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Jazz and blues guitar master Frank Gambale shows you how to play scales and leads in many different modes. In depth, he covers how to construct modal chord progressions, mode formulas and how to practice them in a modern popular context.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

In Volume One of this series, Jim Weider explores the elements that contribute to the powerful electric country blues guitar sounds of legendary artists like Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Jerry Reed, Roy Buchanan, James Burton, and Lonnie Mack among others. The methods explained here relate to several types of playing, including Delta, Louisiana, and Cajun-inspired styles. Viewers are instructed on a wide variety of techniques and given the chance to play along with Weider`s band. Intended for the early intermediate player, the program comes complete with music and tablature.Picking up where ELECTRIC COUNTRY BLUES VOL.1 left off, part two of this instructional series introduces some far more complex concepts. Intended for the intermediate-level guitarist, the program features lessons and exercises in topics such as country rhythms, string snapping, muting, string pickin`, bending, harmonics, and blues triads. These are just some of the techniques that instructor Jim Weider explains in an effort to demystify what it is that has made electric country blues guitar so influential over the years. Like the previous volume, ELECTRIC COUNTRY BLUES - VOL. 2 includes music and tablature.

The complete series which cost over 10 million dollars to create, and several years to film. It provides a meticulously accurate portrayal of the life of one of the greatest composers of opera the world has ever known, Giuseppe Verdi. The voices of such opera stars as Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Brigit Nilsson, and more, are featured.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

Made in association with the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Capezio dancewear, this program provides the viewer with a thorough index to over 800 ballet steps.
Merrill Ashley, Kevin Mc Kenzie, Denise Jackson, and Georgina Parkinson demonstrate the complete language of ballet.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

Superb pianist and vocalist Dr. Ethel Caffie-Austin teaches gospel piano to novices and intermediate players, starting with the melody and progressing to the mighty bass lines and transcendent chords. Caffie-Austin demonstrates her techniques with such thrilling standards as
Show Me the Way,
Jesus Is On the Mainline,
Study War No More,
Can`t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus,
Standing in the Need of Prayer,
What A Friend We Have in Jesus,
and
Angels Keep Watching Over Me.

Learn how to play bluegrass fiddle the easy way with this helpful guide from a master of the instrument. Stacy Phillips is your instructor, and she aims to teach novice players the basic rules they need to learn in order to develop their playing technique. Working on a methodical pattern that incorporates a look at bowing, slides, fiddling, and many other aspects that need to be understood in order to play in a bluegrass style, Phillips' guide is among the most comprehensive available.

Composed when Mozart was only 24, IDEOMENEO has historically been one of the master's less frequently-performed works. Yet it can be seen to exhibit certain breakthrough aspects which foreshadow the composer's later masterpieces, and was in its day a very progressive opera. This outstanding performance took place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the renowned cast of was directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, and conducted by Marco Guidarini.

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