"Quickly learn to play violin and fiddle with expert musician Jim Tolles". The Watch and Learn Video Primer series is the most complete method for beginning musicians to learn to play. From the fundamentals of tuning and playing positions, to different styles and understanding of music, the Watch and Learn Video Primer leads to successful playing and hours of enjoyment.

This brand new video is taught by Scotty Anderson. Learn with the world's top players..right in your own home! Hot Licks proudly presents video music instruction with some of the world's finest players and teachers. Following in its great tradition of audio tapes, Hot Licks Video utilizes the most advanced techniques and graphics to bring you up close , all the styles and techniques you've wanted to master! Incredible double and triple stops, unique right hand techniques, Country and Jazz styles , Rockabilly magic, wide-split double stops, chick'n pick'n, Lenny Breau-style harmonics, and many more!

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This video is taught by Eddie Adcock, (booklet enclosed). Here's your chance to take a guitar lesson from a bluegrass legend. Eddie breaks it all down for you on this 90-minute video lesson.

Learn Eddie's great arrangements of:

This brand new video is taught by Ethel Caffie-Austin, (booklet enclosed). Ethel Caffie-Austin takes familiar spirituals and hyms and shows you how to "gospelize" them. She first teaches the simple melody, then adds harmony notes and chords to give your right hand a rich, full sound. Your left hand brings in a solid rhythmic foundation with octaves, accents, "walking" and "stride" bass lines. Finally, adding fill-ins, runs, turnarounds, arpeggios and other elements helps you complete your gospel arrangement.

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This brand new video is taught by Jamie Findlay,(booklet enclosed).

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This 90 min video is taught by Ray Flacke, one of the world's best Telecaster players. Ray reveals the secrets that have made him one of the top session guitarists on the Nashville country scene. A premier exponent of the use of flatpick-and-fingers, Ray first demonstrates how he produces his distinctive country pickin' sound. Moving to the left hand, he teaches many of the moves behind the mind-boggling solo style that has made him highly sought-after for record dates, jingles, and live gigs: double-stops, pedal steel like string bends, multiple hammer-ons and pull-offs, string damping, playing below the nut, and other dazzling techniques.

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This 90 minute video is taught by Bob Brozman, (booklet enclosed). Bob Brozman begins with the basics, teaching open tunings needed to get the typical bottleneck sound. Through careful explanations of left and right hand technique, exercises and songs, this video unveils the secrets of traditional blues/slide guitar. Detailed instruction teaching powerful licks and runs, rhythm techniques, vibration, harmonics and other ways to get the true Delta sound.

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A hands-on guide to playing ukulele taught by Jumpin' Jim Beloff, (booklet enclosed). This 70-minute video is the perfect way to get started on the ukulele. Jim Beloff teaches you the basics of how to tune and hold your uke. By practicing the songs taught here, you'll learn many of the most important chords and strums. In addition, Jim introduces you to three very special guests. Travis Harrelson demonstrates his masterful strumming, Poncie Ponce performs his famous uke solo of Stars and Stripes Forever, and Ian Whitcomb's playing is the perfect accompaniment to his singing. Finally, take a tour of Jim's own famous uke collection. While showing off some of his favorite ukes, Jim relates the colorful history of this most "joyful" of musical instruments.

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The John Jorgenson Package is a presentation and demonstration of the versatile style and techniques with one of the top call session guitarists in the recording industry, television and performance circuit today. His musical training on a variety of instruments has proven that his unique style gets the attention it deserves. Country, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and swing are only a few of the musical styles that have influenced John. His latest band "Hellcasters" is a dynamic blend of raw instrumental energy. Here are some of the techniques that John will present to you in your own home:

This brand new video is taught by Mike Seeger.

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This video is brand new,(booklet enclosed).

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Quickly learn to play the 26 standard snare drum rudiments with expert instructor Tim Wimer.

Better get ready to start pickin' with the best in the business as country super star Albert Lee, winner of Guitar Player magazine's "Best Country Guitarist" Award for the last four years in a row and session man for such stars as Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rodney Crowel, Don Everly, Roseanne Cash, and Ricky Scaggs, takes you step by step through a fantastic collection of his hottest licks and leads. During this incredible nonstop 40 minute Master Series tape, you'll learn an exciting assortment of Albert's most popular country guitar techniques like slick chicken pickin', flowing double stops, speedy scale runs, open tuning tricks, tasy steel guitar effects, colorful pick hand pulls and much, much more. You're carefully taken step by step through each lick. Every lick is played twice, once regularly and once slowly. Your accompanying Master Series booklet comes complete with easy to follow diagrams which correspond exactly to your master series tape, so there's no need to read music. This is truly a unique opportunity for you to receive a "private guitar lesson" from one of today's finest country guitarists whose musical contributions have helped shape the sound of contemporary pop music.

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A fun, easy approach to beginning guitar for kids. The video is taught by Jessica Baron Turner. It has won National Parenting Publications awards.

Quickly learn the basics of rock & roll chords, riffs, and power chords with expert musician Bert Casey.