Music & Instruments: Page 83

Lip pursing and tongue blocking are demonstrated in this video.

Learn the structure of hard house, trance, and electronica music and how to listen to the beat to know where to mix in while DJing.

Singer and songwriter and singing teacher Jules Rendell takes us through the characteristics of pop singers like Beyoncé and Mariah Carey. She'll show you how to sing like an American Idol or X factor winner.

Pete Sears shows you how to play the C minor chord perfectly on your piano or keyboard. It's derived from the major chord, so if you know how to play major chords, it's easy!

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

Brad Davis shows guitar players how to spice up their rhythm playing with a simple right hand pattern called the rhythm pick pattern (RPP).

Drummer Jeff Indyke teaches you how to play 32nd note syncopated fills on the drums

Drummer Jeff Indyke teaches you how to play a commercial bolero on the drums.

Pete Sears teaches you all about the chords you'll be using when playing the piano or keyboard. This is a great beginners video.

Pete Sears gives you a lesson on blues scales for the piano. Get ready for the blues! You should have a good understanding of regular scales first.

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.

Learn how to play the song 'Hamilton County Breakdown' on the banjo.

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.

Before you can start playing piano, you need to understand how the piano is set up, and how to read music. Pete Sears explains the alphabetic representation of the different piano notes, and discusses octaves and the relationship between notes. Then he teaches you everything about full steps, whole steps and half steps, as well as a dramatic scale. In the last video he explains sharps and flats.

Pete Sears explains about learning to play with an electric piano or keyboard. It's a bit different and you'll need to take a different approach.

Learn Billy Joel's great song Piano Man and how to play it on the piano. You should already know how to play the piano to follow along.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a simple song and a great one to learn if you're a beginner piano player. This video breaks everything down for you.

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 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.

DJ Tutor teaches you how to mix music with acapellas/vocal parts.

Learn how to take sound samples from any video or application on your computer.

Learn how to set up your Mains, Gains, PFL (prefader) lights & Faders. This explains all the different lights and dials on a mixer.

Here is a basic series for those of you who are either just getting started with turntables or would like to soon. In the first video, we do a very basic introduction, add slip mats, set up the tone arm and set the counter weight. In part 2, we talk about records, manipulating vinyl, Cueing, Pitch & Phasing (or jeting) with 2 copys of the same record. In part 3, we cover the Baby Scratch, Scratch & release, Looping, Mixing 2 songs with the same BPM and 2 songs with different BPMs.

Here's a simple explanation of how to switch between SSL time coded vinyl and conventional records while you are mixing using Serato Scratch.

A video for those of you just getting started. We talk about line and phono inputs, headphones, faders, crossfaders, RCA plugs, hooking up a laptop to play a program like Windows Media Player, stereo mini plugs, main outs, etc. Hook up your mixing board and turntables to your computer.

This is 1 of a 2 part video talking about DMX and LED Par Cans lights as well as Dip Switches and using a DMX controller.

An attempt to illustrate how one may start beat mixing 2 songs with different BPMs on a dual CD player (like most mobile DJs have). Today, we mix a little Chicago House. Enjoy!

Your software may work differently, but this is the basic concept of how you might start doing your own custom edits. www.mixingonbeat.com has a lot more information on this subject. Enjoy!

This is a very basic DJ tutorial on crossovers and how to use them when mixing.

Here are a few tips on how one may think about overcoming a very common problem: Stagefright! Enjoy!

Just some suggestions and roughly the way I handle calls. There is more than one way to do this and every call is different. Enjoy!

Have you always wanted to play the harmonica but have no idea where to begin? Don't worry as we are going to show you an easy blues riff that anyone can play with just ten minutes practice!

Have you always wanted to play the drums but have been worried that your poor coordination is more likely to injure than impress someone? Don't worry as we are going to show you an rock drum beat that anyone can play with just ten minutes practice!

The first lesson in learning to mix is to learn to count Beats per Minute (BPM). Learn the how to count BPM. This method applies to cd mixers, pc programs(but only if they do not already show you the bpm) too!!

Brian Sredd gives tips and pointers on how to get your audience to participate in your DJ shows.

If you don't own Serato Scratch Live but plan on buying it in the future, this is what you can do to get everything ready for when you buy Serato Scratch Live.

Brian Sredd gives tips and pointers on how to clean vinyl records.

Brian Sredd gives tips and pointers on how to make a plastic slipmat for a scratchmat.

Brian Sredd gives tips and pointers on how to assemble a new amp rack.