Tag Archives: Drum DVDs

Lick Library Releases Drum Legend Tuition DVDs

[Press Release]

Lick Library, one of the world’s leading suppliers of tuition DVDs, has just released a series of Drum Legend DVDs encompassing arguably the greatest and most influential drummers the world has seen. From Chad Smith and Taylor Hawkins to Dave Grohl, John Bonham, and Stewart Copeland, the series brings you up close to the legends and explains in an easy-to-follow format how to play their most famous tracks.

The DVDs explain in detail essential drum rhythms, grooves, and techniques and those must-know fills and patterns. Each song is broken down into bite sized parts, covering beat by beat what you need to know to play like these legends. The series covers the greatest and most often requested tracks to learn. From Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” to The Police’s “Roxanne” these are definitive video guides complete with backing tracks to play along to.

The John Bonham DVD really gives you the inside track on the dynamic grooves of arguably the greatest rock drummer of all time. Accessible to drummers of all levels of ability, this DVD is packed full of ideas for fills, improvising, and grooves and covers five classic tracks including “When The Levee Breaks,” “Good Times Bad Times,” “Black Dog” and “Fool In The Rain.”

Lick Library has perfected a unique format to help drummers really play like their heroes. Imagine a one-to-one lesson focusing on Chad Smith, the powerhouse behind the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, where you can study over and over again his intense funk grooves on “Give It Away” or “Californication.” Watch up a close our top drum teacher explain and demonstrate Stewart Copeland’s unique style on tracks such as “So Lonely,” “Walking On The Moon,” “Message In A Bottle” and “Can’t Stand Losing You.”

The Dave Grohl DVD focuses on the influential, multi-talented musician, songwriter, and drummer, covering tracks from Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, and Foo Fighters. The DVD will help you get a real understanding of the musicality in Dave’s playing as well as his sense of power. Finally the Taylor Hawkins DVD covers five killer Foo Fighters tracks and like the other DVDs analyzes the songs and gives an insight into his playing.

All the DVDs are presented by Pete Riley, who has worked with artists as diverse as Republica, Motorhead, and more recently Keith Emerson of ELP fame. He is a regular contributor to Rhythm magazine and author of three bestselling drum tuition books.

The DVDs are available to purchase through www.licklibrary.com along with over 20,000 other tuition products.

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Giovanni Hidalgo and Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez Are "Traveling Through Time"

Get your passports ready, thumpers!

[Press Release]

The year is off to a bang with the announcement of two of the music world’s most innovative and exciting Latin percussionists touring Europe together for the first time. Giovanni Hidalgo, widely regarded as the greatest living conga player, will be performing a series of workshops and concerts with master of Latin drumming Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez.

Called the “TRAVELING THROUGH TIME TOUR” after their critically acclaimed and ground-breaking DVD, they will be performing music from the DVD, which was described by Modern Drummer as “a percussion lover’s dream come true.”

Prepare to experience some of the most incredible playing of drums and congas in history. Better still, these masters will be explaining how each duet was conceived, how they approach their individual parts, and their approach to improvising within each piece during a series of workshops across the continent. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get up close and personal with these incredible players and to explore the bold textures and rhythmic complexities of Latin percussion.

The full lists of dates are as follows:

Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez & Giovanni Hidalgo: TRAVELING THROUGH TIME 2009

25 JANUARY – Vals-Tarragona/Spain – xQbeat Festival (concert)

28 JANUARY – Valencia/Spain – Auditorium (concert)

29 JANUARY – Milan/Italy (workshop)

31 JANUARY – Verona/Italy (workshop)

01 FEBRUARY – Brescia/Italy (workshop)

02 FEBRUARY – Barcelona/Spain (workshop)

03 FEBRUARY – Barcelona/Spain (workshop)

04 FEBRUARY – Huesca/Spain – Theatre (concert)

05 FEBRUARY – Zaragoza/Spain – Theatre (concert)

07 FEBRUARY – Barcelona/Spain – Auditoriun Percussion Festival (concert)

13 FEBRUARY – Cagliari/Italy (workshop)

14 FEBRUARY – Roma/Italy – Auditorium (concert + workshop)

16 FEBRUARY – Salerno/Italy – Il Moro Club (concert)

19 FEBRUARY – Lecce/Italy (workshop at Conservatory)

20 FEBRUARY – Larino/Italy (workshop)

21 FEBRUARY – Urbania/Italy (workshop+concert)

22 FEBRUARY – Udine/Italy (workshop)

23 FEBRUARY – Amsterdam/Holland – Bimhius (concert) + Conservatory (workshop)

25 FEBRUARY – Vienna/Austria – (workshop)

26 FEBRUARY – Gmunden/Austria (workshop)

For more information on tickets and venues, please see http://www.elnegro.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/horaciohernandez

The Traveling Through Time DVD is available from Alfred Publishing.

Tommy Igoe’s Groove Essentials 2.0

Hudson Music has posted another clip from Tommy Igoe’s latest video, Groove Essentials 2.0. Click here to see the affable Igoe rock up a shuffle.

Benny Greb DVD on the Way

Shit fire and save the matches! Benny Greb, the drummer dude we here at BDT have a big-time groove crush on, is coming out with a DVD in January 2009. Titled The Language of Drumming, it will be a two-disc set produced by Hudson Music (i.e., the production values are going to be top-notch).

New Jason Bittner DVD

Aw yeah, Hudson Music is about to unleash a Jason Bittner DVD, What Drives the Beat. It’ll clock in at three hours and feature Bittner demonstrating enough concepts to fill a six-hour DVD:

  • The basic beats and fills of metal drumming
  • Applying rudiments
  • Hand and foot technique
  • Developing both feet evenly
  • Two-handed ride patterns
  • How to “metalfy” jazz, funk, shuffles, slow blues, and world beats
  • Soloing

Check the link above for a sneak peek.

MD Fest 2008 Is a Wrap

Well, dammit. Another MD Fest has come and gone, and we still haven’t managed to swindle and scheme our way into one (next year we are totally getting all Mission Impossible about it). Thankfully, Hudson Music set up a preview site of the event and posted some frighteningly good teaser vids of each drummer’s performance. The complete DVD is scheduled to hit shelves sometime in 2009 (which is only around 10 million seconds from now).