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One Chord Wonders : Power and Meaning in Punk Rock

Originally published in 1985, One Chord Wonders was the first full-length study of the glory years of British punk rock. The book argues that one of punk's most significant political achievements was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industries as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans. Through a detailed examination of the conditions under which punk emerged and then declined, Dave Laing develops a view of the music as both complex and contradictory.

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How To Play Blues Guitar: A Beginner`s Guide On How To Play Blues Chords, Scales And Licks To Be An Authentic Blues Guitarist

Dan Thorpe’s straightforward no-nonsense blues book will get you playing authentic and awesome blues guitar right from the off. If you play acoustic or electric, it doesn`t matter as this book has been purposely designed for the wannabe or struggling blues guitarist who plays either.

Dan`s books have gotten lots of critical acclaim and have received 100`s of 5-star reviews.

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Steve Jones, "Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol"

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who, with his schoolmate Paul Cook, formed the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols and who was its original leader. As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of punk–the influence and cultural significance of which is felt in music, fashion, and the visual arts to this day–Steve tells his story for the very first time.

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Popular Sheet Music: 30 Hits from 2014-2016

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 30 of the best songs from the last three years arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: All I Ask * Budapest * Can't Feel My Face * Ex's & Oh's * I'm Not the Only One * Let Her Go * Lost Boy * Love Yourself * One Call Away * Riptide * Say Something * See You Again * 7 Years * Shake It Off * A Sky Full of Stars * Stitches * Take Me to Church * Thinking Out Loud * and more.

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How To Read Music: For Beginners - A Simple and Effective Guide to Understanding and Reading Music with Ease (Music Theory) (Volume 2)

- Bars, notes, clefs, staves, time signatures, common notation, musical symbols… Have you ever wanted to learn how to read music but it seemed too difficult and not worth the effort

- Have you tried searching for information online only to find yourself more confused by the seeming complexity of music theory and written music?

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Simply Blues Fingerstyle Guitar: Play Great Fingerstyle Blues

Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most popular and satisfying ways of playing. Use the thumb and fingers to open up the range of sounds that the guitar can produce, and you're really flying. This is especially so when playing the blues. You can have a neat bass line while still picking away on a melody in the many different blues styles out there. I've been playing this style for many years and it is certainly one of my favourite ways of either arranging or performing. In this collection, I've put together a few of the blues tunes that I've arranged or written. They're all open to improvisation and you should experiment with the styles.
All the 18 tunes are supported by audio and some video when available. So, put on your blues shoes and let's get picking. Enjoy!

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Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication

THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA

Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: “it’s too early,” editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, “for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile—a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle.”

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Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s

Making Your Memories With Rock & Roll and Doo Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950's and Early 60's digs back through the catelogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock and roll and doo wop. "Joe D, The Doctor of Doo Wop" brings his expertise, honed by hosting a weekly radio, "Making Your Memories," to his revelation of the backstories of these trendsetting artists. Listen live on Southern California's KSBR, FM 88.5 or on the web at www.ksbr.org
Until the British Invasion in mid 1963 changed the direction of American music, the sounds created by the artists profiled in "Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo Wop shaped the entertainment soundtrack of a generation. THis music history shares little known details of the lives of these artists, the history of the period, the distinctiveness of the music, and the power and influence of the songs lyrics.

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Chart Hits of 2015-2016 (Chart Hits of Piano Vocal Guitar)

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Play the hits you've been hearing on the radio all year long! Includes arrangements for piano, voice and guitar of: Burning House Can't Feel My Face Ex's & Oh's Hello Like I'm Gonna Lose You Perfect Renegades Stitches Uma Thurman Writing's on the Wall and more.

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Introduction to Computer Music by Nick Collins

A must-have introduction that bridges the gap between music and computing

The rise in number of composer-programmers has given cause for an essential resource that addresses the gap between music and computing and looks at the many different software packages that deal with music technology. This up-to-date book fulfills that demand and deals with both the practical use of technology in music as well as the principles behind the discipline. Aimed at musicians exploring computers and technologists engaged with music, this unique guide merges the two worlds so that both musicians and computer scientists can benefit.

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Final Cut Pro X 10.3 Apple Pro Training Series Professional Post-Production

The Apple-Certified Way to Learn
This fully updated Apple-certified guide presents a real-world workflow from raw media to finished project to demonstrate the features of Final Cut Pro X 10.3 and the practical techniques you will use in editing projects. Using professionally acquired media, you’ll utilize the same tools and editing techniques used by editors worldwide in this revolutionary editing software. Renowned editor and master trainer Brendan Boykin starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful features.

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John Fahey Guitar Anthology

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 18 songs in note-for-note transcriptions with tab from the man who was considered the grandfather of instrumental acoustic fingerstyle guitar. Includes: America * Brenda's Blues * Desperate Man Blues * In Christ There Is No East or West * John Henry * Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home * Some Summer Day * Steamboat Gwine 'Round De Bend * Tell Her to Come Back Home * When the Springtime Comes Again * and more. Includes a biography and discography.

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Alexander Publishing - Professional Orchestration Vol 1: Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes

Professional Orchestration™ Volume 1, Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes is the first orchestration book to be written on the scoring stages in Los Angeles. It’s 800-pages, 8.25 x11 with full page/full score examples. Volume 1, called the First Key to Learning Professional Orchestration, covers all the main orchestral instruments, and percussion, with electronic scoring notes. Where available, nearly all the book’s examples, by instrument, are organized by demonstrating the instrument in its low, medium, high and very high ranges.

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Masterclass deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production Workbook V7

Make better music

Before he was deadmau5, all Joel wanted for Christmas was old toasters to take apart. Now, in his MasterClass, watch him take his music apart. Joel teaches you how he approaches melodies, mixing and mastering to make unique sounds you can’t find in a cookie cutter sample pack. You’ll get not only his lessons, you’ll learn how to create your own music without spending money on million dollar gear.

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Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments: A Psychometric Approach

Gian-Marco Schmid investigates how musicians perceive the experiential quality of musical instruments using a bottom-up psychometric questionnaire development process and finds that there are three main factors on which musicians base their evaluation of musical instruments: (1) experienced freedom & possibilities, (2) perceived control & comfort and (3) perceived stability, sound quality & aesthetics. This structure is similar to research regarding the conceptualization of violin quality. It is therefore suggested that musicians who use different instruments tend to have an analogical concept of instrument quality.

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Learn Guitar the Easy Way: The easy way to play guitar using simplified chords

Have you ever wanted to play the guitar but didn't know where to start?

I know, with so many guitar websites and blogs out there, it's so easy to get overwhelmed.

I created this book, Learn Guitar the Easy Way to teach everyday people how to play the guitar. No, I won't be teaching you how to play the Flamenco, or shred the guitar like Carlos Santana - that would take years, even decades to master.

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Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts (Leonardo Book Series)

In Voicetracks, Norie Neumark tracks voice across its various registers -- across the affective and the symbolic, the literal and the metaphorical. Neumark considers both traditional scholarly concerns and the resonances of voice for the listener who responds to the calls of creative works. She engages with the affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist (or post-humanist) turn while also engaging with the thinking that happens in the making of art. She does this through the lens of her encounters with creative works in media and the arts, bringing into conversation "situated knowledge" and "carnal knowledge" (in this sense, the recognition of the body in knowledge) with theoretical and critical discourses around voice, sound, media, and the arts.

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The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. He was one of the first rock musicians to grasp its potential, but even he was notably late to the party. For years, composers and technicians had been making electronic music for film and Tv. Hitchcock had commissioned a theremin soundtrack for Spellbound (1945); The Forbidden Planet (1956) featured an entirely electronic score; Delia Derbyshire had created the Dr Who theme in 1963; and by the early 1960s, all you had to do was watch commercial Tv for a few hours to hear the weird and wonderful sounds of the new world. The Sound of Tomorrow tells the compelling story of the sonic adventurers who first introduced electronic music to the masses. A network of composers, producers, technicians and inventors, they took emerging technology and with it made sound and music that was bracingly new.

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Master Guitar in 7 Days: Complete Fundamentals for the Beginner Guitarist

I have been a musician for nearly 30 years and am here to inject my musical wisdom into you. There won't be a magic button you can press that will make you good. Practice will be the only way to get where you want to go and play the way you want to play, a lot of practice.

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Hal Leonard Desktop Mastering PDF

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise, maximize your good work, and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to.

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