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Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection

Brought to you by the subscription club of the same name, Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need In Your Collection is a vibrant visual guide to curating must-have records for any music lover's shelf. Celebrating artists as varied and influential as Bikini Kill, Aretha Franklin, Wilco, and beyond, each entry includes an album's artwork, a short essay from a contributing music writer, and further suggestions to help you expand your taste and build your collection. This sleek compendium even includes recipes for possible cocktail pairings to complete your listening experience.

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Three Quick Jazz Practice Tips: for all instruments

Here's a quick-read book to change your practicing – and your playing – today.

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MPC-Samples The JJOSXL Sampling Bible WAV MPC PDF

'JJOSXL: the Sampling Bible’ by MPC-Tutor is the first and only dedicated tutorial book for JJOSXL, the advanced third party operating system for the MPC1000/2500. With 125 pages of step-by-step tutorials and practical projects for you to recreate in your MPC, this book comprehensively teaches you the art of sampling in JJOSXL:

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Easy Guitar Scales and Modes By Matt Warnock

Learn Guitar Scales and Modes the Easy Way

Scales and modes are essential learning for any guitarist, but they’re intimidating when first learning to play guitar.

There’s an endless list of shapes, fingerings, theory, etc. to learn, making it easy to be overwhelmed in the practice room.

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Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)

This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography. The book draws on empirical data collected in cites throughout Australia. In terms of understanding the relationship between music scenes and participants, much of the existing popular music literature tends to avoid one key aspect of scene: its predominant past-tense and memory-based nature. Nascent music scenes may be emergent and on-going but their articulation in the present is often based on past events, ideas and histories. There is a noticeable gap between the literature concerning popular music ethnography and the growing body of work on cultural memory and emotional geography. This book is a study of the conceptual formation and use of music scenes by participants. It is also an investigation of the structures underpinning music scenes more generally.

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Pro Techniques For Home Recording

This eBook is 130 pages w/ audio, teaching home recording engineers the ins and outs of what it takes to get a great sound at home. The high-rez MP3 files give readers what most books on the subject don’t – loads of specific examples about mic placement, audio processing, mixing, and mastering.

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Handbook of Musical Identities

Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities. Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. But, just as language can mediate the construction and negotiation of developing identities, so music can also be a means of communication through which aspects of people's identities are constructed. Music can have a profound influence on our developing sense of identity, our values, and our beliefs, be it from rock music, classical music, or jazz.

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Teaching Music Improvisation with Technology by Michael Fein

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation. What music technology does is establish a strong foundation for chord, scale, phrase, ear training, and listening exercises, creating a solid backdrop for student expression. As author and educator Mike Fein shows, technology is a valuable tool that can be used effectively to supplement student practice time while also developing the skills necessary to become a proficient improviser. Complete with notated exercises, accompaniment tracks, and listening resources, this book gives teachers methods to set their students free to make mistakes and to develop their own ear for improvisation at their own pace. Broken down into significant areas of music technology, each chapter focuses on developing a new skill and guides readers to tangible outcomes with the assistance of hands-on activities that can be immediately implemented into the classroom. In addition to these hands-on activities, each chapter provides the reader with an "iPad Connection" to various iOS applications, which allows teachers and students another, albeit significantly less expensive, medium through which to learn, share, and create art.

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The Guitar Guide by Michael Dibley

Do You Want an Easy Way to Begin Learning to Play the Guitar? If you have just bought a guitar or are just picking one up for the first time, this book will show you how to get started making the music you want from your instrument. This book is perfect for both electric and acoustic guitars. This quick start guide with easy to follow step-by-step directions and helpful graphics will take you from knowing nothing about music or the guitar and teach you how to not only make sense of where to put your hands and how to read chord charts, but will get you playing your first songs. In this guide you will learn: The parts of a guitar How to tune your guitar Play your first song How to play chords How to read chord diagrams Useful playing techniques for beginners Warm up exercises The basics of music Chord progressions And Much More Reading this book is like having a personal guitar teacher in the room with you, showing you how to make music and develop the tools you will need to become a great guitar player!

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Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially pronounced the end of racism within its borders, social inequalities tied to racism, sexism, and homophobia endured, and, during the economic liberalization of the 1990s, widespread economic disparities began to reemerge.

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The Left Handed Guitar Chords Book: 296 illustrated chords and over 500 chord notes

The special edition for those who play left-handed guitar.

The Left Handed Guitar Chords Book gives you an overview of the 296 most used guitar chords in fullcolor illustrated diagrams including suggested fingerings. Almost all of the chords are fretted within the first 4 or 5 frets to keep things as simple as possible (although some experience with Barré chords and chords fretted with 4 fingers is a pré).

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JFilt The 12 Pad Chord Manual 2015 RETAIL eBook

After the great responses from Essential HipHop Chords and The 16 Pad Scale Manual, I decided to show love to the 12 pad users. This came as a result of those wanting to use these ebooks but only had 12 pads as in the MPC500. Since the algorithm changes for 12 pads, the decision was made to create a similar technique for those with the MPC 500, MPK 25, MPK 49 or any other drum machine with the 3×4 grid formation.

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JFilt The 12 Pad Scale Manual 2015 RETAIL eBook

After the great responses from Essential HipHop Chords and The 16 Pad Scale Manual, I decided to show love to the 12 pad users. This came as a result of those wanting to use these ebooks but only had 12 pads as in the MPC500. Since the algorithm changes for 12 pads, the decision was made to create a similar technique for those with the MPC 500, MPK 25, MPK 49 or any other drum machine with the 3×4 grid formation. Instead of having to wait for both ebooks to be released one at a time, I decided to write and release these guys together since they make the perfect match. If you want to elevate your beats to the next level and gain the ability to sound like a live musician, these ebooks are for you! Creating melodies along with your own chord combinations have never been so easy with 12 pads until now. Have fun!

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JFilt The 16 Pad Chords and Progressions 2016 RETAIL eBook

If you are looking to use your 16 pad drum machine as an instrument, you should consider the 16 Pad Chords & Progressions ebook. This ebook picks up where Essential HipHop Chords left off. In other words consider this ebook the upgrade. Like its predecessor, this ebook was made to accommodate those looking to sound more like a musician. The difference between the two is that the 1st ebook displayed basic or essential chords for Hiphop. 16 Pad Chords & Progressions displays more advanced chords and expands more on the “specialty” section of Essential HipHop Chords.

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Music Business Handbook and Career Guide

This powerhouse best-selling text remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Eleventh Edition offers surpasses any other resource available. Readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals alike will find David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville’s handbook an indispensable resource, regardless of their specialty within the music field. This text is ideal for introductory courses such as Introduction to the Music Business, Music and Media, and Music Business Foundations as well as more specialized courses such as the record industry, music careers, artist management, and more. The fully updated Eleventh Edition includes coverage of key topics such as copyright, licensing, songwriting, concert venues, and the entrepreneurial musician. Uniquely, it provides career-planning insights on dozens of job categories in the diverse music industry.

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How to Fingerpick Guitar Like the Best: Awesome Fingerpicking Lessons

This book "How to Finger-Pick Guitar like the best," focuses on developing right hand fingerpicking technique and skills. We accomplish this with numerous right hand patterns/lessons, in addition to several tunes, which implement the patterns and contain new ones. There is something for everyone; no matter what style you are into or level of playing you are at, you will benefit from these lessons. It will take your playing to the next level. This is great for students of guitar and a great teaching aid for guitar teachers too. If you are already an experienced guitarist, there are also advanced patterns here that will challenge you and improve your technique. If you are just beginning, I have carefully selected numerous lessons and patterns for your growth and the strengthening of the right hand fingers.

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Cr2 Records Deep Tech House WAV MiDi NATiVE iNSTRUMENTS MASSiVE

Weighing in at almost 500MB, Sample Tools by Cr2 are here again to provide you with another essential, cutting edge production toolkit.

If you want the flexibility of having top notch off the shelf sounds whilst also being able to chop and change MIDI files and presets to produce your own custom arrangements?

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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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