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Fretboard and Songwriting Theory for Metal Heads (and other genres too): Using 'the secret' to unlock the fretboard

Have you ever wondered how to get music out of your head and onto the guitar? Do you feel stuck in a rut creatively? Ever wonder how guitar gods can use the entire neck effortlessly? This book is for you.

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Chords Scales and Arpeggios Book for Accordion Training: 160 Essential Exercises Practical Finger Workout

Accordion Exercises For Everyone, 160 Practical Exercises For AccordionistsThis is a book with practical accordion exercises for beginners and advanced students. The book includes a theory section so that beginners will know how to move around the keyboard and basses and how to perform the exercises.

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Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook: Uke Like The Pros

Welcome to the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook by Uke Like The Pros and written by Terry Carter. This book is written for the beginning baritone ukulele player that is interested in learning how to finger pick. This book will not only teach you some cool songs but will also help you develop the fingerstyle techniques necessary to play more advanced finger picking pieces. By the end of this book you will also learn 7 of the most important and widely used fingerstyle patterns that you can apply to all of your favorite songs.

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Music Theory in 30 Days: The Beginner's Guide to How Music Works - With Online Companion Course

Do you want to know how the language of music works? Would you like to explore all the different elements that create the music we all love? Are you interested in building a rock-solid foundation for more advanced musical studies?

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The Musical: A Concise History 2nd Edition

Come along backstage and peek inside the spectacular and sometimes scandalous world of musical theatre. From The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music to Mamma Mia and Les Misérables, fall in love all over again with selections from every era of musical theatre.

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The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture

An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths.

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The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.

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An Anthology of Sound Chips Vol. 1: Arcade Console and Home Micro Sound Chips (1977-1986)

An Anthology of Sound Chips - an indispensable reference work invaluable to anyone interested in gaming hardware! This unique reference book is the first half of a two-volume set that covers sound chips used in gaming and the systems that contained them: from technical information to entertaining anecdotes, to insights from industry experts about hardware, composition, production and more.

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Melody in Songwriting: Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs

Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between melody and harmony.

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Beethoven's Orchestral Music: An Owner's Manual

Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.

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The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music

Research on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research and others. Linguistic aspects, however, are rarely considered. Anita Jóri fills this gap of research and suggests a new perspective by looking at these communities as a discourse community. She gives an overview on the language use and discourse characteristics of this community while applying a mixed methodology of linguistic discourse analysis and cultural studies. The book is aimed at researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, popular music, media, communication and cultural studies.

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Doc: The life and times of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson

He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'.

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Media Narratives in Popular Music

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more.

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Sound Tracker Quiet Planet Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox

A complete guide to listening, recording, and sound designing with nature. Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®, covers both science and art as we learn about how sound behaves in natural habitats and how this knowledge can be skillfully applied to produce award winning field recordings and compelling sound designs. Presented in two parts, Forces of Nature and Habitats, all 17 chapters explain such principles of acoustic ecology as how varying amounts of sunlight, precipitation, temperature, and wind produce predictable changes in natural soundscapes.

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Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time

This book is a collection of contributions to the Special Issue "Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time". The research presented here aims to explore the origins of acoustics and examine the relationships that have evolved over the centuries between people and auditory phenomena. Sounds have indeed accompanied human civilizations since the beginning of time, helping them to make sense of the world and to shape their cultures.

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Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists

A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar music—the effects pedal—featuring interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett.

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Heiner Kruse Logic Pro Das umfassende Handbuch

Wenn Sie mit Logic Pro Musik aufnehmen, produzieren oder abmischen wollen, dann ist dieses Handbuch Ihr umfassender Begleiter. Kompetente Anleitungen, zahlreiche Hintergrundinfos und praxisnahe Beispiele helfen Ihnen auf dem Weg zum perfekten Track – von den technischen Details der Aufnahme und Timing-Bearbeitung bis zur klassischen Harmonielehre, von den ersten Schritten mit der Software bis zum Feinschliff der Produktion. Aktuell mit allen neuen Tools wie Quick Sampler, Live Loops, Remix und Multi FX, Step Sequencer, Drum Synths, dem überarbeiteten Drum Machine Designer, Smart Tempo, und Vintage EQs

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Demystifying Scriabin

This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research from leading and upcoming Russian music scholars. Key Scriabin topics such as mysticism, philosophy, music theory, contemporary aesthetics, and composition processes are covered. Musical coverage spans the composer's early, middle and late period. All main repertoire is being discussed: the piano miniatures and sonatas as well as the symphonies.

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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900

This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition, popular music, and music technology. The crucial contribution of women to music education and the music industries features alongside their activity as composers and performers. The book considers the gendered nature of the musical profession, in areas including access to training, gendered criticism, sexualization, and notions of 'gender appropriate' roles or instruments. It covers a wide range of women musicians, such as Marin Alsop, Grace Williams, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell and Adele. Each thematic section concludes with a contribution from a practitioner in her own words, reflecting upon the impact of gender on her own career. Chapters include suggestions for further reading on each of the topics covered, providing an invaluable resource for students of Feminist Musicology, Women in Music, and Music and Gender.

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The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, and reflecting current scholarly debates across the humanities, it places music at the heart of a nexus of Romantic themes and concerns. Written by a dynamic team of leading younger scholars and established authorities, it gives a state-of-the-art yet accessible overview of current thinking on this popular topic.

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