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The Complete Guide To Remixing

Learn cutting-edge remixing techniques and tips on producing hit dance music with today's hottest software, including Pro Tools, Live, Logic Audio and Reason. This comprehensive handbook of the history, technology, craft and art of remixing covers: software and hardware you need to set up the ultimate new music production studio • tips on how to use many of the standard software programs to create professional remix effects • tools and production techniques used in today's top dance remixes • how to locate and legally remix tracks from major and independent label recording artists • tips from the industry's best remix artists and DJs. The CD features over 50 tracks of remixing examples, including arrangements in progress and completed productions. Hear for yourself the amazing production techniques described in the book.

 

Behing the Glass (Vol. II)

Behind the Glass, Volume II presents another prime collection of firsthand interviews with the world's top record producers and engineers, sharing their creative secrets and hit-making techniques – from the practical to the artistic. In these pages you'll find Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan) discussing the future of digital recording; T-Bone Burnett (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) sharing his unique view of creating complex low end; and Hugh Padgham (Police, Genesis) analyzing the state of the business today. For real-world advice on everything from home recording to mixing to coaching a nervous singer, check out author Howard Massey's conversations with Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse), Tony Brown (Reba McEntire), Gus Dudgeon (Elton John), John Simon (The Band), Russ Titelman (Steve Winwood), Bruce Swedien (Michael Jackson), Rodney Jerkins (Mary J. Blige), Simon Climie (Eric Clapton), Matt Serletic (Matchbox Twenty), and more.

 

Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz/Rock Keyboardist

An exciting new book on the theory and studies of the Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz-Rock keyboardist. It covers the basics of how to build pentatonic scales, a comprehensive practice routine, and a jazz vocabulary.

 

Metal Lead Guitar/Book and CD (Vol.1)

This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principles are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 fully transcribed heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! "One of the most thorough" and "one of the best rock series currently available" - Guitar Player magazine. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.

 

Guitar Soloing/Book and CD
(The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation)

A comprehensive source for mastering the art of single note, melodic improvisation. The CD includes over 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along. The topics covered include: scales, modes, arpeggios, technique and visualization exercises; rock, blues, jazz, and other styles; and sequences, phrases, and licks.

 

Power Chords/Book and CD

Learn to master rock's most tried-and-true sound: the power chord. With just a few different power chord shapes, you can rock through hundreds of songs – from death metal, to rockabilly, to grunge and beyond. This book/CD pack includes: famous progressions from popular songs, by artists from Alice in Chains to Weezer; clear photos and frames of all the essential power chords; riffs in all styles; alternate tunings; notes and tab.

 

Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets/Book and CD

Seven-song matching folio with an introduction and 8 pages of color photos. Includes: Bad Horsie • Juice • Die to Live • The Boy from Seattle • Ya-Yo Gakk • Kill the Guy With the Ball/The God Eaters • Tender Surrender.

 

Rock Lead Techniques/Book and CD

Jam along with Danny Gill and Nick Nolan as they present material from this MI elective course. Covers: licks, scales, soloing concepts, picking technique, three-note-per-string scales, sweep picking, string skipping, harmonics and more. The CD includes 97 full-demo tracks.

 

The Best Of Eric Clapton - Guitar School

This book teaches Clapton's trademark riffs and solos in electric and acoustic styles. Includes: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) • Badge • Bell Bottom Blues • Can't Find My Way Home • Lay Down Sally • Layla • Let It Rain • White Room • more.

 

Progressive Independence: Rock
(A Comprehensive Guide To Basic Rock And Funk Drumming)

This book is designed to help players gain an extremely high level of coordinated independence for rock drumming performance, thereby freeing all four limbs from dependence on one another. Once the material in this book has been mastered, students will be capable of playing almost any rhythmic figure on snare and bass drum, in combination with six varied hi-hat/cymbal patterns, while the hi-hat foot plays quarter notes, 8th notes, or upbeat 8ths.

 

The Complete Drumset Rudiments/Book and CD

Use your imagination to incorporate these rudimental etudes into new patterns that you can apply to the drumset or tom toms as you develop your hand technique with the Snare Drum Rudiments, your hand and foot technique with the Drumset Rudiments and your polyrhythmic technique with the Polyrhythm Rudiments. Adopt them all into your own creative expressions based on ideas you come up with while practicing. The recording includes demonstrations of the rudiments and four drum solos utilizing all of the rudiments.

 

The Musician's Guide to Recording Vocals

In this "one-on-one" lesson, Recording Institute of Technology instructor Dallan Beck presents a well thought-out tutorial on recording vocals that all musicians and recording engineers can learn from. He explains microphones, mic placement, compression, equalization, tracking vocals, effects and more in a detailed, yet easy-to-understand way. The accompanying CD contains 80 helpful demonstration tracks.

 

Vocal Technique - A Guide to Finding Your Real Voice/Book and CD

Stop straining to hit those high notes! Unlock your true potential and start singing easily and effortlessly with this book/2-CD pack by Musicians Institute vocal instructor Dena Murray. She teaches how to: breathe naturally; improve your speaking voice; stop holding, pushing and squeezing; develop your natural three-octave range; place your chest and head voices; and bridge the registers to sound like one voice. Includes two CDs with demonstrations, guided exercises, and plenty of practice tracks.

 

Berklee Music Theory - Book 1

Learn music theory based on over forty years of music theory instruction at Berklee College of Music. Whether you already play an instrument, or are looking to expand the depth of your musical knowledge, understanding the fundamental concepts of music theory is essential for advancing your performance skills and writing music. This book features rigorous, hands-on, “ears-on” practice exercises that help you explore the inner workings of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop. jazz and blues. You will learn and build upon the basic concepts of music theory with written exercises, listening examples and ear training exercises. The included CD will help reinforce lessons as you begin to build a solid musical foundation.

 

Berklee Music Theory - Book 2

The second in a two-volume series based on over 40 years of music theory instruction at Berklee College of Music. This volume focuses on harmony, including triads, seventh chords, inversions, and voice leading for jazz, blues and popular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create effective harmonic accompaniments from a lead sheet.

 

Melody in Songwriting

Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between melody and harmony. This clear and comprehensive approach to songwriting unlocks the secrets of popular songs, revealing what really makes them work. Examples of great songs by such notable songwriters as Lennon and McCartney, Diane Warren, Robert Palmer, and more, provide a close-up illustration of the songwriting techniques employed by these masters of the industry. This is the book used in Songwriting classes at Berklee College of Music. The exercises provided make it a wonderful self-teaching manual and a great addition to any general theory course of any level. Use the tools presented in this book to help fine-tune your craft and start writing hits!

 

Guitar Player Repair Guide - 3rd Revised Edition

This expanded edition for beginners to experts is a step-by-step manual to maintaining and repairing electric and acoustic guitars and basses. Players learn how to set up a guitar and keep it in top form by mastering basic maintenance. Features an essential DVD that makes guitar maintenance easier than ever. New features include set-up specs of leading players; stronger coverage of guitar electronics, including pickups and wiring diagrams; and expanded coverage of acoustics.

 

Berklee Workshop: Vocal Technique - Developing Your Voice for Performance DVD

Enhance your singing career by learning proper vocal techniques to help prevent injuries and maximize your potential. Featured exercises will help you gain technical and expressive command of your voice. Lessons include: warm-ups, posture, breathing, tone, maintaining vocal health, and improving stamina, range and sound. Anne Peckham is a professor of voice at Berklee College of Music.

 

Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD

From Hal Leonard, the Guitar Signature Licks series is a collection of instructional programs designed for those looking to emulate the sounds of some of the greatest musicians ever to wield an axe. This entry features expert guidance through eight songs by the late, great blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. The songs included are "Empty Arms," "Couldn't Stand the Weather," "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up on Love," "Crossfire," "The House Is Rockin'," "Stang's Swang," "Scuttle Buttin'," and "Riviera Paradise." Other selections in the series include Guitar Signature Licks: Best of Iron Maiden and Guitar Signature Licks: B.B. King. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide.

Metallica: Guitar Legendary Licks 1988-1997 DVD

The metal band Metallica is easily one of the greatest acts in the history of the genre. Metallica: Legendary Licks -- Guitar, 1988-1997 offers an in-depth analysis of eight of their songs, allowing the viewer to learn how to play these compositions. The songs are "One," "The Shortest Straw," "Enter Sandman," "Sad but True," "The Unforgiven," "Nothing Else Matters," "Hero of the Day," and "Fuel." ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide.

 

Guitar Heroes DVD

This instructional video offers lessons in how to play guitar like some of the most respected musicians in rock history. This program teaches by utilizing such songs as The Allman Brothers' "Stormy Monday Blues," Santana's "Winning," and Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Change It.' ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

 

Starter Series - Basic Guitar and String Set-up for Acoustic & Electric Guitars DVD

This instructional video offers information that will allow the beginning guitarist to quickly improve. Professional musical Tom Kolb discusses and models information on the parts of the guitar, how to change a guitar's strings, how to hold the instrument, and chords. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

 

50 licks Blues Style DVD

Mat Gurman is a successful Los Angeles session guitarist who has played with such top bands and performers as the Backstreet Boys and Tanya Tucker. Since graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, he has also played with the Tonight Show Band. In this instructional video on the blues guitar sounds of the 1950s, Gurman demonstrates dominant and minor blues progressions, turnarounds, and intro licks. Muted string rakings and stop-time licks are broken down for ongoing practice. Those interested in more classical techniques will enjoy Gurman's demonstration of master bends, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, slurs and vibrato. ~ Elizabeth Smith, All Movie Guide

 

50 licks Rock Style DVD

Fans of rock & roll who are eager to play some of their favorite classic tunes can learn some important tips from this course taught by Tom Kolb. He demonstrates some of the licks made famous by such stars as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, and the Allman Brothers. A variety of techniques are taught, including pull-offs, slides, vibrato, bends, and octaves. Kolb also shows students how to handle hammer-ons, harmonics, the whammy bar, arpeggios, and the sequencing of scales. Close-up camera shots help viewers follow along as Kolb slowly demonstrates how each technique should be mastered. ~ Elizabeth Smith, All Movie Guide

 

Matt Sorum: Drum Licks and Tricks from the Rock and Roll Jungle DVD

For fans of Guns N' Roses and The Cult who are looking to master the fine art of heavy metal drumming, experienced percussionist Matt Sorum draws on experience keeping the beat for those two popular acts for this guide to setting up, tuning your set, placing microphones, and locking on to the groove. Guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagen join Sorum to offer fans a chance to prepare for their upcoming arena tour by playing along with the best in the business. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Accelerate Your Drumming DVD

This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Larry Finn shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to lay down a strong groove in any style of music. It offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels. These include: hand development • basic grooves • advanced grooves for funk, rock, hip-hop and Latin styles • advanced fills. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying 64-page booklet. 60 minutes.

 

Chad Smith & Ian Paice DVD

On June 21, 2004, Chad Smith and Ian Paice joined forces to celebrate the launch of the London Drum Company. The event brought together one of today's most influential rock drummers and one of his biggest heroes. Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith was on fire during the LDC launch event, and his performance here shows him in a light that few have seen before. Appearing solo as well as alongside Chad, Ian's playing here confirms his position as one of the most potent rock drummers of the last 30 years (for the likes of Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Gary Moore, and others). This unique DVD also includes interviews with both Chad and Ian, a chance to see them soundcheck before their performance, and details of the kit set-ups that each used that night. Running time: 66 minutes.

Chad Smith has been named the Rock Drummer of the Year in the 2005 Modern Drummer Readers Poll!

 

Turntable Technique DVD

Watch this video and learn to play the turntable like your favorite DJs and create your own style! Equally ideal for the beginner or experienced DJ, this video will help you: master the essentials and develop your own style behind the decks; see the step-by-step practice exercises; learn basic equipment set-up; develop beat matching and creative mixing skills; perfect scratching techniques like cutting, stabs, crabs and flares; and much more!

 

John 5: The Devil Knows My Name DVD

In this first-ever DVD from John 5 you will not only take a journey into his twisted mind,
but you will also learn some of the techniques that have set him apart from guitar
players everywhere.

Included here are full live performances of four songs as well as exclusive lessons
 and instruction on techniques such as:

• Banjo rolls
• Behind the nut bends
• Tapping
• Arpeggios
• Double stops
• Country bends
• Chicken pickin'
• Pedal steel bends and more.

This DVD is not for the faint of heart and is unlike anything you have seen before with an intimate and compelling perspective on John's life and inspiration!

 

Eric Johnson: The Art Of Guitar DVD

One of the most intriguing, thoughtful and distinctive of today's modern guitar masters
gives you an in-depth guide to his approach, style and perspective in this
very special DVD presentation.

Eric Johnson took the guitar world by storm with the release of his albums Tones
and Ah Via Musicom. His style combines all the technical skill of the Los Angeles
MIT generation, but with a delicacy and taste that simultaneously mirrors such
legends as Hendrix, Chet Aitkins and Dave Gilmour.

This DVD tutorial brings you two products in one! Part 1 features Eric sharing
his 10 'must know' musical concepts in an intimate one-to-one format.
Discover the techniques that have contributed to his remarkable style, including
his unique perspectives on chords, lead playing, improvisation and song writing.

Part 2 is something very special - a full performance of eight never-before-heard songs alongside Chris Maresh and Tommy Taylor! Multiple widescreen camera angles and fantastic audio get you closer than ever before to the jaw-dropping guitar playing of this unique star.

 

Accelerate Your Guitar Playing

Take your playing to the next level as Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the guitar. This DVD includes easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Topics covered include: scale and picking exercises • interval and ear training • rhythm studies • stylistic grooves: blues, swing, jazz, R&B, and funk. Includes 80-page accompanying instruction booklet. 55 minutes.

 

More Accelerate Your Guitar Playing

This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include:_scale exercises; classical, blues, and jazz etudes; ear training; reading exercises; walking bass and comping; rock, jazz, and blues demonstrations. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying lesson booklet. Professor Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the guitar. Professor Fujita has been teaching at Berklee College of Music since 1993 and continues to be one of the most sought after and effective guitar and ensemble teachers. He has played guitar with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent, and has shared the stage with notables such as Phil Collins, Roomful of Blues, and Darryl Jones and the Saturday Night Live Band, to name a few. Additionally, Tomo is the winner of Boston's Best Guitarist Competition, and he has won critical acclaim in Guitar Player and Guitar Shop magazines.

 

Accelerate Your Rock Guitar Playing

This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: warm up exercises, rhythm playing exercises, bending exercises, soloing exercises, advanced rhythm exercises, and more. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying booklet.

 

Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing

This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Dave Limina shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to build your harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic vocabulary. The DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Includes: scale and blues techniques • ear training • rock and blues phrasing • two-hand grooves for funk, Texas shuffle, roots-rock, and Latin styles • jazz voicings and rhythms. Clear and detailed instruction is given both on-screen and in the accompanying 80-page booklet. 45 minutes.

 

FastTrack Bass Method - Book 1

Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples.