Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook: Uke Like The Pros PDF Welcome to the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook by Uke Like The Pros and written by Terry Carter. This book is written for the beginning baritone ukulele player that is interested in learning how to finger pick. This book will not only teach you some cool songs but… Read More »
Fretboard and Songwriting Theory for Metal Heads (and other genres too): Using ‘the secret’ to unlock the fretboard and your songwriting potential Have you ever wondered how to get music out of your head and onto the guitar? Do you feel stuck in a rut creatively? Ever wonder how guitar gods can use the entire neck effortlessly? This… Read More »
Beats By Design: An Illustrated Inventory Of The Most Important Hip Hop Producers Vol. 1 PDF With Beats by Design I wish to pay homage to the figure of the producer, artist, and visionary genius who often opts to stay behind the big spotlights while creating new musical trends and influencing entire generations. There are 60 illustrations of… Read More »
Music Theory in 30 Days: The Beginner’s Guide to How Music Works – With Online Companion Course Do you want to know how the language of music works? Would you like to explore all the different elements that create the music we all love? Are you interested in building a rock-solid foundation for more advanced musical studies? Then… Read More »
The Ultimate Guitar Scales Book (Left-Handed Edition): Essential For Every Guitar Player PDF Created especially for the left-handed players with left-handed scale boxes. All the other content is the same as the original book ‘The Ultimate Guitar Scales Book’. A Must Have For Every Guitar Player!This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to… Read More »
The Ultimate Bass Chords & Arpeggios Book: Essential for every bass player! (The Ultimate Bass Books Book 2) (English Edition) Learn all the essential chords and arpeggios to play on the bass that all bass players should know. Starting with the most basic major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords and arpeggios then moving onto the more advanced seventh… Read More »
Beethoven’s Orchestral Music: An Owner’s Manual PDF Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know. Beethoven’s orchestral works include some of the most iconic and popular pieces of classical music… Read More »
Doc: The life and times of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson PDF He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a ‘messianic rock god’. He was… Read More »
The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music PDF Research on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research and others. Linguistic aspects, however, are rarely considered. Anita Jóri fills this gap of research and suggests a new perspective by looking at these communities as a discourse community.… Read More »
Media Narratives in Popular Music PDF The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are… Read More »
Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox (PDF Book) A complete guide to listening, recording, and sound designing with nature. Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®, covers both science and art as we learn about how sound behaves in natural habitats and how this knowledge can be skillfully applied to produce award winning field recordings and compelling sound designs. Presented… Read More »
Home Studio Handbook: Beginner Edition PDF Home Studio Handbook: Beginner Edition gets you up to speed with the fast-moving world of music making at home. We show you the gear you’ll need, how to set it up and teach you the basics of music production whether it’s recording your band or making a whole track on your laptop.… Read More »
Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists PDF A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar music—the effects pedal—featuring interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett. Ever since the Sixties, fuzz boxes, wah-wahs, phase shifters, and a vast range of guitar effects pedals have shaped the sound of… Read More »
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing PDF The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower,… Read More »
Microsound by Curtis Roads PDF AIFF Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The… Read More »