Few music catalogs are as hook and groove laden as the Jackson Five’s. Guitarist Adam Rafferty has arranged a few of the J5’s most well-known hits for solo acoustic guitar and released a nice DVD showing us mere mortals how to tap into some of that Motown soul. Here, Rafferty explores “I’ll Be There,” “Never Can Say Goodbye,” “ABC,” and “I Want You Back,” first by performing the song completely, and then by taking you step-by-step through the arrangement. You can tell from the moment the instructional section of the DVD begins that Rafferty is very comfortable teaching and demonstrating the various concepts used. During the intro, he emphasizes the need to warm up and describes a few barring techniques that help to make the songs not only more musical, but more approachable, too.

MONSTER NASHVILLE GUITAR - Ladd Smith, winner of Guitar Player magazine’s Guitar Superstar award, delivers an extraordinary learning experience covering the essential improvisational, theoretical and technical skills needed to perform and record in the modern Nashville electric guitar style.

Master the basics of bluegrass, plus learn the standard tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast." This lick pack will teach you standard strum accompaniment patterns in the keys of C and G, alternating bass lines, walk-ups, hammer-on and pull-off embellishments, flatpicking melodies, banjo-style forward and backward rolls, "old-timey" and traditional Irish fiddle---style licks with unison notes and "floaters," and much more.

Put HTML5, CSS3, and recent jаvascript API technologies to work and provide an enhanced brand opportunity for your clients with custom video bumpers. This short, easy-to-follow project shows how to add opening and closing video bumpers with the video tag and its jаvascript API. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to add these elements dynamically without additional editing, and includes instructions for troubleshooting the final presentation.

This excellent 2 DVD set will teach you the cool riffs, licks and grooves that earned Billy Gibbons the reputation of being Jimi Hendrixs favourite guitarist! Song lessons include.

This excellent 2 DVD set will teach you the cool riffs, licks and grooves that earned Billy Gibbons the reputation of being Jimi Hendrixs favourite guitarist! Song lessons include.

In this comprehensive Blues Guitar program designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy, you learn techniques, scalesiВїВЅand tricksiВїВЅtoiВїВЅtake your blues guitar playing to the next level. You will develop lead techniques like bending, vibrato, hammer-ions, pull-offs and more. Learn Blues turn arounds, the shuffle feel, Jazzy blues and fast Blues progressions. There are entire blues riffs, leads and rhythms that you will apply over the full band backing tracks that give you the feel of playing in your own band.

"Everyone's camera can tell a story," says world-renowned photographer Douglas Kirkland. Follow along as he explores the process of shooting a series of photos that connect to tell a story.

Creating a well-crafted data visualization is a hands-on process. Challenge yourself with this series of real-world data visualization scenarios in Processing, an open-source drawing and development environment. Barton Poulson, author of the companion Interactive Data Visualization with Processing course, reinforces core concepts with mini-projects that help you practice drawing and interacting with data. A comprehensive challenge at the end of the course shows how to take data from a spreadsheet to a full-fledged online, interactive experience.

Shoot in color, but think in black and white. In this course, Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares his favorite techniques for transforming color photographs into black and white, a technique that provides more creative options than using your camera's black-and-white mode. Learn how to prepare and fine-tune your photographs in Lightroom, and then move them into Photoshop to take advantage of its nondestructive adjustment layers. The course also introduces techniques for using Photoshop to adjust the color of video clips.