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Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi, such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop, have emerged in recent years, meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education, classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present, research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, community music, cultural studies and popular music studies. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical, sociological, pedagogical, musicological, axiological, reflexive, critical, philosophical and ideological.

Pop Essentials Vol 1 kicks off this brand new series from Producer Loops. Seamlessly blurring the lines between EDM and Pop, this forward-thinking release features all the elements needed to craft radio-ready productions fit for the Billboard chart. Producers influenced by Calvin Harris, Katy Perry, Rihanna & Avicii are sure to find inspiration within this future-proof collection of cross-over Construction Kits.

In detail, each Construction Kit contains a variety of drum and instrument loops, synths, risers, vocals, FX and more. These elements on their own are sure to inspire countless future crossover hits.

Wind Sound Effects is a 2 DVD collection of more than 200 wind sound effects. The sounds are provided as 24/48 wav files and each sound is 2 minutes long. Included on the DVDs are a variety of different winds: light, low, medium, heavy, whistling, whipping and gusting winds.

With the short attention spans of listeners currently, you need to have tight arrangements in order to keep them listening to your music. In this video, Shanahan explains and showcases how to arrange your music similar to the dance/pop crossover you’ve been hearing on the radio in recent times. With this knowledge, your music will be more interesting to the average listener, and keep them listening until the climax of the song!

Watch as Grammy-winning engineer John Paterno mixes Steve Gadd Band's track Green Foam from scratch. Being both the recording and mixing engineer on this project, John shares his insights on the tracking process and how to add more color and energy in the mix.

In this 2 hour tutorial, John teaches you how to creatively bring an instrumental blues song to life with a very thoughtful and deliberate mix. The beauty of this song is its simplicity, it's 5 of LA's best session players jamming out in a basement studio.

From mild tone-shaping or adding a bit of grit to full-on total waveform destruction, Kombinat Tri is a complete toolbox of sonic warfare, and a complete top-to-bottom rebuild of our popular Kombinat series.

With 13 different options in each of the three distortion engines (plus pass-through), Kombinat Tri is capable of sophisticated and unique sounds. Want to add a ring mod to the low end, a mild tube clip to the mids, and a bit-reduction algorithm to the high end? No problem. Want to run your signal through three sine-warps or fuzz algorithms in series? This is your box.

Glitch Hero is the work of composer and EDM/glitch artist Spencer Nunamaker. Glitch Hero is perfect for minimalist, EDM, IDM, dubstep, chillwave, glitch, post rock, soundtrack, downtempo, dub and ambient music. It's also fantastic for sci-fi sound design and creating user interface SFX for games and apps. Each library covers a unique style of hand-crafted, sound-designed drums & FX. It features thousands of samples and dozens of flexible instrument presets for Kontakt.