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Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciously facilitate new ideas to be made accessible to an audience broader than the innovators themselves. Experimentation in Improvised Jazz explores key elements of experimental jazz music in order to discern ways in which the genre is developing.

Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.

Do your solos and improvisations lack direction? Would you like to enhance and ultimately perfect your ability to create and play the resolutions you hear? Then Ryan Belisle's Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation is your next lesson.

Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art oflistening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learningthe elements of music, fostering each student’s unique path to listening andunderstanding. This is achieved through step-by-step guidance as they learn theelements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate,and an enhanced McGraw-Hill Connect experience. As the authority in the Music Appreciationcourse, Kamien equips students with the language, tools and listening skillsrequired to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.

The Language of Rhythm was designed for music students that want to learn how to apply songwriting techniques to their drumbeats. This book contains several different lessons that will give you the tools to create complete musical ideas and phrases that will sound more rhythmically eloquent. The musical concepts that are covered in this book will teach you how to build structure within a song, instead of just repetition. The goal of this curriculum is to offer new ways to add both symmetry and spontaneousness to your work.

A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder. BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped him survive the trials and assaults of bipolar disorder.

Do you want to learn the basics of chord progressions so you can be a better songwriter and guitar player? Then this is the book for you! Learn 14 Chord Progressions for Guitar in 14 Days seems pretty self-explanatory, but there’s so much more to it than just progressions, Roman numerals, and the Nashville Number System. For songwriters and guitar players, knowing chord progressions is the foundation for crafting unforgettable harmonies and rhythms.

Enfin, un ouvrage complet qui vous permettra de mixer mieux! La première partie de ce livre en cinq tomes jette les bases d'une véritable compréhension du mixage. Après une brève et surprenante définition du mixage, nous présenterons en détail chacune des composantes essentielles d'un home studio professionnel.

Are you trying to write songs, but you feel something is missing?In this book you will learn tips and tricks that have helped songwriters write great songs for the past 50 years. Author Willy Minnix covers tried and true methods that will help you improve your lyrics, chord progressions, and melodies,and help you capture that certain magic that people like the Beatles, Elton John, Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan have known for years. Whether your songs suffer from a lack of structure, or a weak hook, or are just missing that certain spark, the topics covered in “Lyrics and Music,” will offer songwriters of any level interesting things to think about that will help them hone and take their craft to another level.

This How to Read Piano Tab Method book contains basic concepts and popular songs in a clean and simple page layout to help students learn and play piano. Piano Tab is a color coded, easy interpretation of piano music that requires little training. The piano tabs display right and left-hand fingering numbers with red and blue note letters. Play Piano by Letters is a fun, easy course designed for beginners and intermediate level students who want to learn to play piano or keyboard faster than ever before. A wide variety of popular songs, all include clear instruction allowing students to progress and play each new song with confidence. Songs will progress in a logical sequence. Students can learn important musical skills while playing piano with this alternative method. Playing piano with letters is a method of learning featuring unique color-coded illustrations of sheet music. The most remarkable feature about this method is that it modifies standard sheet music and uses letters instead of note symbols.

Book for guitarists of any level and musical genre, ideal for having perfect control of your guitar technique.WARM UP and COORDINATION - Exercises to develop perfect coordination between left and right hand and precision control of alternating picking.EAR TRAINING - Exercises for the development of the relative and absolute musical ear for controlling the pitch of the notes and the recognition of the intervals related to the scales.

READY to ROCK! Vol.2 - intermediate/advanced level.This book is dedicated to those who want to perfect the study of rock guitar.The book is structured in a simple and direct way and through the use of tablature, to audio files, where you can listen to the performance of every single exercise, and the use of backing tracks, you will be able to develop your guitar technique in clear and rapid way.

Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of such contemporary speech and audio processing techniques with an emphasis on practical implementations and illustrations using MATLAB code. Core concepts are firstly covered giving an introduction to the physics of audio and vibration together with their representations using complex numbers, Z transforms and frequency analysis transforms such as the FFT.

MASTER THE FRETBOARD & IMPROVISE LIKE A PRO FRETBOARD CONCEPTS is a book that has all the necessary tools that EVERY GUITAR PLAYER NEEDS in order to be a well-rounded guitarist and a great musician.

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world's most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound.