection represent some of the most mind-blowing music to be created during that heady time when rock 'n' roll consciousness took a quantum leap out of the confines of the '50s. Now the dance floor was between the listener's ears and the songs went places they'd never gone before. Extended jams and thoughtful lyrics addressed social issues like love, peace, celebrity, altered states and places of wonder--even the cataclysmic disappearance of the fabled lost continent of Atlantis. Music became a journey, the artists its tour guides, exploring the distant reaches of the mind, while soaring to new, and very far-out, psychedelic highs. This DVD version features 5.1 audio and animated menus.

Rock Lead Guitar HL 00695910

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Techniques, Scales, Licks, and Soloing Concepts for Guitar
Series: Musicians Institute Press
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Medium: DVD

Author: Danny Gill

In this in-depth DVD lesson, popular MI instructor Danny Gill leads guitarists on an exploration of the techniques, scales and fundamentals used by the greatest legends of rock guitar. Topics covered include: pentatonic and diatonic scales • bending, vibrato and lead licks • sweep picking • harmonics • and more. 42 minutes.

Rockabilly Guitar MB GW403DVD

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Taught by Fred Sokolow

Rockabilly is the roots of rock. It combines electric blues, country blues, Merle Travis-style fingerpicking and more. This DVD covers boogie woogie back-up licks, turnarounds, blues/rock licks in the classic key of E, movable blues/rock scales, fingerpicking patterns and more. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. 73 minutes.

Rodney Jones: Live At Smoke MB 21231DVD

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Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

Filmed at the New York jazz club Smoke, Rodney Jones enlightens us with his flavorful originals like "Groove Bone" and "One Turnip Green," while he indulges us with the classics such as "Stella by Starlight," and "Morning of the Carnival."

For Live at Smoke, his first DVD as a leader, Rodney Jones selected material from every stage of his career, including tunes he had not previously recorded.

The result is an exquisite juxtaposition of traditional and progressive works, including sultry ballads, floor-pounding grooves, and everything in between.

A gifted solo artist and an A-list sideman for Dizzy Gillespie, James Brown, Lena Horne and other top performers, Rodney is also a dedicated educator, serving on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music since 1988.

Featuring: Brian Charette on organ, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Ray Marchica on drums.

RUSH - R30 HL 00320547

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30th Anniversary World Tour
Series: DVD
Publisher: Rounder
Medium: DVD

Artist: Rush

The first disc in this deluxe edition features live performances of 20 songs, including the exclusive “R30 Overture.” The second disc includes several interviews and rare performance footage from “the anthem vault” from the '70s to the Canadian Tsunami Relief Benefit. Over 4 hours of total DVD footage!

RUSH IN RIO HL 00320548

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Series: DVD
Publisher: Rounder
Medium: DVD

Artist: Rush

The first concert DVD from Rush! This 2-DVD set features 28 songs on Disc One, including “The Spirit of Radio” and “Tom Sawyer,” and a documentary on Disc Two. Includes bonus features which viewers can uncover by discovering hidden “Easter Eggs” in the DVD. Running time: 4 hours.

Skin It, Tune It, Play It MB 99332DVD

by Paulo Mattioli

The complete do it yourself guide to: Re-heading your rope tuned Drum; Tune up and fine tuning your Drum; Care and maintenance.

Paulo Mattioli guides you through the entire process. Jump right to the info you need using the DVD menu. Learn the tips that only come from years of experience. Step by step real time guidance. Save time and money, while gaining the satisfaction of giving your drum a voice!

Detailed close up shots and clear explanations make it possible for anyone to re-head and tune their drum!

Discover how easy it is to do, using simple hand tools!

Never have to pay and wait for someone else to repair or tune your drum!

The original and still best guide to drum care!