Dave Limina Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing download. In Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing, keyboard guru Dave Limina shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to build your harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic vocabulary. The DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Includes scale and blues techniques, ear training, rock and blues phrasing, two-hand grooves for funk, Texas shuffle, roots-rock, Latin styles, as well as jazz voicings and rhythms. Clear and detailed instruction is given both on-screen and in the accompanying 80-page booklet. This DVD is best viewed, not as a...

Dr. John Teaches New Orleans Piano. Lesson One. Imagine being able to see as well as hear the amazing piano styles of the great Dr John – up close! This one-hour session is jammed full of powerful playing, slowed-down instruction, and the wonderful personality of one of the premier artists of our time. On this informative and fascinating lesson, Mac (Dr John) Rebennack discusses the playing styles of the musicians he heard and worked with as a youngster growing up in New Orleans. You’ll learn songs and instrumentals by such legendary greats as Professor Longhair, Pine Top Smith, Champion...

Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is an amazing improvisational soloing DVD for gospel, neo soul, jazz, and R&B styles. You are probably sick of playing the same chords and doing the same few runs and tricks that you find so mundane. Well now you will be able to spice up your playing with an arsenal of solos, licks, tricks, runs, riffs, and phat improvisational techniques. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is slated for the beginner to intermediate keyboard player. We will teach you the basics of soloing as it relates to scales, grace notes, fingering techniques, and ear training....

David Bennett Cohen Blues And Rock Techniques For Hammond Organ. The Hammond organ, especially the B-3 combined with the Leslie speaker, has long been an integral part of modern popular music.You can hear the “classic” sound of the Hammond organ in blues, gospel, jazz, rock, and even on some contemporary singer/songwriter songs (try to picture Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” or Procol Harem’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” without that distinctive sound). Sometimes the organ is used as “padding,” providing background textures using only its sustain capabilities, and at other times it takes a more prominent role as a lead...

Jordan Rudess Keyboard Madness download free. Critically acclaimed keyboard artist and educator Jordan Rudess takes a deep look inside the world of live keyboard performance and shares his knowledge of what it takes to become a true keyboard master. Get an in-depth look at his unique approach to performance with Dream Theater using examples spanning across the entire Dream Theater catalog, as well as Jordan’s numerous solo projects. Enjoy watching the wizard at work, while learning how to harness the power of today’s keyboard technology. Jordan also shares his warm-up routine through a series of technical exercises that will...

Learning Piano with Pete Sears DVD download. Learning Piano is a 3 Hour DVD that’s chocked full of easy-to-digest piano chords, scales and progressions to get your fingers moving across those 88 keys instantly! In Pete Sears 41 years as a professional musician, Pete has played Keyboards, Bass Guitar, or both with a large variety of artists including playing piano on the classic Rod Stewart albums, “Gasoline alley”, “Every Picture Tells a Story”, “Never a Dull Moment” and “Smiler”, as well as the singles “Reason To Believe” and “Maggie May”. Pete was with the Jefferson Starship from 1974 to...

Daniel Abrams Practicing & Performing A Pianist’s Guide download. Practice for results and perform with confidence! Whether you are into the blues or Beethoven, you need a comprehensive set of mental, emotional and physical skills to help you play your best. Famed concert pianist and composer Daniel Abrams reveals a wealth of essential insiders’ tips that will dramatically improve your playing regardless of your preferred style or musical genre. He shows pianists of all levels and styles how to get maximum results from minimum time spent at the keyboard, and provides the tools to practice and perform with strength...

Ethel Caffie-Austin Learn To Play Gospel Piano. There’s no sound more thrilling than the walking bass notes and driving chords of traditional gospel piano, and there is no better way to learn it than from this 2-DVD set. Dr. Ethel Caffie-Austin, a formidable pianist, vocalist and educator, is steeped in the traditions and styles of the black church. She has a clear and concise teaching method and a desire to get you playing this heartfelt and inspirational music, even if you have never played it before. Ethel teaches the basic melody of a hymn or spiritual, and then adds...

Warren Bernhardt You Can Play Jazz Piano Volume 3 download. For his third lesson in the series, jazz pianist Warren Bernhardt teams up with guitarist Mike DeMicco for a powerful session that will teach you new and dynamic musical ideas. This lesson is designed for players who have gotten past the basics in the jazz idiom and have an understanding of the underlying principles of keyboard technique. The wealth of ideas that Warren conveys will give you the tools to be more creative with your music, expand your repertoire and discover what jazz soloing is all about.Warren teaches you...

Warren Bernhardt You Can Play Jazz Piano Volume 2 download. Enter the rich and exciting world of jazz harmony. This fascinating piano lesson from one of the greats in contemporary jazz is packed with musical insights, invaluable advice and detailed keyboard technique for players who are starting out in this idiom. All you need is a basic knowledge of the keyboard, and before long you’ll be comping evocative jazz chords and creating lush improvisations. Warren Bernhardt imparts a wealth of ideas, giving you the tools to be more creative and a deep knowledge of what keyboard harmony is all...