eMedia Music to Expand the Guitar Lab DVD Series with Three New Titles

50 Funk Licks, 50 Metal Licks and 50 Shred Licks You Must Know Coming in January.

eMedia Music Corp. will release three new titles in the Guitar Lab line of guitar instruction DVDs. 50 Funk Licks You Must Know, 50 Metal Licks You Must Know and 50 Shred Licks You Must Know will be in stores later this month.

50 Funk Licks You Must Know presents another handpicked collection from Chris Buono. Having written countless guitar instruction books and instructional articles for Guitar Player and Guitar World as well as over a dozen CD-ROM and DVD titles for TrueFire, Buono has proven he is an authority on guitar instruction. His selected range of phrases, concepts and techniques delivers a wide variety of classic, contemporary and underground funk styles to help guide your development of the tools, techniques and vocabulary required to power up your funk chops.

Chris Buono, a former Professor at the famed Berklee College of Music, returns with 50 Metal Licks You Must Know. Buono?s handpicked range of phrases, riffs, tips, tricks and techniques cross the landscape of modern and classic metal to help you build the tools, techniques and vocabulary that you?ll need to unleash powerful solos and take your metal chops to the next level.

With 50 Shred Licks You Must Know you?ll learn 50 shred licks from many of today?s top ?shred? guitarists, including Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen. Jeff Beasley, who holds B.A. degrees in Music and Classical Guitar and is an instructor with the National Guitar Workshop, hosts 50 Shred Licks You Must Know. His collection of licks has been chosen because of their versatility and application in a multitude of different contexts as motifs for original improvisations. Beasley covers Minor and Major, Major 7th, minor 7th, Pentatonic major and minor, scale and arpeggio motifs, right and left-hand techniques, double-stops, melodic development and a useful variety of picking techniques.

50 Funk Licks You Must Know, 50 Metal Licks You Must Know and 50 Shred Licks You Must Know will be released January 18, 2011 and will be available at retail stores nationwide and online at an estimated retail price of $24.95.

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