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The Laws of Brainjo: The Art & Science of Molding a Musical Mind

by Josh Turknett ...

HOW TO MOLD A MUSICAL MINDAnyone can learn to play music, and learn to play it well.Being able to play music is not about talent. It's not about aptitude.Being about to play music is not about the brain you have, but the brain you build.Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age.Yet, it doesn't come with a manual for how ... Read more

$4.99 USD

HOW TO MOLD A MUSICAL MINDAnyone can learn to play music, and learn to play it well.Being able to play music is not about talent. It's not about aptitude.Being about to play music is not about the brain you have, but the brain you build.Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age.Yet, it doesn't come with a manual for how
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Tenor Banjo Melody Chord Playing System

by Mel Bay ...

"How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?" Mel Bay's own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it's done. Also suitable for tenor mandola. Written primarily in standard notation with tablature and fretboard diagrams given for chord patterns, this book might be considered a sequel to the Complete Tenor Banjo Method. After a few pages ... Read more

$22.99 USD

"How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?" Mel Bay's own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it's done. Also suitable for tenor mandola. Written primarily in standard notation with tablature and fretboard diagrams given for chord patterns, this book might be considered a sequel to the Complete Tenor Banjo Method. After a few pages
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Adventures in Arranging

by Dr. Richard Niles ...

Composer/Arranger/Producer Dr. Richard Niles has had musical adventures with some of the world's most successful and acclaimed artists from Paul McCartney to Pat Metheny, James Brown to Randy Brecker, Tina Turner to Michael McDonald, Ray Charles to the Pet Shop Boys."My professional life has been amazing because I understood that the only difference between a job and an adventure was attitude."His ... Read more

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Composer/Arranger/Producer Dr. Richard Niles has had musical adventures with some of the world's most successful and acclaimed artists from Paul McCartney to Pat Metheny, James Brown to Randy Brecker, Tina Turner to Michael McDonald, Ray Charles to the Pet Shop Boys."My professional life has been amazing because I understood that the only difference between a job and an adventure was attitude."His
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The Jazz Theory Book

by SHER Music, Mark Levine ...

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold,
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Logic Pro 10.6 (and earlier) - From Idea to Final Mastering ( compatible with Logic Pro 10.7 )

A step by step guide to produce an original song

by Marco Perino ...

IMPORTANT ADVICE: the author is not responsible if your girlfriends or boyfriends abandon you because after reading this book you think more about logic than about them. Compatible with all previous versions of Logic Pro X and with Logic Pro 10.7, with downloadable projects designed for All Logic users.Inside:01 Prepare for the Journey02 Get Familiar with Logic03 Start Our Original Song04 Use the ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

IMPORTANT ADVICE: the author is not responsible if your girlfriends or boyfriends abandon you because after reading this book you think more about logic than about them. Compatible with all previous versions of Logic Pro X and with Logic Pro 10.7, with downloadable projects designed for All Logic users.Inside:01 Prepare for the Journey02 Get Familiar with Logic03 Start Our Original Song04 Use the
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Improve your sight-reading! A piece a week Piano Grade 6

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 6 - Improve your sight-reading!
This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 6 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 6 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 6 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 6 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new
... Read more
Inspiration for Great Songwriting: for pop, rock & roll, jazz, blues, broadway, and country songwriters

by Tommy Gordon ...

You are a songwriter, and you need to unlock those great songs inside of youYes, this book is designed entirely to share those secrets that will inspire you to write that great song that’s you know you can! And once the creativity really starts flowing, we'll create great habits and write even more, each and every day. Get down to writing the music and the lyrics you know that you can because ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

You are a songwriter, and you need to unlock those great songs inside of youYes, this book is designed entirely to share those secrets that will inspire you to write that great song that’s you know you can! And once the creativity really starts flowing, we'll create great habits and write even more, each and every day. Get down to writing the music and the lyrics you know that you can because
... Read more
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 3

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 3 - Improve your sight-reading!
The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 3 in fixed-layout format - part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated ... Read more

$7.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 3 in fixed-layout format - part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated
... Read more
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 4

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 4 - Improve your sight-reading!
The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 4 in fixed-layout format - part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 4 in fixed-layout format - part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated
... Read more
56 Mix Tips for the Small Recording Studio

For the Small Recording Studio Series, #2

by Amos Clarke ...

Series Book 2 - For the Small Recording Studio Series
56 Down-And-Dirty Practical Mixing Techniques To Take Your Recordings To The Next LevelABOUT THIS BOOKFlip to any page, read the technique, and apply it!It's really that simple. This is not a book that trawls relentlessly through the world history of mixing before providing any useful advice. It simply gets straight into the business of giving you real tried and proven mixing tips that actually ... Read more

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56 Down-And-Dirty Practical Mixing Techniques To Take Your Recordings To The Next LevelABOUT THIS BOOKFlip to any page, read the technique, and apply it!It's really that simple. This is not a book that trawls relentlessly through the world history of mixing before providing any useful advice. It simply gets straight into the business of giving you real tried and proven mixing tips that actually
... Read more
Improve your sight-reading! A piece a week Piano Grade 5

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 5 - Improve your sight-reading!
This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 5 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 5 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new ... Read more

$7.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 5 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 5 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new
... Read more
Sight Reading for Guitarists

by Steve Marsh ...

These melodies are what all sight-reading should be about, but usually are not. They use easy notes and rhythms in a most methodical, imaginative, and pleasurable way, concentrating on single-line melodies in first position only. This book contains one hundred melodies that can be introduced to students from almost the very first lesson. As the melodies become progressively more complex, the book ... Read more

$17.99 USD

These melodies are what all sight-reading should be about, but usually are not. They use easy notes and rhythms in a most methodical, imaginative, and pleasurable way, concentrating on single-line melodies in first position only. This book contains one hundred melodies that can be introduced to students from almost the very first lesson. As the melodies become progressively more complex, the book
... Read more
The Child's First Steps in Pianoforte Playing

by Tobias Matthay ...

First published in 1920, this book contains a fantastic guide to teaching piano playing for music teachers, written by Tobias Matthay. Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 – 1945) was an English pianist, composer, and teacher. He was taught composition while at the Royal Academy of Music by Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Sterndale Bennett, and he was instructed in the piano by William Dorrell and Walter ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

First published in 1920, this book contains a fantastic guide to teaching piano playing for music teachers, written by Tobias Matthay. Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 – 1945) was an English pianist, composer, and teacher. He was taught composition while at the Royal Academy of Music by Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Sterndale Bennett, and he was instructed in the piano by William Dorrell and Walter
... Read more
Improve your sight-reading! A Piece a Week Piano Grade 4

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 4 - Improve your sight-reading!
This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 4 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 4 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new ... Read more

$7.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 4 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 4 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new
... Read more
Music Production

A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students

by Michael Zager ...

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music ... Read more

$60.99 USD

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music
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Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble

Scenarios, Priorities, Strategies, Essentials, and Repertoire

by John F. Colson ...

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsalprocess for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components.Advanced ... Read more

$109.99 USD

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsalprocess for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components.Advanced
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Improve Your Sight-Reading! Level 1 (US EDITION)

Improve Your Sight-Reading!

by Paul Harris ...

Series Book 1 - Improve Your Sight-Reading!
The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Level 1 in fixed-layout format. The UK's best-selling series is now available in an edition specially tailored for the US market and guaranteed to improve sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, ... Read more

$6.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The full eBook version of Improve Your Sight-Reading! Level 1 in fixed-layout format. The UK's best-selling series is now available in an edition specially tailored for the US market and guaranteed to improve sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems, by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues,
... Read more
Personal Finance for Musicians

by Bobby Borg, Britt Hastey ...

Series series Music Pro Guides
Are you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, being broke and in debt, and watching everyone else become independently wealthy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Most musicians will admit they know little about personal finance.In Personal Finance for Musicians, music industry and finance experts Bobby Borg and Britt Hatsey coach you on how to:Make and save moneyIncrease your credit ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Are you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, being broke and in debt, and watching everyone else become independently wealthy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Most musicians will admit they know little about personal finance.In Personal Finance for Musicians, music industry and finance experts Bobby Borg and Britt Hatsey coach you on how to:Make and save moneyIncrease your credit
... Read more
The Professional Songwriting Guide

10,000 Songs Later... How to Write Songs Like a Professional, #3

by Carter Cook ...

Series Book 3 - 10,000 Songs Later... How to Write Songs Like a Professional
Regardless of where you are on your songwriting journey, 10,000 Songs Later aims to help guide you along the path in some capacity. For those who have just started writing songs, The Beginners Guide gives you insight on where to start, how to flow, how to rhyme, and how to structure a song. For those who have been writing songs consistently for a year or two, The Intermediate Guide gives you ... Read more

$2.22 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Regardless of where you are on your songwriting journey, 10,000 Songs Later aims to help guide you along the path in some capacity. For those who have just started writing songs, The Beginners Guide gives you insight on where to start, how to flow, how to rhyme, and how to structure a song. For those who have been writing songs consistently for a year or two, The Intermediate Guide gives you
... Read more
Guitar for Students

A Method for the Classroom and Private Student

by Nick Stoubis, Rick Schmunk ...

Series series USC
This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players through learning chords, scales, and more advanced techniques. The appendix of the book offers scale, chord, and fretboard diagrams. This text is currently used in the beginning guitar classes at USC. ... Read more

$19.99 USD

This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players through learning chords, scales, and more advanced techniques. The appendix of the book offers scale, chord, and fretboard diagrams. This text is currently used in the beginning guitar classes at USC.
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Guitar Zero

The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

by Gary Marcus ...

Gary Marcus challenges the widely held belief that innate talent is necessary to become a skilled musicianJust about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Gary Marcus challenges the widely held belief that innate talent is necessary to become a skilled musicianJust about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or
... Read more
Go Guitar

by Gordon Close ...

Go Guitar offers instant success to almost everyone, young or old. This book uses a two stage approach. You start with color coded chords in an open D tuning so that you can play songs immediately and still learn strumming, rhythm, chord combinations and finger strength. Go Guitar avoids messing around. It takes you straight ahead to playing your favorite songs and knowing what you are doing. ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Go Guitar offers instant success to almost everyone, young or old. This book uses a two stage approach. You start with color coded chords in an open D tuning so that you can play songs immediately and still learn strumming, rhythm, chord combinations and finger strength. Go Guitar avoids messing around. It takes you straight ahead to playing your favorite songs and knowing what you are doing.
... Read more
The Creative Electronic Music Producer

by Thomas Brett ...

Series series Perspectives on Music Production
The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design.Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the production process, this book highlights how to pursue creative breakthroughs through exploration ... Read more

$51.99 USD

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design.Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the production process, this book highlights how to pursue creative breakthroughs through exploration
... Read more
Secrets of Recording

Professional Tips, Tools & Techniques

by Lorne Bregitzer ...

Packed with all the studio tips and tricks you'll need it's easier than ever to create pro-quality music at home. This book is the only reference you'll ever need to start producing and engineering your music, or other artists' music, in your own home studio. Covering less than ideal acoustics, solving problems before they occur, tools of the editing phase and much more you can gain the knowledge ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Packed with all the studio tips and tricks you'll need it's easier than ever to create pro-quality music at home. This book is the only reference you'll ever need to start producing and engineering your music, or other artists' music, in your own home studio. Covering less than ideal acoustics, solving problems before they occur, tools of the editing phase and much more you can gain the knowledge
... Read more

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