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How to Make It in the New Music Business 3rd Edition

Now Magazine: "Top 5 Music Business Books" Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in a significantly revised and expanded third edition.

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Academy.fm How to Email Labels and Network With A&R PDF

Shanahan will go into detail on everything you should consider when emailing labels and networking with A&R. 5 IMPORTANT STEPS:

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A Rhythmic Concept for Funk / Fusion Guitar By Peter O'Mara

There are a lot of books on the market offering "licks" in the funk/fusion style but this book goes a lot further. The 16 challenging compositions by renowned Australian guitarist Peter O'Mara cover a variety of tempos and grooves and are presented using a real rhythm section (from Klaus Doldinger's "Passport") to achieve maximum authenticity. Rhythm guitar riffs are integrated into the overall groove and there is plenty of room for improvisation as well.

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Rock Guitar For Dummies 2nd Edition

If you’re ready to start playing some rockin’ tunes on the guitar, there's no better teacher than Rock Guitar For Dummies. This is the ultimate guide to playing rock ’n’ roll on six strings, even if you’ve never picked up a guitar before! Master the riffs and melodies of your favorite songs and artists, or make up a few of your own. Find out how to choose the right amplifier, strum power chords, and maintain your guitar. Moving over from another style of guitar playing? You’ll love this guide’s deep dive into rock guitar technique. You’ll even learn to differentiate the sounds of classic rock, heavy metal, grunge, progressive rock, and beyond. Plus, you’ll get access to online resources, including audio and video clips, to bring your rock ’n’ roll education to life.

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Emotion in Video Game Soundtracking

This book presents an overview of the emerging field of emotion in videogame soundtracking. The emotional impact of music has been well-documented, particularly when used to enhance the impact of a multimodal experience, such as combining images with audio as found in the videogames industry. Soundtracking videogames presents a unique challenge compared to traditional composition (for example film music) in that the narrative of gameplay is non-linear – Player dependent actions can change the narrative and thus the emotional characteristics required in the soundtrack.

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Computer Music Presents Music Producer's Guide to Synths 2nd Edition January 2023 PDF

Onto the newer types of softsynths, and we have all sorts of hands-on workshops showing you some of the basics of synthesis, and lifting the lid on some of the more interesting features of modern classics like Serum and Massive. Another recent and exciting trend in the world of synthesis is modular, a once hardware-only realm, but one that is now accessible directly with software recreations, or one that can easily be brought into your DAW world. And for this latter option, we have a huge starter guide on modular synthesis on page 40. But don't worry if creating a hardware modular system is out of your reach budget wise, because, once again, software has the answer, and we show you how to create a full modular software synth system for free in three tutorials on pages 54, 86 and 98. We also have roundups and reviews of the latest softsynths from page 102, so you can see what the experts think before you add to your softsynth studio.

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ProducerGrind AURORA One Shot Collection WAV MiDi TUTORiAL Ableton Live

AURORA is an Elite One Shot Collection and Producer Training Series Premium instrument one shots, accents, percussion loops, phrases + instrument loops that make creating great vibes easy and fun!

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Code Your Own Synth Plug-Ins With C++ and JUCE

Learn the fundamentals of audio programming by building a fully-featured software synthesizer plug-in, with every step explained along the way. The plug-in can be used in all the popular DAWs and is made using the industry standard tools for audio development: JUCE framework and the C++ programming language. Not too much math, lots of explanations!

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Advances in Speech and Music Technology: Computational Aspects and Applications

This book presents advances in speech and music in the domain of audio signal processing. The book begins with introductory chapters on the basics of speech and music, and then proceeds to computational aspects of speech and music, including music information retrieval and spoken language processing.

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Alexander Publishing A Practical Handbook: From Piano to Strings

This Bundle includes the PDF eBooks A Practical Handbook: From Piano To Strings, A Practical Handbook: Workbook and A Practical Handbook: MIDI/Audio Examples Package for a complete self-study solution.

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Sound Affects: A User's Guide (Thinking Media)

Sound Affects: A User's Guide is a collection of sonically-charged concepts ranging from those felt , 'heard' and repeated (silence, the oriental riff, shuffle), to the vocal (whispers, sing, the disembodied voice), to sounds at the threshold (tin/ny, thump, buzz) to sounds beyond the limits of audibility (inaudible tremors, distortion, sub-bass). Sound Affects invites the reader to reflect on the ways that sounds produce affects and the ways that affects can operate as sound.

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The Reel World: Scoring for Pictures Television and Video Games (Music Pro Guides)

This fully updated and complete guide takes you inside the world of creating music for film, television, and—unique to this third edition—video games. Industry expert Jeff Rona addresses a wide range of topics including musical aesthetics, cutting-edge technology and techniques, and current business aspects.

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Audio Programming in C++ : The Beginner Level

Learn the different sound synthesis methods and how to implement them in C++. Requires knowledge of programming in C++. Additive Synthesis Subtractive Synthesis

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Step By Step Mixing How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plugins by Björgvin Benediktsson

Discover the proven step-by-step mixing process that's helped thousands of musicians and producers confidently release their records. > Simplify your mixing process to create better mixes in less time

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Drum Sound and Drum Tuning: Bridging Science and Creativity (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

Drum Sound and Drum Tuning assists drummers, sound engineers, and music students in learning critical skills related to drum sound and achieving an optimised and personalised drum kit set-up. The book covers the essential theories of percussion acoustics and develops this knowledge in order to facilitate creative approaches to drum tuning and professional-level recording and mixing of drums.

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Live mischen: Mixing für einen gelungenen Livesound. Praxis | Soft Skills | Teamwork (mitp Audio)

Bei Live-Veranstaltungen müssen Tontechnikerinnen und Tontechniker innerhalb kürzester Zeit viele verschiedene Aufgaben erledigen – eine zweite Chance gibt es in der Regel nicht: Mikrofonieren, den optimalen Sound für die Bühne und für das Publikum einstellen, mit Bands und Veranstaltungsleitung kommunizieren sowie Mischpulte effektiv und sicher bedienen.

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Music: The Definitive Visual History 2nd Edition

A complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day! Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or rock, everyone has their favorite music style, but how did your top choice come about? If you find yourself asking these musical questions and more, then this may be the book for you!

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Stay on Beat: Aligning Yourself with Winning Trends in the Music Industry

Stay on Beat - Aligning Yourself with Winning Trends in the Music Industry explores the intersection of music, technology, and entrepreneurship in today's music industry. If you are an artist trying to navigate the music business and the world of DIY music-making, this is the book that is #1 on your must-read list. It's a wealth of information for those interested in industry trends, and the many options to help you jumpstart your career and monetize your music using today's innovative digital tools.

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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs “The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan’s imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . . [is an] ingenious book of close listening.”—David Remnick, New Yorker

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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM

Founded on Chicago’s South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is the most influential collective organization in jazz and experimental music. In Sound Experiments, Paul Steinbeck offers an in-depth historical and musical investigation of the collective, analyzing individual performances and formal innovations in captivating detail. He pays particular attention to compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell, the Association’s leading figures, as well as Anthony Braxton, George Lewis (and his famous computer-music experiment, Voyager), Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Threadgill, along with younger AACM members such as Mike Reed, Tomeka Reid, and Nicole Mitchell.

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