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Take Video Music Lessons with ShowMeHowToPlay
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:30 AM on December 8, 2007
Windows/Mac only: Music instruction site Show Me How To Play takes an iTunes-like approach to video lessons, charging 99 cents for downloadable "Multiplayer videos" that let users watch skilled session groups move through a song, one instrument at a time. Even if you get by fine with free lessons, the site has a nice collection of mostly free features dealing with the music business, gear choices and other musician-friendly topics. Using the Multiplayer videos requires a sign-up, Quicktime and Windows XP/Vista or OS X 10.3.4 or later.
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zarathustra
Posted 1:52 PM 7/12/07
as Grungydan postulates, this search for "guitar lessons":
[www.youtube.com]
gets you 108,000 videos, and that's just for guitars! File this one under "99 cents for what?"
zarathustra
DogInYellowCoat
Posted 12:00 PM 7/12/07
or if you go to garyhoey.com you can get a few video lessons from his site for free. Gary Hoey is an amazing guitar player if you've never heard of him.
DogInYellowCoat
mw2006
Posted 10:32 AM 7/12/07
probably one of the coolest websites I've seen in awhile. this is sweet I'm picking up my guitar now.
mw2006
Grungydan
Posted 10:12 AM 7/12/07
Or you can go to Youtube and watch a few hundred lessons for free.
Grungydan
genderbunny
Posted 1:39 AM 8/12/07
@zarathustra: Ah, but remember that everyone and their dog wants to be a Guitar Hero. I don't imagine there's quite as many hits for bass or piano, and I seem to recall finding just one actual instructional video when searching for how-to stuff for drums, buried amid a ton of videos that just had "drum" somewhere in the title.
I think that if the videos actually teach you something useful, it's well worth a buck to not have to sift through the chaff.
genderbunny
Christopher Harley
Posted 8:52 AM 13/12/07
This looks great on the site's intro page but the minimum requirements are bit much for my 800 MHz PowerPC G4 with 768 MB SDRAM.
Here's what's needed: Minimum Specification: PC - Pentium 4 1.5Ghz with 1 GB Memory | MAC - G4 dual 1.25Ghz with 1 GB Memory
Christopher Harley