Product Details

• Actors: Dan Huckabee
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Musicians Workshop.C
• VHS Release Date: August 1, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005Q3UM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #513,392 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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From the Actor

Dan Huckabee is the 1976 National Dobro Champion, has a degree in music from The University of North Texas, & has played with The Allman Brother, Lyle Lovette, Nancy Griffith, & Robert Earl Keen Jr, to name a few. Dan founded Musician’s Worskhop in 1973 & has produced over 250 music instruction courses. (60 minutes)

Product Description

"Rhythm Piano" is what you play in order to accompany yourself singing. The term is more common when differenciating "rhythm guitar" from "lead guitar". This is truly the "FUN APPROACH" to learning how to play piano. You will learn the chords to 19 songs, in 4 different keys, in practically no time at all. Dan starts you right off playing songs, because he skips the sight-reading that most piano instruction requires. This allows you to concentrate on learning to play while not forcing you to think of 2 things at once. Traditionally, piano has been taught from a formal approach, while guitar has more commonly been taught from a "hears how you do it" approach. This is the first piano method that uses the less formal "guitar approach." You’ll be surprised to find that our approach is actually more effective on piano than it is on guitar. So why didn’t anybody think of this idea before? You will learn left & right hand techniques, rhythmic stylizations, the Nashville Numbering system, theory that will help you figure out songs of your own choosing, finger exercises, & much more. Songs include: Happy Birthday to You, I’m a Little Teapot, Will the Circle be Unbroken, On Top of Old Smokey, Worried Man Blues, Cotton Fields, Surfin U.S.A., Amazing Grace, Midnight Special, When the Saints Go Marching In, This Land is Your Land, You Are My Sunshine, Camptown Races, Tom Dooley, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Billy Boy, Home on the Range, Wild Thing, Twist & Shout. (these songs were carefully chosen as examples that successfully train your skills & your ear). This is the first piano method that uses the "guitar approach" which is actually more effective on piano than it is on guitar. So why didn’t anybody think of this idea before?

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good information but ..., August 7, 2005

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Terrell (LOVES PARK, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Rhythm Piano, Vol. 1 with Dan Huckabee [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have both Vol. 1 and 2, they both have useful information, but you can only watch a little at a time, Huckabee's delivery is so monotonish that he puts you to sleep. Both videos could use a booklet of lyrics and/or chord charts to make it easier to follow along also