Phil Maturano's Afro Cuban Drumming, an overview for Drumset, is designed to give the drumset player a birds eye view of the Afro Cuban drumming experience. If you've always wanted to get into Latin styles, this is your chance. Phil's attention to detail is fantastic, using two of the most popular styles of Afro-Cuban music, players of every level can learn from the very beginning! Start by seeing and hearing the patterns played on the original; instruments then learn how to adapt everything you see on the drumset, all with close-ups and detailed explanations. Then you will cover a topic rarely explored in this kind of instructional material - how to apply these patterns in a rhythm section! By adding one percussionist at a time, we see and hear the function of the drumset in Afro Cuban music. As everyone knows, there is more to this music than just patterns, to really understand the language of this music Maturano uses his unique system for decoding the phrasing of all African descent music - RTS.

Phil Maturano's Afro Cuban Drumming, an overview for Drumset, is designed to give the drumset player a birds eye view of the Afro Cuban drumming experience. If you've always wanted to get into Latin styles, this is your chance. Phil's attention to detail is fantastic, using two of the most popular styles of Afro-Cuban music, players of every level can learn from the very beginning! Start by seeing and hearing the patterns played on the original; instruments then learn how to adapt everything you see on the drumset, all with close-ups and detailed explanations. Then you will cover a topic rarely explored in this kind of instructional material - how to apply these patterns in a rhythm section! By adding one percussionist at a time, we see and hear the function of the drumset in Afro Cuban music. As everyone knows, there is more to this music than just patterns, to really understand the language of this music Maturano uses his unique system for decoding the phrasing of all African descent music - RTS.

Learn how to play and practice the classic rhythms of the Afro-Cuban tradition with Berklee professor Ricardo Monzon. Monzon demonstrates the patterns and instruments that form the beating heart of the Afro-Cuban tradition, on clave, conga, timbale, bongo and guiro. You'll play along as he starts slowly with the basic patterns, then increases the tempo with a number of variations. By the end, you'll have a solid understanding of how to play and practice essential Afro-Cuban rhythms.

A Berklee professor and Afro Cuban master, Ricardo Monzón breaks down several Afro Cuban rhythms into easily digestible lessons. Monzón covers rhythms on the congas, timbales, bongos, guiro, cowbells, and other hand percussion instruments.

This is the first volume in the Global Beatworks World Percussion Series which features the drumming expertise of Master Drummer Simon Webster, who is recorded by long term friend and notable engineer/producer Ike Nossel. The Series captures the diverse range of percussion instruments from around the world which simon has collected, and will bring these unique sounds and his perfect playing style to your productions, adding new inspiration or simply a live played groove to complement your tracks.

This DVD is the first instructional drum method to fully explain the theory and expertly demonstrate the techniques for adapting authentic Latin rhythms to the modern drumset. The remastered DVD begins with a discussion of the evolution and adaptation of Afro-Cuban percussion instruments to the drumset. Maturano shows how fundamental Mambo and Cha-Cha styles are played by the Afro-Cuban rhythm section. Then the drummer isolates each element of the ensemble, allowing viewers to see and hear the patterns played on the original instruments. Finally, Maturano illustrates the proper way to adapt each instruments sound and rhythm to the drumset.

Introducing Biological Rhythms is a primer that serves to introduce individuals to the area of biological rhythms. It describes the major characteristics and discusses the implications and applications of these rhythms, while citing scientific results and references. Also, the primer includes essays that provide in-depth historic and other background information for those interested in more specific topics or concepts. It covers a basic cross-section of the field of chronobiology clearly enough so that it can be understood by a novice, or an undergraduate student, but that it would also be sufficiently technical and detailed for the scientist.

Unlike other beginners' classes, Jillian Goldberg's unique teaching style allows people of any age to pick up a pencil and start drawing. This DVD is designed to show you the various elements that go into drawing a castle, a hamburger and a tiger! These three projects have been hand-selected for the absolute beginner. Start with a blank piece of paper and end with a full-color work of art!

Looking for a vivid learning course on app development for Android 4 �Ice Cream Sandwich"? In this video tutorial, you learn how to program your own Android apps in the Android Market and publish. From Java crash course to programming of complex weather and notes apps offer this training you everything you need to get started with the Android development. Learn also in numerous hands-on workshops, as you push the new features of Android 4 full. Whether data management, GPS, GUI development, access to the camera, or voice input sensor control - here you see how it goes! With all the sample apps, Android SDK and Eclipse development environment on DVD.

M. Klaus and Clemens Wagner Rodewig give you an insight into the architecture of the iPhone and the iPad, and instructions for programming your own applications. All important topics in the necessary depth to be described with background knowledge. Practical examples support from the start, so you can start immediately. First results in the iPhone simulator, you can directly test. You will receive an overview of the various iPhone and iPod touch models learn how you can be in the Apple Developer Connection member and offer applications for the iPhone in the AppStore can.