Give Take

This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Dave Limina shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to build your harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic vocabulary. The DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Includes: scale and blues techniques • ear training • rock and blues phrasing • two-hand grooves for funk, Texas shuffle, roots-rock, and Latin styles • jazz voicings and rhythms. Clear and detailed instruction is given both on-screen and in the accompanying 80-page booklet. 45 minutes.

This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Larry Finn shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to lay down a strong groove in any style of music. It offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels. These include: hand development • basic grooves • advanced grooves for funk, rock, hip-hop and Latin styles • advanced fills. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying 64-page booklet. 60 minutes.

Apple's popular GarageBand software gives you the power and flexibility to make your own music happen - and Hal Leonard TrackPaks(TM) give you the tracks for the songs, no matter which instrument you play! Each TrackPak includes: • DVD-ROM with 12 hit songs, edited, mixed and ready to drop into GarageBand • Book with transcriptions in standard notation and guitar tablature, as well as lyrics for reference • Complete songs plus individual loops, beats, grooves and riffs for all of the instruments • Recordings that sound amazing! Love the bass and drums from Eminem's inch.The Real Slim Shady inch.? Drop them into your own music creation. Dying to rap like 50 Cent on inch.In Da Club inch.? Grab a mic and press record. Or you can take just the sub-bass from The Way You Move from OutKast and mix it with some Snoop Dogg Gin and Juice. Other songs include: Slow Jamz (Twista) • California Love (Remix) (2Pac) • Can I Get A ... (Jay-Z) • Holla Holla (Ja Rule) • Hot in Herre (Nelly) • Hypnotize (Notorious B.I.G.) • I Know What You Want (Busta Rhymes) • Yeah! (Usher). GarageBand has been named the Product of the Year by Music Trades magazine!

Apple's popular GarageBand software gives you the power and flexibility to make your own music happen - and Hal Leonard TrackPaks(TM) give you the tracks for the songs, no matter which instrument you play! Each TrackPak includes: • DVD-ROM with 12 hit songs, edited, mixed and ready to drop into GarageBand • Book with transcriptions in standard notation and guitar tablature, as well as lyrics for reference • Complete songs plus individual loops, beats, grooves and riffs for all of the instruments • Recordings that sound amazing! Take a drum loop from inch.Smells Like Teen Spirit inch. and loop it for your own project. Like the guitar riffs from Los Lonely Boys' inch.Heaven inch.? They're here, ready to be adapted to your own creative ideas. Other songs include: Aerials (System of a Down) • Alive (P.O.D.) • All the Small Things (Blink-182) • Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet) • Come Out and Play (The Offspring) • Here Without You (Three Doors Down) • Just Like You (Three Days Grace) • Man in the Box (Alice in Chains) • This Love (Maroon5) • and Wish You Were Here (Incubus). GarageBand has been named the Product of the Year by Music Trades magazine!

Learning to solo has never been easier or more affordable. The dynamic Soloing Series offers the essential elements every soloist needs. Each DVD runs approximately 40-50 minutes and comes complete with an accompanying booklet showing examples in notation and tablature. Each DVD is filled with rock-solid information from beginning to end. In this DVD, MI instructor Danny Gill unveils the mystery of the heavy riff. In this intense workout, you will discover a whole new world of chords and single note riffs with Drop D tuning. Danny will also take you through a variety of picking hand techniques, including muting, pitch harmonics, downstrokes, double picking, and alternate picking. There is even a section on tuning the entire guitar down two whole steps to a low C for something extra fat and chunky. Each section gives you plenty of time to jam along, so you will feel like you're a part of the band. There is even a top 10 list of Danny's favorite noises - some of which you will have to see to believe! This is some of the most usable and musical information you will ever learn! Packed with licks and practice ideas, this DVD will help develop your ear and continue to improve your soloing for months and years to come.