Patterns

One of the hottest guitarists on the Irish scene today breaks apart his accompaniment style for the learning player. He demonstrates his complex strumming patterns and shows how to add interest and depth to a basic three-chord tune by using substitutions to change the underlying harmonic structure. More than a dozen great reels, jigs and hornpipes are analyzed rhythmically, including: Crowley's • The Mountain Road • Craig's Pipes • The Gooseberry Bush • Gallagher's Frolics • Mist Covered Mountain • Langstrom's Pony • Humours of Whiskey • Banks of Loch Gamhna • Return to Camden Town • Fermoy Lasses • The Girl That Broke My Heart • Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe • Tim Henry's Favorite • The Pullet. 85-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

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.

Here are the great '50s and '60s rock 'n' roll piano styles made popular by Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino! Bob Hoban makes it easy to learn how to do slides, rolls, melodic figures, rhythm patterns, shuffles, right-hand licks, slurs, solos, runs, single-note leads, pushed notes and power beginnings. 95-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES MUSIC • BEGINNER LEVEL

Learn Latin jazz grooves and percussion techniques! Let jazz great Victor Mendoza help you harness all the passion and liveliness of Latin Jazz. He'll show you how to apply your musical vocabulary and knowledge of rhythm, scales, chords, and triads to this rich musical style. Learn how to use percussion instruments to create sizzling Latin groove patterns including: Son Clave, Rumba Clave, Cascara, Tumbao. 91 minutes. Victor Mendoza is a vibraphonist, composer and professor at Berklee College of Music. Named by Latin Beat magazine as one of the Outstanding Latin Jazz Artists of the Year, he has performed and recorded with many great musicians including Paquito D'Rivera, Danilo Pérez, and Claudio Roditi.

Mark Schatz teaches basic patterns and scales, fingerings, passing notes, chord progressions, arpeggios, chromatic scales and other important subjects, applying them to several classic bluegrass songs. 75-MIN DVD • BEGINNER LEVEL

This DVD documents Mike Portnoy's innovative drumming in the highly acclaimed fusion/progressive metal music of Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment. Disc One features music from both CDs by Liquid Tension Experiment. Mike performs 8 songs/segments and breaks down parts from each, explaining how to develop a toolbox of fills and patterns to draw from. Featured throughout is exclusive footage of the making of the first LTE album, as well as rare live footage of the band. Disc Two focuses on the music of Dream Theater. Mike performs 11 songs/segments from the Falling into Infinity and Scenes from a Memory CDs and isolates the drum parts from each song. He discusses playing in odd-time signatures, developing double bass technique, soloing and much more. Includes exclusive live footage of Dream Theater from their 1998 World Tour. Special DVD Features: 2 bonus, live performances - one by Dream Theater and one by Liquid Tension Experiment! Over twenty minutes of new footage! Also a full-length commentary by Mike • a camera switching option • a photo gallery • and more! DVD Running Time: 190 minutes.

Dr. John continues his discussion and demonstration of the styles of the musicians he heard and worked with as a youngster in New Orleans. Mac breaks down the tunes, turnarounds, left-hand patterns, and right-hand improvisations of legendary greats Huey Piano Smith, Tuts Washington, Herbert Santina, Allen Toussaint and others, including some originals by Mac Rebennack himself. 60-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC • EARLY INTERMEDIATE TO INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

With his warm and easy-going manner, Mitch will walk you through the various boogie woogie patterns from the most basic to the more advanced. There is precious little information available for the serious piano student of this exciting genre, but this authoritative instructional DVD fills in the gaps. Showing both left- and right-hand fingerings in patient detail, Mitch not only lays the rocking foundation for players from beginning to advanced, but he also opens the door for future exploration. This DVD contains a supplementary booklet with the prime musical examples notated.

Materiał zawarty na płycie DVD ukazuje zasadnicze składniki muzyki jazzowej wykonywanej na zestawie perkusyjnym. Peter Magadini w zwięzły sposób objaśnia i demonstruje ćwiczenia techniczne z zakresu współczesnej muzyki jazzowej, improwizacji, prowadzenia partii solowych, wielorakich sposobów uderzeń różnymi rodzajami pałek, i innych. Na płycie zawarto także zapis nutowy poszczególnych ćwiczeń. Czas trwania filmu: 72 minuty.

Over the past several years The Slap Bass Program has become the undisputed bible of slap technique. The video has garnered more accolades and critical acclaim than any other program of its kind. The material has been remastered and finally released on DVD with extensive chapter breakdowns and extra features. Bass Institute of Technology (BIT) instructor Alexis Sklarevski is a phenomenal teacher, and has the rare ability to put all the pieces together in a refreshingly logical, integrated fashion. Starting with the fundamentals of slap technique, he elaborates one step at a time to incorporate complex damping and choking, funk patterns and vamps, machine-gun triplets, percussive right-hand tapping, flamenco-style strumming, double-stop riffs, scales, phrasing and much more. He is incredibly thorough, and his demonstrations with a guitarist and drummer show how this dynamic style can be applied in almost any musical situation. Absolutely the most complete and effective method ever produced on the slap style of bass playing. Streaming musical notation and tab is featured on the alternate video track. There's also a Notation Book that is printable from the disc. 83 minutes.

Komplet trzech płyt DVD na których nagrano materiał dotyczący technik gry na perkusji w XXI wieku prezentowanych przez Thomasa Langa. Pierwsza płyta zawiera tematy dotyczące udoskonalonych technik gry za pomocą stopy (foot - technique). Na drugiej płycie Lang prezentuje swoją "sekretną formułę" dotyczącą metod doskonalenia współczesnej koordynacji i niezależności uderzeń. Materiał podzielony jest w taki sposób, aby można było dokładnie zaobserwować wszelkie ruchy. Trzecia płyta obejmuje tematyką koncepcje gry w różnych stylach współczesnej muzyki oraz gry koncertowej. Bonusowy materiał zawiera m. in. film z wizyty w domowym studio Thomasa Langa, galerię zdjęć artysty i komentarze do utworów. Łączny czas trwania trzech płyt: 7 godzin.

Hot Licks classic video titles have been made available on DVD, making it even easier to learn with the world's top players...right in your own home! These new transfers make them look better than ever while DVD technology makes navigating each lesson even easier!

You'll never miss a note
• You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played
• All right and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy
• Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound
• Artist biographies
• Selected discographies
• Suggested listening
• Booklet with music examples included