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All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Ninth Edition

May 14 2016 | PDF | 3 MB
Donald Passman's expertise in the music industry is unmatched, and every day he helps his clients through the complexities of an ever-changing business. Now in its ninth edition, Passman's classic guide is updated to give you all the information necessary to thrive in this exhilarating and unpredicatable environment no matter who you are. Performers: Learn the risks and benefits of do-it-yourself music distribution, and how to protect yourself whether you sign with a record label or go it on your own; Songwriters: Understand the complicated world of exploiting your songs and negotiating the best possible deals; Managers/Executives: Get an overview of the entire business, plus the specifics you need to advancce your career; Considering a career in music?: Familiarize youself with the structure of the industry and figure out which path to take.

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Erfolgreich im Musikbusiness für Dummies

2016 | ISBN: 3527711635 | German | 364 pages | EPUB: 3.78 MB | PDF: 3.64 MB
Sie sind Musiker mit Leib und Seele und wollen nun den nächsten Schritt wagen? Ihre Musik soll gehört werden und statt im Proberaum zu versauern, wollen Sie auf die Bühne oder mit Ihren Songs ins Radio? Christoph A. G. Klein zeigt Ihnen, wie es geht: Denn gute Musik zu machen, reicht leider nicht aus. Von GEMA, GVL und Künstlersozialkasse über die rechtlichen Aspekte bis hin zu Marketing, Plattenverträgen und Konzertveranstaltung - Stolpersteine gibt es zur Genüge. Sie erfahren alles über die verschiedenen Akteure im Musikgeschäft, wie Sie effektives Marketing betreiben, was Sie bei Demotapes und Liveauftritten beachten müssen und wie Sie sonst noch mit Musik Geld verdienen können. Dieses Buch ist praxisorientiert und beleuchtet alle wichtigen Aspekte des Musikbusiness. Zahlreiche Checklisten, Musterverträge und wichtige Adressen runden das Buch ab.

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Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies by Bill Evans

English | 2015 | ISBN: 1119004306 | 336 pages | EPUB: 27.87 MB | PDF: 8.72 MB
Start picking the five-string banjo like a pro with this definitive guide to bluegrass banjo! Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced player, Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies gets you started off the right way and is your road map for mastering today’s most popular traditional and contemporary banjo picking styles. Online audio and video clips combine with the book’s clear step-by-step instructions to provide the most complete – and fun - banjo instruction experience available anywhere!

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Keywords in Sound – Edited by David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny

2015 | ISBN-10: 0822358891, 0822359030 | 272 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural, social and political discourses, and suggests possibilities for further research. Keywords in Sound charts the philosophical debates and core problems in defining, classifying and conceptualizing sound, and sets new challenges for the development of sound studies.

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Hip Hop in Houston: The Origin and the Legacy

English | ISBN: 1609499786 | 2013 | 176 pages | EPUB: 5 MB | PDF: 3 MB
Rap-A-Lot Records, U.G.K. (Pimp C and Bun B), Paul Wall, Beyonce, Chamillionaire and Scarface are all names synonymous with contemporary hip-hop. And they have one thing in common: Houston. Long before the country came to know the chopped and screwed style of rap from the Bayou City in the late 1990s, hip-hop in Houston grew steadily and produced some of the most prolific independent artists in the industry. With early roots in jazz, blues, R&B and zydeco, Houston hip-hop evolved not only as a musical form but also as a cultural movement. Join Maco L. Faniel as he uncovers the early years of Houston hip-hop from the music to the culture it inspired.

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Songwriter's Market 2016: Where & How to Market Your Songs

2015 | ISBN: 1599639394 | English | 332 pages | EPUB: 2 MB | PDF: 3MB
THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO SONGWRITING SUCCESS

For nearly 40 years, Songwriter's Market has provided songwriters and performing artists with the most up-to-date information needed to place songs with music publishers, find record companies and producers, obtain representation with managers, and much more. Featuring a holistic focus on all aspects of songwriting–from idea generation to marketing–this completely updated edition has more resources than ever before, giving you the tools and first-hand knowledge you need to launch your songwriting career.

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Return of the Hustle: The Art of Marketing With Music

English | ISBN: 1137582006 | 2016 | 252 pages | PDF | 754 KB
Has a commercial ever brought you to tears? Has a movie ever inspired you so much you change your way of life? Has the series finale of a television show ever broken your heart? Has a video game ever altered your perception of reality? If you're like most consumers, you answered 'yes' to at least one of those questions. Whether you remember it or not, the music of that ad, film, show or game probably played a big role in influencing your emotional response during that experience. In fact, music is included in media specifically for the purpose of connecting with audiences on a deeper level that visuals alone cannot access.

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Improvisieren: Material, Interaktion, Haltung und Musik aus soziologischer Perspektive

German | ISBN: 3658075740 | 2016 | 408 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Diese Arbeit untersucht Improvisationsprozesse (creativity in performance) aus einer soziologischen Perspektive unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dimensionen von Handeln, Interagieren und Wissen. Die Soziologie entwickelte in den letzten Jahren ein zunehmendes Interesse am Phänomen der Improvisation, wobei weniger die Resultate improvisatorischen Handelns im Zentrum standen, als vielmehr die Improvisationsprozesse selbst. Eine solche Fokussierung nimmt auch diese Untersuchung vor.

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Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zepplin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces…

2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0399163875 | 8 MB
In 2012, legendary producer and sound engineer Glyn Johns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Over the course of his incredible career, Johns helped create some of rock’s most iconic albums, including those by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, the Who, the Clash, and, more recently, Ryan Adams and Band of Horses. In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Johns shares incredible stories about the musicians he’s worked with from the freewheeling sixties to the present. Sound Man is an intimate glimpse into rock and roll history and the perfect gift for any music fan.

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The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

2016 | ISBN: 022618076X | English | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis’s live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost Quintet. In this book, jazz historian and musician Bob Gluck explores the performances of this revolutionary group—Davis’s first electric band—to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest geniuses and, by extension, the extraordinary transition in American music that he and his fellow players ushered in.

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Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1780748566 | 304 pages | 1 MB
SOUNDS AND SWEET AIRS reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz.

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English for Music Students: Basics

2015 | ISBN: 3659763136 | 204 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This course book is designed for the beginner students of music whose first language is not English, and used either as a classroom course book or a self-study book, it provides learners with a basic course on specialised English for music. The content of the book and the level of language covered in the texts, concerning musical knowledge, starts from the very beginning level with the basic concepts and terms used in music language. However, as for the level of English used, it assumes a minimum of intermediate knowledge of general English on the part of learners, so that they can fully understand the concepts and technical language of music as they progress through the units. As English is becoming more and more important in today's world of music, this book can be a good guide for the novice musicians and music students to learn the technical language of the field.

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I'm With the Band

English | 2013 | ISBN: 1472533658 | PDF | pages: 90 | 1 MB
An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio and created The Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering indie rock band is now on the verge of breaking up.

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Ein kleiner Überblick der Tontechnik: Für Neueinsteiger, Amateure und Profis

Deutsch | 2016 | ASIN: B01CZ0KAU2 | 94 Seiten | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 10 MB
Dieses Buch soll Dir einen Überblick über digitale und analoge Tontechnik geben, aber auch wie ein “Spickzettel” dienen, um schon einmal gewusstes wieder aufzufrischen. Selbsterklärend ist mein Anspruch nicht die Vollständigkeit, sondern vielmehr die Verkürzung der Lehrbücher auf das Wesentliche und Praxisnahe. So können auch Amateure schnell einen Zugang zur Materie finden und sie schnell umsetzen und in ihrem Workflow berücksichtigen.

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Ukulele: A manual for beginners and teachers by Wagner Kerchaten

English | 2016 | ASIN: B01E23BBDA | 45 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 23.15 MB
This book is a step-by-step guide for beginners. It helps you understand and work your way to learning the instrument better. While unlike other books which may teach you songs and melodies, this book teaches you basic rudiments of music, how to build more chords, transpose songs, and many more. The audio accompanying this book, is provided for you not to get lost on track .

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Piano : How To Play Piano: A beginners guide and lessons on how to learn and practice using simple techniques on the keyboard

English | 2016 | ASIN: B01DIRZ9BG | 702 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 7.8 MB
You’re about to discover how to play the piano by using simple and effective methods. It involves the principles behind techniques and a number of exercises that you could work on at home. Additionally, it gives you a few things to take note of while practicing.

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Rhythmic Genius: A guide to becoming a master of rhythm in music

English | 2016 | ASIN: B01B745DTU | 49 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 3.72 MB
We’ve all been there. You’ve paid good money to have your music professionally recorded, only to have the producer gently point out that you can’t play to the metronome. Or maybe, you've started your first band and when a bandmate tries to describe a song's rhythm to you, it sounds like Greek.

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Playing With Patterns: A Comprehensive Guide to Master the Drum Rudiments (for any level)

English | 2016 | ASIN: B01BCW2T26 | 58 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 2.43 MB
The 40 Essential Drum Rudiments are just that: essential to your drumming! Learning them all can sound daunting, even if you have been playing for years. Luckily, this quick-reference book breaks it all down into easy-to-digest patterns that you'll have memorized in no time!

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Shuffle of the Pick: 12 Old Time Tunes for the Intermediate and Advanced Mandolin Player

English | Feb. 2, 2016 | ASIN: B01BFZYM20 | 65 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 32.5 MB
"Shuffle of the Pick" teaches twelve Appalachian fiddle tunes arranged for the mandolin. This book presents the arrangements both in standard notation and tablature, access to download the tunes online, as well as original artwork, photos and valuable commentary. This collection also provides links to online sources containing information about the legendary fiddlers whose music is featured. As a fiddle and mandolin player, Adam provides unique insights into old time fiddle techniques and how they can be transferred to the mandolin.This book also is also great for fiddle players.

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Songs For The Soul by Harold Vega Vondenstein

English | 2016 | ASIN: B01CTQU836 | 193 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 2.14 MB
This is a book for anyone who appreciates original and inspired songs from the Lord whether or not you are a musician. If you are a musician feel free to use them however you are inspired.

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