Category Archives: Education

Remembering Popular Music’s Past: Memory-Heritage-History PDF Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that… Read More »

An Introduction to Music Technology Second Edition PDF An Introduction to Music Technology, Second Edition provides a clear overview of the essential elements of music technology for today’s musician. This book focuses on the topics that underlie the hardware and software in use today: Sound, Audio, MIDI, Computer Notation, and Computer- Assisted Instruction. Appendices cover necessary computer hardware… Read More »

Guitar Exercises For Beginners: Super Interesting Way To Improve Your Guitar Skills (Guitar Mastery Book 3) PDF Have you been practicing for hours and hours with little progress? Here’s how to get the most out of your practice sessions. “Practice, practice, practice until you can play it right!” The biggest lie the industry wants you to believe. A… Read More »

Magician of Sound: Ravel and the Aesthetics of Illusion PDF French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attracted such critiques or what they might tell us about how to interpret his music. Magician of Sound… Read More »

The Live Music Business: Management & Production of Concerts & Festivals, 3rd Edition The Live Music Business: Management and Production of Concerts and Festivals, Third Edition, shines a light on the enigmatic live music business, offering a wealth of inside advice and trade secrets to artists and bands looking to make a living in the industry. Previously published… Read More »

Vocal Warm Ups & Exercises For Actors Speakers & Voice Artists PDF If you are an drama student, actor, performer, speaker or voice-artist or training to be one, this is the book for you! There is nothing else out there like it! Filled with easy to follow vocal warm-up exercises, awesome alliterations and illustrations; you will be impressing… Read More »

Christmas Piano Book For Beginners: Christmas Piano Sheet music book This Christmas Piano music sheet book includes 30+ favorite Christmas Carols 1. Good King Wenceslas 2. All I Want For Christmas Is You 3. Winter Wonderland 4. Merry Christmas Everyone 5. A Holly Jolly Christmas 6. Hard Candy Christmas 7. Do They Know It’s Christmas Time 8. Wonderful… Read More »

Straight No Chaser Sound Bites: A Cappella, Cocktails & Cuisine PDF With 15 years in the music business, eight albums, and more than 1.5 million concerts tickets sold, Straight No Chaser treasures two things: family and food. Straight No Chaser Sound Bites features a collection of their favoritefood and drink recipes combined with behind-the-scenes stories as they welcome… Read More »

Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre PDF Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of this diverse and complex musical genre for scholars of classic rock and curious novices alike, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, songwriters, bands, and albums. Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre explores in detail… Read More »

Singing For Dummies, 3rd Edition PDF Go from singing in the shower to taking your audience’s breath away Whether you picture yourself as the next Ariana Grande or just feel like picking up a new hobby, Singing For Dummies walks you through the surprisingly straightforward steps you’ll need to take to develop your voice. It’s a practical guide… Read More »

Sound On Sound UK – November 2021 PDF Sound On Sound is the world’s best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS’s unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews… Read More »

Classroom Guitar for School Music Program: Walking in Harmony Level I: Student’s Copy PDF For over twenty years of my professional life, I have taught guitar at all levels from introductory to postgraduate. When I was first asked to teach in the Grades 5-8 School Guitar Program, I was both excited at the prospect and apprehensive about the… Read More »

Piano for Beginners: Everything you need to know to start playing the piano PDF Everything you need to know to start playing the piano 6th EDwelcome piano beginnersMaking the decision to learn a new instrument can be a whim or a long-standing ambition. way, picking up an instrument for the first time is a daunting feeling, as the… Read More »

How to Build Guitar Chops: Technique Exercises for the Intermediate to Advanced Guitarist If there’s one thing that practically all guitarists have experienced at one time or another, it’s the disappointment that comes from not being able to play something. This is nothing new, of course, and there’s only one way through it practice, practice, practice! The only… Read More »

MUSIC & CAPITALISM: Melody Harmony & Rhythm in the Modern World PDF This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through… Read More »