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Perfect Guitar Control English version

Book for guitarists of any level and musical genre, ideal for having perfect control of your guitar technique.WARM UP and COORDINATION - Exercises to develop perfect coordination between left and right hand and precision control of alternating picking.EAR TRAINING - Exercises for the development of the relative and absolute musical ear for controlling the pitch of the notes and the recognition of the intervals related to the scales.

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Ready to Rock! Vol.2 English version

READY to ROCK! Vol.2 - intermediate/advanced level.This book is dedicated to those who want to perfect the study of rock guitar.The book is structured in a simple and direct way and through the use of tablature, to audio files, where you can listen to the performance of every single exercise, and the use of backing tracks, you will be able to develop your guitar technique in clear and rapid way.

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Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of such contemporary speech and audio processing techniques with an emphasis on practical implementations and illustrations using MATLAB code. Core concepts are firstly covered giving an introduction to the physics of audio and vibration together with their representations using complex numbers, Z transforms and frequency analysis transforms such as the FFT.

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Fretboard Concepts: A Complete & Modern Method to master Scales Modes Chords Arpeggios & Improvisation hacks

MASTER THE FRETBOARD & IMPROVISE LIKE A PRO FRETBOARD CONCEPTS is a book that has all the necessary tools that EVERY GUITAR PLAYER NEEDS in order to be a well-rounded guitarist and a great musician.

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Listen Up!: Recording Music with Bob Dylan Neil Young U2 R.E.M. The Tragically Hip Red Hot Chili Peppers Tom Waits...

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world's most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound.

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Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry

The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the diversity of the American music industry, spanning classical to country and hip hop to heavy metal.

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Sound Works A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, 'Why This Sound?', presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of 'Sonic Labor.' Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary 'Living with Sounds.' The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how “Sound Works” today.

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Inside Track: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Derek Ali PDF

“I’m 25, I have been doing this for only seven years, and I’m still learning. I just feel blessed to be here. But the response to Kendrick’s album has been crazy, and that people also notice the sound of the album, and therefore my work, is just amazing!”

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Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music Memphis and Motherf**kers

This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth’s close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about provide a gateway to truly understanding the music and culture of Memphis and other blues strongholds in the South. Subjects include Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, William Eggleston, Ma Rainey, Blind Willie McTell, Graceland, Beale Street and much more.

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How Musicals Work and How to Write Your Own

Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this book, Julian Woolford explores the musical-theatre canon to explain why and how some musicals work, why some don't, and what you should (and shouldn't) do if you're thinking of writing your own.

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The Jazz Rhythm and Articulation Workbook A Guide to Playing with Swing (Jazz Language Workbooks)

In this book youґll find a step by step roadmap to play the most common syncopated rhythmic patterns found in the jazz idiom. This workbook has exercises to practice six basic syncopated rhythmic patterns and their combinations found in all jazz standards.

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The Topos of Music I: Theory: Geometric Logic Classification Harmony Counterpoint Motives Rhythm vol 2

This is the first volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains the theory`s conceptual framework of denotators and forms, the classification of local and global musical objects, the mathematical models of harmony and counterpoint, and topologies for rhythm and motives.

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Podcasting The Audio Media Revolution

Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others), Podcasting documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media.

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Electronic Music Machines The New Musical Instruments

Since 1960, with the advent of musical electronics, composers and musicians have been using ever more sophisticated machines to create sonic material that presents innovation, color and new styles: electro-acoustic, electro, house, techno, etc. music. The music of Pierre Henry, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Daft Punk and many others has introduced new sounds, improbable rhythms and a unique approach to composition and notation.

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Ambisonics: A Practical 3D Audio Theory for Recording Studio Production Sound Reinforcement and Virtual Reality

This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers with the psychoacoustical, signal processing, acoustical, and mathematical knowledge needed to understand the inner workings of modern processing utilities, special equipment for recording, manipulation, and reproduction in the higher-order Ambisonic format. The book comes with various practical examples based on free software tools and open scientific data for reproducible research.

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Guitar Book for Beginners: Easy Music Theory and Guitar Exercises. Quick Step-By-Step Way to Play Songs You Love

You want to play songs you love but you have not much time for practice? Music Theory is too boring? Get the best lessons with practice and exercises! This book helps you with

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Beginner's Electric Guitar: The Complete Book of Rock Riffs

Learn to play easy and iconic rock guitar today with this complete book of electric guitar riffs for beginners. With a diverse range of riffs and licks in over 20 different styles of rock music, this book helps you to expand your playing. From hard, classic and punk rock to country rock and blues, there is something for all kinds of guitarist. Every riff has been transposed in a straight-forward way, making this the ideal book for aspiring rock and rollers and those just starting out on their electric guitar journey.

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Piano and Keyboard for Beginners

Learning to play a musical instrument can transform your life. The focus and concentration that you can gain, and the pride in learning how to do something new, is amazing and will really change the way that you look at life. And when you can impress your friends and family with the new skills that you are learning, all of the hard work will be worth it.

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Making Music Indigenous Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous, Joshua Tucker traces the history of this music and its key performers over fifty years to show that there is no single way to “sound indigenous.” The musicians Tucker follows make indigenous culture and identity visible in contemporary society by establishing a cultural and political presence for Peru’s indigenous peoples through activism, artisanship, and performance.

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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma Entertainment Sovereignty Reform

French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred and what they meant to a given opera's creators and audiences.

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