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
21686 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.
Our 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
Our 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.
Price $29.95
21721DVD Anyone Can Play C6 lap Steel Guitar
Anyone Can Play C6 Lap Steel Guitar is designed for the absolute lap 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. Advanced techniques, intros and a classic song are also taught. Rob will also cover topics such as the necessary gear and an explanation of how to get the right sound out of your lap 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
21121DVD Set Up and Play! DVD by Steve Fidyk
From Steve Fidyk, author of the “Drum Set SMART book” (MB20932BCD) comes this innovative DVD that shows you step by step how to set up your new drum kit. From unpacking the boxes to adjusting for play - all the way through tuning each drum.
Steve demonstrates fundamental drumming exercises that are an invaluable part of any drummer’s daily routine as well as putting it all together in the studio during an actual recording session.
- Over 20 printable exercises included on the DVD
- Multiple angle coordination drill lets you focus on hands or feet
- Three complete in-studio performances
- Comprehensive menus let you get right to the information you need
- Photo Gallery
- Other resources for all drummers
Beginning - 80minutes - boxed
Our price $14.95
95366DVD Complete Modern Drum Set DVD by Frank Briggs
Re-edited from the original masters, this companion DVD to Mel Bay's Complete Modern Drum Set Book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. All special effects have been removed and the sound track has been encoded in Dolby Digital stereo. Twenty-one play-along tracks, CueLink™ and a metronome make this DVD the most valuable cutting edge educational tool for drummers on the market today.
Addressing a multitude of styles such as jazz, Latin, rock, R&B, African and more, Frank Briggs presents masterful performances and concepts to guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more.
This DVD features complete performances of Red Moon, Home, Along the Mohawk, Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is performed... including page headers and pattern numbers for easy reference). Most of the styles include musical examples so you can hear what the patterns sound like in context.
Quick moving and packed with information, the DVD covers:
The 40 International Rudiments; African beats; Polyrhythm; R&B, Funk, Rock, and Jazz; Odd Meter; Reggae, Latin, and Fusion; Shuffles and Second Line; Linear Patterns; Playing Over the Bar Line; Metric Modulation; Superimposed Meters; and more.
Intermediate-Advanced - 115 mInutes - boxed - 5.38 x 7.5
Our Price $14.99
21726DVD Emmanuel Labor DVD by Tommy Emmanuel
Emmanuel Labor provides a personal, one-on-one setting in which not only music aficionados can enjoy performances of some of Tommy’s best-loved tunes, but also offers guitar players instruction by one of the world’s best. Tommy Emmanuel, fingerstyle master and performer, shares his personal insight and technique to sixteen tunes. Pieces shown include cuts from his albums Only, Endless Road and The Mystery. As a bonus feature on the DVD a few sections are slowed down, with no compromise in pitch or video, to better see the exact execution that Tommy uses. DVD length: 166 minutes.
Advanced, 5.75 x 7.5 Inches
Our Price $34.95
21728DVD Lily Afshar: Virtuoso Guitar DVD by Lily Afshar
The DVD features Lily's soulful interpretation of Koyunbaba, Op. 19 with her mini-cadenza in the final movement, the seldom-heard Turkish folk tune, Kara Toprak Black Earth, her arrangements of the well-known Five Popular Persian Ballads, Gozaar, music by the Iranian composer Reza Vali, based on the traditional Persian scale system of Nava using micro-tones, and three selections from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's virtuosic masterpieces 24 Caprichos de Goya, OP. 195.Lily shows Goya's etchings and gives commentaries on the relationship between the artistic works and the musical pieces. Lily talks about her life and her musical journey. Viewers can see Lily's photo album from childhood to the pesent. This DVD is a rare addition to any musical collection, beneficial to students, professionals and the general public.
Our Price $24.95
21826DVD Taking Off - The Guitar Artistry of Ben Bolt DVD
Featured in the menu are some of the finest classics for all levels of classical guitarists. Selections include pieces by J.S. Bach, Sor, Dowland, Albeniz and more. There are no distracting microphone stands to disturb the visual. It is shot like a movie, with the microphones hung from several large boom stands, instead of placed in front of the artist.
The special features include an interview about Bolt’s first meeting with Andres Segovia while he was registering for the Viet Nam War in Madrid on his eighteenth birthday, when he played his original compositions for Leo Brouwer in Nashville, and the guitars he owns. Also included are some of the guitars he has built from scratch and insights into his artistic. His 11 acre estate on the historic Tennessee River, his horses, dog, and lifestyle are presented in a down home feel. Running time is 51 minutes. 5.38 x 7.5 Inches
Our Price $24.95
21873DVD Sheryl Bailey 3: Live In NYC DVD
Filmed live in New York City Sheryl Bailey, jazz guitar player extraordinaire, plays eight tunes with her Trio featuring Brian Charette (Hammond B3) and Ian Froman (drums). This up close and intimate setting showcases the trio’s abilities and musicianship. Tunes include Dark Eyes, Heavy Bag Blues, Portrait of Emily and more. An interview with Sheryl is included as a Special Feature. DVD length is 59 minutes.
Also, included with this DVD is a bonus audio CD of the entire performance. Listen to your favorite tunes from the DVD anywhere and anytime!
Our Price $24.95
21902DVD Hadley J. Castille: A Lesson in Cajun Fiddle Music DVD
Learn from a Cajun Fiddle Master himself, Hadley J. Castille, as he explains your favorite Cajun Songs!! Hadley J. Castille is one of the finest exponents of authentic South Louisiana Cajun fiddle music. Ever since his epiphany during a tour of Canada in the early 80s, Hadley J. Castille has represented a rare side of Cajun music history. While most practitioners follow the typical accordion-fiddle model, culling tunes from the standards vault, Castille's roots are a direct link to the Cajun Swing era of the late 30s, specifically those of Cajun swing fiddle king Harry Choates. In this interactive DVD, Hadley and his band The Sharecroppers perform original and favorites as well as an explanation of how and why Hadley plays these songs. When being used as a fiddle teaching tool, this fully interactive DVD can teach both intermediate and advanced students. 82 Pages, 5.25 x 7.5 inches
Our Price $29.95
94208DVD Anyone Can Play Rock Guitar DVD taught by Vern Juran
No music-reading ability is required to learn with this method. It is designed for guitar players who want to learn rock guitar technique and who already understand basic open chord strumming as taught in Mel Bay’s Anyone Can Play Guitar DVD volume one. You will learn barre chords, power chords and lead gitar scales to use along with the rock accompaniment tracks included in the DVD. A PDF file for the free instructional booklet is available for download at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.
Our Price $14.95
97767DVD Ronn McFarlane - Contemporary Lute Virtuoso DVD
performed by Ronn McFarlane
In this DVD performance, Ronn McFarlane plays a number of his own lute compositions a well as music of the 16th and 17th centuries. From the Middle Ages through the Age of Enlightenment, lutenists wrote and performed their own music along with the popular music of their time. By the end of the 18th century, this tradition was broken as the lute gradually fell out of favor. Reviving the centuries-old tradition of lutenist-composers, Ronn's work points the way to the lute's future. While treasuring the lute music of the past, he also creates new music for the 10-course lute, blending ancient and modern styles. Like many ancient works for the lute, his music treads the borderline between classical and popular music.
The sum of his own musical experience, Ronn McFarlane's new music reveals the lute for what it is: a timeless instrument, responsive to poetic music making of any century.
Ronn McFarlane also discourses on the history and playing techniques of the lute, and the tradition of the lutenist performing his own compositions in conjunction with popular tunes of the times. His pieces are often quite modern in harmonic and rhythmic structure-yet lie exceptionally well on this ancient instrument.
Our Price $24.95
99231DVD Nikta Koshkin , Guitarist & Composer: In Concert DVD
performed by Nikita Koshkin ; featuring by Frank Koonce
Filmed live at Texas Tech University's Hemmie Recital Hall on Thursday, January 27, 2000, this DVD reveals the full spectrum of Nikita Koshkin's composition and performance skills. Born in Moscow in 1956, Koshkin developed dual passions for composing and playing the guitar at the age of 14 when his grandfather gave him a guitar and a Segovia recording. Since then, his life's ambition has been twofold: to expand the traditional vocabulary of effect on the guitar and to incorporate them into fresh musical expressions. His programmatic explorations of the guitar are now performed by leading concert artists worldwide. 64 Pages, 5.25 x 7.5 Inches
