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 »
Most beginners believe that they need to know how to read music, understand theory, struggle through boring exercises and learn hundreds of chords to play fingerstyle guitar. NOT SO! Guitar is the most popular instrument on the planet because it’s the easiest instrument to learn how to play. Thousands of popular songs can be played with just a… Read More »
Relocating from Texas to Los Angeles in the early 40’s, Walker’s “electrification and urbanization of the blues” and catalog of blues hits for Capitol, Black & White, and Imperial would “popularize the use of electric guitar in the form more so than anyone else.” T-Bone’s “distinct jazzy jump blues” feel – Texas blues with a pinch of bebop,… Read More »
Sam Hurrie started playing guitar in 1959. He lived and performed in New York during the blues revival of the 1960’s. He was fortunate enough to play with and learn from many musicians who would go on to become the guitar legends of our time. Sam wanted to play slide guitar without switching instruments or re-tuning, inspiring him… Read More »
Uncover the Secrets of FM8 These days. FM synthesis provides you with an entire new world of seems to make use of within your productions. Native Instrument”s FM8 could be the world”s most favored FM synthesizer. Its design and style as well as technologies deliver the boatload of sound-producing strength into your hands. The problem would be to… Read More »
The full course of work in the program Steinberg Cubase 6. Level 1 content 1: Level 1 03:02 1. MIDI Setup 07:46 2. Audio Setup 06:42 3. New Project 05:36 4. Tracks 04:05 5. Track Presets 06:14 6. The Transport 05:37 7. The Project Page 05:51 8. Tools 1 04:53 9. Tools 2 06:15 10. Customizing 4:37 am… Read More »
A visual lesson of creating a unique “talking” bass of the world-famous cardinal dubstep skrillex. Video for more than 30 minutes covers almost all the stages in creating this killer sound from scratch in Ableton and Native Instruments FM8. Starting with the basic parameters of the plug-in and ending with the automation of the equalizer settings and everything… Read More »
Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level, and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful, interactive sound that measurably improves gameplay. If you are a sound designer or composer and want to do… Read More »
Fundamental – the fifth DVD from Dance Music Production – is a tutorial dedicated to the ‘fundamental’ production techniques that all producers should be fully versed in. In this first edition of the fundamental series, and one of our best selling tutorials, this DVD discusses the most vital element behind all types of dance music: groove. Over 3… Read More »
This course focuses on writing, engineering and producing a trance track. Starting with a blank sequencer, the 3 hour video course is designed to be used in conjunction with the Dance Music Manual (first or second edition) and follows Phiadra through the construction and programming of the trance track “Sunset”. It shows how the theory of the book… Read More »
This quick Up and Running course demonstrates the power of KONTAKT, arguably the world’s best software sampler. KONTAKT’s lush sample libraries, powerful routing, and intuitive UI make creating sophisticated sounds and performance setups a breeze. Here, J. Scott Giaquinta provides a brief overview of the features, signal routing, and effects, and shows how to chop up loops and… Read More »
With early support from the Laidback Luke Forum, the Essential Music Guide will teach students of both beginner and intermediate levels the necessary steps towards producing electronic music in Ableton Live. With this course you will be able to create professionally sounding electronic music from start to finish. Have you recently made the switch to Ableton Live? Or… Read More »
