Rittor-Music

In this DVD filmed in 2001 guitarist Shun Kikuta teaches you the guitar styles and techniques you need to play Chicago blues. You'll learn: rhythm patterns for 12-bar blues basic solo techniques 53 essential blues guitar licks phrasing ideas chord voicings minor blues eight-bar blues and turnarounds. You'll also learn the techniques of the masters as Shun guides you through examples in the styles of such blues legends as B.B. King Albert King Albert Collins T-Bone Walker Elmore James and Muddy Waters. As an added bonus you will see and hear Shun demonstrate all the concepts demonstrated throughout the DVD in five live performances with J.W.Williams and other great Chicago blues musicians at the world famous club Buddy Guy's Legends.

Drummer producer singer and songwriter James Gadson has worked with the world's top performing artists including Quincy Jones Ray Charles Bill Withers The Temptations Ramsey Lewis Marvin Gaye Herbie Hancock Patrice Rushen the Pointer Sisters Herb Alpert the 5th Dimension Smokey Robinson B.B. King Aretha Franklin Natalie Cole and Paul McCartney.On this DVD James demonstrates and explains the many funk and rhythm

LickSamples-In this DVD drummer Mansaku Kimura demonstrates over 230 fills for rock funk blues and Latin styles of drumming. Each of these fills is demonstrated within the context of a song in order for you to hear and better understand how it fits into the groove.You'll learn fills for: straight eighth beats bounce eighth beats straight sixteenth beats bounce sixteenth beats triplets bossa nova samba three-beat bounce five-beat rock and seven-beat rock. Additionally Mansaku uses two live performances by his band PRISM to demonstrate many of these fills in a real musical setting. A variety of camera angles enables you to see precisely how each fill isperformed and a .pdf of a music booklet notating each song with the fills highlighted is on the disc. 57 min.