After months of playing Guitar Hero (II and III), we assumed that graduating to an actual guitar wouldn't be too difficult, right? Unfortunately, it's harder than video games make it look. While learning the chords and basics isn't too difficult for even the least musically inclined of students, creating a decent sounding song can take years. But hey... that's why we call it "For Newbies!"
Learn how to play the Italian card game of Scopa.
Learn how to play the Italian card game Briscola.
Singing and playing together helps open and resonate the sound, place the embouchure, and control the air quantity. It can be used as a warm up or extended technique
Pete Sears teaches you about melodic minors - how to play ascending and descending melodic minor scales on the piano. He demonstarates with C, but you can do the same in any key.
A Harmonic scale is basically the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree. Pete Sears shows you how to play it on your piano.
Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode. Here, Pete Sears explains how to play minor scales on the piano.
Major piano scales are composed of a series of five whole and two half steps in this sequence: whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. This video starts by showing you how to play a C major scale.
Learn the first three steps to begin playing the piano. Wash your hands, sit straight, and use proper positioning.
Learn how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the piano - this is a great video for kids or beginners with finger positions and counting.
Learn how to play Old Macdonald on the piano. The video starts with an overview and then gives finger positioning and timing breakdowns.
Learn Beethoven's masterpiece "Ode to Joy" and how to play it on the piano. Full tempo and finger position breakdowns are given.
Learn the famous Big Ben song and how to play it on the piano. Easy to learn with a numbered overview of finger positions.
This is a short lesson on a couple very common G-licks used in bluegrass guitar playing.
Here Scott and his guest pianist, Bradley Sowash, demonstrate how to play Patsy Cline's timeless country hit entitled "Crazy."
Learn how to play 'Lean On Me' by Bill Withers on the piano. This is a fun song for beginners.
How to play Advanced Bending on the Harmonica (A Harp played in 2nd position). An overview of which draw holes bend,how much and the importance of intonation and their use in all music including the blues.
How to play chordal vamping on the harmonica. Use chords to keep time or as a vamp in between riffs/licks - sort of like the Whammer Jammer intro. (A harp 2nd position)
How to (D Harp) play the Major scale in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Position and apply that over a typical 3 chord blues tune.
How to play train songs and the fox chase on the harmonica. (G Harmonica) The best guys for this are Joe filisko, Richard Sleigh, Grant Dermondy, Peter "Mad Cat" Ruth, and Charlie Mcoy Sonny Terry etc. To really hear it done right listen to those guys. Also, all the old pre war harp players that those guys got it from!
In this 2 part electric guitar lesson you will learn how to use various methods to use doublestops. Part 1 of 2 - How to Play guitar using the doublestop technique.
How to play a walking bassline on guitar by adding three notes before and after chords - eighth notes that feel like triplets but they are actually 8th notes.
In this guitar lesson you will learn how to play the guitar using rhythmic chucking on acoustic and electric guitars. This technique is used by AC/DC and Jack Johnson.
Learn how to play blues rock on the electric guitar. This lesson covers both chords and solos inspired by ZZ top and BB king.
In this video tutorial you will learn to load and play actions in Photoshop CS2. Actions are sets of recorded commands. They are particularly useful to perform repetitive or multi-stepped tasks. The examples in the video are available if you are a member, but even if you're not, the process you learn is the same for any action you want to import or use.
Lesson for water polo spectators or new players about the 6 on 5 power play in water polo. Both the 4-2 and 3-3 power play are reviewed.
This kid's heart is in the right place. He teaches you beginner's boogie woogie. Part 1 of 2 - How to Play boogie woogie as a beginner.
See how the Nintendo Wii's Nunchaku and Wiimote controllers make playing Mortal Kombat easier that ever. you can pull off special moves just by flicking your wrist.
Learn the basics of VLC player - a free media player that plays almost all video formats (including Flash .flv) as well as DVDs. Learn how to use VLC player to play videos and DVDs as well as how to adjust the aspect ratio, filter videos, or adjust audio quality.
Board game enthusiast Scott Nicholson reviews a new game each week showing you the pieces and rules of play, as well and demonstrating the game with friends. This weeks game, Why Did the Chicken..., is a party/group game about coming up with punch-lines to jokes.
Board game enthusiast Scott Nicholson reviews a new game each week showing you the pieces and rules of play, as well and demonstrating the game with friends. This weeks game, Santiago, is a strategy game involving auctioning, maintaining plantations and even working with other players at times.
Board game enthusiast Scott Nicholson reviews a new game each week showing you the pieces and rules of play, as well and demonstrating the game with friends. This weeks game, Heroscape, is about buying and fighting with miniatures for kids and adults put out by Milton Bradley.
This graphical video takes you step-by-step through the process of playing a game of skeet shooting. It goes over field layout and positioning and gives a good understanding of what to expect in an actual game or competition.
Learning songs is the best way for a beginner guitarist to progress. Save learning scales and technical stuff for a little later. Besides this video, Justin gives some good recommendations for where to find songs and suggests staying away from the random "TAB" internet search since this won't help you learn if you're playing them wrong or not.
So you're getting pretty good now, and if you've been following Justin's progressional tutorials you know your major and minor chords and can strum. Now it's time to learn the dreaded F chord. Don't be alarmed, even though you have to hold down two strings with one finger, it is a very nice chord and leads later to playing barre chords.
Using ties can really make your rhythm guitar playing sound natural and free. Before you start on this lesson make sure that you have got your basic rhythm guitar down - especially the Bar 4 from the earlier rhythm lesson. If you're ready, then it's time to watch Justin show you how to play tied rhythm patterns.
Melodic Patterns are number games that can be applied to scales to open the scale up to new and creative ways to play them. They also create fingering challenges that must be overcome, increasing your technical ability. The following video shows 5 patterns applied to the Major Scale - but these patterns can be applied to any scale.
This guitar lesson covers two shapes of the 9th chord (dominant). They are great substitutes for the regular 7th chords you might use in a normal blues. Any time you would normally play a 7th chord you could substitute it for a 9th chord.
In this part of Justin's guitar series on "Jazzing up your blues" you learn to link the two arpeggios playing eight notes on each one and changing to the nearest note of the following arpeggio. This lesson is great for learning to make chord changes but you absolutely must be able to play arpeggios by heart to start on this lesson.
In this guitar lesson Justin goes over walking bass when playing jazz blues. This is a great technique to get down, it sounds real cool when you get it swinging.
