Category Archives: Education

Classroom Guitar for School Music Program: Walking in Harmony Level I: Student’s Copy PDF For over twenty years of my professional life, I have taught guitar at all levels from introductory to postgraduate. When I was first asked to teach in the Grades 5-8 School Guitar Program, I was both excited at the prospect and apprehensive about the… Read More »

Piano for Beginners: Everything you need to know to start playing the piano PDF Everything you need to know to start playing the piano 6th EDwelcome piano beginnersMaking the decision to learn a new instrument can be a whim or a long-standing ambition. way, picking up an instrument for the first time is a daunting feeling, as the… Read More »

How to Build Guitar Chops: Technique Exercises for the Intermediate to Advanced Guitarist If there’s one thing that practically all guitarists have experienced at one time or another, it’s the disappointment that comes from not being able to play something. This is nothing new, of course, and there’s only one way through it practice, practice, practice! The only… Read More »

MUSIC & CAPITALISM: Melody Harmony & Rhythm in the Modern World PDF This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through… Read More »

The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: Intermedia Voice Technology Cross-Cultural Exchange PDF This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, disability… Read More »

Avid Media Composer First: Fundamentals of Video Editing PDF Avid Media Composer | First: Fundamentals of Video Editing introduces users to the power of Media Composer software and marks the first steps toward developing core skills in video editing. The book covers the basic principles you’ll need to complete a Media Composer | First project, from initial setup… Read More »

Musical Spaces: Place, Performance & Power PDF There is growing recognition and understanding of music’s fundamentally spatial natures, with significances of space found both in the immediacy of musical practices and in connection to broader identities and ideas around music. Whereas previous publications have looked at connections between music and space through singular lenses (such as how they… Read More »

Guitar Theory For Dummies with Online Practice, 2nd Edition Make your guitar sing with insight on music theory brings your instrument to life There’s a universe of incredible music living in your guitar. You just need to discover how to let it out. In Guitar Theory For Dummies, expert guitarist and instructor Desi Serna walks you through the music theory concepts you need to understand to expand your musical horizons. From deciphering the mysteries of the fretboard to adapting… Read More »

Sound & Recording: Applications & Theory, 8th Edition Providing vital reading for audio students and trainee engineers, Sound and Recording is the essential guide for anyone who wants a solid grounding in both theory and industry practices in audio, sound, and recording. This updated and comprehensively restructured edition includes new content on DAW configuration, effects processing, 3D/immersive audio… Read More »

American Lit Remixed: Music in Twenty-First-Century American Literature PDF American Lit Remixed identifies a new sound in literature emerging after the digital revolution. It reads works by Jennifer Egan, Sherman Alexie, and others through the lenses of remix theory — the term Eduardo Navas coined to describe the remix as a form of artistic and cultural discourse —… Read More »

MG Publishing Philippe Bouley Monophonic Guitar Vol. 1 Technical PDF MONOPHONIC GUITAR GUITAR IMPROVISATION METHOD Volume 1 Technical PDF All Scales, Apeggios & Notes. Vertical Diagrams & Horizontal Diagrams SCALES Modal Scales 1. Min (7) / Maj (6) Penta 2. Min (7) / Maj (6) Blues Hexa 3. Maj (7) / Dim / Min (6) Penta 4. Maj… Read More »

British Music & Modernism [1895-1960] PDF Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found… Read More »

Rhythm & Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices PDF Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it occurs through critical theory literatures of the… Read More »

Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts & Festivals PDF Researching Live Music is the first comprehensive review of the different ways in which live music can be studied as an interdisciplinary field, including innovative approaches to the study of historic and contemporary live music events. It represents a crucial reading for professionals, students, and researchers working in all… Read More »

Note reading for violin: Learn to Read Notation for Adult Learners Made Simple This book is for adult beginner violin students who have already started to learn to play the violin. Do you want to learn how to read music, but it seems too difficult and not worth the effort? Have you started to read books on how… Read More »