Rock Guitar Secrets

The ultimate guitarist's reference book with playing techniques, solo and improvisation concepts, exercises and jam tracks. The purpose of this book is to demystify the relatively simple concepts or tricks around which much of rock guitar is built. The book is designed modularly, allowing the reader to choose any topic at any time, but is can also be sequentially as a method. Topics includes warm-ups, pentatonic scales, bending and vibrato techniques, blues scales, string skipping, major scales, alternate picking, modes, economy picking (sweeping), arpeggios, two-hand tapping, minor scales, legato techniques, exotic scales, whammy bar, how to build a solo, practice planning, and improvisation. Each concept is discussed in a thorough and easily understandable manner. The accompanying CD includes over 80 licks and exercises plus more than 20 jam tracks, helping the student put the concepts directly into practice. In notation and tablature.

Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/2699099/Fischer.rar
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MIKE PORTNOY - PROGRESSIVE DRUM CONCEPTS

Mike Portnoy, the drummer for the progressive heavy metal band Dream Theater, presents a fantastic instructional DVD for intermediate to advanced players.

Topics include: drum set assembly, double-bass techniques, odd time signatures, grooves and phrasing, and more. Portnoy, with John Myung on bass and Derek Sherinian on keyboard, plays various examples from Dream Theater songs including Pull Me Under , Voices , Metropolis , A Change of Seasons etc.

This DVD was originally released in Japan, but the response was so good it is now available to the rest of the world! Contents include Drum Set Assembly, Odd Time Signature examples and Groove and Phrasing examples.

Links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/128328838/MP-PDC.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128665587/MP-PDC.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128685518/MP-PDC.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128724576/MP-PDC.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128745767/MP-PDC.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128762914/MP-PDC.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/128792500/MP-PDC.part6.rar

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Guitarworld Magazine Jan 08 - Jun 08

Links:

June 2008 Issue
May 2008 Issue
April 2008 Issue
March 2008 Issue
February 2008 Issue
January 2008 Issue
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Secrets of the Pros Modern Recording & Mixing 1 & 2

This 2 DVD set from SECRETS OF THE PROS is a fast and easy way to learn how to record, mix, and set up your studio. It will show you the basic grear you need, how it works, and old and new techniques used by the best Producers, Engineers, and Artists in the music industry. You don't need a lot of money to create professional recordings, but you do need the skills. The fastest way to learn these skills is via DVD.

DVD 1
01 Introduction
02 General Studio Layout
03 Pre-Amps
04 Signal Routing
05 Click Tracks
06 Loops
07 Recording Setup Basics
08 Recording Drums
09 Recording Bass

DVD 2
10 Recording Guitars
11 Recording Keyboards/MIDI
12 Recording Vocals
13 Mixing
14 The Big Secret
15 Conclusion

With over three hours of information, these DVDs will take you through standard methods of audio engineering that have been refined over decades by the best of the best.

If you were to closely observe the best producers and engineers in the audio world as they record, edit, and mix, you would see many of them using similar techniques. This is because almost every one of them learned their skills from a lineage of other top-notch talent in the audio production industry. This 2-DVD set will show you these techniques.

You will also hear a world-class studio designer show you easy and inexpensive ways to correctly set up your studio. This process is critical if you want to record and mix pro sounding tracks and have your mixes accurately translate from your studio to the outside world.

Links:

DVD 1

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INSTRUCTIONS:
Join all the files using HJSplit or any other software. Once all the files are joined, open the file using Ultra ISO or Daemon Tool.
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