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This course is designed for beginning flute students. It teaches the fundamentals of flute playing and note reading in a simple, step-by-step method. The student also learns several will-known songs while developing correct breathing, posture, and tone. No previous musical experience is required to be successful with this course. Includes free instructional booklet.
Gene taught band in public schools for 12 years and has played drums professionally for over 25 years. This course is designed for anyone who wants to play the drum set successfully. It will teach you the most popular techniques used in modern music through a clear, step-by-step teaching process. You will learn rock, swing, jazz, and country styles along with drum music reading, counting, and proper drum set-up. Includes free instructional booklet.
This course is designed to help people of all ages and ability levels improve their singing. No previous musical training is needed to be successful with this method. You will learn correct warm-ups, proper breathing technique, breath support, awesome vibrato, and how to imitate your favorite singers!
An excellent beginner's video featuring Joe Carr teaching simple chords, strums, and songs. An ideal beginner's course for ukulele (C tuning).
An excellent beginner's video featuring Joe Carr teaching simple chords, strums, and songs. An ideal beginner's course for baritone uke players of any age.
The button accordion gives Texas Spanish music its unique sound. Now for the first time anywhere, you can learn to play in the authentic Norteno style. Beginning with basic scales and chords, Joe Torres shows you step by step how to play this great instrument. Also included is an explanation of Spanish music terms used by conjunto musicians.
Tejano, Tex-Mex, or conjunto...it goes by many names, but Texas-born Spanish music is one of the fastest growing music styles in the country. Joe Torres' family has played this exciting music for three generations and now he teaches you to play the bajo sexto, the guitar-like rhythmic cornerstone of the music. Guitarists looking for the "bajo sound" can use this video too!
Featured on numerous television and cable programs, recording artists Jan and John Hagerman lead you from beginning through advanced psaltery playing techniques as well as how to care for and maintain your instrument. Covers how to hold your instrument and bow, basic bowing techniques, what to do if you don't read music, how to change a string, playing with two bows, playing with other instruments, and more. Free instructional booklet included.
Jock Barley is a musician, songwriter, record producer, guitar teacher, and leader of the band Firefall. In his video, Jock teaches how to write more effective songs in any style for the beginner or the pro. Includes sections on creativity, music theory, chord progressions, grooves and hooks, composing catchy melodies, writing better lyrics, making songs commercial, copyrights, and publishing. Includes free insert on compatible chords.
A compilation featuring Clarence Ashley, Roscoe Holcomb, Tommy Jarrell, Doc Watson, Sam McGee, Pete Steele, Jean Ritchie and many others.
No previous dance experience is required to use this video. Included are the basic steps (including Chug, Tennessee Walking Step, The Indian, Buck and Wing, and Wagon Wheel), stretching, choreography, and a creative approach that allows you to combine the various steps into your own arrangements.
A beginning guide to the Anglo concertina in the nautical style. This video requires no previous knowledge of music or music training. Techniques included cover basic melody, harmony, left- and right-hand accompaniment, arpeggios, inverted position, ornamentation, and more.
A basic guide to maintaining and repairing diatonic accordions and concertinas. You will learn how to dismantle your instrument, repair bellows, fix reed problems, replace pads, correct tuning flaws, and much more.
Ireland's greatest Bodhran player, Tommy Hayes, who is featured on many Irish recordings, T.V. shows and films, including In The Name of the Father, shares his lifetime skills with you. In this video he shows various techniques, handstyles, rolls, strokes and many other skills used in playing the Bodhran, Bones and Spoons.
Tunes and techniques are included that range in difficulty from beginning to advanced.
Greg reveals studio pros' secret number system so you can play any tune in any key. You'll learn the universal way studio musicians communicate in musical shorthand. This is the system for all instruments used in New York, L.A., Nashville, and throughout the world. Greg uses half a dozen standard tunes to demonstrate how to use the Nashville Number System in simple as well as complex situations. Learn how it began while you too become an expert. Greg also tutors you briefly on chord building. Included are Greg's copy-righted Universal Number System Chart and a symbol conversion chart with chord and rhythmic symbols.
From middle C to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," Mike takes you on a fun journey through the rudiments of reading music. Learn about key and time signatures, lines and spaces, the names of notes, and sharps and flats. Michael teaches reading and timing for all instruments, using keyboard and guitar to illustrate principles. His new approach makes in simple for all ages!
This Autoharp video demonstrates the four main steps that make up Evo's unique style of Autoharp performance. Included are pinch strum for rhythm accompaniment, pinch strum for melody picking, and full rhythm strum for melody picking.
A step-by-step approach to learning the nylon-strung folk harp. Starting with beginning exercises to develop tone and strength, Ms. Robertson continues with chords, beginning pieces, chord patterns, and special effects.
This video demonstrates Kim Robertson's unique folk-harp style. Explained are left-hand chord patterns, bass lines, dampening, tremolo, ethnic tunings, and improvisation.
An excellent guide for using the harp to accompany songs.
This remarkable video captures all the joy and warmth of one of Ireland's best-loved musicians, Micho Russell, live in concert at Washington Square Church in New York. This video also features Micho talking with Doctor Mike Moloney of Villanova University about the musical culture and folk ways of Ireland.
Tunes and techniques are included that range in difficulty from beginning to advanced.
No previous dance experience is required to use this video. Included are the basic steps (including Chug, Tennessee Walking Step, The Indian, Buck and Wing, and Wagon Wheel), stretching choreography, and a creative approach that allows you to combine the various steps into your own arrangements.
A beginning guide to the Anglo concertina in the nautical style. This video requires no previous knowledge of music or music training. Techniques included cover basic melody, harmony, left- and right-hand accompaniment, arpeggios, inverted position, ornamentation, and more.
This video offers instruction on holding the flute, embouchure, breathing, and ornamentation. Also includes examples of tunes in different rhythmic figurations, such as the jig, slip jig, reel, hornpipe, polka, and air.
This video will teach you the popular yet elusive strumming technique of the bodhran. In addition, you will learn the basics of bones, spoons, and the exciting Scottish snare.
Unlock your child's musical potential with these easy-to-make musical instruments. Using common everyday materials like tin cans, cardboard tubes, and plastic margarine tubs, you will learn to make shakers, cuicas, a bleach bottle banjo, and even a working dulcimer.
A selection of songs and tunes of the British isles from a live television performance by Michael Hubbert and Mickie Zekley. Instruments include Irish harp, hurdy gurdy, fiddle, harp guitar, mandolin, flute, guitar, and tinwhistle.
A collection of wonderful sea songs from the 18th and 19th centuries performed on concertina and button accordion.
This video captures the spirit the 1985 Lark in the Morning Traditional Music and Dance Summer Camp. Includes teaching, dancing, story telling, music sessioning, and much more. Presents the collective creative spirit found at this lively gathering.
A basic guide to maintaining and repairing diatonic accordions and concertinas. You will learn how to dismantle your instrument, repair bellows, fix reed problems, replace pads, correct tuning flaws, and much more.
Percy Danforth has been playing bones since 1908 and is the master of two-handed bones performance. This is the definitive teaching video on bones.
Pat Bergeson shares his knowledge of major, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and mode scale positions. Also included are arpeggios, approach notes, use of the metronome and more!
Ireland's greatest Bodhran player, Tommy Hayes, who is featured on many Irish recordings, T.V. shows and films, including In The Name of the Father, shares his lifetime skills with you. In this video he shows various techniques, handstyles, rolls, strokes and many other skills used in playing the Bodhran, Bones, and Spoons.
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