Featuring Instruction from Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and more-For the first time in print Hudson Music has taken lessons from the eBooks contained on their award-winning DVDs and compiled them into a book/DVD package for drummers of all styles. Lessons with the Hudson Greats Vol. 1 contains note-for-note transcriptions of many of the key exercises grooves fills and concepts performed and taught by some of the greatest drummers in the world creating a workbook that will improve your playing on just about every front. Concepts cover all the bases including hand and foot technique builders odd-time patterns jazz time and comping concepts fill ideas from basic to extremely advanced groove creativity ideas funkpatterns including odd linear groupings and more.These eBooks together present a fantastic amount of challenging practice material in all styles almost like a college course in modern professional drumset playing. Not only a companion to the Hudson DVDs the book works as a stand-alone course of study that will allow you to incorporate the concepts of many of today's leading players into your approach.Included is a DVD containing one hour and 15 minutes of clips pulled from the Hudson DVDs referred to in the book indexed for ease of reference making this a complete educational package. Included are drumming greats Jason Bittner John Blackwell Keith Carlock David Garibaldi and all the artists from the Modern Drummer Festival 2008: Will Calhoun Ndugu Chancler Gavin Harrison Simon Phillips Thomas Pridgen Dafnis Prieto Derek Roddy Todd Sucherman Bill Stewart and Billy Ward.

Watch listen and learn as acclaimed drum instructor Chuck Silverman shows you how to blend classic funk beats and popular Latin rhythms together to create exciting new grooves.

Corey Christiansen teaches the basics of blues rhythm Guitar blues soloing and funk Guitar concepts in this DVD geared toward the beginning/intermediate guitarist.Corey boils these concepts down to their mostbasic and fundamental parts and explains how to get an authentic sound using some simple tricks of the trade. Be sure to download the free PDF chart that contains all the notation a student needs to enhance the DVDlessons.Concepts covered: The 12-Bar Blues Form Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scale Ideas and Patterns Double Stop Ideas Blues Licks Bending for Authentic Blues Inflection Basic Blues Soloing Ideas and Phrasing Concepts Barre Chords and Power Chords with Variations Authentic Blues Chord Voicings Chord Fragments for Tasty Rhythm Playing Simple Single-Note Funk Ideas Subdividing the Beat 9th and 13th Chords Common Funk Rhythms.ThisDVD is compiled from three of the DVDs originally included in the previously published QwikLicks series of guitar Chart/DVD sets.

Due to the popularity of Ben Tompsett's book series 'Ultimate Funk Grooves' for Tenor Alto and Flute Ben has now produced a version for Brass instruments. Funk and its infectious style remains a popular part of the music we listen to today. Timeless recordings from such artists as James Brown The Commadores Stevie Wonder The Meters The Crusaders Brecker Brothers The Average White Band Sly

Eastern Rim is a jam-packed 2-DVD set that includes performance footage insightful drum clinic material touring diaries and interviews all with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer himself!

In The Funky Beat David focuses on combining funk and jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms to extend his own innovative style. By dissecting his grooves and musical choices for each song on the CD David demonstrates how to develop your own musical skills and how to create your own sig nature sound. Includes 8 charts and 2 CD's mixed with and without drums so you can Play-along.

Young Jazz Ensemble-Young Jazz Ensemble - Grade 3 It is absolutely impossible to find a funkier tune than this R&B hit from the '70s courtesy of The Commodores. Paul's chart has it all from the trademark bass riff to the ensemble punches and melodic hooks. Bring down the house as you groove on this one!

At last a DVD of the drummers who created the grooves on hits of the 60's like Cold Sweat Licking Stick Funky Drummer and Sex Machine with the godfather and founder of funk music James Brown. Groove masters Clyde Stubblefield and John Jab'o Starks represent the true roots of soul-all the roads of funk pass by them. This historical first instructional dvd will be an essential learning tool for every funk devotee demonstrating playing tecniques and valuable tips for creating the ultimate funk groove!

Guitar Play-Along Volume 52-This edition of the popular Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play 8 of the greatest Punk songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks.The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so PC

Now you can play the bass grooves note for note from the masters of funk bass Larry Graham and Rustee Allen. This collection features 13 of their best transcribed for bass with the vocal line.

Featuring some of the funkiest rhythm and blues sounds of the 70's John Wasson's driving arrangement includes Soul Man (Sam and Dave) Respect (Aretha Franklin) In The Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett) and Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding).

Recorded by Mark Ronson and featuring Bruno Mars here's a funky “throwback” tune that continues to light up the airwaves. You're sure to energize any concert with this effective and dynamic arrangement for band.

Piano Adventures®-Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series.Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Funk/R&B volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature.You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book.This volume covers a huge variety of funk and R&B bass styles techniques and concepts are covered including: the pocket; fingerstyle funk; slap & pop techniques; hammer-ons andpull-offs; staccato & tenuto; funk fills and phrasing; dynamics; funk jazz; acid jazz; James Brown Fun; Bootsy Collins style; Larry Graham style; Louis Johnson style; Flea style; and more.

Mangambe Bikutsi and the Shuffle-Learn how to strengthen your groove master the 3:4 polyrhythm and increase rhythmic awareness with this Modern Drummer book by Jonathan Joseph and Steve Rucker. Joseph has played with Bill Evans Jeff Beck Joss Stone Pat Metheny and many more artists while Rucker was a drummer for the Bee Gees. Includes a foreword and introduction.