Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre PDF Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a compliment to Listen to Rap! Exploring a Musical Genre (Greenwood Press, Anthony J. Fonseca, 2019), which discussed at length 50 must-hear rap artists, albums, and songs. This book aims… Read More »
Music Producers Guide to Ableton Live (Second Edition) 2022 PDF Welcome to the Music Producer’s Guide to Ableton Live, a complete guide to one of the most popular Digital Audio Workstations, as used by top producers, DJs, musicians and bands the world over. Download link
Getting Great Sounds: The Microphone Book, 3rd Edition PDF Getting Great Sounds: The Microphone Book imparts microphone tips and tricks of the pros to make them available to any sound engineer or home studio enthusiast. It explains aspects of all kinds of microphones, how they work, and how to use them in session recording. A well-known recording engineer… Read More »
Hugh Fielder The Beatles A Life in Music Want to know More about Rock & Pop PDF For the Internet generation, a quick introduction to the first global music phenomenon. Meet John, Paul, George and Ringo. The Beatles were – are – probably the most famous and successful band in the world, and despite breaking up over 40… Read More »
Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days, Even if You’ve Never Played Before PDF Imagine picking up a guitar today for the first time ever, and impressing your friends and family with your ability to strum over 100 songs only 7 days from now. It’s not as crazy as it sounds! You also don’t have to… Read More »
Andrew Eales How to Practice Music PDF (Instructional). The essential companion for every musician. Accessible and authoritative, How to Practice Music is an ideal guide for anyone learning to play music. Suitable for instrumentalists and vocalists of any genre, this comprehensive handbook will give you a better idea of how to practice music, good reasons for doing so,… Read More »
Music Law: How to Run Your Band’s Business, 10th Edition PDF How to make your band a huge business success Whether you’re recording an album, budgeting a tour, or livestreaming concerts, you need solid information to make the right legal and business choices. Music Law is the all-in-one guide you need. Written by musician and lawyer Rich Stim,… Read More »
Susan Rogers Ogi Ogas This Is What It Sounds Like What the Music You Love Says About You PDF Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Boston Globe and Literary Hub A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the… Read More »
Learn To Play 20 Interchangeable Blues Licks With 1- 12 Bar Blues: Beginner to Intermediate Levels PDF This book will help you to better understand and play the 12 bar blues chords with blues lead lines that include Major, Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales. You will learn 20 different interchangeable blues licks that are commonly played over a… Read More »
Recording Secrets for the Small Studio (Sound On Sound Presents…) 2nd Edition PDF In this new edition, discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings, even in the smallest studios, by applying power-user techniques from the world’s most successful producers. Recording Secrets for the Small Studio is based on the backroom strategies of more than 250 famous names. This thorough… Read More »
Coding Activities for Developing Music with Sonic Pi Music used to be created in recording studios, first using analog tape and eventually moving to digital tracks. In the twenty-first century, musicians do not need a recording studio to create music; all they need is a computer and some passion. Those with an interest in coding and a talent… Read More »
Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound & Vision PDF We’re experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies.… Read More »
The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music Performance Practice & Technology PDF This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah in the context of today’s network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang’s interpretation(s) of Cohen’s Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the ‘spirit of music’. Today, the working of music is… Read More »
Sound & Music for Games: Basics of Digital Audio for Video Games Grasp the fundamentals of digital audio work in the context of video games including the basics of middleware such as Fmod and Wwise. We will review software such as Apple’s Logic and Garageband, Paul Davis’ Ardour, and many other popular digital audio workstations. We will start… Read More »
Music as Cultural Heritage & Novelty PDF This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies,… Read More »