The definitive book on understanding, and using, today's recording technology. Whether amateur or professional, you will find that this book is packed with useful tips on every aspect of recording, from the initial purchase of your gear to mixing and assembling a master tape or CD.

Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (HL00030458) includes: review of basic theory rhythm in jazz performance basic tonal materials triadic generalization diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis substitutions and turnarounds common melodic outlines and an overview of voicings.Volume II (HL00030459) includes: modes and modal frameworks quartal harmony other scales and colors extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition pentatonic applications coloring outside the lines and beyond analysis and expanding harmonic vocabulary.Appendices on chord/scale relationships elaborations ofstatic harmony endings composing tips and theory applications are also included.

The Musician's Guide to Cover Gigs. You could be the greatest player in the world but until you get in front of a live audience your talent means nothing. Written in straight-forward language by professional gigging musicians Making Money Making Music guides artists through every aspect of achieving financial success through lucrative cover gigs. This easy-to-use reference shows readers how to start or join a cover band choose the right cover songs land the first gigs or get better ones handle marketing and promotion use proper sound and lighting systems put on a killer show and much more.

A Guide To Jazz Improvisation by John LaPorta is an invaluable touchstone for every aspiring jazz musician. This method will help you develop a natural and intuitive approach to improvising. This method includes jazztheory with practical explanations and applications of the jazz language rhythm training with exercises on CD performance ear training opportunities to improvise with a Berklee Jazz faculty band on CD.

He lived in the shadow of death painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with his Piano works which endure as pinnacles of the instrument's repertoire. This biography by one of the nineteenth century's foremost pianists--Chopin's friend and fellow artist Franz Liszt--offers a highly informed assessment of the Polish composer's musical legacy. It is further enlivened by the author's personal acquaintance with Chopin's other friends who constituted the very cream of Parisian intellectual and artistic society.Born a year apart Chopin andLiszt came of age in an era favorable to musical change when audiences as well as performers were receptive to Romanticism's innovations. Liszt surveys the technical brilliance as well as the poetry of Chopin's masterpieces including the 'Adagio' from Piano Concerto No. 2 and Polonaise in F-sharp Minor. He also chronicles Chopin's progress from child prodigy to the darling of Parisian salons. A source of rare and unparalleled insights into Chopin's world of private anguish and public triumph this memoir recounts the composer's loneliness as a Polish emigré his tempestuous romance with George Sand and his life among a glittering social set that included Balzac Hugo Berlioz Delacroix and Schumann.Reprint of the Oliver Ditson Company Boston 1880 edition.

The Eddie Cochran Story-Outrageously talented remarkably handsome internationally renowned and dead at the age of 21. More than 40 years after the tragic car crash that killed him Eddie Cochran remains one of the rock 'n' roll's most lamented what ifs. A trailblazing guitarist gifted vocalist hit-making composer and arranger and budding whiz-kid producer Cochran quickly ascended from Midwestern obscurity in the late '50s to become one of nascent rock 'n' roll's leading lights. He penned or recorded many of the most recognized songs in rock history Summertime Blues Nervous Breakdown Somethin' Else C'mon everybody Twenty Flight Rock Sittin' in theBalcony songs whose distinctive sound and defiant often wryly humorours lyrics have been eagerly digested analyzed and lovingly reinterpreted by generations of rockers after him from The Beatles to the Sex Pistols The Who to U2. Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cohran Story co-authored by Cochran's nephew a gifted musicion in his own right is the first American biography of this uniquely American rock legend who was among the first to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. The book is a detailded portrait of Cochran's personal and professional triumphs and travails with fascinating insights into the rock pieoner life that only a family member could provide. Bobby Cochran reveals the dynamics of a musical family and the amazing and tragic parallels between his own life story and that of his Uncle Eddie. Bobby Cochran is an award-winning producer and guitarist who has worked with Steppenwolf the Flying Burrito Brothers Leon Russell the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Adrian Legg.

The Search for Balance in the Art Technology and Commerce of Music-The digital revolution has enabled the creation and distribution of music in ways previously unimagined. Paradoxically it has also made possible better and better recordings of less and less substance. Artists engineers andproducers have begun to raise questions about the balance between the profoundly human undertaking that is the creation of music and the ever-more-antiseptic means by which it is translated into recordings.Less Noise More Soul: The Search for Balance in the Art Technology and Commerce of Music brings together original essays by a select group of industry professionals many of them award winners who share a wealth of experience passion and insight into where popular music has been where it currently finds itself and where it's going.The book is designed to be a portable vehicle for generating discussion: not too long and replete with thepoignant thought-provoking commentary of many “brand-name” players in the industry. Perfect for the office or the college classroom Less Noise More Soul will enhance the understanding of music as a medium anda business for students artists producers and other industry professionals. Contributors include Bob Ludwig Adam Ayan Kenny Aronoff Lydia Hutchinson and more.

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to.Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to thebusiness of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results.

From 1969 to 1981 Ben Fong-Torres was one of the first star writers on staff at Rolling Stone - the scruffy rock journal that metamorphosed into one of the most powerful voices of a generation. Now in this fascinating book Fong-Torres revisits his most intriguing celebrity interviews and profiles and - for the first time - tells the revealing stories behind the stories the stars his writing process and life at Rolling Stone.