Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen – Mug – Standard Size $16.99 This mug is created using the finest dye sublimation techniques and creates a stunning dishwasher safe finish. Great as a gift, or for promotional items. Each of our mugs come individually boxed for protection in transit…. |
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Record Bowl – Bruce Springsteen/Greetings From Asbury Park $40.00 Each bowl is created from a single record, which has been molded in to a vessel form. The bowls retain the look and feel of an LP, while the original record label is laminated and the spindle hole is sealed with a clear film. The bowls are great for dry items and snacks, and should be wiped clean by hand. Not dishwasher or microwave safe…. |
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Wrecking Ball (Special Edition) $12.99 Marking his 17th studio album, ‘Wrecking Ball’ features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. Said long-time manager Jon Landau,”Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can’t hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. T… |
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Wrecking Ball $9.99 Marking his 17th studio album, ‘Wrecking Ball’ features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. Said long-time manager Jon Landau, “Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can’t hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. … |
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The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts $24.97 On October 29th and 30th, 2009, rock ‘n’ roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what have been called “the best concerts ever,” where “rock ‘n’ roll history was made.” In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the concerts in New York City featured a who’s who of rock from the ’50s to the ’90s and included artists performing together in unique combinat… |
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No Looking Back [VHS] $0.99 The third film in writer-director-actor Edward Burns’s “Long Island Trilogy” is in some ways the slightest of the three, and that’s a blessing and a curse. By keeping things spare, Burns is able to focus on the simple, honest humanity of his story, which centers on the emotional dilemma of Claudia (Lauren Holly), a small-town waitress whose engagement to blue-collar Michael (Jon Bon Jovi) is chall… |
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Rolling Stone Presents 20 Yrs of Rock & Roll [VHS] $14.95 … |
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Roy Orbison and Friends – A Black and White Night [VHS] $5.24 Few early rockers were more gifted or less honored in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special, originally broadcast on Showtime, came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop’s front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every resp… |
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The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concerts [Blu-ray] $29.42 On October 29th and 30th, 2009, rock ‘n’ roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what have been called ‘the best concerts ever,’ where ‘rock ‘n’ roll history was made.’ Recorded live with 30 camera angles plus state-of-the-art recording, we captured the sights and sounds from these electrifying and historic concerts in New York City. Now, this critically-acclaimed and highly-rated HBO… |
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The Mask: Director’s Cut $4.82 Peter Bogdanovich directed this sensitive and moving story about a teenage boy, Rocky (Eric Stoltz), who lives with severe facial deformities and poor prognosis for survival beyond childhood. The film concentrates on that threshold-of-adulthood period familiar to past and present 16-year-olds, folding together common experiences of youth (love, hassles with mom, a desire to travel) with the specia… |
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1,000 Kisses $9.99 Patty Griffin’s third album, her first material to be released since 1998 (the absorption of her former label, A&M, in the Polygram-Universal merger left an album Griffin cut in 2000 in the vault, where it’s sadly likely to stay), strikes a stylistic middle ground between the stark voice-and-guitar approach of her debut, Living with Ghosts, and the eclectic textures of Flaming Red. 1,000 Kisses was mostly recorded live in the studio with a small acoustic band, including Doug Lancio on guitar and mandolin, Brian Standefer on cello, Giles Reeves on vibraphone and percussion, and Michael Ramos on accordion; the feel of the performances is close and intimate, with the occasional cough or footfall audible in the background, and these sessions capture more than a bit of the cin? ma v? rit? mood of Living with Ghosts. But if the album’s production style is subtle, it’s also a superb match for the material, and without forcing their hand, Griffin and the musicians can sway from the life-on-the-street swagger of “Chief” to the Latin romanticism of “Mil Besos” to the torchy late-night blues of “Tomorrow Night” without missing a step, finding a broad emotional spectrum in these low-key sessions. And while 1,000 Kisses finds Griffin blending covers in with her own compositions for the first time, she proves to be a first-rate interpretive singer (her version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Stolen Car” actually improves on “the Boss”‘ original), and her own songs are splendid, especially the moving widow’s lament “Making Pies” and the moody lead-off track “Rain.” And regardless of who wrote the material, Griffin’s voice — a tower of strength capable of expressing remarkable emotional vulnerability — remains a wonder to behold. 1,000 Kisses finds Patty Griffin at the top of her game, and one can only hope we don’t have to wait four years for the follow-up. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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A Boy Named Goo $9.99 Produced by Lou Giordano with his trademark full-bodied, immediately accessible, but never washed-out sound, A Boy Named Goo finally got the band across to a wide audience, and deservedly so. Right from the start, the Goo Goo Dolls sound perfectly on the right track after Superstar Car Wash’s OK but ultimately go-nowhere feeling — “Long Way Down” is another stone-cold classic of wounded romanticism wedded to catchy Cheap Trick-tinged punk-pop, Rzeznik’s singing the not-so-secret weapon. Hearing him on the descending chorus, matching the just sad enough guitar crunch, makes one realize that there’s always hope for full-bodied rock & roll. The eternal Replacements tag now makes less sense than ever — the Goos have their own enjoyable sound, Rzeznik’s a more individual singer than ever, and all three rock out accordingly. Takac similarly has his own sonic improvements, his formerly rasped high register now just a little more controlled but no less affecting, as winners like “Burnin’ Up” and “Somethin’ Bad” easily demonstrate. Rzeznik-sung highlights are equally everywhere — the commercial but never stupid “Naked,” with a great chorus and immediately radio-friendly music, the equally sharp “Only One,” and the mighty fine “Ain’t That Unusual.” There’s no question what the highlight is, though — however untypical of the rest of the album’s mid-range feedback fun, “Name,” with its sweet but sad acoustic arrangement, made perfect sense as the Goos’ long-delayed radio breakthrough. Rzeznik’s empathetic vocal, delivering one of his best lyrics on favored subjects of friendship, loss, and fame, matches unfolky strumming and quiet energy, creating a song that feels like both a farewell to the American Dream and to a long-lost partner. All this without sounding a Bruce Springsteen sermon — a rare thing indeed. ~ Ned Raggett, Rovi |
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All Time Greatest Movie Songs [US] $9.99 Now, here’s an album title to conjure with! What could The All Time Greatest Movie Songs be? Let’s see, if we go by the most popular songs ever heard in the movies, we’d be talking about “White Christmas,” “I Will Always Love You,” “The Third Man Theme,” “Cheek to Cheek,” and “Buttons and Bows,” to cite the longest running number one hits. Are any of those here? No. Well, OK, how about “greatest” as in “best,” say, for example, Oscar winners like “Over the Rainbow,” “All the Way,” “Moon River,” “The Way We Were,” and “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”? Any of those here? Nope. OK, we give up. What are the all-time greatest movie songs? As it turns out, they are (with one, licensed exception) all songs that happen to be under the control of Sony Music and (with one exception) all songs from movies of the 1990s. Granted, there are some big hits and Oscar winners here, starting with Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” and including Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” and Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” and some of Sony’s biggest stars of the moment, including Will Smith, Lauryn Hill, and Babyface, as well as blue-chip talents like Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, and Michael Jackson, are represented. But that title could only have been conceived by a marketing staff as ignorant as it is arrogant. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi |
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Black & White Night $7.99 Black & White Night captures Roy Orbison performing a selection of his greatest hits on September 30, 1987, with all-star backing from Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and others. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi |
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Born in East L.A. $6.99 Richard “Cheech” Marin, of Cheech & Chong fame, directed and starred in Born in East L.A.. Inspired by Marin’s music-video parody of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”, the film casts Cheech as an East Los Angeles repairman. While paying a visit to a sweatshop toy factory, Cheech is caught in the middle when the feds raid the place and cart off all the illegal alien workers. Since he’s forgotten to bring his own i.d., Cheech is also shipped off to Mexico-where, having next to no knowledge of the Spanish tongue, he’s virtually helpless. Desperate, he takes a job with crooked Tijuana saloon owner Daniel Stern-the first of many “make-do” jobs that he assumes to earn enough money to return home. Along the way, he falls in love with El Salvadorian girl Kamala Lopez, whose English is as fractured as Cheech’s Spanish. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Chimes of Freedom $7.98 Culled from recordings of Bruce Springsteen’s spring 1988 Tunnel of Love tour, Chimes of Freedom is a four-track EP that initially was released as a benefit for Amnesty International, appearing as he joined the fall 1988 Human Rights Now! tour. It was recorded and released quickly, easily qualifying as the speediest project Springsteen has ever completed. Unfortunately, it occasionally feels a little slapdash, but it’s hard to criticize a four-song live charity EP for being haphazardly assembled, since that’s in its nature. Nevertheless, Chimes of Freedom is a little unsatisfying, even though it’s a good, brief sampler of the Boss live circa Tunnel of Love. And that’s part of the problem. Tunnel of Love had a slicker production than a normal Springsteen record, featuring synths scattered throughout the record. Those arrangements were preserved on the live version of “Tougher Than the Rest,” one of the best songs from the record, and it turns a little mushy in an arena setting. Similarly, the title track has its chiming opening refrain played on synths, and consequently it sounds a little stiff and dated. These faults are balanced by the remaining two cuts, the first released version of the excellent “Be True” and a reworking of “Born to Run” as an acoustic ballad. “Born to Run” has considerable power in this stripped-down setting, and “Be True” teems with life, pointing out how stiff its cousins sound on Chimes of Freedom. Neither of these tracks are major contributions to Springsteen’s catalog, but they’re nice additions for the die-hard fans who will be picking up the EP anyway. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Dead Man Walking [Original Soundtrack] [1996] $7.99 Although it is not strictly a soundtrack — only four songs on the album were featured in the Tim Robbins film — Dead Man Walking is nevertheless a fascinating listen. Robbins played a rough cut of his film to a number of musicians, asking them to contribute a song if they were intrigued by the story of a condemned prisoner on death row. Nearly every musician he approached contributed a song, and they are collected on Dead Man Walking. The star power of the album is impressive — Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, Lyle Lovett, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Steve Earle all are featured on the record — but names alone wouldn’t make Dead Man Walking a musical success. Fortunately, most of the musicians contribute first-rate material, such as Springsteen’s spare, haunting title track, Waits’ gallows humor, and the bizarrely appropriate teaming of Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn. Not only is the album an unusually constructed soundtrack, it is an unusually effective one, boasting almost no dead weight. It’s one of those rare soundtracks that is as compelling as the film itself. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Down by the Jetty $27.98 The CD reissue of this album is a must-own release, even for those who already have one of the Dr. Feelgood anthologies currently available, neither of which has more than three of the 13 tracks here. The 1975 album, a magnificent first album, recorded in pure mono, has been transferred to CD in exemplary form, a clean, sharp, crunchy, close sound that recalls the sonic textures of the Rolling Stones’ first album, even as they cross swords with the Stones’ arch-rivals of the era, the Animals, with a superb version of “Boom Boom.” Released amid the burgeoning radio presence of acts like Thin Lizzy, Blue ? yster Cult, and Kansas, and the growing self-conscious profundity of Bruce Springsteen, Down by the Jetty was as refreshingly lean as anything the headline-grabbing ’70s punks would later loose on the world, and as stripped down as the most basic roots rock. Lee Brilleaux’s singing could go up against Eric Burdon’s or Cyril Davies, and even take on elements of a thick rasp vaguely reminiscent of Howlin’ Wolf (listen closely to “Roxette”), certainly better than Mick Jagger ever did; and guitarist Wilko Johnson could play Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, or Bo Diddley licks with equally imposing (and seemingly effortless) virtuosity. This record was one of the great ’70s rock & roll albums, right up there with the Groovies’ Shake Some Action and anything CCR left listeners, and ran circles around the Rolling Stones’ post-Exile on Main Street output. The final cut, a killer live medley of “Bonie Maronie”/”Tequila” with guests Brinsley Schwarz and Bob Andrews blowing saxes, was a taste of what they did on stage with astonishing regularity, and could have sent the Ramones back to the drawing board if the Queens-based quartet had heard it. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi |
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EP $9.99 Based on its length (just under half an hour), Will Kimbrough’s self-titled offering in 2007 is either a really short album or a very long EP. It is billed as the latter, and given how much session work Kimbrough does as a guitarist for country artists, it’s entirely possible he didn’t have time to put together more than these eight songs. They are enough, however, to whet the appetite of any curious listener and leave any serious fan salivating for more. Though the term “Americana” is the kiss of death for most artists these days (because it would appear to be a catchall that doesn’t fit anywhere else), Kimbrough’s music comes right from the heart of traditional American song forms: Appalachian balladry, raw bluegrass, hillbilly blues, rock & roll, and folk songs. The contrast between the guitars and cello of the bluesy back-porch “Eden Prairie” and the sheer folk waltz of “Interstate,” with guitar, mandolin, brushed drums, and upright bass, are two cases in point. “Horseshoe Lake” may be played on acoustic guitars, mandos, upright bass, and cello, but it walks through the same kind of singer/songwriter rock Bruce Springsteen delved into on Tunnel of Love — without the slick production. “Yellow Mama” is a shimmering primitive ballad with beautiful slide guitar and banjo work. It’s a prayer, a protest song, and a criminal ballad, all rolled into one. “Half a Man,” a midtempo shuffling acoustic ballad with a full band, sounds utterly lush in comparison to its predecessors. The closer, “Love Is the Solution,” with its lonesome strings and spoken word lyric, is a blues from a different era. Its message is profound, spelled out in simple terms that could have been written by Tom Russell, and shows his influence. It’s hard to tell where a recording like this one might drop — and hopefully not into obscurity. These are wonderfully written and executed songs: sparse yet full of literacy, emotion, and a primitive’s attitude to modern invention, though th… |
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Ghostdance $17.98 Combine Native American touches with a healthy appreciation of storytellers like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen and you have Bill Miller, a distinctive singer/songwriter who shows how compelling he can be on Ghostdance. This superb CD is essentially folk-rock, but it’s folk-rock with Native American elements. Not only has Native American culture influenced him musically, but his reflective lyrics are also greatly influenced by the history and culture of Native Americans. Like Springsteen, Miller realizes that great singer/songwriters often draw on their own backgrounds and experiences. The Boss’ frame of reference is working-class New Jersey — he sings so convincingly about blue-collar life that you know he has been there — whereas Miller’s is the Native American experience. And his insights as a Mohican help to enrich “There Is You,” “Every Mountain I Climb,” and other pearls on Ghostdance. But you don’t have to have a Native American background to be moved by this album any more than you have to be from New Jersey to savor Springsteen’s Born to Run. The Boss might be writing about people in Asbury Park, NJ, but listeners in Melbourne, Australia, or Dublin, Ireland, can easily relate to his stories; and similarly, Ghostdance offers insights that people from a variety of backgrounds will appreciate. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi |
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Ultimate Collection $9.36 … |
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Getting Started on Drums Featuring Tommy Igoe DVD – Setting Up / Start Playing $13.23 Tommy Igoe brings his 25 years of teaching and playing experience to bear, creating the first DVD for beginner drummers! He takes you on a journey that starts with taking a brand new drum set out of the box and gets you started making music right away. Setting Up! (Part 1) is dedicated to understanding your new drums. All of your drums and hardware, along with Tommy’s unique “Power Square” concept… |
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The 25 Thunderous Classics $1.52 … |
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Tune Buddies – Percussion [VHS] $11.95 … |
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The Ultimate Beginner Series: Drum Basics Step One [VHS] $3.10 Drum Basics – Step 1 From Warner Bros. Ultimate Beginner Series comes Drum Basics – Step 1 with Sandy Gennaro A member of the Drummers Collective in New York and an experienced studio and live drummer with such artists as Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and may others, Sandy Gennaro is nationally renowned as a teacher and player Drum Basics covers all the first steps that a beginning drummer needs to star… |
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Mike Portnoy: Liquid Drum Theater [VHS] $18.06 2-video boxed set documents Portnoy’s innovative drumming style. Volume One features music by Liquid Tension Experiment. Mike performs eight songs and breaks down parts from each, focusing on how to develop a toolkit of fills and patterns. Volume Two focuses on the music of Dream Theater, and deals with odd time signatures, double bass techniques, soloing, and much more. Both instructional drummin… |
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Animusic – A Computer Animation Video Album (Special Edition) $6.37 Watching Animusic is like being mesmerized by the world’s most elaborate Rube Goldberg devices: You’re so astonished by their ingenuity that you can’t look away. This “computer animation video album” is the brainchild of Wayne Lytle, a progressive-rock keyboardist and 1988 graduate of Cornell University’s Program of Computer Graphics. Modifying techniques originally applied to the visualization of… |
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Baby Einstein – Meet the Orchestra – First Instruments $6.25 Adults may think it’s too early to teach a baby the difference between a trumpet and a bugle, but Baby Einstein: Meet the Orchestra–First Instruments entertains children with its next music installment. Relying on its tried-and-true formula of bright colors, quick-paced format, and almost no dialogue (except to repeat names and identify groups by section: brass, woodwinds, strings, and so forth),… |
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Jamey Aebersold Standard Time BOOK/CD (Standard) $15.00 … |
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How to Write for PERCUSSION $29.95 How to Write for PERCUSSION is a comprehensive text that clearly explains and simplifies all issues that percussionists and composers face with respect to each other. Written from a percussionist’s perspective, it examines the behind-the-scenes processes to uncover all the tools the composer needs to comfortably create innovative and skilled percussion composition. If you are a composer or arra… |
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4 Caribbean-South American Ensembles $0 Performers and audiences alike will love these four original works for medium-advanced high school or college-level percussion ensemble. Fun to play and exciting to listen to, each piece can be performed individually, or all four played together as a suite. Written for 9 players but playable with as few as 7 (or augment the ensemble to include several more players). Full-performance CD is included! |
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A Celebration of Praise (For the Beauty of the Earth) – Band Music Press $0 From the opening sounds of the drums, A Celebration of Praise will dramatically take both musicians and audience members on an inspiring and greatly satisfying musical journey. Noted composer James Swearingen has majestically created a young band setting of the popular hymn For The Beauty of The Earth. Well-suited as a concert opener, this outstanding work features solid scoring techniques for beginning players as well as challenging but playable parts for the percussion section. (Grade 1.5) |
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A Rainbow in Curved Air $9.99 After several graph compositions and early pattern pieces with jazz ensembles in the late ’50s and early ’60s (see “Concert for Two Pianists and Tape Recorders” and “Ear Piece” in La Monte Young’s book An Anthology), Riley invented a whole new music which has since gone under many names (minimal music — a category often applied to sustained pieces as well — pattern music, phase music, etc.) which is set forth in its purest form in the famous “In C” (1964) (for saxophone and ensemble, CBS MK 7178). “Rainbow in Curved Air” demonstrates the straightforward pattern technique but also has Riley improvising with the patterns, making gorgeous timbre changes on the synthesizers and organs, and presenting contrasting sections that has become the basic structuring of his works (“Candenza on the Night Plain” and other pieces). Scored for large orchestra with extra percussion and electronics, some of this work’s seven movements are: “Star Night,” “Blue Lotus,” “The Earth Below,” and “Island of the Rhumba King.” ~ “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Rovi |
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Boyarina Morozova – Study Score $74.95 Choral opera in two parts for 4 soloists, SATB chorus, trumpet, timpani, and percussion. The life and torment of Boyarina Morozova and her sister Princess Uruzova. Premiered 2006, Moscow. Russian text based on The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum and The Life of Boyarina Morozova. Libretto by the composer. |
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Celtic Air and Dance No. 2 $40 Written in a style similar to Michael’s popular Celtic Air and Dance, here is another terrific setting of Celtic tunes arranged for very young bands. This arrangement opens with a beautiful and flowing version of the familiar air Danny Boy. The setting concludes with the lively Star of the County Down featuring the percussion section and a dance-like melody. Dur: 2:50 |
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Christine [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] $16.98 Christine, based on Stephen King’s novel about an unusual kind of car repossession, was taken by John Carpenter from book to screen in a blazingly short time. Rather than bypassing his usual methods, as he did with The Thing, Carpenter once again chose to do the score. The original soundtrack released from the movie was a brief affair indeed, offering up a small selection of rock & roll tunes used in the movie, plus a short selection (“Christine Attacks,” here with the subtitle “Plymouth Fury”) from Carpenter’s score. As it is, this Tangerine Dream-influenced, mechanically pounding number is probably the best thing in the score, highly visual, threatening, and relentless. As with the best of Carpenter’s work, it’s enough to haunt your dreams for a few days — a property shared by the scores for Halloween and The Fog (both on Varese Sarabande). Christine, though, suffers from a very rushed situation. Rather than having the time to craft something new, Carpenter reached back into the bag and pulled up variations on old themes. As a result, you can hear a variety of familiar elements in here, from the high-pitched synthesizers designed to make you quiver to revised score elements from Escape From New York, Halloween, and The Fog. The arpeggiated theme from Halloween is barely disguised in terms of musical structure (he builds on the same structure) while the forceful percussion-based pulse of the chase-type music is straight out of Escape From New York. In terms of the recording, the music sounds a little unfinished, and equalization isn’t the best, though hiss has been reduced to an inaudible level. The highs tend to be inconsistent, the lows, probably because of the synthesizers (sounding as though Carpenter’s Prophet V and Xs were giving way to Yamaha instruments) either on the feathery side or a little softer than they should be in the punchier parts of the score. For all the problems and weaknesses of this score, though, it still manages to rank above They … |
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City of Evil $17.98 Avenged Sevenfold’s first two albums had a clear influence from heavy metal, but the California combo also freely incorporated emo, screamo, and post-hardcore elements. The mixing and matching meant 2003’s Waking the Fallen had as many sighing harmonies as it did harmonized guitar freakouts. And yet City of Evil, the band’s third record and Warner debut, is absolutely rife with the imagery and pacing of classic metal. Look at that artwork. It features a skeletal swordsman flying a steed with steaming nostrils over the urban inferno of the title; tattoos, demons, and a skull with flapping wings adorn the lyric book. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal influence is immediate and prevalent, from the maniacally rippling percussion throughout to the triumphantly whining lead guitars in the chorus of “Blinded in Chains,” or the soaring melody in “Burn It Down” that meets its match in Metallica-styled verses. The downshifts into guttural roars are largely gone, replaced by better-integrated atmospheric stretches or the tighter songcraft of a track like “Bat Country,” which intersects punk and pop influences in a manner similar to My Chemical Romance. At over seven minutes, “Wicked End” is a late-album standout. Vocalist M. Shadows rips through couplets like “We’ve grown in numbers, six hundred sixty-six/War breaks, a sign of the end, eternally expelled/Look to the sky for knowledge, the stars align tonight,” guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance trade off blistering solos, and there’s a full choral interlude in the center, complete with an angelic host and sighing cellos. Which is all totally metal, and refreshingly unmarred by attempts to fit too many jumbled genres in. City of Evil’s ballads are a little trite, and even its double-bass raging doesn’t necessarily break new ground. But Avenged Sevenfold gets all the pieces right, and sound like they’re having more fun here than in the scattershot approach of the first couple records. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi |
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Elementaria – First Acquaintance with Orff-Schulwerk $32.95 Elemantaria is a fundamental and practical handbook to Orff-Schulwerk . The author gives suggestions and examples without insisting dogmatically on one exclusive method. She offers well-tried solutions without excluding other possibilities and individual variations. It is not only a valuable personal document, but also a practical and essential guide for educationalists concerned with Orff-Schulwerk. The book is divided into two sections: Part One includes rhythmic, melodic and speech exercises. Part Two contains a detailed study of elementary movement training. There is an important appendix, with illustrations, on how to play the instruments used in the earley stages of teaching. Music examples, movement diagrams. Illustrated.Author’s Preface • Part One: Rhythmic-Melodic Exercises • Fundamentals • Rhythmic Exercises • Disposition and posture • Reaction trainig • Finding ‘rhythmic building bricks’ • Games with ‘rhythmic building bricks’ • Leading a group, making up accompainments, completing phrase • Melodic Exercises • Disposition and posture when playing barred percussion instruments • Accompaniements, songs, pieces • Making up accompaniements and completing phrases • Hints on the early stages of recorder playing • Speech Exercises • Word series and sayings with rhythmic accompainment • Part Two: Elementary Movement Training • Introduction • Reaction training • Gymnastic exercises • Movement training • Movement variations and combinations • Movement pieces • Elementary movement improvisation • Movement accompaniment • Suggestions for movement lessons for beginners • Appendix |
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Fabric 55 $14.99 Sam Shackleton masked the significance of his first full-length by titling it Three EPs. Here, he does something similarly perverse; rather than use the Fabric platform to show off his record bag, he pulls a Villalobos (Fabric 36) and mixes his own productions — 12 new tracks and ten exclusive versions. When heard from a distance, or with an extreme preference for genre-hopping mixes tailored for short attention spans, Fabric 55 can sound just like a 74-minute stream of directionless pitter-patter. There is no buildup. So, there is no peak, and therefore no comedown. There? s no standard boom-tick, either. It? s more like a psychedelic labyrinth of sinewy percussion and mind-bending, reverb-augmented effects, one in which unintelligible whispers, spectral chants, and clearly spoken bits — like a woman reading from the Book of Revelations — occasionally poke through. The titles, whether vivid ( ? Moon Over Joseph? s Burial? ) or blunt (? Massacre? ), reflect the ominous sonic disposition, and when locked into the grain of these restlessly shifting layers of percussion, the effect is exhilarating. Had Shackleton been releasing this kind of material in 2002, he might have been classified as tribal microhouse. In the strictly descriptive sense, Fabric 55 is abstract sample-based dance music, but it? s an utterly unique strain that defies easy categorization. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi |
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Front and Center! $0 Here’s a marvelous and appealing first march for any young group. Carefully scored so that every section of the band has interesting parts, Paul uses a nice mix of full ensemble playing, counter lines, a percussion interlude and woodwind melodies. |
Beginner Guitar
5 Tip Blueprint For Beginner Guitar Lessons
Since there are many clearly defined steps in any Learn Guitar quest, following a guitar lessons for beginners on DVD program is one way to keep on track and maximize results. This effectively is known as taking beginner guitar lessons from theory to practice and placing ideas into actions so you can track, assess and refine results.Suggestions for choosing a course:1. Learn Guitar Lesson For Kids and Children? or,2. Beginners Guitar Lessons For Adults?3. Is a Learn At Home Self Study Online DVD Guitar Course Right for You?4. Beginner Guitar Lessons in all Styles and Techniques.5. Finally, Guitar Lesson Results.You can use a mapped out clearly defined set of inescapable steps taking advantage of the lesson book which should be included in the course. One useful strategy is to: Combine a learn at home, self study Guitar Dvd curriculum with a well thought out lesson book, which is of benefit to the pupil by way of the teacher. Thus having a lesson book for referral is of prime importance while using the Videos/DVD’s. A study guide is more to the point, having the most important items in writing is one key to successfully taking advantage of the 22 Dvd Set.Another useful strategy is: That having purchased an online guitar course for a one time fee, without the need for a monthly membership fee or weekly visits to the music school, lowers the cost of learning guitar without sacrificing results. For example, if you take private lessons, what happens if you did not quite ‘get’ the lesson that week, or developed short term amnesia as soon as you get home. What solutions are available?Well, you could have to wait until next week to retake the lesson, and quite expensive to retake lessons, or have a teacher throttle your progress, thus making sure the lesson process takes a long time. If, for instance you chose a highly reputable online guitar lesson curriculum with proven results, you can retake the lesson as many times as you need to in order to remember and put it in your muscle memory.I learn by repetition, I’m not a beginner learner anymore, being an intermediate player who does not need formal lessons on a regular basis. That is one of the unspoken beauties of learn at home guitar lessons, at a certain point, you will feel comfortable enough with your knowledge to improvise, and that is a lot of fun.What you will find in the best online guitar course where every lesson has play along tracks to go along with the teacher. The program I made best use of had some extra backing tracks at the end of each lesson for the aggressive learner. My personal opinion is that to play along with a backing track of a particular song, with the teacher as well, a duet, accelerates the response time and multitasking abilities of the brain, by repetition. If you have the focus, this is where you fall into the ‘zone’.If you are interested in beginner guitar lessons, try the same online course for beginners I use. We are not a new website and have gained rankings so you can easily find us on Google because of our dedication to finding the truth regarding the prospect of learning guitar. We have everything to lose by promoting a substandard product.
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Fender Presents: Getting Started on Electric Guitar — A Guide for Beginners $14.21 Over 3 hours long with 50 interactive guitar lessons on DVD. Covers tuning, essential chords and scales, music reference, practice tips, rhythm techniques, play-along tracks with a band, 3-D fretboard graphics, instrument care, and more. Includes 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German. Hosted by Keith Wyatt of the Musicians Institute…. |
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The Acoustic Guitar Method $23.61 These carefully graded starter lessons for the acoustic guitar are based on David Hamburger’s best-selling books, issued by the publishers of Acoustic Guitar magazine. Beginner guitarists will learn how to use a pick and form all the most important chords, while those with some guitar experience will learn fingerpicking styles and other essential playing techniques. More than two-dozen classic son… |
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Bass Guitar Lessons: Beginning Bass – How to play Bass instructional video $12.00 Tony Saunders has performed and recorded with countless well-known artists including: Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and many more! In Beginning Bass, Tony gives 4 and 5 string beginning players an up close detailed course in the fundamentals of beginning bass playing. Includes on-screen tablature, interactive lesson chart and a free password to online book. 14 HD LCD Display (1366×768, 1… |
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Essential DADGAD For (Guitar) Beginners – Taught By Artie Traum [VHS] $29.95 Here is an easy introduction to DADGAD for those who are new to alternate tunings and want to explore its unique sounds on the guitar. Artie Traum shows how to retune the guitar quickly and easily, form the important chords in the key of D (some using only one finger), improvise instrumentals, write songs, and get funky with country blues ideas. Using the folk classic The Water Is Wide as an examp… |
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Blues Guitar, Step One with Keith Wyatt [VHS] $3.21 The Ultimate Beginner Series is designed to help you take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music. Blues Guitar, Step One illustrates everything you need to get you started in the basics of the blues. This video also features on-screen… |
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Ultimate Beginner Series: Guitar Basics Step 1 [VHS] $3.10 The Ultimate Beginner Series is designed to help you take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music. On Guitar Basics, Step One you’ll learn how to tune up quickly and accurately, how to change strings, what accessories you will need, ho… |
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Fender Presents: Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar — A Guide for Beginners $13.00 Over 3 hours long with 50 interactive lessons. Covers tuning, essential chords and scales, music reference, practice tips, rhythm techniques, play-along tracks with a band, 3-D fretboard graphics, instrument care, and more. Includes 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German. Hosted by Keith Wyatt of the Musicians Institute…. |
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Guitar For Dummies $29.95 Guitar for dummies. For dummies fd12091 guitar for dummies. Specs: interactive educational software; over 80 step-by-step video-enhanced lessons; over 50 songs with recorded audio & variable-speed midi tracks; over 40 high-quality videos with full-screen option; animated fretboard displays fingering positions as music plays; lessons feature kevin garry, ph.d., from the university of colorado at bo… |
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eMedia Guitar Method v5 $59.95 The latest version of the world’s best-selling beginning guitar CD-ROM! 165 comprehensive full-screen lessons cover everything from the basics to chord strumming, playing melodies, and fingerpicking. New interactive feedback on melodies and interactive quizzes help make learning tablature and music notation easy. Covers folk, blues, classical and rock styles, including a modern rock chapter with v… |
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EarMaster 5 $49.95 EarMaster 5 Pro Ear Training Software will help any musician gain a better understanding of music Teaching ear training for any musician, playing any instrument no matter what skill level! Sing, improvise or jam with more confidence than you ever thought possible. You need to recognize the inner workings of all the sounds around you and EarMaster can help by including over 650 ear training lessons… |
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20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know $0 This series of CDs teaches essential swing guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve’s unique method features three levels: a beginner’s version in which he teaches the basic melody; an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding; and finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions. Tunes: After You’ve Gone • Back Home Again in Indiana • Blue Moon • Danny Boy • Georgia on My Mind • Honeysuckle Rose • I Got Rhythm • Kansas City Kitty • Lady Be Good • Limehouse Blues • Little Rock Getaway • Minor Swing • Miss Molly • Panhandle Rag • It’s Only a Paper Moon • Remington’s Ride • Over the Rainbow • Sugar Foot Rag • Summertime • The Sunny Side of the Street.160-PAGE BOOK WITH 6 CDs • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL ALL |
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Applause AA13 3/4 Size Guitar in Red $249.5 Applause guitars combine roundback technology, professional features, and extreme value. Designed for younger players and guitarists with small hands, this three-quarter-size steel-string guitar packs lots of sound into a small package. Measuring only 23-¾” (600mm), the Mini-Applause also makes a great travel guitar. Whether you’re headed for the beach or the backwoods, this little roundback is a perfect companion. |
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Applause AA21 Acoustic Guitar in Black $269.5 Applause guitars combine roundback technology, professional features, and extreme value. Featuring a spruce top with matched, lightweight bracing designed to enhance punch and projection, the AA21 has a big, clear sound. The Deep Bowl composite body delivers rich, powerful tones and maximum acoustic output. The AA21’s center soundhole offers a traditional look, and its slim neck has an electric-style profile, 20 hand-finished nickel-silver frets, and low factory-set action. |
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Applause AE128 Ac/El Guitar in Honeyburst $349.5 Applause guitars combine roundback technology, professional features, and extreme value. Preferred by many stage performers and acoustic guitarists who rely on amplification, the AE128’s Super-Shallow composite body feels similar to an electric, yet it retains all the benefits and acoustic properties of our proven roundback design. A spruce top and matched lightweight bracing deliver a clear amplified tone with plenty of headroom before feedback on stage. The guitar’s center soundhole offers a traditional look, and its slim neck has an electric-style profile, 20 hand-finished nickel-silver frets, and low factory-set action. A cutaway insures easy access to the entire fretboard. Featuring a 3-band EQ, gain knob, and battery status LED, the easy-to-use onboard OP-4B preamp is great for recording. |
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BadAax 266 Solid Mahogany Acoustic Guitar $259.99 This full-size dreadnought acoustic is made from only the most select tone-woods and produces a warm, full-bodied tone with a smooth easy playing feel. The BadAax Model 266 acoustic guitar features solid mahogany back and sides, a spruce top and is finished with a polished, high gloss lacquer. Other features include a mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and bridge, pearloid dot fingerboard inlays, body and neck binding along with die-cast metal tuners that make it easy to tune and to stay in tune. All these high quality features at a price you’ll appreciate! |
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BadAax 266CE AC/EL Cutaway Guitar Package $399.99 One of the very best guitar packages on the market today! This full-size acoustic electric cutaway is made from only the most select tone-woods and produces a warm, full-bodied tone with a smooth easy playing feel. The BadAax Model 266CE features solid mahogany back and sides, a spruce top and is finished with a polished, high gloss lacquer. A three band EQ with volume control and a deep cutaway that makes it easy to hit all the notes are just a couple of the things that make this guitar so special. Other features include a mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and bridge, pearloid dot fingerboard inlays, body and neck binding along with die-cast metal tuners that make it easy to tune and to stay in tune. The package also offers a 10 watt amp with volume, bass, treble controls, gain button with headphone jack and 6.5” speaker. There’s a 10 foot cable, gig bag, tuner and even an extra set of strings! All these high quality features at a price you’ll appreciate! |
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BadAax 266CE Solid Mahogany AC/EL Cutaway Guitar $399.99 This full-size acoustic electric cutaway is made from only the most select tone-woods and produces a warm, full-bodied tone with a smooth easy playing feel. The BadAax Model 266CE features solid mahogany back and sides, a spruce top and is finished with a polished, high gloss lacquer. A three band EQ with volume control and a deep cutaway that makes it easy to hit all the notes are just a couple of the things that make this guitar so special. Other features include a mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and bridge, pearloid dot fingerboard inlays, body and neck binding along with die-cast metal tuners that make it easy to tune and to stay in tune. All these high quality features at a price you’ll appreciate! |
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BadAax JR Guitar Pack, Metallic Blue $249.99 BadAax is proud to offer this great beginner set to our young rockers! This half-sized guitar is for kids from ages 3-7 that want to get started on the electric guitar. The guitar itself is 31 inches long, has a solid hardwood body, with a maple neck and fingerboard with 21 frets. It has one single-coil pickup and one volume control. There’s a small 3 watt amp that runs on a single 9 volt battery that has a volume, tone and overdrive knob, a gig bag, tuner, guitar cable, guitar strap, cleaning cloth and instruction booklet. Absolutely everything a kid needs to start rockin’ the house! |
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BadAax JR Guitar Pack, Metallic Red $249.99 BadAax is proud to offer this great beginner set to our young rockers! This half-sized guitar is for kids from ages 3-7 that want to get started on the electric guitar. The guitar itself is 31 inches long, has a solid hardwood body, with a maple neck and fingerboard with 21 frets. It has one single-coil pickup and one volume control. There’s a small 3 watt amp that runs on a single 9 volt battery that has a volume, tone and overdrive knob, a gig bag, tuner, guitar cable, guitar strap, cleaning cloth and instruction booklet. Absolutely everything a kid needs to start rockin’ the house! |
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Beginning Rock Lead Guitar $14.95 Internationally recognized musician and leading guitar instructor Troy Stetina utilizes his teaching experience at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music to craft a beginner-level guitar lesson designed to help aspiring lead-guitarists learn all the tricks needed to take their playing to the cutting edge. Topics covered include modes, articulations, arpeggios, scales, theory, and rock licks. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
