This video lesson covers five fun drum beats that are played on the toms. Unlike most drum beats that are centered around the hi-hats or ride-cymbal, these grooves are built around tom-tom patterns. They aren't too difficult to play, and work well in a wide range of playing styles.
Learn how to play a blues shuffle in the key of E on electric guitar.
Learn how to play "Landlocked Blues" by Bright Eyes. Capo on the 3rd fret
Learn how to play "Road to Joy" by Bright Eyes on acoustic guitar. This song is played with a capo on the 1st fret.
Learn how to play "Lime Tree" by Bright Eyes on acoustic guitar. Here are the chords that are in the song. NOTE: these are just the chords that are used, they are not in order, just watch the video to get the order they are played in.
Heres a video that teaches you how to throw a playing card at paper cutting speeds.
Learn how to play "wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton on the ukulele. Play in the key of F. Play if you are a little more advanced.
Reversing the image on a CRT computer monitor can be a great joke to play on your coworker, if you have the time to play a prank like this. If you have a lot of spare time on your hands, and love to see people miserable, then this is perfect for you. This also works with television sets.
This is a tutorial for a beginner from a beginner. It is a description and demonstration of how to play one version of "Nantes" by Beirut on the ukulele. Learn the tuning, chords, timing, and strumming pattern.
Learn how to play "Wipeout" on the ukulele! This is an EXCELLENT, slow tutorial. This song sounds better--and more tropical--on the uke than on the guitar
For beginners that want to know how to play the slap line, learn it here. She won't let her down, not at all, but you can let her down. So don't.
Learn how to play "Glow" by Alien Ant Farm on your guitar. It's not that hard, unless you know nothing about playing the guitar.
Petanque is the French game of boules, popular throughout the world. Although pétanque, bocce, bacci, boccia, kubb, curling, lawn bowling, and marbles are related, they all have their own components that make them different. Here are the basic rules of playing the game of petanque.
In this guitar lesson with Justin Sandercoe you will learn the basic ten chord grips that you will need to know to start playing some jazz.
Justin teaches you how to play Pearl Jam's "Better Man" on the guitar (acoustic or electric). The finger-picked slash chords in the verses, the chords and strumming in the chorus and the song structure are all covered.
This guitar lesson shows how to play the solo from "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles, and is fairly easy to play.
This version of "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin is a wee bit shorter than their original (I left out the G F and C chords played in the middle ). I play it on my 2004 Jay Turser through a 1989 Boss ME-5 Guitar Effects Unit.
In a two part series Gussow gives an introduction to the fine art of singing, blowing harp fills, and keeping a strong beat, on a key of C harp.
Adam Gussow (of Satan and Adam) plays the opening riff of Mr. Satan's "Mother Mojo," then slows and dissects it, with side notes on how to adjust the reeds for faster response.
A three-part lesson in how to count and play your way through 12-bar blues changes on your harmonica. Required: a copy of "Harp Attack," a 1990 Alligator Records release.
Overblows! A quick-hit lesson on what they are, how to play them, and how to set up your harmonica to make them easier to play. Brief demo of overblow licks and Sony Rollins' "Tenor Madness."
An intensive analysis of the "blue third," a quarter-tone that lies somewhere between the major and minor third and is a key constituent of the blues scale that all harmonica players must master. With Satan & Adam harpist Adam Gussow.
In a five-part how-to series on the classic blues harmonica instrumental by Magic Dick and the J. Geils Band. Your guide, Adam Gussow, has been wood shedding the tune for 33 years and is happy to share what he's learned, so you to can play this legendary piece.
On a hot and sultry July afternoon in Mississippi, Gussow shows you how to play blues in B on an A harp in a two part series.
Naomi Judd invites you to play Bunco - the alternative to ladies' poker night: a parlor game played in teams with three dice.
Just like in sports, you must warm up before starting to play. Bobby Crispy shows you the proper way to warm up before playing the electric guitar.
This video teaches the basics of beginner trumpet Part 1 of 2 - How to Play beginning trumpet.
This video teaches the basics of beginning saxophone. Part 1 of 2 - How to Begin playing saxophone.
Play the Garbage Can game to learn control and accuracy in both chipping and passing when playing soccer.
No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em is the Rolls-Royce of poker, the game the big boys play, the game the World Series of poker is all about—the game you want to play.
Learn how to play the classic Beatles song Yesterday on the guitar. Part 1 of 3 - How to Play Yesterday on the guitar.
The Aeolian mode is the sixth mode of the Major scale and has the formula 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, b6, b7. Its tonic chord is a m7.(Am7 in the Key of C). This video shows you how to play it on the piano.
Pete Sears shows you how to play the C minor chord perfectly on your piano or keyboard. It's derived from the major chord, so if you know how to play major chords, it's easy!
Brad Davis shows guitar players how to spice up their rhythm playing with a simple right hand pattern called the rhythm pick pattern (RPP).
Learn Billy Joel's great song Piano Man and how to play it on the piano. You should already know how to play the piano to follow along.
This is a version of a popular fiddle tune that I worked up to play with our fiddle player. Since we were playing it in unison, I wanted a version as close to the standard melody as possible.
Here Scott and his guest, Dave Powers, discuss how to play the rock tune "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys.
Here is an overview in two parts of the great Alan Wilson's harmonica playing on the song: Boogie Chillun' #2 from the Hooker n' Heat album.
How to play root notes on the harmonica. A look at the three root notes that make up the rudiments of a standard 12 bar blues and how they serve as an introduction to blues improvisation! Part 2 is an expansion by adding the 3 draw in all its bent and unbent forms as a harmony of the previously discussed root notes.
Learn to play the slide guitar. This is a beginner lesson.
