Instructional

Alfred's MAX™ Guitar 1

Start with basics like holding the guitar, reading music, and playing chords. Lessons cover blues, rock, jazz, classical, folk and other styles. The DVD provides every example in the book performed by a live guitarist. 48 pages.

Alfred's MAX™ Guitar 2

Expanding on Max Guitar 1, topics include key signatures, chord theory, and much more. The DVD provides every example in the book performed by a live guitarist. 48 pages.

Blues Master

The Blues Master video tapes I, II, and III are now available on a single DVD. These three programs provide more than 3 1/2 hours of blues guitar technique by the master and a lot of great music with his entire band. This set makes a great gift! Special DVD features include a tuning segment, an interactive "Getting to Know Lucille" feature, additional video theory tips, a performance only option, and interactive motion menus.

SongXpress®: Classic Blues, Vol. 1

SongXpress is the fastest and easiest way to learn your favorite songs on guitar. It's like having a good friend teach you in the comfort of your living room! With this exciting and fun format, you'll learn all the chords, riffs, and guitar patterns for each song. Plus, our exclusive on-screen diagrams and tablature practically guarantee you will be playing in no time. SongXpress has quickly become the instructional video of choice for beginning and intermediate guitarists worldwide. Now you can enjoy the same quick and easy style of learning on your home DVD player! DVD features include a special tuning segment, chord diagrams, additional video tips, and much more!

All Your Love (Otis Rush) * Born Under a Bad Sign (Eric Clapton) * Crossroads (Eric Clapton) * The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King).

SongXpress®: Modern Rock, Vol. 1

SongXpress is the fastest and easiest way to learn your favorite songs on guitar. It's like having a good friend teach you in the comfort of your living room! With this exciting and fun format, you'll learn all the chords, riffs, and guitar patterns for each song. Plus, our exclusive on-screen diagrams and tablature practically guarantee you will be playing in no time. SongXpress has quickly become the instructional video of choice for beginning and intermediate guitarists worldwide. Now you can enjoy the same quick and easy style of learning on your home DVD player! DVD features include a special tuning segment, chord diagrams, additional video tips, and much more!

I Will Buy You a New Life (Everclear) * Iris (Goo Goo Dolls) * Shine (Collective Soul) * You (Candlebox).

SongXpress®: Classic Surf, Vol. 1

SongXpress is the fastest and easiest way to learn your favorite songs on guitar. It's like having a good friend teach you in the comfort of your living room! With this exciting and fun format, you'll learn all the chords, riffs, and guitar patterns for each song. Plus, our exclusive on-screen diagrams and tablature practically guarantee you will be playing in no time. SongXpress has quickly become the instructional video of choice for beginning and intermediate guitarists worldwide. Now you can enjoy the same quick and easy style of learning on your home DVD player! DVD features include a special tuning segment, chord diagrams, additional video tips, and much more!

Crank up the reverb, dial in some twang, and learn the hottest instrumental surf tunes of all time. Miserlou * Penetration * Pipeline * Tequila.

Beyond Basics: Funk Guitar Rhythm Chops With Allan Slutsky

Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky (one of the pioneers of guitar tab and note-for-note transcriptions) explores the classic concepts, techniques, riffs, and patterns of the great funk players. Includes funk chord voicings, funk syncopation, funk rhythm grooves, 16th-note strumming, percussive muting techniques, "percolator" type-style, single-note funk, wah-wah grooves, layering multiple guitar parts, and many examples of classic rhythms. DVD special features include a tuning segment, an additional artist video clip, additional video tips, and "getting to know your amplifier."

Girl's Guitar Method Complete

Combining the best-selling Girl’s Guitar Method, Books 1 and 2 with the new Girl’s Guitar Method DVD, the Girl’s Guitar Method Complete Book & DVD package has everything a girl needs to learn to play guitar!

Written by Tish Ciravolo, the Girl’s Guitar Method is the first guitar method written especially for girls. Thousands of girls all over the world are raving about this revolutionary method's fresh and energetic approach, with a style and design that addresses the interests of young women today. Teaching from a girl's perspective, this solid method promises a sure start down a lifelong path of musical enjoyment and all the heightened self-esteem that comes with learning to play an instrument.

This package also includes the new Girl’s Guitar Method DVD, hosted by internationally-renowned guitarist and Daisy Rock clinician Janet Robin. The Girl’s Guitar Method DVD gives girls the chance to teach themselves how to play guitar by watching and learning from one of the finest guitarists in the world. This DVD will take you from the basics of guitar-playing, like tuning and proper posture, to advanced concepts like bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides. Based on a method made especially for girls, and hosted by a successful guitarist who’s played with Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac), Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart), Meredith Brooks and Michelle Shocked, girls will feel inspired to learn how to play guitar and to keep playing!!

Ultimate Beginner Series: Acoustic Guitar Basics

he Ultimate Beginner Series has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. Now you can experience both Step 1 and Step 2 together for the first time on DVD.

You'll learn how to tune up quickly and accurately, how to change strings, how to play the most popular chords, how to create variety in your rhythm playing, how to create melodies around chords using hammer-ons and pull-offs, how to play in any key using the capo or barre chords, and much more.

The Blues from Rock to Jazz

Alfred’s Artist Series has expanded to include Don Mock: The Blues from Rock to Jazz.

Don Mock is internationally recognized as a master educator, guitarist, author, recording artist, composer, and synthesizer stylist. As one of the three original founding instructors at the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood, Don has long been known and respected for his broad knowledge of the instrument.

In this DVD, Don uses the basic blues progression as a vehicle to teach chords and soloing techniques found in contemporary blues and jazz fusion. He starts by guiding you through the dominant chord family, showing the basic chords and their substitutions for comping, plus scales, arpeggios and melodic ideas for improvising. Next, he covers how to solo over each chord in the 12-bar blues using secondary dominants and the turnaround. Finally, he breaks down three jazz-fusion 12-bar blues solos, with an in-depth analysis of each bar.

Special features include a printable PDF booklet with note-for-note transcriptions, a bonus performance from Robben Ford’s The Blues and Beyond, and a bonus lesson from The Definitive Steve Morse.

>Beyond Basics: Acoustic Blues Guitar With Keith Wyatt

Keith Wyatt gets you started right playing "down home" blues on your acoustic. Learn all the classic moves in the three popular keys, including open-string chords with melodic embellishments, turnarounds, and both slow and quick-change versions of the 12-bar blues progression. You'll also learn strum patterns, bass lines and the blues shuffle. Keith includes the use of a capo as well as a wealth of insight into this traditional and influential style. DVD special features include a tuning segment, an additional artist video clip, and additional video tips.

Acoustic Improvisation Frank Gambale

Alfred’s Artist series brings the improvisational stylings of guitarist Frank Gambale to guitarists everywhere. The DVD follows the success of Gambale’s first acoustic trio recording, Natural High, featuring Otmaro Ruiz on piano, Alain Caron on bass, and Gambale on acoustic guitar. After blowing through seven jaw-dropping performances with his world-class band, Gambale sits down for a candid one-on-one session about jazz improvisation, utilizing a series of ideas for improvising over classic II-V progressions using 3rds and 7ths, chord extensions, Phrygian mode, super Locrian mode, and diminished ideas. Gambale incorporates rhythmic and melodic motifs and much more.
Special features include a DVD-ROM with the complete video formatted for computer or i-Pod, printable PDF files of all the songs and music examples, previews of other Frank Gambale DVDs, and a preview of Johnny A.’s DVD Taste * Tone * Space.

Songs include: Fortune * Another Challenger * We’ll Remember December * You are all the Things * Principesa * Samba de Somewhere * D’s Living Room.

Beyond Basics: Introducing Alternate Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar With Mark Hanson

Using alternate (non-standard) tunings, artists such as Joni Mitchell, Leo Kottke, David Wilcox, Neil Young and many others draw beautiful and fascinating new sounds from the guitar. In this program, fingerstyle wizard Mark Hanson introduces the four most common alternate tunings, demonstrates some beautiful new chords, and teaches, note-for-note, four of his own compositions.

Complete Rock Guitar Method: Beginning Rock Guitar, Lead & Rhythm

For those about to rock...Learn the concepts, techniques and theory specific to rock styles from AC/DC to Zeppelin. 96 pages each.

Concerts

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

The second Crossroads Guitar Festival, a daylong concert featuring legendary music and collaborations, was held on July 28, 2007 to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. This 2-disc DVD is the follow-up to 2004’s certified eight-time platinum DVD Crossroads Guitar Festival. The festival displayed a wide range of styles from rock to blues to country and featured myriad artists including the infamous Eric Clapton. Highlights include Clapton regrouping with Blind Faith band mate Steve Winwood, a virtuosic instrumental set from Jeff Beck, Vince Gill performing along with Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson, and much more. Over four hours of material featuring the world’s greatest guitar players is presented in 5.1 Dolby surround sound. Royalties from the sale will go to benefit Crossroads Centre, Antigua.

Led Zeppelin

Clocking in at nearly five and a half hours, this DVD has been created from the few performances which were ever filmed during the band's lifetime: London's Royal Albert Hall in 1970, London's Earl's Court in 1975, and at England's Knebworth Festival in 1979, just one year before the death of drummer John Bonham. Visually and sonically stunning, this DVD has been painstakingly restored, remixed and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS, and PCM 2-Channel Stereo under the supervision of Jimmy Page.

Concert for George (Harrison)

Filmed on November 29, 2002 before a sold-out audience at Royal Albert Hall, the Concert for George is a beautifully filmed, joyous celebration that includes breathtaking performances of some of George's songs from rock's most influential artists and pop culture icons. This two-DVD set includes performances by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Monty Python, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, and more. Produced in 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound.

Bass

Super Bass Solo Technique

Victor Wooten is recognized as one of the world's greatest electric bassists, and is considered by many to be the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is best known for his work with the Grammy-winning supergroup Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. Along with his acclaimed solo recordings, Victor has performed with artists like Branford Marsalis, Mike Stern, Bruce Hornsby, Bootsy Collins, Chick Corea, Dave Matthews, Prince, Will Lee, T.M. Stevens, Gov't Mule, Susan Tedeschi, Steve Bailey, Oteil Burbridge, Scott Henderson and Steve Smith.

In this DVD, Victor breaks down each of the techniques he employs to create his incredible style. Victor covers slapping, tapping, grooving and improvising in detail. Segments include live performances with a band; interviews dealing with technique, influences, and motivation; and a segment on equipment.

Special Features include candid video footage from Victor's archives, Victor and Steve Bailey jamming, and a preview from the Jaco Pastorius Modern Electric Bass DVD.

Alfred's MAX™ Bass By L.C. Harnsberger and Ron Manus

See, hear, and play every song and example with this truly extraordinary book & DVD set. A powerful method at an exceptional value! 48 pages.

Bass Extremes Live

Steve and Victor demonstrate how the bass guitar can supply bass lines, piano and guitar-style comping figures, lead solos, and percussion parts, in styles ranging from bebop to new age to heavy metal. Each piece highlights different aspects of their amazing techniques -- like Steve's three-finger technique or his awe-inspiring command of harmonics and chord voicings, or Victor's incredible funk grooves, and thumb and two-handed tapping techniques. Special features include a bonus lesson in fourths and fifths, a performance only option, a bonus performance by Billy Sheehan, and printable reference material.

Bass Day 97: Highlights

Bass Day 97: Highlights contains performances, instructional material, and post-clinic comments from all six Bass Day clinicians, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at ten incredible hours the bass world will never forget. As an added bonus, this DVD contains exclusive footage of Tony Levin playing the Chapman Stick. DVD special features include: Bonus performance: Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten; bonus performance: Bill Dickens; bonus lesson: Rufus Reid right- and left-hand technique; bonus lesson: tapping, harmonics, and double stops.