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Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression Meter and the Body

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes.

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Music Is Power : Popular Songs Social Justice and the Will to Change

Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition? Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction and so many other crucial issues.

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How to Play Acoustic Guitar in 14 Days: Daily Lessons for Absolute Beginners (Play Music in 14 Days)

Introducing How to Play Acoustic Guitar! With daily lessons for absolute beginners! From Troy Nelson, author of Guitar Aerobics and the popular Play Guitar in 14 Days series (including How to Play Guitar and Master Pentatonic Scales), Troy Nelson Music brings you this acoustic guitar book for beginners.

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Rock Music Styles: A History

Rock Music Styles: A History, takes students on a musical journey through the development of rock music from its origins to its most contemporary styles. Charlton uses in-depth summaries and descriptions paired with a historical background to help immerse students in different musical genres. Learning from featured performers throughout the text and exploring important songs in new and revised Listening guides, students will be able to draw connections between musical developments throughout the decades. The eighth edition of Rock Music Styles: A History provides students a deeper understanding and appreciation of rock music styles in the 20th century and beyond.

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The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar, and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim’s music made a lasting impression worldwide, and many of his songs are now standards of the popular music repertoire.

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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives; music in world history; and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI.

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The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music

The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Since the invention of sound recording in the second half of the nineteenth century, media that transmit, record, store, and reproduce physical sound inspired dreams of perfect reproduction, but were also confronted with the inevitable introduction of noise.

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Cigar Box Guitar Jazz & Blues Unlimited 3 String: Book Two: Chords Fingerstyle and Theory

Play Jazz and Blues on the Cigar Box Guitar. Learning to play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar is simultaneously easy and difficult. Easy because you only have 3 or 4 strings to worry about so fewer options than a standard 6 string guitar. Difficult because getting good full-sounding chords with 3 or 4 strings in GDG or GDGB tuning often requires bigger stretches for chords or large skips up and down the neck to play all the notes. The good news is that with consistent practice, it is possible to overcome any difficulties and play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar with satisfying results!

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Basic Piano Guide: Learning Piano Step by Step: Piano Guide Book

You want to learn piano, but don’t know where to start? We can help. The Beginner’s Guide to Learning Piano gives you everything you need to know to get going, safe in the knowledge you’re doing it right.

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How To Teach Guitar & Start Your Own Music Instruction Business

This book is a revised edition of Desi Serna’s original 2001 release, How to Make Money Teaching Guitar, which was one of the very first coaching materials on the market geared toward guitar teachers. Through a step-by-step process, and using a positive and encouraging tone, Desi and his new coauthor, Donnie Schexnayder, guide you through the ins and outs of teaching and illuminate the professional and personal benefits that guitar instruction can offer you. How To Teach Guitar and Start Your Own Music Instruction Business is the definitive guide to starting your own small business teaching the guitar.

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Guitar Lessons and Steps: Guitar Learning Tips and Guide for Beginners: How to Play Guitar

The guitar is the absolute best instrument you could learn for a large number of reasons. It’s mobile, cheap, and just awesome. The guitarist in the band always gets the most kudos, no question about it. But wait, there is a problem… Getting a guitar is not enough, you also need to learn how to play it somehow.

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Piano Lessons and Technique: Piano Learning Methods: Piano for Beginners Paperback

You want to learn piano, but don’t know where to start? We can help. This book gives you everything you need to know to get going, safe in the knowledge you’re doing it right. When you’re starting out with the piano, there are some basics that everyone needs to know. Here are some of the most important things, including a glossary of key terms, and some basic techniques.

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Sound Design For Beginners

Make your own sounds quickly on any synthesizer, anytime, anywhereLet's face it. You want to make awesome sounds for your track, but they often end up extremely weak and underwhelming. That's why EDM producer and best-selling author Cep from Screech House shares the essential basics of synthesis you must understand first to achieve high-quality sound design. Only available within this book.

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Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

From its dynamic start at dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have exploded into a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism and expression all over the world. So, too, has scholarship on hip hop and rap music grown.

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Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning

Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning explores the practice of musical ‘aural training’ from historical, pedagogical, psychological, musicological, and cultural perspectives, and uses these to draw implications for its pedagogy, particularly within the context of higher music education.

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Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries

The music industries are fueled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses, and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the revenues of music makers, and they shape the policies of governments and legislators. Yet many of these statistics are generated by the music industries themselves, and their accuracy can be questioned. Music by Numbers sets out to explore this shadowy terrain.

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Audio Mastering Essential Practices by Jonathan Wyner (FULL BOOK)

Improve the sound of your recordings. Mastering is the art of optimizing recorded sound, finding the ideal volume levels and tonal quality, and insuring data integrity necessary to produce a professional-quality duplication and distribution-ready master. This book introduces the techniques and tools of audio mastering, suitable for commercial and home/project studio environments. Technical discussions address gear, studio setup, methodologies, goals, and other considerations for making tracks sound their best, individually and in relationship to other tracks. The accompanying recording has audio examples that support two detailed case studies where readers can follow a mastering engineer's manipulations step by step.

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Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar

An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, demonstrating how its design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it developed through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. It digs deep into archives and features new interviews with makers and players.

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25 Blues Scale Licks for Blues Guitar

This book contains 25 new and original minor blues guitar licks. There are 5 licks for each of the 5 blues scale shapes shown below. Also in this book there is a great section on how to practice these lines so they naturally incorporate into your playing.

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Musical Motives: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet of any of these is enough to transport listeners into the piece's sonic and emotional world. But what makes musical motives so powerful? In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach looks at the ways that motives the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes that are ever-present in music unify musical compositions and shape our experiences of them.

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