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The Song Creation Formula: 7 Easy Steps to Writing Your Song

This book is for people who've never written a song, as well as songwriters looking for new inspiration. In "7 Easy Steps to Writing Your Song", you'll have a step by step guide to write your first song or write a song in a new way, breaking your old patterns and habits. How would you like to ask your favourite songwriters about their writing process and what inspires them? This is exactly what Signe has done and now you can learn from their years of experience creating songs that inspire people. Interviews with influential Canadian songwriters include - Jim Cuddy (Blue Rodeo), Greig Nori (Treble Charger), Oh Susanna, Jeremy Fisher, Kat Goldman, Luke Doucet (Whitehorse) and Craig Northey (Odds). This book also contains a fascinating, in-depth examination of 33 popular chord progressions by Taylor Abrahamse.

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The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint

The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical, "how-to" guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres. Beginning with an introductory grounding in species counterpoint, tonal harmony, and figured bass, students progress through the study of chorale preludes, invertible counterpoint, and canonic and fugal writing. This textbook thoroughly joins principle with practice, providing a truly immersive experience in the study of tonal counterpoint and familiarizing students with contrapuntal styles from the Baroque period to the 21st century. Also available is a companion volume, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint, which focuses on 16th-century techniques and covers modal music from Gregorian chant through the 17th century.

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Guitar For Dummies (4th Edition)

The bestselling guide now updated with video demonstrations and audio tracks online

The guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in the world, which is why it's so appealing to musicians. Guitar For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you everything a beginning or intermediate acoustic or electric guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it. Fully revised and updated, with online video and audio clips that help you learn and play along, you'll explore everything from simple chords and melodies to more challenging exercises that are designed to satisfy players of all levels. Additionally, new players can dive into the basics of guitar and accessory selection. Whether you prefer the cool sounds of the acoustic or the edgier tones of the electric, your guitar will get a lot of use as you play your way through the lessons presented in this integral book. But your journey doesn't stop at the last page! With an updated multimedia component, you have access to more than 80 online videos and 35 audio tracks that help build your talent.

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The Addiction Formula: A holistic approach to writing captivating, memorable hit songs

Discover The Songwriting Technique Used In 97% Of All Hit Songs.

How To Use Subtle Psychological Triggers To Captivate ANY Audience.
Writing Pop, Rock, RnB or Hip Hop has never been easier or more fun.

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Guitar Mastery 2: The Ultimate Guide on Guitar Theory, Chords and Techniques for Beginners (Guitar Theory, Guitar Lessons Book)

Guitar Mastery is a step by step easy guide, which will teach you how to play guitar. All necessary information about guitar is covered in brief in this book. With help of this book, you can learn guitar at the comfort of your home.

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Guitar Mastery Box Set: Guitar for Beginners & Guitar Fretboard Mastery

Guitar for Beginners - A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Guitar for Beginners, Master the Basics and Start Playing Guitar as Fast as Possible.

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Guitar Mastery: The Ultimate Guide on Guitar Theory, Chords and Techniques for Beginners (Guitar Theory, Guitar Lessons Book 1)

Guitar Mastery is a step by step easy guide, which will teach you how to play guitar. All necessary information about guitar is covered in brief in this book. With help of this book, you can learn guitar at the comfort of your home.

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Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap

"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching … An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era."–-Kirkus, starred review

A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur.

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Guitar: The Complete Guide To Master Guitar Scales

The Complete Guide To Master Guitar Scales - Memorize The Fretboard And Learn Every Note On The Guitar Neck Quickly and Easily!

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Music Technology Workbook

This practical music technology workbook enables students and teachers to get the best possible results with the available equipment. The workbook provides step-by-step activities for classroom-based and independent project work, covering the skills and techniques used in modern music production. All are related to specific areas of the GCSE, AS/A2 and BTEC curricula. The activities are supplemented with basic concepts, hints and tips on techniques, productions skills and system optimisation to give students the best possible chance of passing or improving their grade.

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The Key To Unlocking Your Voice by Robert Matovu

Singing is a wonderful way of tapping into creativity, emotional release, personal development and healing. It is also a unique and powerful way to communicate with others, with no language, race or class barriers. The ability to sing also opens many social doors, providing opportunities to meet new people in our own country and in others. Those who love singing therefore have a gift to be treasured.

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Blues Guitar 101: The Lead Player's Guide to Improvisation, Fretboard Mastery, and Rocking Solos

You are about to discover how to play blues guitar ANYWHERE and ANY WAY you'd like!

You will be able to look down at your fretboard, and instead of looking at it with confusion, you'll be able to play the blues anywhere and anyhow you'd like.

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Guitarist Game-Changers: 12 Simple Lessons from Listening to Six Iconic Players

Do you listen to the right guitar players? What can you learn if you start listening to really iconic guitar players who are being largely overlooked by others? Here are 12 simple guitar lessons pulled from listening to six great – and largely underappreciated – guitarists. Differentiate your playing from others by becoming more deliberate with your influences.

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Play Guitar: 2-Book Box Set by Tommy Gordon

This new two-book box set called “Play Guitar” brings together a couple of comprehensive guitarist projects that we are excited to see packaged together.

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Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician

Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Rowman and Littlefield), Music Secrets is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking a quick set of pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music. Easy to use, contributions to the Music Secrets series fill a niche for those who need quick and easy methods for learning what they need—from those just starting to the advanced musician in need of a refresher or new insights.

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Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (Oxford Handbooks)

Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual?

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Sam Aaron - Code Music with Sonic Pi

Learn to code musical masterpieces with the creator of Sonic Pi in the 4th MagPi Essentials book. Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, has written this book to complement the software's built-in tutorial and to help you jump-start your live-coding career. The book is packed with fun, instantly rewarding examples designed to highlight many of the amazing things Sonic Pi enables you to do. By the time you've finished you'll be able to code up some phat bass, sparkling synth leads and start practicing for your first live-coding gig. Live code and craft amazing sounds across 10 chapters, including: Master live loops; Build drum breaks; Compose your own melodies; Make random riffs and loops; Learn to shape and sculpt sounds; and much more.

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Wickimedia - Audio Engineering - Dynamic Processing

It took a while to be released as PDF, but it's here now! Audio Engineering - Dynamic Processing is the first publication in a series of Audio Engineering books by WickieMedia.

All about dynamic range, compressors, gates, de-essers and maximizers; this interactive textbook is the perfect way to learn all about them! 'Dynamic Processing' contains many tips and tricks to get you going with your equipment and plugins.

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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics–a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim–The Jazz of Physics revisits the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one.

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The Art Of Compression by Thomas Juth

Are you passionate about mixing, and want to learn more about the art of compression?

In this book, Grammy award winning Mix Engineer Thomas Juth shares his personal views on compressors and compression, and talks about how one can use compressors as a colour palette. Although there are already many books about 'mixing techniques' and compression, this unique book focuses more on the philosophy (of working with compression), and shares some very useful and personal tips.

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