Power Tools for Pro Tools 8: Reference Books

How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio (No Matter How Weird or Cheap Your Gear Is) A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording humanizing drum patterns mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since many true ?Guerrillas? still record to analogue tape we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable user-friendly recording title on the market.

How to Design Build and Modify Custom Guitar and Bass Amplifiers-Amp guru Lee Jackson covers a range of amplifier and speaker issues including: tools of the trade; soldering; different valve/tube types; electronic symbols; amplifier modifications ranging from gain stages to adding reverbs; schematics of solidstate circuits and power supplies; lists of possible suppliers and much more!Includes over 180 photos and illustrations.

An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians-Making music at any level is a powerful gift. While musicians have endless resources for learning the basics of their instruments and the theory of music few books have explored the other subtleties and complexities that musicians face in their quest to play with ease and skill. The demands of solitary practice hectic rehearsal schedules challenging repertoire performance pressures awkward postures and other physical strains have left a trail of injured hearing-impaired and frustrated musicians who have had few resources to guide them.Playing Less Hurt addresses this need with specific tools to avoid and alleviate injury. Impressively researched the book isinvaluable not only to musicians but also to the coaches and medical professionals who work with them. Everyone from dentists to orthopaedists audiologists to neurologists massage therapists and trainers will benefit from Janet Horvath's coherent account of the physiology and psyche of a practicing musician. Writing with knowledge sympathetic insight humour and aplomb Horvath has created an essential resource for all musicians who want to play better and feel better.

Guitar Sherpa Presents-Designed to motivate and inspire students Guitar Sherpa's innovative learning systems employ a hands-on contextual format. Students 'play' their way through Guitar Sherpa curriculum rather than working through tedious examples and exercises.Ladd Smith winner of Guitar Player magazine's Guitar Superstar award delivers an extraordinary learning experience covering the essential improvisational theoretical and technical skills needed to perform and record in the modern Nashville electric Guitar style. You'll play your way through Monster Nashville Guitar in a cognitive manner - no tedious notation theory or exercises to bog you down. Ladd presents an extensive seriesof lessons based on his instrumental 'Outrun the Train' which earned him the Guitar Superstar competition's top spot. 'The tune is an ideal instructional tool because it features a ton of my favourite licks and covers a wide range of up-tempo 'Tele-melee' material in an ear-friendly way utilizing a common key tempo and theme for ease of reference.' Ladd teaches you the Nashville numbering system provides gear overviews with each lesson while drilling down on dozens of key skills including hybrid picking banjo rolls chicken pickin' chord solos 'butterfly' hammer-on/pull-offs unison and pedal-steel bends train beats open string pull-offs vibrato descending double-stop runs triad-based pedal-steel riffs sliding 4th intervals and bends arpeggiated rhythms contrary-motion/counter-point lead lines descending banjo effects open string utilization behind-the-nut bends and whole tone riffs. Whether or not you aspire to be a Nashville player Monster Nashville Guitar is a bottomless resource for players of any style providing ample instruction to feed your grey matter for a lifetime. Hands-On Learning Tools included with Monster Nashville Guitar: Text Lesson Guide Standard Notation Guitar Tab Power Tab Files Power Tab Software Practice Rhythm Tracks Bonus Material. Secure PIN enclosed in DVD package for quick and