Billy Sheehan's bass playing technique is as inspirational as it is informative. Here he shares his tips on neck bends, tapping, and a variety of techniques sure to help students take their skills up a level.

When nineteenth century English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr) is employed by the King of Siam (Yul Brynner) to educate his many children, she takes her son, Louis (Rex Thompson), along with her. Anna, a strong-willed woman, soon clashes with the king, who is used to having his every wish adhered to without question. However, Anna's refusal to bow to his will wins his respect and, eventually, his love. Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers include 'Hello Young Lovers' and 'Getting To Know You'.

This much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical tells the story of carnival barker Billy Bigelow, who is killed committing an armed robbery in order to provide for his baby girl. Years later Billy is allowed to return to Earth for his daughter's graduation. Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones and Cameron Mitchell star. Songs included are 'If I Love You', 'Soliloquy', and 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.

Gypsy Carmen inflames Spanish officer Don Jose and the toreador Escamillo in this version of the opera.

A veritable Who's Who of European opera singers is assembled for this spectacular night of song, BERLIN OPERA NIGHT. The divergent yet always gorgeous vocal stylings of dramatic divas including Grace Bumbry, Vesselina Kasarova, Angelike Kirchschlager, and Adrianne Pieczonka are awe-inspiring. The male singers are no less impressive, and include Rene Pape, Charles Castronovo, and Salvatore Licitra. Award-winning conductor Kent Nagano waves the baton over the marvelous affair, leading the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in classic arias from TOSCA, TURANDOT, DON GIOVANNI, and many others.

Innocent country girl Millie (Julie Andrews) arrives in Twenties New York determined to vamp it up and become 'thoroughly modern'.

She instantly marks out her new boss, Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), as a future husband, makes a new friend in the innocent Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore) and takes rooms in an establishment run by Mrs Meers (Beatrice Lillie) - unaware that the latter is in fact a white slave trader! When Mrs Meers attempts to abduct Miss Dorothy, Millie calls upon paper clip salesman Jimmy (James Fox) and high society jazz babe Muzzy (Carol Channing) for help.

Elmer Bernstein won an Oscar for his score, while Carol Channing was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Legendary conductor Hans Knapperstbusch was considered one of the prime musical artists, especially of the work of Wagner due to his early close association with the Bayreuth Festival which was directed by Siegfried Wagner. This program features Knapperstbusch conducting Act One of Die Walkure, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic along with vocal soloists Claire Watson, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl.

While not as well known as Haydn's masterpiece "The Creation," his work on "The Seasons" is considered one of the links from the classic era into the romantic era at the start of the 19th Century. Written near the end of his life, "The Seasons" took two years of disciplined work, and the freshness he imbued gives it a fresh quality that makes it one of the most popular oratorios even to this day. This DVD presents Helmuth Rilling conducting the Gachinger Kantorei and Bach Collegium Stuttgart. Beautiful shots of nature are intercut with the film and the director features exciting and fresh editing, lights and camera angles.

Handel's timeless opera TAMERLANO, whose model is NIcholas Pradon's Tamerlan ou La Mort de Bajazet, is brought to life in this live recording from the 50th Handel-Festipiele 2001 at the world famous Halle on the Saale. Conducted by Trevor Pinnock and with exquisite direction by Jonathan Miller, Tamerlano stands as one of Handel's masterworks.

Rock-and-roll guitar lines might sound wild and out of control, but there's a technique to them that can be learned and mastered. Here's what beginners need to know to get their amps screaming.

Alan Parker's musical spoof of gangster films features an all-child cast with guns that fire cream. When gang warfare erupts between Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, hustler Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), singer Tallulah (Jodie Foster) and newly arrived showgirl Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger) find themselves caught up in the middle of it.

Stephan Mai and the Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik perform Johann Sebastian Bach's 'The Art of Fugue' at The Radialsystem, Berlin in November 2007.

Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, and Alexander Tsimbaliuk

Inarguably one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music, jazz impresario Norman Granz introduced live jazz to mainstream audiences with his Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. This program celebrates Granz' pioneering legacy with an amazing live jam session featuring saxophonists Benny Carter and Zoot Sims, trumpeters Clark Terry and Roy Eldridge, pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keeter Betts, and drummer Bobby Durham. Recorded at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975, the historic performance includes such classic numbers as "For You," "Autumn Leaves," "Sunday," "If I Had You," and "I Never Knew."

Shirley Maclaine stars as dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine, a woman whose faith in the virtues of old-fashioned romance is knocked by a string of disastrous romances. Robbed of her earnings by her absconding boyfriend, she suffers further heartbreaks at the hands of an Italian movie star and a nervy insurance clerk. Bob Fosse's musical comedy features songs like 'Big Spender', 'Rhythm of Life' and 'There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This'.

The New York's School of Performing Arts offers its students a path to fame and fortune - but fame costs. Budding ballerinas, musicians, dancers and actors all clamber up the rocky road to stardom in this modern day musical. This film was directed by Alan Parker (The Commitments, Evita) and led to a very successful television series spin-off.

Musical film starring Annabel Scholey, Hannah Arterton and Leona Lewis. After a whirlwind romance while on holiday in Spain, Maddie (Scholey) accepts the proposal from Italian hunk Raf (Giulio Berruti) and starts planning a wedding in the sun. When her sister Taylor (Arterton) flies over to be with her she is shocked to discover that Maddie's husband-to-be was also her holiday fling. As Taylor tries to ignore the feelings she still holds for Raf, Maddie's ex Doug (Greg Wise) shows up in an attempt to win her back. The soundtrack features music from the 1980s including 'Holiday' by Madonna, 'How Will I Know' by Whitney Houston and the film's title track by Katrina and the Waves.

Stuffy parents in Victorian London are looking for a nanny, but the children write their own ad which is torn up and thrown into the fire. Miraculously, the paper reassembles and floats up the chimney flue, and along comes Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) on her umbrella/parachute. She brings fun and magic to the children's lives, as well as a guiding hand. The film won Oscars for Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Song and Best Visual Effects.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as they perform a selection of favourites at a summer picnic concert at the Berlin Waldbuhne in 2009.

Mean-spirited and stingy, Ebeneezer Scrooge has a sour face and "humbug" for anyone who crosses his path.

But on this Christmas Eve, he will learn the horrible fate that awaits him if he continues his miserly ways.

One by one, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take the startled Ebeneezer on an incredible journey through time - showing him in one magical night what takes most people a lifetime to learn.

Opulently blood-spattered sci-fi gothic rock opera. In the near future, humankind is suffering a worldwide epidemic of organ failures. In the midst of the crisis, a multinational biotech corporation called GeneCo launches a finance programme for organ transplants. But there's a catch: those who miss their monthly payments are hunted down and 'repossessed' by the dreaded Repo Men, who are out to retrieve their property as quickly - and as painfully - as they can. Alexa Vega stars as Shilo Wallace, an over-protected young girl seeking answers to her own rare disease and her family's mysterious history. Will her questions finally be answered at the eagerly-anticipated, flamboyantly spectacular Genetic Opera? Paul Sorvino and Paris Hilton co-star.

Classic musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. When Huck Haines (Astaire) travels to Paris with his friend John (Randolph Scott) to perform a gig at a local club, he is disappointed when the proprietor refuses to honour the engagement after meeting the band. John turns to his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley) for help and visits her boutique where he meets and falls in love with his Aunt's assistant Stephanie (Dunne). Meanwhile, Huck also finds love when he encounters his childhood sweetheart Lizzie (Rogers), who manages to get Huck's band an engagement at a nightclub where she works.

Double Oscar-winning musical drama following the meteoric rise of a 1960s all-girl vocal group. Based on the 1981 Broadway hit musical, the film follows full-figured belter, Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and her school friends, Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), aka The Dreamettes. They're a Chicago amateur vocal group who enter the famous amateur night at the legendary Harlem Apollo in New York singing a song by Effie's brother, CC (Keith Robinson), and come out on top. The four girls meet sweet-talking Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), a promoter and manager who in no time gets the star-struck gang the gig as back up vocalists for the famous Jimmy 'Thunder' Early (Eddie Murphy). The match is perfect and their combined career takes off. Soon things get complicated when Lorrell begins dating married man Jimmy, and Effie starts getting busy with Curtis. When the two acts part ways, The Dreamettes become the Dreams and consequently famous in their own right, while Jimmy's career tanks in a mire of smooth-pop balladry. Infighting between Effie and Deena over lead privileges, as well as offstage rivalry in love, makes for a lot of tears and heartache for all concerned.