How To: Play accents and ghost notes on the drums
Learn how to play accents (hard hits) and ghost notes (un-accented notes) on the drums. This drum lesson is designed for the beginner or novice drummer.
Learn how to play accents (hard hits) and ghost notes (un-accented notes) on the drums. This drum lesson is designed for the beginner or novice drummer.
This tutorial teaches how to play drum roll accents and how to incorporate them into basic beats. This lesson is designed for the beginner drummers.
Learn how to play a cool salsa riff in the key of C minor on the piano or keyboard. This blues lesson is ideal for the beginner pianist.
Tim Carter demonstrates how to finish drywall. If you follow his tips, you'll have no trouble with your drywall installation. Great video for the beginner drywall finisher.
Watch to learn how to aim bank shots well in pool. This video is geared toward beginner and intermediate pool players. Because a bank shot is an inconsistent shot, don't spend a majority of your practice time working on it.
Learn how to play and win in a loose gmae of Texas Hold'em. This is an excellent resource for beginner poker players
Learn the betting structure of poker. This video is an excellent resource for beginner poker players.
Learn when to fold, check, and bet in Texas Hold'em. This video is an excellent resource for the beginner poker player.
Learn to play Texas Hold'em like the pro's and how to avoid beginner mistakes.
Here is a detailed two-part explanation of the LBL method (the beginner's method), for solving the Rubik's Cube, or Eastsheen Cube. Need I say more?
This video lesson teaches six basic quarter note beats that you can use within rock music. They are ideal for beginner drummers that have just learned to play drums, and are now looking for additional beat ideas.
Learn all the sharp and flat keys on the piano. Perfect for beginner piano players.
A simple card trick for beginner magicians in which you can always guess what card a spectator chooses.
A beginner's Half Life 2 mapping tutorial on basic texturing, and adding a hallway to another room.
Simple Caddis Larva using copper wire ribbing, Wee Wool, and Peacock Herl. A simple first fly for the beginner learning fly fishing.
This video talks about what SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is and designed for the absolute beginner - someone who wants a high-level overview of Reporting Services.
In this lesson Justin Sandercoe gives you a heap of tips on starting transcribing (learning songs by ear). Aimed at beginner guitar players or those who have not worked out songs by themselves before this should make it easier for you.
This is the absolute beginner's card trick - the 21 cards trick - for finding a spectator's card out of a stack.
This guitar lesson shows how to play the guitar solo from Tangerine by Led Zeppelin, and is easy enough for even beginner guitarists to play.
This is a video that shows you how to make pepperoni at home. It shows the very basics of the process that will be of benefit to the beginner.
Learn how to do an oil change on your Nissan Altima with this instructional automotive repair video.
A beginner's Microsoft Excel tutorial that covers working with formulas, formatting, auto-formatting, dates, and more in Microsoft Excel.
A beginner's guide - learn all about creating layers (or AP Divs in Dreamweaver CS3). Learn about applying properties to custom CSS rules and using stacked Divs to create interesting effects with images.
For beginner DJs - Learn how to plug in and connect a vinyl turntable, a mixer, and a CDJ CD player. Also, learn to connect the amplifier.
For beginner DJs - how to plug in your bedroom PA or disco system.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a simple song and a great one to learn if you're a beginner piano player. This video breaks everything down for you.
A quick video for beginner boxers and Thai Boxers to gain an understanding of what shadow boxing is all about and how they should go about it. Made at Daddis Fight Camps in Philadelphia, PA.
Painting a color on an image might be a painstaking task for a Photoshop beginner. The good news is you don't have to rely on the brush tool to do the job. In this video tutorial you will learn to replace one color with another using the Replace Color dialogue within Photoshop.
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the basic card teleport, in which you appear to make a card placed in the middle of a deck magically reappear at the top.
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the Erdnase color change - in which you appear to change the color of a card with a simple hand gesture.
Crocheting is a great hobby. It could even be a great business if you're good enough. But how do you go about figuring out what to crochet? What projects peak your interest, or others' interest? If you know some basic crochet stitches, it may be time to move on to a challenging project. Here are some steps to choosing the right crochet project for you.
So you've finally got your own copy of Minecraft - now what? This video is a complete tutorial on everything a beginner will need to know in order to get started playing Minecraft. Make sure your first order of business is to build a shelter!
If you have a folder that contains many images (say anything in excess of 200) and you open it in Windows Explorer with the thumbnail view turned on. You would notice that it takes some time for all the thumbnails to load completely.
Hammer curls are a very basic weight lifting exercise that anyone, from beginners to professional chunkheads, can do. Do remember, of course, that it's important to vary the weight according to what you can handle. If you're a beginner, try 5-10 pound weights until you can handle something heavier.
In this tutorial, we learn how to understand sparring in boxing. A good technique is what you need when you are sparring. If you're a beginner, make sure someone with a little more experience is watching you and giving you tips. Sparring needs to be a controlled fight and can help you fight better when you are in a full on fight. When you are sparring, you will be in a controlled area and have experts around you, start out with the other person around you and take shots at the person to try t...
In this video, we learn how to play "Flake" by Jack Johnson on electric guitar. If you are just starting out on the electric guitar, this is a great song to learn as a beginner. After you learn all the chords on the guitar, you will start out with the intro to the song. From here, you will move onto the different verses of the songs. Start to sing in the lyrics as you are playing throughout the song. Make sure you are stopping, pausing, going higher, and going lower as you continue to play. W...
In this tutorial, we learn how to play "Let My Love Open the Door" by Pete Townshend. The intro will start out with G, D, C, repeated until you start D, G, D. After this, you will start to add in the words to the song with G, D, C for the different words in the first sentence. These are the main chords in the song, making it pretty easy for a beginner to learn how to do. Practice learning how to do these few chords, then you will be able fit the lyrics in and get the right strum pattern in th...
The origami version of a box and lid may seem like one of the simplest origami projects out there, but you should consider this origami box and lid the hard mode version of an otherwise beginner origami craft. Rather than use two sheets of paper total - one for the box and the other for the lid - this origami project only involves one piece of origami tissue paper.
Watch this origami tutorial and in no time at all you'll transform an ordinary piece of paper into a fabulous, beautiful swan, unsuspectingly reenacting the classic gratifying story of "The Ugly Duckling." All you need are two hands with more or less dexterous fingers and a piece of white origami tissue paper or printer paper.
Origami is a lot of fun (okay, and also a lot of frustration), but what often turns beginners off from the Japanese art form is simply that it requires special origami tissue paper. While it's true that thin paper made exclusively for origami is preferable for any origami project, you can substitute plain old printer paper instead if you're low on money or just out of origami tissue paper.