Speed Picking

Improve your speed and fluidity through increased pick efficiency. Explains and demonstrates sweep arpeggios, speed picking licks, harmonic super impositions, sequence licks and more!

Lick Library: Ultimate Guitar Techniques - Speed Soloing

Learn killer speed building and speed soloing techniques with Andy James. This superb DVD will teach you essential techniques to get your soloing up to warp speed! Lessons range from basic tips to advanced shredding techniques including alternate picking, snap picking, legato techniques, speed building and co-ordination techniques plus much more. Also includes a jam track to practice and perform with.

Speed Reading for Violin

This speed-reading book employs the standard techniques of language speed-reading, converted to music reading. The key ingredients are mental focus, physical eye focus, and quick fingers. The virtuoso, or the elementary player, can benefit from practicing these procedures. In 60 pages, one will drill in all possible finger patterns including half steps, whole steps, augmented seconds, and brief repetitions.

Speed Reading for Viola

This speed-reading book employs the standard techniques of language speed-reading, converted to music reading. The key ingredients are mental focus, physical eye focus and quick fingers. The virtuoso, or the elementary player, can benefit from practicing these procedures. In 60 pages, one will drill in all possible finger patterns including half steps, whole steps, augmented seconds, and brief repetitions.

Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar

The ultimate technique book for developing the kind of speed and precision in today's explosive playing styles. Learn the fastest ways to achieve speed and control, secrets to make your practise time really count and how to open your ears and make your musical ideas more solid and tangible. Packed with over 200 vicious exercises including Troy's scorching version of 'Flight Of The Bumblebee'. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.

Frank Gambale: Monster Licks And Speed Picking (DVD)

This DVD details Frank Gambale's innovative speed/sweep picking technique while presenting a method for developing his trademark monster licks. Frank demonstrates his picking technique in the context of scales, pentatonics, arpeggios and triad examples.

Joan Tower: Silver Ladders (Score)

Work for Orchestra composed in 1986.

John Heussenstamm: Guitar Workout - Speed Picking, Sweeps, Arpeggios And Harmony For The Modern Guitarist

Guitar Workout is an intensive, comprehensive program that will increase your speed, agility, and creativity. This is the ultimate workout for any guitarist who wants to accelerate and articulate their speed picking!Train like a professional while gaining a greater understanding of the diatonic major scale, scale harmony, and the picking technique needed to play super-fast licks and riffs with melodic intelligence and creativity.Internationally renowned guitarist John Heussenstamm leads you through rigorous single-note warm-up exercises, speed drills, fingering patterns, sweeps, arpeggios, and melody construction.

Troy Stetina/Chris Moore: Speed Mechanics For Drums (Book/Online Video)

Speed Mechanics For Drums is the ultimate technique book for today's faster playing styles – a roadmap to mastering the many facets of playing the Drumset. This book then goes beyond technique to help you tap your inner creativity and discover your own original style. The book includes access to video online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book.

Paul Mehling: Metronome Power! - Improve Speed, Timing And Efficiency On All Instruments

Jazz guitarist Paul Mehling says "A metronome is your best friend," and he proves it on this hands-on, fun to use DVD lesson. By spending a mere 10 - 15 minutes a day with this mechanical time-keeper, players will improve their practice sessions, gain a better understanding of rhythm, build speed, and develop a stronger sense of time, regardless of their chosen instrument.

Metal Guitar: Modern, Speed And Shred Featuring John McCarthy - Beginner

Designed by world renowned guitarist John McCarthy, this program is Jam-packed with the fundamental techniques you need to develop the skills to play any style of metal. John guides you step-by-step through easy to learn metal power chords, complete classic and modern metal rhythms, his very own speed demon exercises, pentatonic death scales and the demonic half step. You will learn bends, pull-offs, and hammer-ons all key components of effective lead playing. It is a must have for aspiring metal guitar players!

Metal Guitar: Modern, Speed And Shred Featuring Marc Rizzo - Level 1 (Intermediate)

If you are serious about taking your playing to the next level then sink your teeth into this program with Marc Rizzo, one of today's new breed of young guitarists who stands out as master musician with phenomenal technique. Through your one-on-one lessons with Marc you will develop skills needed to play Modern, Speed and Shred Metal. Learn scales spanning the entire neck, power chords, speed picking, tapping, Marc's personal bending technique and an arsenal of riffs for you can play. He will even show you how to get that growling metal sound.Included FREE with this program:Lifetime membership to The Rock House Method® lesson support system on the web, go to www.rockhousemethod.com, use the member number found inside your DVD case to register.oGet Helpful TipsoTake QuizzesoUse the interactive lesson toolsoDownload sheet musicoDownload backing tracks to play overoUse the student Message BoardsAnd much more to make your learning fun, easy and complete.

Metal Guitar: Modern, Speed And Shred Featuring Marc Rizzo - Level 2 (Advanced)

If you are serious about taking your playing to the next level then sink your teeth into this program with Marc Rizzo, one of today's new breed of young guitarists who stands out as master musician with phenomenal technique. Through your one-on-one lessons with Marc you will develop skills needed to play Modern, Speed and Shred Metal. Learn scales spanning the entire neck, power chords, speed picking, tapping, Marc's personal bending technique and an arsenal of riffs for you can play. He will even show you how to get that growling metal sound.Included FREE with this program:Lifetime membership to The Rock House Method® lesson support system on the web, go to www.rockhousemethod.com, use the member number found inside your DVD case to register.oGet Helpful TipsoTake QuizzesoUse the interactive lesson toolsoDownload sheet musicoDownload backing tracks to play overoUse the student Message BoardsAnd much more to make your learning fun, easy and complete.

Steve Kaufman: Learning To Flatpick DVD 3 - Developing Speed And Style

Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking! You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series. Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty, Salt Creek, Blackberry Blossom, Clarinet Polka, Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down, highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance. You'll learn how to dress up your solos using slides, arpeggios, bends, accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing, testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.

Speed Metal

In an attempt to teach the aspiring rock guitarist how to pick faster and play more melodically, Dave Celentano uses heavy metal neo-classical styles from Paganini and Bach to rock in this great new book/CD pack. The book is structured to take the player through the examples in order of difficulty, from easiest to most challenging. Now with CD!

Speed it Up

The Killer Speed Secret

Louis Bellson And Gil Breines: Odd Time Reading Text

Rhythmic studies designed to develop accuracy and speed in sight reading.

Burgess Speed: Guitar Theory Workbook

Everything in this simple beginner's guide to music theory is geared toward the Guitar so that you're able to apply the theoretical concepts directly to your instrument. Featuring hands-on activities like quizzes, assignments, ear training, and audio examples, this workbook teaching system is designed to reinforce each musical concept through application and practice. Topics covered include: • The basics of music notation • The way notes interact with each other • How collections of notes form scales and keys • How chords are created and how they function within keys • How to identify notes, scales and chords by ear • The relationships of notes, scales, and chords of the Guitar fretboard. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.

Extreme Polyrhythm,Coordination & Speed Techniques

Modern Reading Text In 4/4

This method contains syncopation studies designed to develop accuracy and speed in sight reading.

Stepping Stones

Contents: First performance · Two by Two · Snakes and Ladders · Stepping Stones · Waltz · Roundabout · Lighthouse · A Restful Tune · Ice-cream Van · Hiding in the Long Grass · Buttercups and Daisies · Musical Box · At a Snail'sPace · Kangaroo · Party Piece · Apple Tree · Cowboys and Indians · Caterpillars · Hobby Horses · Sea Horses · Circus Elephants · On a High Wire · Cockle Shells · Totem Pole · See-Saw · Oom-pah Band.

Stepping Stones

Contents: First performance · Two by Two · Snakes and Ladders · Stepping Stones · Waltz · Roundabout · Lighthouse · A Restful Tune · Ice-cream Van · Hiding in the Long Grass · Buttercups and Daisies · Musical Box · At a Snail'sPace · Kangaroo · Party Piece · Apple Tree · Cowboys and Indians · Caterpillars · Hobby Horses · Sea Horses · Circus Elephants · On a High Wire · Cockle Shells · Totem Pole · See-Saw · Oom-pah Band.

Stepping Stones

Contents: First performance · Two by Two · Snakes and Ladders · Stepping Stones · Waltz · Roundabout · Lighthouse · A Restful Tune · Ice-cream Van · Hiding in the Long Grass · Buttercups and Daisies · Musical Box · At a Snail'sPace · Kangaroo · Party Piece · Apple Tree · Cowboys and Indians · Caterpillars · Hobby Horses · Sea Horses · Circus Elephants · On a High Wire · Cockle Shells · Totem Pole · See-Saw · Oom-pah Band.

Harp Exercises For Agility And Speed

This book was designed to help harp players develop and maintain strength, suppleness, and agility in the fingers and hands. It is intended for use by players of all levels. The repetition of patterns common to the harp should enable the player to perform with greater ease and confidence.