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Really Easy Keyboard: Chart Hits (Spring/Summer 2017)

This installment of Really Easy Keyboard contains 21 Chart Hits from Spring/Summer 2017. From Bruno Mars to Ed Sheeran to Zara Larsson and many more. If you’re a beginner pianist who loves the current pop classics then this is the music book for you. These simplified arrangements give you just the most important parts of the songs, along with lyrics and chord diagrams. Each track is completed by background notes and helpful performance tips, allowing you to focus on the difficult bits and nail each and every performance.

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Traversing the Fretboard: Utilizing the CAGED System in More Ways than One

Traversing the Fretboard is designed to help guitarists of all levels and styles of playing strengthen their understanding of how notes are organized across the fretboard. This method uses the CAGED System to build and demonstrate a connection between chord shapes and scale patterns. It also shows how the CAGED System can act as the foundation for forming seventh chords, finding and playing open and closed voicings, and discussing music theory. Along the way, there are many engaging musical examples (with free, downloadable audio tracks) from a variety of genres to offer a diverse application of the ideas discussed in each chapter. This book can help the beginner move beyond first position, offer new conceptual ideas to the seasoned guitarist, provide insight into improvisation and composition, help strengthen sight-reading and memorization, and connect guitarists to a wider range of musical styles.

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You Can Teach Yourself to Sing

Most of us know only our speaking and untrained singing Voices. This book will help you discover your 3rd powerful, trained singing Voice through exercises that can be applied to any Vocal style.

The author presents a complete guide for discovering your Vocal range and developing breath control, resonance, and vibrato.

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Rock Trivia Madness: 60s to 90s Rock Music Trivia and Amazing Facts

GET SCHOOLED IN ROCK WITH ROCK TRIVIA MADNESS!

Rock and Roll. For more than 60 years, it has been the soundtrack to our lives. Albums like "Highway 61 Revisited", "Born to Run" and "Nevermind" have helped us make sense of who we are. Not only that, the daring passion and bold visions of rock artists have shaken up social norms and even helped change the course of world politics.

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Ultimate Star Guitars: The Guitars That Rocked the World, Expanded Edition

Get to know the guitars so famous that their names are household words among enthusiasts.

First published in 2010, the first-ever illustrated history of the specific guitars of the men and women who made the music is now expanded to include 32 additional iconic guitars and their owners. Ultimate Star Guitars showcases B.B. King';s "Lucille," Eric Clapton's "Blackie," Stevie Ray Vaughan's "First Wife," Billy F Gibbons's "Pearly Gates," Neil Young's "Old Black," and dozens upon dozens more.

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Popular Music Studies Today: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017

This volume documents the 19th edition of the biannual "International Association for the Study of Popular Music". In focus of the conference were present and future developments.
For example, the diminishing income potential for musicians as well as the recording industry as a whole, concurrent with the decreasing relevance of popular music in youth culture. This is where computer games and social media come to the forefront. At the same time, the research of popular music has emancipated itself from its initial outsider.

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Digital Audio Watermarking: Fundamentals, Techniques and Challenges

This book offers comprehensive coverage on the most important aspects of audio watermarking, from classic techniques to the latest advances, from commonly investigated topics to emerging research subdomains, and from the research and development achievements to date, to current limitations, challenges, and future directions. It also addresses key topics such as reversible audio watermarking, audio watermarking with encryption, and imperceptibility control methods.

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Yo DJ Productor: El Manual Definitivo del DJ Productor

Manual de aprendizaje para el DJ productor. Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre la composición musical, estudios virtuales, instrumentos digitales, plug-ins y sintetizadores. Escrito por Microfusa y David Amo, con la colaboración de reputados DJ Productores. Con ellos aprenderás a producir desde cero, mezclar correctamente, masterizar tus trabajos y saber cómo trabajar tu marca artística.

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Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they found their inspirations, mastered their instruments, crafted classic songs, and created enduring solos.

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The Music Producer's Handbook By Bobby Owsinski

"The Music Producer's Handbook" (another book in Bobby Owsinski's successful "Handbook Series") describes in detail the duties and responsibilities of a music producer. In his thoughtful, down-to-earth, and savvy style, Bobby O. brings his wealth of experience to bear in answering the questions faced by all budding music producers:

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Dominique Paret, Serge Sibony, "Musical Techniques: Frequencies and Harmony"

This book is built to start from elementary and fundamental bases to the first degrees of harmony. It provides many theoretical and technical bases of music, presenting in detail relations between physics and music (harmonics, frequency and time spectrum, dissonance, etc.), physiological relations with human body and education.

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From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory by James Tenney

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch is a collection of Tenney's hard-to-find writings arranged, edited, and revised by the self-described "composer/theorist." Selections focus on his fundamental concerns–"what the ear hears"–and include thoughts and ideas on perception and form, tuning systems and especially just intonation, information theory, theories of harmonic space, and stochastic (chance) procedures of composition.

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Rebel Music Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk

Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counselors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.

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Music Production Essentials (Music Production Series) by Nan Jerry Smith

What this Book is offer
Due to advances in modern technology, everyone can built lower cost personal music studios, Perform band recording、Composing、Arranging sessions.., This book provides music production hardwares and softwares introduction, Give the reader an understanding of entry, following is a brief introduction to each chapter:

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100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R&B Grooves for Organ by Andrew D. Gordon

Andrew D. Gordon, world renowned music educator, author of over 60 music educational products, has previously written numerous books on funk keyboard styles such as: “60 Of The Funkiest Keyboard Riffs Known To Mankind”, “Funky Organ Grooves”, “Outta Sight Funk & R&B Riffs For Piano/Keyboards” which have been well received by students, teachers and musicians all over the world. As playing funk styles is a passion of Andrew’s, he has written this instructional book “100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R&B Grooves for Organ” based on the influences of the great Funk, Soul and R&B artists such as: James Brown, Herbie Hancock, The Crusaders, Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Ramsey Lewis, Booker T and The MG’s, MFSB, Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Andrew has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin, Reggae and Calypso. Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the organ part playing along with a rhythm section of guitar, bass, drums, and in many of the grooves, percussion. There is also a three minute Play-A-Long track for each of the 100 grooves minus the organ part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-A-Long tracks.

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A Newcomer's Guide to the Music Business by Tito Adesanya

A quick and simple guide to the music business for those on the verge of taking their first steps into the industry.

A Newcomer's Guide to the Music Business is a must-have for anyone - who has little or no prior industry experience - wishing to pursue a career in music.

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Matt Walker, "Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands and Music"

Known for The Fest, Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music, Gainesville became a creative hub in the 1980s and '90s for many of punk rock's greats. Whether playing at the Hardback or wild house parties, earnest acts like Against Me!, Spoke and Roach Motel all emerged and thrived in the small northern Florida city. Radon burst onto the scene with chaotic energy while Mutley Chix helped inspire local torchbearers No Idea Records. Through this succinct history, author Matt Walker traces each successive generation's contributions and amplifies the fidelity of the Gainesville scene.

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Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music

This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. This work includes coverage of electronic music compositions and performances that incorporate unconventional interfacing, hacking and circuit bending. Features: presents an introduction to unconventional computing in music; discusses initiatives involving biophysical electronic music, the work of self-styled silicon luthiers, and the intersection of music and quantum computing; introduces the memristor, a new electronic component with the potential to revolutionize how computers are built; reviews experiments and practical applications of biological memristors in music; describes IMUSIC, an unconventional tone-based programming language, which enables the programming of computers using musical phrases; includes review questions at the end of each chapter.

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The Mastering Engineer's Handbook 4th Edition by Bobby Owsinski

Audio mastering is the final step in the audio production process, polishing the recording's final mix and prepping it for release and distribution. This fourth edition of Bobby Owsinski's classic The Mastering Engineer's Handbook is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive manual on the art and science of creating well-mastered recordings.

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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible" technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use - for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook - they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent.

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