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DJing For Dummies, 3 edition by John Steventon

DJ like a pro—without skipping a beat

The bestselling guide to spinning and scratching is back! If you've ever spent hours in your bedroom with two turntables and an earful of tracks that sound off-beat or out of key, DJing For Dummies is the go-to guide for taking your skills to the next level. Inside, John Steventon, a successful club DJ, walks you through the basics of mixing, the techniques and tricks you need to create your own DJ style and how to make DJing work for you.

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Acting the Song: Performance Skills for the Musical Theatre 2nd Edition

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2016 |English | Publisher: Allworth Press; Revised edition | 336 pages | EPUB/PDF: 5 MB
Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical theater will find guidance in developing and leading musical theater elements, classroom workshops, and the world of professional auditions and performances.

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Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 Minutes

2016 | ASIN: B01HI9W0Q2 | 104 pages | EPUB/PDF: 4 MB
Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his songs, which feature multi-platinum Grammy winners Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), and many more. Ray Harmony is an award-winning music lecturer and multi-instrumentalist, who is now sharing his top-secret music theory and songwriting hacks through this book series. Drawing on his two decades of teaching experience combined with his minimalist methods of explaining, Ray breaks down music theory into its simplest form via a series of simple hacks, deep insights, and bad jokes. Tuck in at HackMusicTheory.com

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Bass Guitar - September 2016

Bass Guitar Magazine is the UK's only title devoted to the bass in all its forms. Written and edited by a dedicated team of bass players, BGM features in-depth interviews, extensive gear reviews, transcriptions, great competitions and various columns covering everything from tuition to the latest news in the bass world.

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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound

English | ISBN: 1596439734 | 2015 | 176 pages | EPUB: 6 MB | PDF: 4 MB
From award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney comes the story of the music that defined a generation and a movement that changed the world.

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Music Theory: From Beginner To Expert

English | EPUB /AZW3/PDF | ISBN-10: 1536961701 | 2016 | 156 pages | 2 MB
Discover The Beauty of Music Theory and Become a Better Musician Through The Power of Understanding!

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A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music

English | ISBN: 0252039106, 0252080696 | 2015 | 489 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.

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Michael Hicks, "The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography"

English | 2015 | ISBN: 0252039084 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A first-of-its-kind history, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir tells the epic story of how an all-volunteer group founded by persecuted religious outcasts grew into a multimedia powerhouse synonymous with the mainstream and with Mormonism itself.

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Amy C. Beal, "Johanna Beyer (American Composers)

English | ISBN: 0252039157, 0252080726 | 2015 | 152 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal era, she composed plentiful music for piano, percussion ensemble, chamber groups, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time student of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer was an ultramodernist, and an active member of a community that included now-better-known composers and musicians. Only one of her works was published and only one recorded during her lifetime. But contemporary musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued by her originality.

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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

English | ISBN: 0374533423 | 2016| 288 pages | 5 MB
In 2001 Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix and put it online to share with friends. Within weeks, Gold Teeth Thief became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to play a nightclub in Zagreb, a gallery in Osaka, a former brothel in Sao Paolo, and the American Museum of Natural History. Just as the music world made its fitful, uncertain transition from analog to digital, Clayton found himself on the front lines of creative upheavals of art production in the twenty-first century globalized world.

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TTC Audio Music as a Mirror of History by Professor Robert Greenberg

English | July 2016 | ASIN: B01IWIJVVK | MP3@64 kbps | 18 hrs 22 mins | + PDF Guidebook | 451 MB
In the worlds of painting and literature, it's easy to see where history and art intersect. In Picasso's Guernica or Tolstoy's War and Peace, it's evident how works of art mirror and participate in the life of their times, sometimes even playing roles in historical events. But what about music?

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Halt dich an deiner Liebe fest. Rio Reiser

German | ISBN: 3351036272 | 2016 | 351 pages | EPUB: 13 MB | PDF: 17 MB
„Wenn es bei Rockmusik um etwas geht, dann um Ekstase.“ Rio Reiser

In diesem sehr persönlichen Buch beschreibt Gert Möbius das Leben seines Bruders, des großen Musikers und Exzentrikers Rio Reiser. Sichtbar werden eine überraschende Persönlichkeit mit all ihren Brüchen und Verzweiflungen und zugleich ein Panorama deutscher Musik- und Politikgeschichte.
Nie zuvor konnte man Rio Reiser so nah erleben, denn dieses Buch enthält neben zahlreichen persönlichen Dokumenten, aus denen Gert Möbius erstmals zitiert, auch Auszüge eines Tagebuches, das Rio Reiser in den Jahren 1972 bis 1974 führte, sowie zahlreiche bislang unveröffentlichte Fotos.

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The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs! (The Charles H. Kerr Library), 2nd Edition

2016 | ISBN: 1629631299 | English | 560 pages | EPUB: 7 MB | PDF: 7 MB
In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union—the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywhere its members went, they sang.

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Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes

2016 | ISBN: 0300182937 | English | 368 pages | EPUB: 3.66 MB | PDF: 5.27 MB
An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon.

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Guitar For Beginners 7th Edition

Imagine Publishing Ltd | 2016 | ISBN: 1785462431 | English | 164 pages | True PDF | 21,68 MB
Guitar for Beginners is packed full of in-depth guides on getting started and learning essential guitar techniques - from strumming to string bending. It explains how to understand musical notation and provides practice examples. There is also a comprehensive list of chords, as well as sample sheets of notation and tab. Online resources, including audio and video files, are also available so you can listen to how things should sound and watch how things should be done. Featuring: Getting started - The ultimate guide to the guitar. Techniques - From strumming and picking to adding amps and effects. Understanding music - Learn to read guitar tab and musical notation. Play in the style of… - Discover how to recreate the sound of your favourite musical genre.

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Piano for Beginners 6th Edition

2016 | English | ISBN: 1785463837 | True PDF | 164 pages | 17 MB
Picking up any instrument for the first time can be daunting, but the new edition of Piano for Beginners will guide you through the learning process. From the correct way to sit at the piano to reading notation, we start with the basics before expanding your musical horizons with easy home recording and genre-specific tutorials. With a glossary of essential terminology, a list of chords and even access to free online resources, Piano for Beginners will be your go-to guide to mastering the piano or keyboard.

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Take Control of Audio Hijack

English | 2016 | ASIN: B0141LG5J8 | 130 pages | PDF+EPUB+MOBI | 43 MB
Find sound advice for recording anything on your Mac!

Learn how to use Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack 3 to capture and enhance any audio playing on a Mac. Audio expert Kirk McElhearn provides instructions for setting up common scenarios – recording audio playing in Safari, capturing Skype and FaceTime calls, digitizing your old LPs, extracting audio from concert DVDs, and working with mics and mixers, among much else. Kirk also helps you edit recordings in Rogue Amoeba's Fission audio editor.

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iPad Music School: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Music on iOS

English | 2015 | ASIN: B00ZOQ4AFG | 89 Pages | PDF/EPUB (conv) | 4.24 MB
Whether you’re 8 years old or 80 years old, there’s never a bad time to start making music. You live in exciting times, with technology that allows you to carry around a virtual studio in your pocket or purse. It’s never been easier or more fun to learn how to create your own songs and share them with your friends, or the whole world.

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Kurt Cobain and Nirvana The Complete Illustrated History (Updated Edition)

English | ISBN: 0760351783 | 2016 | PDF | 208 pages | 106 MB
Nirvana, the immortal grunge Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is as relevant and influential as ever.

Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic comprised Nirvana, the band that unintentionally tore the music world asunder with the 1991 album Nevermind. The record that includes hits such as "Smells like Teen Spirit," "Come as You Are," and "Lithium" continues to rattle speakers with grunge that truly rocks. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, Updated Edition tells the fully illustrated story of the band that spoke for Generation X in the '90s.

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Ukulele For Beginners 2nd Edition

2016 | ISBN: 178546356X | English | 164 pages | True PDF | 21 MB
People of all ages and abilities can play the ukulele, from the complete novice to the musical maestro looking to add another instrument to their repertoire. Perhaps that's why so many people are picking up this handy and versatile instrument, and this book has everything you need to start making music with your new ukulele. We'll take you through choosing which type of uke is best for you, through warm ups and basic chords, to learning how to read tablature and musical notation, through to playing tunes in the styles of your favourite artists, from Taylor Swift and One Direction to Kanye West and Elvis Presley. Pick up this book and start strumming! Featuring: Getting started - Pick your ukulele, learn how to take care of it and get ready to play Techniques - Master basic chords, strumming patterns, finger-picking and more Reading music - Get to grips with tablature, notation and chord charts and start playing your favourite tunes Play in the style of… - Re-create the sound of artists like One Direction, Lorde, Bruno Mars and Bob Marley

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