Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer: Nathan Burkan & the Making of American Popular Culture Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson,… Read More »
Ukulele Sheet Music 2010-2019: 60 Hits to Strum & Sing This 272-page collection lets you strum and sing along to 60 of the decade’s top hits. Arrangements include melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A ukulele tuning. Includes: All of Me (John Legend) Believer (Imagine Dragons) Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee) Get Lucky (Daft Punk) Happy… Read More »
Son of a Milkman: My Crazy Life with Tesla Brian Wheat is far from your typical rock star. As bassist for the multi-platinum band, Tesla, he’s enjoyed the spoils of success and lived the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle to the hilt. But it came at a cost, one that took years to repair. In this… Read More »
Violin for Beginners: Contemporary Tips & Tricks for Playing Beautiful Music Using an Orchestra Violin Have you always loved the violin, but only from afar? Have you ever wondered how on Earth such beautiful, out-of-this-world sounds could come from an instrument? Do you wonder what those weird lines and dots that the pros look at as they play… Read More »
Guitar Fretboard: 3 in 1- Beginner’s Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple & Effective Strategies for Optimizing the Fretboard PDF If you are reading, then chances are you love the guitar, and you want to do something about that passion. Why wouldn’t you? It is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments out there, and most of your favorite… Read More »
English & German Diction for Singers: A Comparative Approach PDF Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer. The study of diction involves learning to perceive speech patterns in different languages, practicing their precise articulation, recognizing this in speech and… Read More »
Beginner Guitar Chords In Theory & Practice: Master Essential Beginner Guitar Chords, Progressions & Scales Want To Learn Beginner Guitar Chords But The Right Way, From The Start? In the 25 + years that I’ve been playing the guitar, I’ve learnt a lot about what works and why it works for beginner guitar players. I’ve given a lot… Read More »
JTC Matteo Mancuso 20 Licks Next Level Fingerstyle TUTORIAL The virtuoso’s virtuoso arrives at JTC with 20 devilish licks ready to challenge every aspect of your playing. Jazz meets fusion in a daring display of fingerstyle lead guitar, where questions are asked at every turn. What’s included: PDF Study Guide 20 Lick Videos 20 Lick Audio Files 20… Read More »
The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both… Read More »
Schoenberg’s Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image & Specters of Tonal Function Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the ‘prequel’ to Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term ‘atonal’ is meaningful in describing Schoenberg’s music from 1908 to 1921. This book shows how Schoenberg’s atonal music can be understood in terms of successions of pitch and… Read More »
John Williams Score Collection PDF This is a huge PDF collection of John Williams scores acquired over the years. It contains most of the publicly available Suites, as well as complete scores for many well known pictures, some piano transcriptions and also handwritten sketches. Because of the different nature of those scores, legibility is not always of the… Read More »
Grounding the Analysis of Cognitive Processes in Music Performance Through the systematic analysis of data from music rehearsals, lessons, and performances, this book develops a new conceptual framework for studying cognitive processes in musical activity. Grounding the Analysis of Cognitive Processes in Music Performance draws uniquely on dominant paradigms from the fields of cognitive science, ethnography, anthropology, psychology,… Read More »
Popular Music Pedagogies: A Practical Guide for Music Teachers Popular Music Pedagogies: A Practical Guide for Music Teachers provides readers with a solid foundation of playing and teaching a variety of instruments and technologies, and then examines how these elements work together in a comprehensive school music program. With individual chapters designed to stand independently, instructors can adapt… Read More »
Pro Tools – First: Fundamentals of Audio Production PDF Pro Tools | First: Fundamentals of Audio Production introduces users to the power of Pro Tools software and marks the first steps toward developing core skills in audio production. The book covers the basic principles you’ll need to complete a Pro Tools | First project, from initial setup to… Read More »
Sound On Sound USA – September 2021 PDF Sound On Sound is the world’s best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS’s unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews… Read More »