Ed Friedland Slap Bass The Ultimate Guide. Instruction on how to play funk bass. Includes Snapping, Popping, Left Hand Integration, Dead Notes and other techniques. Dedicated Grooves are provided for each technique. Slow Demos and tips on creating your own grooves are also included. This is a great introduction to the Slap bass. Ed Friedland breaks the whole Slap technique into easy step by step parts. Building upon each as you progress. There are easy exercises and some ‘grooves’ to play, which makes it much more interesting. The Dvd also contains some advanced tricks for the Slapper who may...

Dave Celentano Power Rhythm Guitar PDF. Power Rhythm Guitar is an awesome resource for guitarists. It contains thirty-one lessons for rhythm guitar that you can play by yourself, in a band, or as a back-up musician. With first chords, basic strumming and exercises in many musical styles, including: basic rock, country, hard rock, heavy metal, reggae, blues, funk and more. Ron Middlebrook with Dave Celentano’s book with be valuable and useful as you progress. A CD is included with full band examples of all lessons.  There are a lot of rhythm patterns in the book and each of them...

David Garibaldi The Funky Beat PDF. In The Funky Beat, David focuses on combining funk and jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms to extend his own innovative style. By dissecting his grooves and musical choices for each song on the CD, David demonstrates how to develop musical skills and how to create a signature sound. This book/audio package includes eight charts and two CDs mixed with and without drums for play-along usage. As a bonus, David transcribes and explains eleven of his legendary Tower of Power grooves. The book explains the seminal James Brown funk grooves and how to build upon...

Play Guitar With Bob Marley PDF. Seven of his greatest songs including Buffalo Soldier; I Shot The Sheriff and No Woman, No Cry plus four more hits. These sound-alike backing tracks allow you to play or sing along with your favourite songs. The matching songbook includes complete music and lyrics in both standard notation and guitar tablature. One of the most influential and controversial artists ever. The best selling reggae artist of all time and a revolutionary. Most well known for No Woman No Cry and I Shot the Sheriff among others. Marley is like god to many followers....

First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar PDF. If you’re new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides a combo of tab, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs beginning guitarists want to play on the acoustic guitar. This is a great book to use at home to learn some of those core songs everyone plays, and it’s good to have on hand if you are in a jam session or group performance and you need to learn how to play some of these common songs at a moment’s...

Phil Williams Slap Bass In 6 Weeks download. These DVD’s are designed to help you achieve the motor skills and technique that are necessary to master this style of bass playing. Unlike written tuition, this style is perfect for DVD as all the examples are visual and broken down into manageable and easy to follow sections. Lessons by Phil Williams. Week one includes: Slap bass overview, including equipment, basic technique and background. Simple left hand thumb hits, and muting. Technique builders using 8 bar exercises. Hammer ons and left and right hand motor skill building exercises Week two includes:...

Charles Dowd – A Funky Thesaurus for the Rock Drummer PDF. In this sequel to A Funky Primer, World renowned drummer Charles Dowd helps to add Afro-Cuban rhythms and Odd-Meter Rock beats to a drummers repertoire. Suitable for all percussionists, it introduces certain mechanics of these new styles, focuses on skill building and reinforces practical skills. Many genres of music are covered here; such as African, funk and jazz; all grounded in straight rock or Latin eighths. An invaluable guide for drummers who want to improve improvisation, reading, technique and stylistic taste. Keeping time is the most important function...

First 50 Songs You Should Fingerpick On Guitar PDF. Do you feel you’ve learned enough fingerstyle technique to start playing some real tunes? If so, this is the book for you. This is a delightful collection of old and new, popular and eclectic tunes. It is in the “cheat sheet” format, ie very accessible but at the same time pretty accurately transcribed. There are some advanced songs included that go well beyond the “first 50” fingerpicking tunes a players might attempt, very worthwhile to spend the effort, though. It mostly shows chords and picking patterns for intros, then lyrics...

The Guitar of Preston Reed Expanding The Realm Of Acoustic Playing. On this fascinating video, Preston introduces you to the wide variety of sounds that you can coax from your guitar. He teaches the “rim shots” and “bongo hits”, the slap harmonics, double hammer-ons, two-hand tapping, right-hand fretting and other techniques that will give your playing originality, movement and excitement. Preston plays and analyzes three of his show-stopping instrumental compositions – Slap Funk, Border Towns, and Tribes – detailing the techniques and tunings he uses to get his distinctive sound. By learning these tunes, you’ll develop right- and left-hand...

Guitar World In Deep How To Play Reggae & Funk. In this DVD, Guitar instructor Andy Aledort teaches you how to play classic reggae rhythms, chord progressions and music in the style of Bob Marley. Plus, he shows you all the syncopated grooves and hot chords used in the funkiest R&B. It’s an incredible two-for-one deal! This is a very straight forward introduction to funk and reggae with some repertoire building song examples. Andy Aledort always does an excellent job. This not very deep but is great for people who want to get these techiniques ‘under their fingers’. For...