An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century.

John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside the greatest names of the music world. With candor and humor, Mauceri makes clear that conducting is itself a composition: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed down from master to apprentice - and more than a trace of ineffable magic.

The definitive masterclass on quintuplet figures for modern electric guitar. In Futtuplets: Quintuplet Licks for Modern Guitar, Texas blues musician and university professor Dr. Warren Waren introduces the theory, technique, and application of five-note patterns in contemporary music. This book teaches the intermediate and advanced student how to count, construct, and create with five-note patterns--lovingly labeled "futtuplets." Best of all, the book includes 20 gig-tested, crowd-approved rock 'n roll licks--a taste of the 400+ licks that follow in the subsequent volumes of the series. 

Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial. In turn, musicians of all stripes have called on philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it.

Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to bridge theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation from music fundamentals to post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation. It hosts "play-along" audio tracks on a Companion Website, including a workbook, ear-training exercises, and an audio compilation of the musical examples featured in the book.

Jazz Theory is organized into three parts: Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced. This approach allows for success in a one-semester curriculum or with subsequent terms. If students sense that theory can facilitate their improvisational skills or can help them develop their ears, they become more engaged in the learning process. The overall pedagogical structure accomplishes precisely that in an original, creative―and above all, musical―manner.

A Must Have For Every Guitar Player!

This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to explore new chords and shapes to enhance your playing.

Starting from the most basic triad chords to the more advanced extended chords such as ninths, elevenths and thirteenths, this book uses the CAGED system to help you play all the possible shapes over the fretboard. All the shapes in this book are movable to any key you desire. There are over 240 chord shapes that can be moved to any of the 12 keys creating over 2880 possibilities! For each of the chord types there are five different shapes connecting up the fretboard that you can learn and experiment with- but you don’t need to understand music theory to use this book!

"Classical Music for the Electric Guitar" is a guitar sheet music and tablature book of 12 complete, note for note arrangements of Classical Pieces by Bach, Mozart, Korsakov and Paganini. Arranged for 1 to 4 guitars, depending on the piece, it will teach guitarists how to excel at these masterpieces. Iconic modern techniques like sweep picking, alternate picking, string skipping, legato, tapping and hybrid picking are included!

Students will learn how to play Arpeggios, Modes, Major Scales, Minor Scales, Harmonic minor, Melodic minor, Hungarian Minor, Chromatic by working with these masterpieces. Expand your ability and explore the classics today!

Adobe Premiere Pro: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you’re organizing hours of interviews, rapidly splicing news clips before a deadline, or creating your magnum opus, Premiere Pro is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know.

First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from video editor and motion graphic designer Ben Goldsmith, you will learn the procedures needed to use Premiere Pro effectively and professionally. Dozens of exercises are included that can be applied to any videos you have in mind. Through step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Premiere Pro’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, so you can work alongside the text.

Are you ready to learn, practice & apply the most popular scales in music?

Bass for Beginners: Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales + Exercises is the ultimate intro to bass pentatonic scales!

Why take the time to learn bass pentatonic scales? Because it will set you up for success with all the other playing you want to learn. Melodies will become more intuitive and less difficult when you know the scales behind the music.

Real-World Bass Lines!

This is primarily a picture book, with many high-quality images of microphone positioning, that will quickly show the best placement of microphones for almost any instrument. As a result, you will get vastly superior recorded results. It will also help in understanding the functioning and importance of microphones. Your sound, music, and creativity will increase substantially. Taken from both my extensive photo archives of my numerous projects, as well as newly created images, the photos provide easy to understand instruction. If a photo is worth a thousand words, there are millions of words in this book!

(Easy Piano Songbook). Have you learned enough piano to be ready to start playing from a songbook? Then this songbook featuring acoustic favorites is perfect for you. It features 50 simply arranged, must-know acoustic hits in easy piano notation.

Songs includes: Against the Wind * Barely Breathing * Broken Halos * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Fire and Rain * Hey There Delilah * Iris * Landslide * Man on the Moon * Mr. Jones * More Than Words * Night Moves * Patience * She Talks to Angels * The Sound of Silence * Tears in Heaven * Toes * Wanted Dead or Alive * The Weight * Yesterday * and many more.