The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Since the invention of sound recording in… Read More »
How To Teach Guitar & Start Your Own Music Instruction Business This book is a revised edition of Desi Serna’s original 2001 release, How to Make Money Teaching Guitar, which was one of the very first coaching materials on the market geared toward guitar teachers. Through a step-by-step process, and using a positive and encouraging tone, Desi and… Read More »
Guitar Lessons and Steps: Guitar Learning Tips and Guide for Beginners: How to Play Guitar The guitar is the absolute best instrument you could learn for a large number of reasons. It’s mobile, cheap, and just awesome. The guitarist in the band always gets the most kudos, no question about it. But wait, there is a problem… Getting… Read More »
SOUND DESIGN FOR BEGINNERS: How to Make Jaw-Dropping Sounds for Your Song by Discovering the Essential Basics of Synthesis & Sound Engineering Let’s face it. You want to make awesome sounds for your track, but they often end up extremely weak and underwhelming. That’s why EDM producer and best-selling author Cep from Screech House shares the essential basics of synthesis… Read More »
Piano Lessons & Technique: Piano Learning Methods: Piano For Beginners You want to learn piano, but don’t know where to start? We can help. This book gives you everything you need to know to get going, safe in the knowledge you’re doing it right. When you’re starting out with the piano, there are some basics that everyone needs… Read More »
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Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) From its dynamic start at dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have exploded into a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism and expression all over the world. So, too,… Read More »
Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning explores the practice of musical ‘aural training’ from historical, pedagogical, psychological, musicological, and cultural perspectives, and uses these to draw implications for its pedagogy, particularly within the context of higher music education. The multi-perspective approach adopted by the author affords… Read More »
Music by Numbers: The Use & Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries The music industries are fueled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses, and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the revenues of music… Read More »
Audio Mastering Essential Practices by Jonathan Wyner (FULL BOOK in VIDEO) Improve the sound of your recordings. Mastering is the art of optimizing recorded sound, finding the ideal volume levels and tonal quality, and insuring data integrity necessary to produce a professional-quality duplication and distribution-ready master. This book introduces the techniques and tools of audio mastering, suitable for… Read More »
Song Starters: 365 Lyric, Melody, & Chord Ideas to Kickstart Your Songwriting With Song Starters, you’ll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas. Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts that will launch song after song. Use the Starters to spark a brainstorm or set a series of notes in motion,… Read More »
John Cage’s Concert for Piano & Orchestra (Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation) PDF John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra is one of the seminal works of the second half of the twentieth century, and the centerpiece of the middle period of Cage’s output. It is a culmination of Cage’s work up to that point, incorporating… Read More »
Sounds from Within: Phenomenology & Practice This book transforms phenomenology, music, technology, and the cultural arts from within. Gathering contributions by performing artists, media technology designers, nomadic composers, and distinguished musicological scholars, it explores a rich array of concepts such as embodiment, art and technology, mindfulness meditation, time and space in music, self and emptiness, as well as… Read More »
Musical Notation in the West (Cambridge Introductions to Music) PDF Musical notation is a powerful system of communication between musicians, using sophisticated symbolic, primarily non-verbal means to express musical events in visual symbols. Many musicians take the system for granted, having internalized it and their strategies for reading it and translating it into sound over long years of… Read More »
Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, demonstrating how its design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it developed through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. It… Read More »