Ray Benson and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel have been flying the flag for the joyous sounds of Western swing music since they first got together in 1969, and this concert video finds them in typically high-spirited form as they perform for a cheering crowd of fans in the Lone Star State. Asleep at the Wheel: Live at Billy Bob's Texas includes the songs "Miles and Miles of Texas", "One Six Pack to Go", "Take Me Back to Tulsa", "Cotton Eyed...

A special birthday celebration of the public television series "Austin City Limits," featuring performances by Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Foo Fighters, and more.

Introduces you to old school hip hop as well as the hottest new moves. Break and Shake with the hip hop master himself, Roger G. Do the chingy, the ponytail, the uprock and more.

Brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb find early fame in the 1960s and go on to write over 1,000 songs, including 20 #1 hits. This film follows the group's meteoric rise as they navigate the complexities of working so intimately alongside family.

Darwin believed that musical behavior arose because it gave our early ancestors a biological advantage. But what advantage? Investigate Darwin’s theory and other adaptationist explanations for the evolution of music. Then look at two alternatives: invention theories and gene-culture co-evolution theories..

Trace the career of violinist Malcolm Watson, as it illustrates principles of success for musicians, and consider seven habits of highly effective guitar players. Then learn the technique of artificial harmonics. Add half diminished and full diminished chords to your repertoire, play the Mixolydian scale, and finish the course with a jazz and flamenco inspired song.

Relive The Rite of Spring's riotous premiere, and examine the qualities that made it the most influential musical work of the 20th century. Observe how Stravinsky evoked ancient pagan rituals through stunning rhythmic asymmetry, bi-tonal harmony, and other daring compositional techniques. Take account of how the Rite changed the way composers thought about rhythm, melody, and orchestration.

Take the measure of guitarist Charlie Christian and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, each of whom transformed jazz and their instruments. Grasp how to work for greater speed and accuracy when playing melodies. Learn "movable" chord shapes for major and minor seventh chords, practice the Dorian modal scale, and use them in a minor blues tune.

Investigate the qualities of Debussy's music that connect it to French art and poetry as well as to the sensuality of the French language. Learn how his landmark work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, began musical modernism. Study the wealth of compositional innovations in his piano Prelude #10, and note how his impact on 20th-century music mirrors Beethoven's in the 19th century.

Here, encounter two classical guitar titans, Agustín Barrios and Andrés Segovia, and grasp their contributions to the instrument. Study tremolo, which gives the illusion of a sustained note. Learn to read sixteenth-notes, add the E major chord, the major pentatonic scale, and use your tremolo and finger technique in the "Raindrop Etude".