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...
Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning explores the practice of musical ‘aural training’ from historical, pedagogical, psychological, musicological, and cultural...
Format: TUTORiALLearning: How To Use, How To MakeWhat exactly is Physical Modeling and what can it do for your music? Join audio expert Joe Albano in this course to find out! Physical Modeling simulates the properties of acoustic sound sources,...
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....
Format: TUTORiALLearning: Songwriting & ProductionRevisit the magical Studios La Fabrique for a second series with Timbaland! Alongside mixing dream-team Jaycen Joshua and Dave Pensado, the iconic producer presents an exciting work in progress. Tim...
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...
Format: TUTORiALLearning: Music TheoryEurgh, music theory... ‘Music theory’ are two dreaded words, carrying with them a sense of intimidation and boredom. As a music producer, you might hear these two words and think: ‘this isn’t...
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 book contains 25 new and original minor blues guitar licks. There are 5 licks for each of the 5 blues scale shapes shown below. Also in this book there is a great section on how to practice...
Format: TUTORiALLearning: How To Use, How To MakeStudio expert Larry Holcombe presents comprehensive Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 video tutorials! If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the features and functions available in Scaler and use...
Format: TUTORiALLearning: How To Use, How To MakeAbleton Live pro Thomas Cochran presents in-depth Ableton Live 11 video tutorials! If you are new to Ableton Live 11 and want to learn the program from the ground up the right way, this course is for...
All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's...
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...
Format: TUTORiALLearning: How To UseThis course was created on request of many students wanting to learn how to make beats with a MIDI Keyboard. So, this course was created for those who asked!...
This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment...