Essential for anyone interested in the business process and procedures of writing music for film or television this book teaches the Berklee approach to the art covering topics such as: preparing and recording a score contracts and fees publishing royalties copyrights and much more. Features interviews with 21 top film-scoring professionals including Michael Kamen Alf Clausen Alan Silvestri Marc Shaiman Mark Snow Harry Gregson-Williamsand Elmer Bernstein. Now updated with info on today's latest technology and invaluable insights into finding work in the industry.Essential for anyone interested in the business process and procedures of writing music for film or television this book teaches the Berklee approach to the art covering topics such as: preparing and recording a score contracts and fees publishing royalties copyrights and much more. Features interviews with 21 top film-scoring professionals including Michael Kamen Alf Clausen Alan Silvestri Marc Shaiman Mark Snow HarryGregson-Williams and Elmer Bernstein. Now updated with info on today's latest technology and invaluable insights into finding work in the industry.

The Teacher's Guide To World Music is a must-have resource for anyone teaching world music in the classroom. Full of practical advice and ideas presented in a straightforward manner this book will help you and your students to get into world music. It includes: Advice on where to find the best resources and instruments how to create successful lessons and cross-curricular projects and how to engage your whole school and local community through world music A brief discussion of some of the most important issues in world music which will enable you to teach it with confidence A variety of short projects from West Africandrumming and samba to gamelan and taiko. Each topic presents succinct background and contextual information a variety of composing performing and listening ideas and a selection of useful resources. The Teacher's Guide To World Music is a must-have resource for anyone teaching world music in the classroom. Full of practical advice and ideas presented in a straightforward manner this book will help you and your students to get into world music. It includes: Advice on where to find the best resources and instruments how to create successful lessons and cross-curricular projects and how to engage your whole school and local community through world music A brief discussion of some of the most important issues in world music which will enable you to teach it with confidence A variety of short projects from West Africandrumming and samba to gamelan and taiko. Each topic presents succinct background and contextual information a variety of composing performing and listening ideas and a selection of useful resources.

The ultimate source for guitar tricks effects and other unorthodox techniques. Demonstrates and explains 45 incredible guitar sounds using common stomp boxes and a few unique techniques. The ultimate source for guitar tricks effects and other unorthodox techniques. Demonstrates and explains 45 incredible guitar sounds using common stomp boxes and a few unique techniques.

Developing a Professional Career in the Music Industry-This handy guide provides everything you need to know to go pro including information about personal managers music attorneys business managers and booking agents record companies A&R publishing songwriting demo tapes andpress kits self-promotion and much more. A must for all musicians!Getting ahead in the music industry can be incredibly difficult. No matter how talented you are it seems every musician has to be wise to the rules of the game if they are going to get their music heard. Going Pro is divided into eleven chapters dealing with some of the most important topics of the music industry.

Theory-Book 4 explores double sharps and flats duplets and triplets thirty-second notes augmented diminished intervals and triads melodic ornaments and more. Book 4 explores double sharps and flats duplets and triplets thirty-second notes augmented diminished intervals and triads melodic ornaments and more.

How long should I practice? Which pieces should I study? How can I develop a singing tone? All violinists ponder these questions striving to make the most of their practice and performances. This enlightening and encouraging book holds the answers offering a series of interviews with the most celebrated Violin teachers and performers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twenty-four famous violinists reveal the secrets to their success sharing the lessons of their artistry and experience. In addition to aesthetic and technical aspects of playing they discuss their personal conceptions of Violin mastery. Eugene Ysaye reminisces about his studies withVieuxtemps and Wieniawski and Leopold Auer emphasizes the importance of fostering students' individual talents. Maud Powell describes her pioneering role as a female orchestral musician and Jascha Heifetz voices his views on technical mastery and temperament. Hints and advice from other masters include tips on efficient practice improving bow technique and refining intonation. A rare find in the musical literature this book is essential reading for every serious violinist. Reprint of the Frederick A. Stokes 1919 edition.

New Orleans and Jelly Roll Morton-Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learn by doing! The first of ten volumes Jazz for Young People includes step-by-step lessons that combine content and audio/video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at LincolnCenter artists with interactive student learning including classroom instruments that every music teacher already owns or can easily afford. This easy-to-present resource is designed for a teacher who may or may not be trained in Americas art form- bringing jazz to the next generation. DIGITAL DOWNLOADS include: Step-by-step lesson slides to project audio recordings of each song and Wynton Marsalis sharing background information as well as reproducible activity/assessment worksheets. Plus!You will have FREE ACCESS to corresponding video clips for each lesson. Perfect for the general music classroom (grades 2 and up) beginning jazz ensembles and community jazz education courses.Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learn by doing! The first of ten volumes Jazz for Young People includes step-by-step lessons that combine content and audio/video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center artists with interactive student learning including classroom instruments that every music teacher already owns or can easily afford. This easy-to-present resource is designed for a teacher who may or may not be trained in America's art form - bringing jazz to the next generation. Digital Downloads include: Step-by-step lesson slides to project audio recordings of each song and WyntonMarsalis sharing background information as well as reproducible activity/assessment worksheets. Plus! You will have Free Access to corresponding video clips for each lesson. Perfect for the general music classroom (grades 2 and up) beginning jazz ensembles and community jazz education courses.

The Big Black Book-More than 30 years ago Marty Di Bergi (played by director Rob Reiner) could not have known that as he introduced his rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap he was creating a work of genius that would rock on for decades. Consistently cited as one of the funniest movies ever made (and often spoken about by rock stars as one of the most frightening movies they've ever seen) This Is Spinal Tap has achieved cult status around the world. Spinal Tap: The Big Black Book will bring to the public for the very first time the story of the band in words pictures and removable facsimile memorabilia. Turn your bookshelf up to 11 with this fully authorized publication...More than 30 years ago Marty Di Bergi (played by director Rob Reiner) could not have known that as he introduced his “rockumentary” This Is Spinal Tap he was creating a work of genius that would rock on for decades. Consistently cited as one of the funniest movies ever made (and often spoken about by rock stars as one of the most frightening movies they've ever seen) This Is Spinal Tap has achieved cult status around the world. Spinal Tap: The Big Black Book will bring to the public for the very first time the story of the band in words pictures and removable facsimile memorabilia. Turn your bookshelf up to 11 with this fully authorized publication...

Improve Your Theory! Grades 1 - 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your - ' series by Paul Harris . This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 4 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris ' Simultaneous Learning approach it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural! Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory. Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations. Fun games and quizzes toengage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts. Questions that connect theory directly with pupils' own pieces - allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice. Opportunities for composing improvising aural and listening activities all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding.

The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon-Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his - and our - psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window we only know that when we listen we see something. The music sets the scene - his voice a striking baritone its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs and albums that provide context to the themes inspirations andinfluence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived composed recorded and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time will get inside the mind talent and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy. Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his - and our - psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music sets the scene - his voice a striking baritone its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety; each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs andalbums that provide context to the themes inspirations and influence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived composed recorded and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time will get inside the mind talent and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy.

This 1921 classic provides a guide to the organ's numerous stops.

The definitive blues collection! 40 years of blues history with techniques used by the greatest blues guitarists of all time including T-Bone Walker Muddy Waters and B.B. King. The definitive blues collection! 40 years of blues history with techniques used by the greatest blues guitarists of all time including T-Bone Walker Muddy Waters and B.B. King.

The ingenious rhythm game from Sheila Nelson. 140 4-bar rhythms to tap clap play or sing. Each rhythm can be paired with numerous alternatives to create over 5000 different combinations. Two books in one. Great for group teaching individual practice or just for fun! Another fantastic Flip-A-Rhythm trainer by Sheila Nelson with books three and four combined! With a almost endless supply of interesting and important rhythms in 6/8 and 9/8 time signatures to clap beat and play this fabulous 2-in-i book will provide more than enough exercises to develop a full understanding of these rhythms.

Bernard Braley This volume covers the lives of George Herbert the seventeenth century religious poet and parson; Edward Plumptre the nineteenth century educationalist and theologian who became Dean of Wells Cathedral; Robert Bridges medical man precentor in a village church Poet Laureate and eccentric; and Fred Pratt Green who took up hymnwriting seriously at an age when many retire and whose twentieth century hymns are now sung across the world. Hymnwriters 3 has . . . . a classical and appropriate cover featuring an organ and bench with portraits of hymnologists. Also the near-magazine format featuring side-bars boxed sections photos and drawings and anumber of different typefaces make it a really top-class production. This also has impressive indices: Index of Persons Index of Place Names General Index and lastly Index of Tunes. Anybody interested in the hymnology/poetry of all the people covered in this finely produced book should add it to their library. (Librarians' Christian Fellowship Newsletter) ISBN 0 85249 789 X

The Classic Approach to Talent Education-World renowned Violinist and Teacher Shinichi Suzuki presents the philosophy and principles of his teaching methods and approach to talent education.

Contains thousands of entries covering all eras of music. It is unique in that it includes contemporary terms and composers from the popular genre as well as classical terms and composers. It is organized in a logical sequence for quick and easy reference.

Music theory puzzles and games for the early grades- The three best-selling Theory Fun Factory books in a single edition. Packed with puzzles and games with helpful hints from a motley crew of characters this book will be enjoyed by everyone. Great preparation for theory exams and helpful for your music lesson: ideal for instrumentalists as well as pianists.

One Hundred Forty Four Easy Chords In All Keys With Sections On Tuning Strums Use Of Capo And A Selection Of Easy Songs.

Edited by Leslie Griffiths Drawing on his unique experience of the church's role overseas Leslie Griffiths has collected an invaluable anthology of international writings to inspire and stimulate all who seek a greater understanding of the Christian mission and experience worldwide. Contributions are drawn from such diverse countries as Serbia and Guatemala Thailand and East Timor. ISBN 0 85249 832 2

General Musicianship texts-The complete resource for all instrumental and singing teachers helping you get the best from your lessons with advice on planning your strategy and inspiring your students. The music teacher's handbook is essential reading for all instrumental and vocal tutors - packed with practical answers to the real issues faced day-to-day. Experts in different areas have presented their inspirational solutions to the many challenges of teaching including: The best way to get a beginner started How to plan lessons Advice about health and safety Top tips for practising A realistic look at group teaching A comprehensive guide to supportingskills Exam preparation and nerves through the eyes of a senior examiner How to achieve integrated learning The psychology of one-to-one and group teaching How to arrange music and coach ensembles Teaching more advanced players Teaching those with learning disabilities Your career and its development