This popular method starts young children on their musical journey by teaching basic principals of guitar playing. It begins with a lesson on the parts of the guitar, how to comfortably hold the instrument as well as right and left hand positioning and tuning. Easy step-by-step playing examples are used to teach chords, picking, strumming patterns and single-note melodies. It uses plain language that makes it easy to understand major and minor chords, rhythm, and timing. Have fun playing complete song rhythms with full band backing tracks that give children the feel and excitement of playing with other musicians.The Rock House Method is the fastest growing and most widely used music instruction system in the world. It features many of today's most talented musicians giving you in-depth tutorials on the fundamental techniques they use to create their signature sound. The lessons are designed so students can apply what they learn to their own playing. Artist and basic method programs come with a printable e-book PDF file that has each lesson tabbed-out, iPod ready video and free lifetime membership to Rock House's 24/7 lesson support system at www.RockHouseMethod.com. Students use Rock House's fully interactive lesson support site along with their products to enhance their learning experience, expand their knowledge, link with instructors, and connect with a community of people from around the world who are learning to play music using The Rock House Method.Price: $17.99
The Learn Guitar Chords DVD teaches the user from the First Person Perpective how to play the guitar and features drag and drop portable content that can be put on a computer or iPod, etc. 
Kids Rock Guitar (00641625) emphasize on singing and accompanying all-time favorite kids songs by introducing basic chords, rhythmic strumming, and playing in several keys. These Parents Choice Award winners do more than simply teach guitar they help the child develop a musical ear, good hand coordination, solid work habits and a love of music. DVD 1 (00641622) has you play in ten easy lessons while DVD 2 (00641623) covers fingerpicking arpeggios, capo use, basic chord theory, and tools needed for folk, country, spiritual, school, and campfire songs. Ages 6-12.
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This Rock House Video Lesson DVD will take through all the learning stages to help you become a competent and proficient guitarist!Learn Rock Guitar BeginnerThis program is designed for someone with little or no experience. It begins at the roots of Rock with an easy to follow look at basic Rock chords, scales, lead patterns, and exercises. Learn key components of lead guitar, the basics of Blues, and the foundation of Rock. By the end of this program you'll be playing complete rhythms, leads, and songs!Learn Rock Guitar IntermediateThis program guides you from the Beginner to Advanced level. Go through Rock and Metal scales in depth. An entire exercise program designed to build finger strength and coordination. There are advanced chords and rhythms with bass and drum backing tracks, arpeggios, bi-dextral hammer-ons, and many other rock techniques.Learn Rock Guitar AdvancedThis is it!!! Get ready to kick ass with the most advanced riffs and tricks for guitar. Learn advanced scales, pivoting, and sweep arpeggios. A work out program will make your fingers scream. There are Mozart sonatas for rock guitar as well as complete rhythms and leads with bass and drum backing tracks. Learn the styles and secrets of the best guitarist ever to play.Each Rock House video Includes a PDF file of the lesson tab ebook that you can print, iPod-ready video, and free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support. Enhance your learning experience to links with instructors, download backing tracks, access message boards, and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.
Designed as a comprehensive multimedia teaching set, this book, CD, and DVD present 42 solos, progressively graded in 6 levels from absolute beginners to more advanced, to suit players of all levels. It contains examples of eighteen different palos (rhythmic forms) of flamenco, with a wealth of melodic falsetas and rhythms. The music for all these is accurately written in notation and flamenco tab (cifra) in the book, and is also recorded on the companion CD. The DVD video contains over 57 minutes of solo music, and also includes introduction by Juan Martín and brief scenes of Andalucia today, which help to place this profoundly exciting and deeply felt music in the landscape of its origins. Juan Martín has succeeded here is showing how even music which is simple and very easy to start with can express the essential sound and emotion of flamenco, to build step by step the skills necessary for the performance of concert solos. Written in English and Spanish.
Learn the trademark riffs and solos behind one of the most influential metal bands of all time. Each riff and solo is played up to speed, then broken down note-by-note, then played at a slow tempo. An in-depth analysis of eight songs: Battery - Blackened - Damage, Inc. - Fade to Black - Jump in the Fire - Master of Puppets - Seek & Destroy - Welcome Home (Sanitarium).
Billy Sheehan provides basic techniques for playing bass, including choosing the right instrument and keeping time.
The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before; just watch, listen, and learn. Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. The instructor performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with guitar tab, wide view with tab, pick-and-fret hands close-up.
Back by popular demand, this is Warren's follow-up to his first extremely successful Hot Licks release, Electric Blues and Slide Guitar. In this DVD, Warren teaches the country blues of Son House and Robert Johnson, different slides for different sounds, open-tuning licks in G and E tunings, using vibrato to correct pitch, damping for a cleaner sound, Muddy Waters' standard tuning style, switching off between the slide and fingers, call and response improvisation and so much more. As an extra bonus, many of the examples are illustrated with Warren's band, Gov't Mule! Don't miss this opportunity for yet another blues guitar tour de force with the great Warren Haynes!
Bob Brozman's remarkably detailed instruction starts with the basics, including the open tunings needed to get the true bottleneck sound. Through careful explanations of essential left- and right-hand techniques, exercises and songs, this video reveals the secrets of traditional blues/slide guitar. 
Warren Haynes, of the Allman Brothers Band, has also enjoyed an outstanding solo career as a bluesman. On this great DVD he covers a wide range of blues and slide skills and techniques, including phrasing, vibrato, string bending, and soloing as well as mixing major and minor scales, using space, and looking for blue notes within intervals. An intense and rewarding blues lesson guaranteed to improve your playing! Includes a new introduction by Jeff Golub. Jeff began his career as guitarist for rocker Billy Squier. He has recorded numerous solo CDs and is a highly valued session player and sideman, having worked with such artists as Peter Wolf, John Waite, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Rod Stewart. You'll never miss a note! You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played! All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy. Also includes: Artist biography, selected discography, suggested listening, booklet with music examples, and more. 1 hour, 28 minutes. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Here s the coolest way ever to learn to play an electric guitar! Two-time GRAMMY® winner Marcy Marxer teams up with top studio musician Pete Kennedy to inspire kids and get them off to a great start. These fun, easy to use play-along lessons will teach budding players the music fundamentals, from holding and tuning the guitar to playing rhythm grooves, forming chords and even making up their own rock solos. There s plenty of opportunity to jam right along with Pete and Marcy and their talented friends, Jake (age 14) and Emily (age 11). Their friendly energy encourages kids to join in with them while they teach exciting guitar techniques. If there was ever a kid-friendly way to start rockin on the guitar, this is it!
From the first notes of this DVD, Roger McGuinn's signature Rickenbacker 12-string will immerse you in the sound that made The Byrds a prime musical force. Roger teaches favorites from his powerful repertoire - Mr. Tambourine Man * Turn! Turn! Turn! * Eight Miles High * Mr. Spaceman and others - and shows how to master the licks and guitar techniques that make his sound instantly recognizable. Roger provides important instructional pointers and detailed advice on basic 12-string maintenance, recording techniques and other "insider" tips. 60-MIN. DVD * INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB * LEVEL 3
The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen, and learn. Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along, or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with guitar tab, wide view with tab, pick and fret hands close-up. Each DVD includes great songs that are classics for any guitarist.
Fretboard Logic Video I and II on DVD present real world applications of the concepts found in the books. You learn to play different styles of music as well as different guitar styles such as lead guitar and instrumentals. Along with using different techniques such as flatpick and fingerpicking, you get to enjoy different types of guitar and realize a deeper and broader learning experience that only this type of variety makes possible. Instead of the usual monkey-see, monkey-do, Fretboard Logic emphasizes comprehension of all aspects of what is being demonstrated, from the fretboard basics, to the the tone group construction, to how they function in different music styles. In the lead playing section, the emphasis is on creativity, where the goal is to draw from the available resources in the books to produce music of your own, with a clearly defined style and which is interesting to your audience. With the instrumentals, you play and analyze music that is challenging but still makes sense on all the different levels. The result is a learning experience which is more thorough, permanent and satisfying that what you may have experienced in typical guitar educational videos.
Here is a unique chance to learn classical guitar from a master. William Kanengiser shows you how to develop proper sitting positions, rest and free strokes, rasguedos, right- and left-hand synchronization and technique, slurs, and stretching exercises. You'll discover all this from a superb player and teacher who is one of the world's most honored classical guitarists. William Kanengiser has been praised by the Los Angeles Times for his dizzying execution and exceeding vitality and warmth. He is recognized as one of America's most brilliant guitarists, and has won numerous awards such as First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as major international competitions in Toronto and Paris.
Beginning electric guitar lessons, including how to tune, playing popular and useful chords, picking techniques, and techniques using bends, hammer-on
Tony Saunders has performed and recorded with countless well-known artists including: Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and many more! In Beginning Bass, Tony gives 4 and 5 string beginning players an up close detailed course in the fundamentals of
GUITARS AND THEIR STARS spotlights the development and history of the classic electric guitar as well as the players that made them famous. Spanning a multitude of genres including rock, blues, rockabilly, country, hard rock, punk, and more, this feature will provide the first in-depth look at the six-string's immeasurable impact on society and culture.
Take a lesson from the man who played guitar in Howlin' Wolf's band for more than twenty-five years! Hubert Sumlin's unique guitar lines became an integral part of the Wolf sound, and his spare, sharp-edged solos can be heard on dozens of classic recordings. 
"75 minute DVD in Amaray Case, 32 Pg Booklet House of Blues The Rock House Method® join together to offer this unique and comprehensive beginner program that will have you playing blues guitar in no time! Throughout the more than 90 minutes of one-on-one lessons with instructor and guitarist John McCarthy you'll develop a solid understanding of general guitar basics, a foundation for playing blues guitar and an historical perspective of the blues. The program features essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, and lead techniques like string bending, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy and B.B. King. There are complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues and much more! The full band backing tracks let you feel the excitement and energy of playing in your own band. Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience, links with instructors, download backing tracks, access message boards, and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method."