Learn how you can play a lick based on the D melodic scale with this banjo tutorial. You will learn different picking patterns and variations on the melodic D scale. Watch this banjo how to video and you will be able to improvise over the D melodic scale.
Watch this piano tutorial video to learn how to play Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go" on the piano. Intermediate pianists will find this video the most helpful, since you learn by watching, and soon after watching this instructional video, you'll be rocking out to "Where'd You Go" by Fort Minor on the piano.
To play fetch effectively, a dog should be retrieving the toy and dropping it at the owner's feet. An easy way of teaching the dog to fetch is by using two toys. Watch this video pet training tutorial and learn how to teach a dog to play fetch.
Check out this how-to video for a discussion of the card strategy game, Mystery Rummy Case #1 with its designer, Mike Fitzgerald. Mystery Rummy Case #1 is a two to four player game. Take a look at these Mystery Rummy cards!
In this tutorial shows an exercise to learn all major chords, minor chords, dominate 7th chords, and diminished chords on the piano or keyboard. This is an excellent exercise to improve agility on the piano. Watch this how to video and you'll be playing all of the piano chords in no time.
This music tutorial shows you how to break up a regular piano chord into a technique called Alberti Bass. This technique makes piano chords more interesting and can also give the chord more direction instead of a regular block chord sound. Watch this how to video and you will be playing the Alberti Bass pattern in no time.
In popular music, a slash chord or slashed chord is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass after the root note letter. This how to video explains how to play slash chords on the guitar. This tutorial also briefly covers palm mutes.
Two tones in unison are considered to be the same pitch, but are still perceivable as coming from separate sources. Understand the concepts of unison and with what instruments you can play them with this two part how to video.
Shakti from Bodhisattva.com demonstrates the right way how to play a Tibetan singing bowl. Since the time of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni (560 - 489 B.C.E.) the harmonics of singing bowls have been used to induce meditation and assist spiritual seekers to the state of enlightenment.
This quick video will teach you how to play the beginning of "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath on the electric guitar.
This quick guitar video will teach you how to play the beginning of "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Learn how to play the most famous of ALL ancient Jewish melodies on King David's Lyre; "Hatikvah" - "The Hope" This ancient melody was later to be made the official National Anthem of Israel.
Learn how to play one of the most beautiful songs, traditionally sang at Yom Kippur/Rosh Hashana, called "Avinu Malkeinu" (Our Father, Our King):
In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to play on the lyre, the traditional melody usually sang to "Adon Olam"(Lord of the World); one of the beautiful closing hymns sang at the end of a traditional Shabbat Service.
This lesson teaches some basics on how to set up the bridge, and a few technical exercises on how to play basic intervals on the lyre. I have tuned the lyre to the melodic minor mode, as the intervals here are much more simple and therefore easier to understand, than the much more exotic Eastern-sounding modes which the lyre can also be tuned to (eg the "Ahava Raba" mode, as discussed in previous lessons).
This tutorial teaches you how to play "Lemonade" by Passion on the piano.
Learn how to play "The Truth" by Daniel D on the piano.
Learn how to play "Ode to My Family" by The Cranberrieson the guitar.
Play a pentatonic warm up exercise for vocals with a backing track for call & reponse Note:
Play one of many possible 12 Bar Blues Chord Patterns/Progressions in C Major with Triad Arpeggios in the Bass Part on the piano
Learn how to play a common pop groove on the piano using triads from C Major.
Learn how to play a common pop groove using 1-5-6-4
Learn to play arpeggios in C Major on the piano. C=1
Learn how to play basses accordion in G
This is an exercise for accordion, you need to play C Major on both hands 2 octaves.
If you have never played recorder before, (or if 3rd grade was a long time ago) this lesson should help you learn the basics of recorder playing: how to play all the notes and how to fix the squeaks. Play beginning recorder.
This video is designed to teach you how to play Ode to Joy (from Beethoven's 9th Symphony.) Remember to play with your left hand on top. You may need to pause and replay parts to get the hang of it. Play "Ode To Joy" on the recorder.
Watch to learn how to play lead electric guitar using power chords. Includes tablature to help following along.
Learn how to play the intro to "Voodoo Chile" by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the electric guitar
With tips from this video, play "Lovely Hula Hands" in the key of C on the ukulele.
Play "Blue Hawaii" in the key of C on the ukulele.
With tips from this video, play "Blue Hawaii" verse 2 on the ukulele.
With tips from this video, play "Little Brown Gal" in the key of F on the ukulele.
With tips from this video, play "Tiny Bubbles" in the key of D on the ukulele.
With tips from this video, play "Hapa Haole Hula Girl" in the key of G on the ukulele.
With tips from this video, play "Hula Blues" in the key of G on the ukulele.
Play an easy ukulele blues tune. "Bad to the bone" is based on this simple technique. Pick up your ukulele and give it a try!
Watch this video and pay close attention to get an idea of how to play a p-funk sound on the ukulele.
Use a right hand strum on this chord progression to play a p-funk sound on the ukulele.
This video focuses on Grandmaster level chess tactics. It features an interesting tactical idea by Bobby Fischer in a match he played against W. Birch in 1963. If you want to learn from the masters, then why not watch it?
