Anthony organized the collection into five groups representing the five most common styles of slow blues tunes. You’ll not only learn the lick itself but also where it fits within a standard 12-bar progression. Anthony performs the lick over a rhythm track and then breaks it down for you note-by-note, move-by-move. You get all of the tracks, tab,… Read More »
Part 1: Virtual Instruments Akai MPC Renaissance working with Plugins Series. In Part 1 of DJ Hellfire’s Plugin Series Renaissance In the 1st part DJ Hellfire shows you how to work with virtual instruments in MPC Renaissance Part 2: Adding Pad Effects Akai MPC Renaissance working with Plugins Series. In Part 2 of Hellfire’s Plugin Series. In the… Read More »
In this accelerated introduction to bossa nova rhythm guitar for intermediate players and beyond, Fareed shows you the authentic bossa nova rhythms and chord voicings used by the Brazilian greats including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Luis Bonfa, Baden Powell and many others. Fareed breaks the style down into one versatile rhythm pattern that underlies almost every bossa… Read More »
Virtuoso acoustic wizard and fingerstyle master, Tim Sparks presents Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues, an insightful exploration of Early Americana Roots music and intensive fingerstyle study program for intermediate and advanced students. Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues covers Delta Blues, Country Gospel, New Orleans, Ragtime, Early Jazz and the most amazing version of “The Mississippi Blues” that we’ve… Read More »
Scales are the foundation of music and can be found in every known culture. With all styles of modern music, scales are the heartbeat, breath and soul of the guitar solo, the guitar riff and even the vocal melody! This video course includes every guitar scale you’ve ever wanted to learn – presented in a simple root to… Read More »
This Maschine course was designed to highlight some of the basic things you need to know when you start working with Maschine. The course consists of a video that we laid out for free for the Maschine community as a whole, as well as new lessons specially created to help you get down to work quickly. This maschine… Read More »
These lessons are for those who have a thorough understanding and knowledge of Maschine, and who are looking for more advanced ways of using this wonderful platform. The following Maschine 101 and Maschine 201 we wanted to provide an area to get quickly. As with the other courses, this outline does not contain every “advanced” video we have… Read More »
Design Your Own Drums In FM8 – Learn to design your own kick drums, claps and hats in under an hour Having the opportunity to see someone else’s workflow in song creation can be priceless! In this 4 part mini series, we see how to design drums in FM8. In this 4 part micro course, our resident expert… Read More »
Andy covers a diverse range of soloing styles and techniques within the context of eight different key centers (E, F, G, A, Bb, C and D). Each key center series of lessons features different forms, feels and progressions and includes performances and detailed breakdowns covering requisite techniques, solo development, improvisation and application of theory. The soloing examples demonstrate… Read More »
Jump Start Rock starts you off with a series of video lessons showing you how to tune up, hold the pick and position your hands. In your very first practice session, you’ll learn your first rock riff and immediately start jamming along with the instructor in a playalong lesson with a practice rhythm track. Over the next series… Read More »
Vamps, Jams and Improvisation illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You’ll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members. Your vamp, jam and improvisation guide is the… Read More »
Rhythmic Grooves thoroughly examines how rhythmic patterns are constructed, executed and applied to various styles of music. This intensive study program will turn your whole understanding of rhythm right-side up. You’ll start at ground zero “playing drums” on the guitar and learning how to get “in the pocket” and stay there. You’ll progress into the “ring/dead” technique with… Read More »
Welcome to the percussive, rhythmic, textured, chicka-whacka world of Funk Fission from monster player and top educator Chris Buono. Don’t let the title of this study program fool ya — this is NOT a “funk” course (although funk guitar freaks will indeed flip over this one). Rather, Buono’s curriculum of funk guitar lessons is designed for intermediate to… Read More »
Fingerstyle Funk will completely overhaul your thinking of what can be played with ten fingers and six strings. With your faithful fingerstyle guru at your side, Jamsire Ernoir (aka Ernie Jackson), will teach you how to create insane grooves, layer chords over the groove, and play a melody over the top — and then play it all at… Read More »
The Make Trap With FM8 course on how to create Trap drums, sub sounds, limes and loops in one hour. The opportunity to see someone else’s workflow creating a song can be priceless! In these 4 parts, we’ll see how to create various Trap sounds in FM8. Make Trap With FM8 – Create Trap drums, subs, leads and… Read More »
This DVD features top-rated session player Mat “Gurminator” Gurman teaching one of the most important music lessons you will ever take, regardless of the style you play. Mat demonstrates the art of phrasing – the key to all improvised music. He teaches how to get the music out of your head and into your playing, so your solos… Read More »
Most of us have been taught to solo and improvise by learning how to play specific scale patterns over certain chords and progressions. The classic example of this is the minor pentatonic scale, which we are told works beautifully over any I IV V progression. And sure enough, millions of guitar players blow minor pentatonic scales incessantly without… Read More »
Scheetz travels the world over demonstrating his “secret sauce” in private standing-room-only clinics. The collection of blues-rock video guitar lessons in Jeff’s Blues Rock: Secret Sauce course equips you with five essential concepts and techniques that you can apply in any blues-rock setting. Blues Rock: Secret Sauce teaches you how to slip “outside” and back again and how… Read More »
Presented by studio hot shot, Brad Carlton, the video guitar lessons in Rhythmology demonstrate essential techniques for spicing up your rhythm parts with bubble parts, keyboard voicings, hybrid picking, chord extensions, triple stops, fills and a bagful of other skills that will quickly advance your rhythm playing. You’ll play your way through the Rhythmology working with blues, rock,… Read More »
Top NYC recording and performing artist, Angus Clark is your radio rock jock for this collection of 50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know inspired by the likes of Jeff Beck, Kirk Hammett, Jimi Hendrix, Mike McReady, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, John Shanks, Trevor Rabin and David Gilmour. Not only is Angus one of… Read More »
Graduated Solos presents an intuitive approach for cultivating the aesthetics of your jazz improvisations, specifically how to construct beautiful, expressive solos using the melody as the template for the improvisation. Most students of jazz guitar are so focused on the prevailing progression that they often neglect the tune itself. While there are many superb improvisations that make no… Read More »
In this course Dr Hobo will tell and show how to create a Dubstep Growl Bass using the FM8 synthesizer. Are you looking for an FM8 Dubstep Growl Bass Toolkit? Here’s everything You need to Make the Nastiest Bass sounds around! What do Skrillex, Datsik, Excision and Ajapai (amongst others) have in common? They all use NI FM8.… Read More »
There are many different synthesizers that you can use to create Dubstep. Synthesizer FM8 allows you to create better dubstep sounds with only half the effort. In other synthesizers you need to make a lot of fine tuning, filtering and adjustments to get something interesting. With the FM8 synthesizer, you can create new and interesting sounds within a… Read More »
Amplitube 3 Tutorial Amplitube 3 is a virtual guitar amplifier featuring rack & stomp effects, cabinet simulation with multiple amplifier choices and an infinite amount of tone creation possibilities. Designed with great attention to detail, Amplitube 3’s amp modelling capability is recognized by Fender, Orange, Ampeg and many other leading amplifier manufacturers due to its accurate tone reproduction… Read More »
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, Barrett, a GIT instructor… Read More »
