Experience a unique repertoire of progressive and classic styles from this comprehensive collection of contemporary guitarists including the sophistication of Paulo Bellinati, the creativity of Steve Baughman, the energy of Beppe Gambetta, the versatility of Steve Kaufman, and others. Difficulty - Multiple Levels Duration - 60
Binding Size (inches) Boxed 5.25 x 7.5 Price $24.95
20383DVD
This DVD is jam packed with talent. Presents 18 performances plus artist lessons and close-up interviews. Artists include: Muriel Anderson, Pat Bergeson, Suzy Bogguss, Thom Bresh, Alison Brown, Vassar Clements, Seymour Duncan, Richard Gilewitz, Danny Gottleib, Beth Gottleib, Nokie Edwards, Johnny Hiland, Phil Keaggy, John Knowles, Ben Lacy, Brent Mason, John Pell, Dave Pomeroy, Richard Smith, and Victor Wooten. Performed live in Nashville for the All Star Guitar Night 10th Anniversary Concert. Recorded at the Ryman Auditorium July 2002. This DVD is a tribute to Chet Atkins Benefit for the Music for Life Alliance.
Song titles include: Mr. Bojangles; Two Shores; Mister Sandman; A Baker's Dozen; Baby's Coming Home; and Wazamataz and more.
Price $24.95
21374DVD Anyone Can Play Djembe by Paulo Mattioli
Play Djembe Now! Have FUN learning contemporary and traditional Djembe Rhythms World-renowned drummer educator Paulo Mattioli shares his special gift for empowering others on the drumming path. Paulo makes playing Djembe easy for anyone in this comprehensive DVD. 72 minutes
In this DVD, Alan Munde describes the basic rolls and picking pattern that make up bluegrass banjo music. Play-along exercises allow the student to develop a strong roll which leads to accuracy, speed, and right-hand control! Running Time: 30 minutes.
A PDF file for the free instructional booklet that accompanies this DVD is available for download at www.melbay.com/DVDBooklets
Difficulty - Beginning-Intermediate
Duration - 30 min
Binding Size (inches) - Boxed 5.25 x 7.5
Price $14.95
RDR-0069 Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Two-Handed Tapping by Stuart Bull
This DVD contains everything you need to become a tapping ninja. From one string scale and arpeggio ideas to full blown multi fingered taps blazing accross the fretboard. This lesson will add speed, fluidity and fire to your licks, includes guitar jam tracks.
This DVD is presented by Stuart Bull who has taught tens of thousands of guitarists worldwide through the award winning TOTAL ACCURACY guitar series. He has made numerous TV appearances on the the Musicians Channel¹s Advanced Guitar programmes as well as working with major artists from the world of rock and pop.
Price $19.95
96002DVD Super Country/Flatpicking Guitar Techniques
Hot electric country guitar licks, bluegrass runs and lightning-quick acoustic flatpicking all require strong right-hand technique. In this thirty-minute DVD designed for acoustic and electric guitarists, country guitar master Joe Carr reveals his method for developing super fast and strong picking. Play-along exercises concentrate on alternating, combination and consecutive down picking. Also featured are Chicken-Picking and Crosspicking. Long after you have learned the basic techniques of flatpicking presented here, you will use this DVD as a great workout, warm-up or exercise tool for developing right-hand power and control. A PDF file for the free instructional booklet that accompanies this DVD is available for download at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.
Price $14.95
GW-918DVD The Guitar of Merle Travis taught by Marcel Dadi
Merle Travis's playing combined blues, jazz, ragtime and country music into a unique style that defined "Country Fingerstyle Guitar." In this exciting dvd lesson, Marcel Dadi teaches seven of Merle's greatest instrumentals: Fuller's Blues, Cane Break Blues, Blue Bells, Saturday Night Shuffle, Memphis Blues, Cannon Ball Rag and Walkin' The Strings. All the tunes are transcribed in a 60 page tab/music booklet. As well, five rare performances from 1951 of Merle Travis playing Nine Pound Hammer, Lost John, John Henry, Mus'rat and Too Much Sugar For A Dime are included in the dvd.
Price $29.95
GW-925DVD Bag of Tricks Pocketful of Licks taught by Buster B. Jones
In this unique DVD lesson, Buster B. Jones presents his approach to many facets of fingerstyle guitar techniques. He covers a wide variety of themes including:
Chord Shapes and Voicings
Scales, Alternating Bass Exercises
Double-Picking / Cross-Picking and Chromatic Rolls
How To Play Riffs In Any Key
Grooves and Learning to Improvise
Tunes include: Alabama Jubilee, Peanuts Theme, Ask John and Cannonball Rag.
This is a DVD lesson that will open up new horizons for the student of fingerstyle guitar. Brad has the wonderful ability to be able to teach complex ideas and playing techniques in a very down to earth fashion that strikes at the core of the music.
A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Price $29.95
RDR-0123 Learn Guitar Techniques: Metal (Dimebag Darrell Style)
taught by Danny Gill
Learn metal guitar licks, techniques and rhythm patterns with Danny Gill. This DVD will provide you with an arsenal of Dimebag Darrell style licks and rhythm patterns that you can incorporate into your own songs! Tutorials include two handed techniques, hammer on and pull off techniques, drop tunings, picking licks and many more techniques that influenced metal guitarists worldwide!
Price $19.95
RDR-0133 Ultimate Guitar Techniques
This superb DVD takes an in-depth look at the art of slide guitar from the rockers point of view. Along with licks, scale patterns, open tunings and chord shapes, Danny will guide you through many of the techniques shared by the greats including vibrato, intonation, muting and phrasing. Each idea is played in context with a backing track and then demonstrated slowly with full explanations on the scales and techniques used.
Price $19.95
RDR-0172 Learn to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Techniques Volume 2 taught by Jamie Humphries
Learn five Stevie Ray Vaughan tracks note-for-note with Jamie Humphries. This superb 2-DVD set teaches you the jaw-dropping techniques that made Stevie the greatest blues guitarist of his generation! Tracks include: Couldn't Stand The Weather; The House Is Rocking; Lenny; Change It and Rude Mood
Price $29.95
21686DVD Anyone Can Play E9 Pedal Steel Guitar
Anyone Can Play E9 Pedal Steel Guitar is designed for the absolute steel beginner. The course will take you through the very basics of getting started, including the proper way to hold the steel, tuning, changing strings, right and left hand technique as well as licks and positions. Pedal and knee lever configurations, basic music theory and advanced techniques are also discussed. Rob will also cover topics such as the necessary gear and an explanation of how to set-up your pedal steel guitar. You will learn everything you need to know to have a good foundation for further learning. Rob has included many tips and tricks in this DVD which he has acquired in over 30 years of playing professionally.
Price $14.95
RDR-0214 DVD Quick Licks Guitar: Jeff Beck
Slow Blues Key of E by Michael Casswell
Learn slow blues licks in the style of Jeff Beck, a true master of tone and feel, and one of the most innovative and versatile guitarists around! Includes a blues jam track. Lessons by Michael Casswell.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques.
Price $19.95
RDR-0212 Quick Licks for Guitar - Jimmy Page
Minor Blues Key of C by Danny Gill
Learn minor blues licks in the style of Jimmy Page, the man that laid the bluesy soloing foundations of heavy rock! Also includes a blues jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill. Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques
Price $19.95
RDR-0106 Learn Guitar Techniques: Metal (Zakk Wylde Style)
Learn Zakk Wylde style licks and techniques with Jamie Humphries. This excellent two hour DVD will teach you some of the guitar techniques that influenced metal guitarists worldwide! Take your playing to the next level with an arsenal of Zakk Wylde style licks that you can incorporate into your own solos. Also includes guitar jam tracks and Zakk style rhythm and solo lesson!
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0178 Essential Guitar Practice Routines: Alternate Picking
One of the most frequently asked questions in the field of guitar education is "What do I practice?" This excellent DVD series provides lessons and pieces of music exclusively written for practicing essential guitar techniques. By combining the technique lessons with the music and learning the piece from start to finish, you will not only improve your ability, but also get a sense of achievement and fun from practicing.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0211 Guitar Quick Licks - Jimi Hendrix
Learn slow blues licks in the style of Jimi Hendrix, one of the most influential players of our time! Also includes a blues jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill. Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0213 Guitar Quick Licks - Eric Clapton
Up Tempo Blues Key of A by Michael Casswell
Learn up tempo blues licks in the style of Eric Clapton, often viewed by fans and critics alike as the greatest guitarist of all time! Also includes a blues jam track. Lessons by Michael Casswell.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0236 Guitar Quick Licks - Ritchie Blackmore: Classic Rock, Key of G by Danny Gill
Learn killer rock licks in the style of Ritchie Blackmore, one of the UK’s finest classic heavy rock guitarists! Also includes a blues guitar jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques.
Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Guitar series. His songs have appeared on TV shows including The Osbournes and film sound tracks such as Insomnia and Under Siege.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0240 Guitar Quick Licks -
Slash: High Energy Rock, Key of E
taught by Danny Gill
Learn licks in the style of Slash, whose killer riffs and instantly recognizable sound made him one of the most acclaimed guitarists of our time! Also includes a rock guitar jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your licks and techniques.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0042 Aerobics: Intermediate
by Danny Gill
A complete warm up routine for guitarists with Danny Gill.
This Fretboard Fitness DVD will guide you through 3 complete warmup routines: the 10 minute, 20 minute, and 30 minute drill! Play along with Danny in real time as he coaches you through scales, arpeggios, bending, sequences, picking exercises, stretches and more! Once you¹ve mastered the exercises, this DVD can become an important part of your daily practice routine, whether you¹re playing rock, blues, jazz, country or anything in between!
Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0051 Learn Guitar Techniques: Country
by Steve Trovato
Learn country guitar techniques and licks with Steve Trovato This excellent two hour DVD will teach you some of the guitar techniques that influenced country guitarists worldwide! If you're looking to take your playing to the next level, this DVD will provide you with an arsenal of Albert Lee style licks that you can incorporate into your own solos.
Steve Trovato is best known as a world class country guitarist, but is equally proficient in a wide range of popular guitar styles. He has written a number of bestselling guitar tuition books, and between touring maintains a full time position in the Guitar Department at the University of Southern California.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0003 Learn to Play Your Own Rock Solos
by Stuart Bull
Learn to create your own rock guitar solos with with Stuart Bull This groundbreaking DVD helps you play your own rock solos from the simplest point right through to complicated licks and phrases. This superb tutorial will show you how to take your existing ideas and develop them into something fresh and exciting. Also supplying you with many new licks and concepts to add to your vocabulary of rock guitar playing. Stuart Bull has taught tens of thousands of guitarists worldwide. He has made numerous TV appearances on the the Musicians Channel¹s Advanced Guitar programmes as well as working with major artists from the world of rock and pop.
Our Price $19.95
RDR-0062 Ultimate Guitar Techniques: How to Play Fast
taught by Dave Kilminster
Learn some serious shredding technique with Dave Kilminster. This groundbreaking DVD will help you get your shredding up to warp factor! Learn some astounding fretburning techniques including fast legato, arpeggios, speed picking, string skipping, and an arsenal of speed building licks!
Our Price $19.95
JE-007 Just Enough: Learn to Sing Vocals
This instructional package for beginning vocals includes a DVD, an interactive CD-ROM, and a portable book/CD set. The DVD Video introduces the instructors, shows how they got started, what it is like to perform, what music means to them, and how to buy your first gear. Learn some basic techniques and start singing right away! Come back and sing with the band in the interactive Virtual Jam Session!
The CD-ROM contains your first 50+ vocal lessons. Allen, Anna, Aron, Daniel, Lillian and SaBella, will teach you how to use your voice, find your range, and learn to sing different styles of music. Also included are Karaoke style practice tracks that will get you singing right away.
The full color AudioBook is the pocket reference manual that works with the Audio CD that contains your first 50+ lessons and gives you the flexibility to practice and keep learning where ever you are. Just match the tracks in the Book to the tracks on your CD player and follow along. Plus you can connect with JustEnough.net for more exciting benefits!
Our Price $19.95
93270 Fun with the Ukulele
by Mel Bay
Presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend, even for the absolute beginner. The book teaches rhythm accompaniment in several meters. Each song includes lyrics and a suggested strumming pattern. A companion CD and video are available and either is recommended to ensure accuracy and ease of learning.
Our Price $5.95
96846DVD Mandolin Chords DVD
taught by Joe Carr
This great new mandolin chord DVD makes it possible to learn all the essential chords. Learning becomes much more interesting when you can see and hear each chord. Joe Carr teaches the chord shapes and positions that are used by all leading professionals. Watching Joe's hand positions and listening to each note in the chord will improve your ear and enable you to learn at a faster pace. Every major, minor, seventh, diminished and augmented chord is demonstrated and systematically taught. Keep this DVD close whenever you are working on new material and need to learn the correct chords. It will make learning the chords a lot more fun.
Our Price $9.95
95615DVD Complete Country Guitar
This comprehensive DVD course was designed for guitarists who want a more complete understanding of country style guitar. Joe Carr teaches the fundamentals of country guitar including major, minor and 7th chord forms, major scales and flatpicking techniques. Other topics include the Nashville number system, pentatonic and blues scales, 6th and 9th chords, pedal steel licks, swing chords, the echo trick, country rock lead styles and more.
Price $19.95
96202DVD Conga Drumming, A Beginner's Video Guide taught by Jorge Bermudez
The bestselling book Conga Drumming comes to life in this Beginner's Video Guide with Jorge Bermudez - a dynamic teacher with 20 years of professional playing and recording experience with groups like Pablo Cruise, Crowded House, and the Gipsy Kings. Conga Drumming's authors Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby help with the teaching and Scott Sansby plays shekere, maracas, and cymbals in the ensemble performances. Learn authentic conga parts for calypso, rumba, conga, bomba and bembe The secret of "mano secreta" - the technique used by master conga drummers to play with comfort, fluidity, and safety. Running time approximately 1 hour. Note: The first half of the book of the same title is contained in the video instruction.
Price $19.95
96003DVD Super Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques
Good fingerpicking requirer strength and accuracy in the right hand. In this thirty-minute DVD, internationally acclaimed musician Alan Munde teaches the basic techniques used by top professional fingerpickers. Easy-to-follow, play-along exercises allow the student to perform with Alan and match his playing, note for note. Beginning with the basic fingerstyle rhythm pattern, the lesson advances step-by-step to the syncopated "Travis Style." Even experienced fingerpickers will find that these exercises provide an excellent workout or warm-up!
A PDF file for the free instructional booklet that accompanies this DVD is available for download at www.melbay.com/DVDBooklets.
Price $14.95
98307DVD Steve Kaufman in Concert - Flatpicking to the Next Level
by Steve Kaufman
This performance DVD features advanced solo arrangements by Steve Kaufman accompanied by Joe Carr. Kaufman’s breezy, informal presentation puts the listener at ease and belies the complexity of his fluid technique, flawless musical taste, and rock-solid sense of timing. Selections include: Flannery’s Dream; Bayne Water; Bonaparte’s Retreat; Shi Beg Shi Mhor; Home, Sweet Home; Saint Anne’s Reel; East Tennessee Blues and many more.
Price $19.95
GW302DVD Introduction to Alternate Tunings
taught by Pat Kirtley
This DVD provides the answer for guitarists who want to begin to explore the world of alternate tunings. In this lesson Pat Kirtley presents simplified but highly musical and playable arrangements in four different tunings. The arrangements presented where chosen for advanced-beginner to intermediate skill level, and to illustrate the differences and unique features of each tuning. This is an excellent first step into an interesting aspect of contemporary guitar playing. Pat shows you: how to tune your guitar to each of the tunings; how to get into the tunings without need for an electronic tuner; the pros and cons of alternate tunings; complete instruction for each tune including full explanations and split screen versions showing both hands at once; harmonic "chime" techniques; right-hand fingerstyle techniques. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD
Price $29.95
GW405DVD Beginner's Rock Guitar
taught by Fred Sokolow
Before rock n' roll became a big corporate industry, playing rock guitar used to be the most fun you could have with your pants on! Fred Sokolow shows why in this 72 minute DVD that uses your favorite garage-band tunes to demonstrate how to: Play power-chord backup in any key -- the Louie Louie way. Solo and play Chuck Berry style boogie backup on tunes like Roll Over Beethoven and School Days (duck-walk not included). Use blues scales and "substitute" scales for soloing. Solo with sliding major pentatonic scales in the styles of Dickey Betts and Jerry Garcia. Chord-based licks and double-note Steve Cropper-style licks. Play tunes and more tunes: Stand By Me, Midnight Hour, My Girl, The Wind Cries Mary, Let It Be, Proud Mary and many others. Level 1-2 / 64 page tab/music booklet.
Price $29.95
GW407DVD Beginner's Country Guitar
taught by Fred Sokolow
Country music is more popular than ever and all you need to put over a good country song is your voice and a guitar. This 65 minute DVD gives you the tools you need to play old-fashioned country, honky-tonk and country rock. Playing classics like Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, The Bottle Let Me Down, I'm Movin' On, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Silver Wings and Jambalaya. Fred Sokolow shows you the basics of country guitar. You'll learn how to play:• Accompaniment strums for different rhythmic feels, A variety of first-position chords,• Bass runs, Major scales, Solos and turnarounds.• All the above in five different keys. Fred Sokolow's teaching is clear and easy to understand and he has lots of helpful hints for beginner Level 1-2. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Price $29.95
GW501DVD The Music of Paul Simon
Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar taught by Fred Sokolow
Learn how to play and sing nine classic Paul Simon tunes from start to finish. You will learn how to fingerpick backup arrangements while singing. You will Learn how to play instrumental solos and how to begin and end each song. While studying Fred’s arrangements of these Paul Simon hits you will also learn a lot about fingerpicking: backup patterns, soloing ideas and various chord positions. Each song is played at regular speed and then slowed down with a split-screen. That gives you a close-up look at the picking as well as chording hand. All the Arrangements are clearly written out in tab and music in the accompanying booklet along with lead sheets and lyrics.
Price $29.95
GW601DVD Flatpicking Guitar Country Style
The Roots of Bluegrass Guitar taught by Eric Thompson
This dvd lesson will have you flatpicking lead breaks in styles from Maybelle Carter and Doc Watson. You'll learn to embellish melodies with "hammer-ons" and "pull-offs" for that real old-time country sound, and build solid technique, advancing step by step through single-note arrangements of Thompson's Rag, fiddle hoedowns Arkansas Traveler and Soldier's Joy and a bluesy bluegrass break for Good Old Mountain Dew. Eric's invaluable tips on left-hand fingering and right-hand pick technique are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Price $29.95
GW604DVD Bluegrass Lead Guitar
Fiddle Tunes, Crosspicking & Blues taught by Scott Nygaard
In this DVD, renowned guitarist Scott Nygaard guides you through the old-time fiddle tune Little Billy Wilson. A crosspicking arrangements of Home Sweet Home, a melodic solo on the blues song Trouble in Mind, and shows you how to combine these influences when creating a solo on a bluegrass tune like East Virginia Blues. Scott explains in detail the techniques needed to master the bluegrass lead guitar style and the ideas behind his arrangements. All are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
