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This book is built to start from elementary and fundamental bases to the first degrees of harmony. It provides many theoretical and technical bases of music, presenting in detail relations between physics and music (harmonics, frequency and time spectrum, dissonance, etc.), physiological relations with human body and education.

Learn the nuts and bolts of mixing in Logic Pro X! Eli Krantzberg takes you on a mixing journey using nothing but LPX, showing you all the features and functions, steps, techniques and theories to use to create a professional sounding product. You also get the full Logic Project and audio files so you can mix or remix along in real-time!

In this Drumstroke™ video tutorial series, drum guru Luke Oswald lays down the groove and shows you awesome drumming combinations and patterns that you can use to spice up your drumming or drum programming!

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft on their instruments. Music producer and record label owner David Franz starts the course with the building blocks of rhythm: counting, notes, measures, rests, rhythm notation, subdivisions, and tempo. He then explains time signatures, discussing common, compound, and asymmetrical time signatures, as well as double time and half time, and how to choose the time signature for a song. Next, he discusses the concepts of feel and timing, including dynamics, accents, articulations, tempo changes, swing, syncopation, polyrhythms, and playing ahead of, on, and behind the beat. Along the way, David demonstrates all of these concepts by playing musical examples on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocals.

In this Drumstroke™ video tutorial series, drum master Luke Oswald reveals how to create both basic and advanced drum fills and patterns, that you can apply to both real drums and programmed drums in your DAW!

Shown on a drum kit, Luke breaks down the art of creating and playing various drum fills and patterns, including ways to phrase them so they flow just right and impress the listener.

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch is a collection of Tenney's hard-to-find writings arranged, edited, and revised by the self-described "composer/theorist." Selections focus on his fundamental concerns–"what the ear hears"–and include thoughts and ideas on perception and form, tuning systems and especially just intonation, information theory, theories of harmonic space, and stochastic (chance) procedures of composition.

Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counselors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.

Want to get going with Cubase 9? Join Cubase master Dave Askew and learn what you need to get up and running fast, all the way to exporting your first song, with these in-depth Cubase 9 video tutorials.

Dave begins with installation & authorization, how to prepare before starting a recording project, setting up and routing your hardware and making your first project.

In this video tutorial series, Toontrack expert Luke Oswald walks you through the process of creating a funky fusion track from scratch using only Toontrack EZdrummer 2, EZKeys, Superior Drummer 2 and EZmix 2. Get your groove on!

Luke also shows you how to use the new Fusion MIDI packs for EZkeys and the Fusion Grooves drum MIDI pack (which he created) as the foundation for your creativity. These MIDI packs were designed to be used together and ensure that your drum and keyboard tracks will always sound great.

The virtual instruments inside Logic Pro X are some of the main tools used for creating the music we know and hear everywhere. In this course, author Evan Sutton explores ways you can use the virtual instruments found in this industry-leading, professional audio product from Apple. Evan shares a comprehensive examination of the vintage instruments in Logic, including the B3 and Clav, basic synthesizers like the ES 1 Subtractive Synth and ES P Polyphonic Synth, advanced synthesizers including the ES 2 Hybrid Synth and Retro Synth, the EXS24 sampler, and other major instruments including Alchemy, Sculpture, Drum Kit Designer, and Ultrabeat. He covers working with oscillators and filters, understanding modulation, designing sounds, routing, mapping, slicing, and much more.

In this course, Dave Bode will take you on a music production journey and teach you how to use a Percussion Sample Library - the professional way. You'll learn about mixing, compression, mastering effects and how to use the Kontakt library to process drums.

If you’re a producer or composer that has experience using MIDI keyboards and software, and you want to create a pool of string samples to use in a piece of music, this is the course for you.

In these simplified video tutorials, piano master Tom Regis lays out the basics of the blues structure, simple left hand comping, and scales and blues expressions for the right hand so you can start playing authentic Blues right away!

Studio wiz Paul Ortiz delivers a crash course on programming virtual acoustic drums in Cubase 9, utilizing Cubase's built-in features and functions to craft the perfect drum performance for your song.

Time and Space FX are essential devices in any kind of production. Join Certified Trainer Noah Pred in this FastTrack™ course as he explains how these essential, Ableton Live FX function, and how to best use them in your rack.

Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser and Audio Filter are fundamental processors that can enhance, add color and create depth in your tracks. These same FX can also be used to completely mangle your sounds (in a good way). However, these same FX can also make a muddy mess of things if you don’t know how to use them effectively.