What could the beliefs and traditions of a Zoroastrian, a person of Jewish faith, a Buddhist, a follower of Confucius, or a Christian have in common? How do religions evolve over time?

Get ready for a perfect storm of ethnic, world, and cinematic percussion. Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare. Sampled in meticulous detail and programmed for maximum and instant musical usability, the collection includes hundreds of varied percussion instruments from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and more. A massive 4.2-gigabyte collection of Japanese Taiko drums recorded from multiple microphone positions forms a central part of the library. Each instrument has been recorded with numerous alternate takes and velocity layers, assuring realistic and dramatically expressive sonic results. World Impact is an essential tool in the toolbox of every film composer, movie trailer producer, and aficionado of world percussion instruments.

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Get ready for a perfect storm of ethnic, world, and cinematic percussion. Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare. Sampled in meticulous detail and programmed for maximum and instant musical usability, the collection includes hundreds of varied percussion instruments from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and more. A massive 4.2-gigabyte collection of Japanese Taiko drums recorded from multiple microphone positions forms a central part of the library. Each instrument has been recorded with numerous alternate takes and velocity layers, assuring realistic and dramatically expressive sonic results. World Impact is an essential tool in the toolbox of every film composer, movie trailer producer, and aficionado of world percussion instruments.

Guitar World provides subscribers with news about the latest gear and albums on the market. It covers interviews on technique, instruments and lifestyles.

Latin World sample collection from Best Service sets the international standard for Latin-American music production. For the first time you can have your own complete Latin band layered on your keyboard: drums, percussion (all recorded individually and in full stereo!), bass and guitar loops, plus a marvelous horn section sorted by music style, keys and harmonic progressions (4 basic keys with up to 6 different progressions).

Most of us know that, far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history—one whose political, cultural, economic, scientific, and spiritual developments are an invaluable part of our own modern era.

In the jam-packed How to Play Blues & Blues Rock DVD, Guitar World's own esteemed associate editor Andy Aledort shows you how to play licks from blues rock greats like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many others. You'll also learn how to perform rhythm and lead in the style of blues masters and get a complete course in slide guitar, including how to play in the style of the great Elmore James. With more than 90 minutes' worth of lessons, How to Play Blues & Blues Rock DVD is ideal for beginning, intermediate and advanced players.

Lead Guitar Bootcamp is a 90 minute instructional DVD that offers hands-on tips and exercises to build better and faster chops. Your instructor Andy Aledort helps unlock the modes, gives you daily warm-up exercises, and provides soloing tips for all styles. This disc also includes special lessons with the Pros - Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Jeff Loomis, Michael Angelo Batio, Paul Gilbert & Jimmy Herring!

Jeff McBride is one of the greatest sleight-of-hand experts in the world. His extensive knowledge of manipulative magic is unparalleled. Awarded Magician of the Year by Hollywood's famed Magic Castle, Jeff is recognized as a foremost innovator of our time. As a teacher, he is an engaging spokesman on the meaning of magic and its place in contemporary culture. Jeff McBride's teaching style will help you to transcend your tricks and create a new form of magic theater. Millions of people worldwide recognize Jeff McBride from his many television appearances on The World's Greatest Magic, Champions of Magic and Star Trek DS-9