Tutor DVD by Instrument

Learn to play the banjo with just two fingers! Believe it or not, you CAN play the 5-string banjo. This simple approach is designed to make banjo playing immediately accessible to EVERYONE! If you've believed that you can't make music, this DVD will change your mind and bring the richness of music making to your life. Run time is 30 minutes.

William Bay and Mike Buerk teach you, in a step-by-step manner, how to play the soprano or descant recorder. Time signatures, sharps and flats and all of the basic notes are taught. In addition, you will be able to play along with many great recorder songs, ranging in style from classic to Irish ballads to ragtime to jazz to blues! Learn over 70 recorder solos!

Companion soundtrack to the book of the same name.

This course is designed for beginning mandolin students. It teaches the fundamentals of mandolin, chord strumming, single-note melody picking, and explains tablature. This method does not require any previous musical experience or note-reading ability. You will learn several well-known bluegrass songs in both strumming and picking styles.

Learn to play spoons, bones, washboard, hambone and even the paper bag! It's fun, and anyone can do it -- no music lessons, note-reading or expensive instruments are needed to join in with the band!

This excellent introduction to music covers finger coordination, ear training and basic theory. Attractive on-screen graphics illustrate fingering for the five basic chords taught here. 55 Mins. Includes booklet of lyrics, chords and progress chart.

Master teacher and one of Ireland's top box players, P. J. Hernon shows you everything step by step and note for note in a patient and friendly manner on this great one and a half hour video. Ideal for the complete beginner. Complete with live stage performances. Features piping techniques, triplets, rolls, cuts, vibrato, hammer-ons, crans and much, much more.

This excellent instructional DVD is for anyone taking up the bodhrßn for the first time and who wants to start playing immediately. Learn to play your first basic strokes and accompany tunes. The video also features live stage performances featuring Irish performers Conor Long (bodhrßn), Gavin Ralston (guitar), and Paul McNevin (fiddle).

Designed to augment level 2 of David Barrett's Harmonica Masterclass Series, this video bridges the gap between what can be studied at home and what can only be learned in private lessons.

One of the Celtic music world’s most talented bouzouki players, accompanists and arrangers, has created a lesson that is comprehensive enough to be of great value to beginners and experienced players alike.

You'll make music right away with this easy beginners' lesson! John Williams explains all the fundamentals of the 20 or 30 key Anglo concertina. How to hold the instrument, use the keys , bellows, air button and how to move beyond the basic scales. He teaches 5 tunes in note for note detail then moves on to cross fingering, bellows work, triplets, grace notes etc..

Now even beginners can strap on a squeezebox and start rockin'! This exciting new course is not just for accordion novices, though. Experienced keyboard players will also want to stretch out into the rich sound this ever-popular instrument produces.

Companion soundtrack to the book of the same name.

This is the CD that accompanies the book of the same name. As well as the tunes listed below there are lots of sets of jifs, reels, slides, polkas, hornpipes and slipjigs to play along to.

Comapnion Soundtrack Cd for the book played by Karen Tweed.

Interactive CD Rom (PC and MAC compatible). That you can jam along to.

You can make good banjo music almost immediately with this DVD! Pete Wernick has taught thousands of people, young and old, to play three-finger style bluegrass "Scruggs" picking. This super-easy lesson has been time-tested at Pete’s many workshops and music camps, and he will have you playing along in the very first minutes.

Learning bongos was meant to be this easy! This unique two-part DVD was designed to offer the beginning hand drummer a fun and creative approach to start playing immediately. In Part 1, expert percusionist Brad Dutz covers how to develop a good sense of the beat, how to produce tones, and how to play a rhythm. Part 2 presents in-depth instructions on the proper techniques for producing a variety of tones and sounds.

If you are an accordionist, you'll want this DVD! Joey Miskulin, an acknowledged master of the instrument, gives intermediate players a close up look at his skills.

You've heard those velvet tones, sweeping runs and lightning fast licks on a thousand country classics. Now one of the wizards of the pedal steel takes the mystery out of this fascinating instrument, breaking it down for beginning and intermediate players alike.

We're in the midst of a ukulele renaissance and this wonderful little instrument's role has been expanding to include a wide variety of musical genres. In the hands of the amazing Del Rey it becomes a veritable blues and ragtime music machine! This informative and entertaining DVD will teach you a myriad of fingerpicking and chording techniques. Del takes a guitar player's approach to the instrument, using her three fingers to get a syncopated melody and harmony lines against a steady thumb beat. She teaches you how to play cool riffs, turnarounds, blues songs and up-beat dance tunes. Tuning her uke to open C (G-C-E-A), she starts off with blues scales and right hand exercises to coordinate your picking and fretting hands. Then it's right into five fabulous pieces in a variety of keys: Goin' Up the Country; Run and Tell Your Daddy, Lord; Keep it Clean; Dance Hall Shuffle and Brown's Blues.

John Williams teaches basics like holding the accordion, first scales, chords, arpeggios, scales in triplets, waltz rhythm and more. He then moves on to teach five traditional Irish tunes.

A basic guide to style, technique and practice, this complete two DVD course gives you all the basic training you'll need to play authentic bluegrass fiddle.

Companion soundtrack for the book played by Dave Mallinson