Category Archives: Education

Audio Mixing Cookbook: Over 100 practical recipes for audio mixing, sound design, and music production workflows PDF Mixing is often the most demanding stage in audio production. You can compose great music, record clean and intentional takes, or design compelling sounds—yet still end up with a mix that feels dull, muddy, or lacking direction. The real difficulty goes… Read More »

Music Theory Note by Note: Your Guide to How Music Works―From Notes & Rhythms to Complete Compositions This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with others. In this revised edition, renowned… Read More »

Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author’s decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and… Read More »

The Art & Business of Songwriting In this valuable resource guide for both beginners and professionals, veteran songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, music director, and educator Larry D. Batiste shares practical advice and tips from his decades of experience in ways that are bound to help all readers improve their songwriting skills. Through this book, readers will learn the… Read More »

Learn Faster, Perform Better: A Musician’s Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing PDF Practicing is an essential part of every musician’s life, but we are rarely taught how to practice in the most effective and efficient way. Many of us find ourselves frustrated when we sound good in the practice room only to embarrass ourselves on stage or… Read More »