How To: Play a beginner blues scale on piano
This is a simple video explaining the c minor pentatonic blues scale and how to use it with your left hand on a piano/keyboard.
This is a simple video explaining the c minor pentatonic blues scale and how to use it with your left hand on a piano/keyboard.
A simple self working trick that requires no sleight of hand. Turns randomly chosen cards into the first chosen card by the spectator.
An amazing card trick with tutorial. Self working so it requires no sleight of hand.
In this golf lesson golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses some more details about the position of the left thumb on the shaft and the roll it plays in the golf swing.
BPS golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses how to put your hands on the club properly to form a neutral golf grip. This grip video is different from his first. He goes into more detail about the function of the grip and some finer points not usually discussed.
An advanced juggling technique known as the claw. Make sure you've got the eye hand coordination before even attempting this performance.
Adolfo explains how to throw a jab properly. You lean forward, keep your elbows in, and keep your left hand above your right. You should always make sure that your right foot is planted after your punch.
Watch this video from the Concrete Network to learn how to use a variety of edging tools including hand, combination and walking edgers.
Ladder stitch in hand embroidery can be one of two stitches. There's the surface embroidery technique that creates a decorative band that looks a lot like a ladder, with edges that look like a chain stitch. There's also a drawn thread technique called ladder stitch that produces a ladder-like strip of remaining threads in the design area. The ladder stitch in this video tutorial is the former - the decorative band used in surface embroidery. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how i...
If you are a beginner at hand embroidery, one of the first stitches you will probably learn is the chain stitch. The chain stitch has many variations, and one of them is the wheat stitch, also known as the wheatear stitch. This stitch is simple to work and produces a line that resembles a shaft of wheat. The stitch can be used in all kinds of applications - it would make great background greenery in flowers and gardens, it can also serve as a seam embellishment in crazy quilting, and it can s...
Variations to the feather stitch make it a versatile stitch for hand embroidery. Like the feather stitch, the double feather stitch is used for foliage, sprigs, greenery, etc., in all types of general surface embroidery, and is especially good for Brazilian embroidery, ribbon embroidery, etc. It works great as a seam embellishment in crazy quilting, and as an edging or border stitch on other work. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how it's done.
The snare drum comping exercises in this lesson are designed to improve your left-hand control within jazz drumming. All of the patterns are based around the basic jazz pattern, but include unique snare drum patterns designed to challenge your limb-independence.
This lesson covers six unique sixteenth note accent beats. These are ideal for intermediate to advanced drummers that are looking for new ways to spice up their grooves. The patterns are somewhat similar to the two-handed sixteenth note beats, but they incorporate accents on certain hi-hat strokes.
Heres a video that teaches you tips on how to back out of a slip singlehandedly.
A regular size 9 male ring is flicked like a coin from the right hand on to the left ring finger.
This is a two part video tutorial explaining what Sony Vegas is, and how to use it! If you've just picked up this piece of software and have been wondering how to use it, hopefully this video will give you a hands on look at the program as well as a guide in exploring its various features.
This is a video tutorial on making a rubber band star.
Unless it's a scene with so many punches and kicks and explosions, storyboarding an entire movie or short isn't a requirement. However, it can be of use anyway; especially if your movie calls for seventy different shots that you can't all remember; or if you need a visual reference to hand to your crew.
Do it yourself closet organization can be quite a journey, even with the best advice. Meghan Carter discovered first-hand the trials and tribulations of closet organization as she put herself under the scrutiny of professional organizer Cynthia Ivie. But in the end, Meghan not only organized her closet, but found a great excuse to go shopping.
Check out these fall pruning tips from "Tracy Scissor Hands". Learn how to be selective in your pruning in autumn.
OKay, so this video is not the easiest to follow. But you get the basic idea - this stop motion video shows you in slow motion (without any hands blocking your view) how to assemble an origami tetrahedra.
How far would you get if you tried to cross a desert on foot? Learn how to prepare for surviving in a scorching environment,including how to substitute a piece of parachute nylon for a headdress! Use what is at hand to protect your eyes.
Quickly turn your photograph into a hand drawn sketch! This Photoshop tutorial shows you one way to do it using desaturate and invert, Gaussian blur and brightness and contrast.
Hand coloring black and white photographs was a common process prior to the advent of color photography and created a unique visual aesthetic. This video demonstrates how to digitally create this style for digital black and white photography.
This video shows you how to make a rose out of candy clay for your cake decoration. The candy clay is an alternative to fondant or gumpaste. I also use this for figures and the kids have a lot of fun playing with it. I used a wet paper towel to wipe off my hands every once in awhile because they get sticky working with the clay.
Learn a quick trick to make a big POP with a bottle cap.
Learn how to make a right sky hook shot correctly. The sky hook shot is a version of the hook shot where the basketball is released from above the level of the rim.
Watch this video to learn how to make a hand made metal clasp.
This is a must know knot for any climber. Used for everything from self belay to crevasse rescue. Try this hitch out. It is real easy but believe me you can be really hooped if you don't know it. On the other hand this will get you out of a bind when nothing else will. Common knot for mountaineers who travel light in the big hills. Used to ascend a rope or self rescue out of a crevasse.
While there are many different ways to catch a football pass, the general idea is to keep your arms and hands up and out in front of you.
Building a custom Oswald bicycle frame using hand powered tools. This shows you how to lug cut and tube miter.
Learn what to inspect on an old CD player before you buy it for your setup.
Master another great left hand technique for playing the banjo - the pull off. These are used a lot as tags (added to the end of the song).
Learn another left hand technique for the banjo - the hammer on, where you pluck the string and then hammer on it with your finger.
A cool lipstick and hand trick. You need to misdirect for a moment. Fun trick and easy to do.
Learn how to flip a coin across your hand (between your knuckles!) and amaze your friends.
For preschoolers the popular Five Little Pumpkin rhyme is done with hand movements and counting skills are incorporated.
This episode tackles the age old question, what do I do with my meat... why Beef Stew! Alex and Heather try there hand at good ol' fashioned Beef Stew. Pot, Meat, Veggie... what could go wrong. Check it out!
Unfortunately not everyone goes through the effort of making form fields on their forms. So rather than print the form out and fill it out by hand, use the Acrobat Typewriter Tool to click right onto the form and type right onto it without the need for form fields. In this video you’ll learn how.
Cool Tool: Working on pop-up sprinklers is easy—if you're an octopus! This nifty tool pulls up and holds the nozzle so you can work with both hands.