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!

Comapnion Soundtrack Cd for the book played by Karen Tweed.

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 easy-to-follow harmonica DVD will take you step by step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing track!

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).

Paul McNevin is one of Ireland's finest fiddle teachers and performers. Paul, with patient insight into the student's needs, shows you how to play traditional Irish music and guides you through each step, from holding the fiddle and the bow correctly, on to playing scales and finally to playing your first tunes. Features live stage performances with Gavin Ralston and Gerry O'Connor.

This lesson by two of the ukulele's most enthusiastic proponents will get anyone started on this popular instrument - even those who have never played anything before! This friendly, joyful lesson teaches first chords, strumming patterns, and songs such as The More We Get Together, Home on the Range and You Are My Sunshine to beginning musicians. ONE HOUR • LEVEL 1 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB ON DISC

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..

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.

Companion soundtrack for the book played by Dave Mallinson

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.

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.

Learn all the great styles and techniques with Charlie Lennon. Bow and finger ornamentation, cuts, rolls, runs, bends, holding the fiddle, bowing techniques, triplets, staccato runs, bow direction, double stopping, regional styles, phrasing and much more. Complete with live stage performances featuring Steve Cooney, Tommy Hayes, Gerry O'Connor and Cormac Breathnach.

Vinnie Kilduff, Ireland’s great tin whistle player, shows you from beginner to advanced playing. Featuring piping techniques, triplets, rolls, cuts, vibrato, hammer-ons & crans. Plus live stage performances featuring Steve Cooney, guitar and Gerry O’Connor, banjo.

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.

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.

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.

Companion soundtrack to the book of the same name.