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  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Piano Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Piano (Free Video Available)

    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play piano with our easy piano lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free piano videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and piano animation for easy music learning.***"Okay, I am of a certain age [so] I decided to learn to play the Piano. You ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Play Ukulele

    A Complete Guide for Beginners

    by Dan Scanlan ...
    Series series How to Play Music Series
    Learn to play the ukulele with this beginner’s guide that features information about basic techniques, tools, and music knowledge.What do George Clooney, Zooey Deschanel, Ryan Gosling, and James Franco all have in common? Answer: they all play the ukulele and now, with this easy step-by-step guide, you can too! With just this book and your ukulele in hand, you’ll learn basic music skills, how to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Leo Ornstein's Piano Sketch Books with Downloadable MP3s

    Progressive Pieces from Beginner to Intermediate

    by Leo Ornstein ...
    Series series Dover Classical Piano Music For Beginners
    Beginning pianists will rejoice in this collection of original, fun-to-play pieces by a noted American composer. First published between 1939 and 1945, the melodies provide an interesting and positive musical experience while building technical skills and sight reading. The songs start simply and incrementally, adding more complexity as students progress through the book.Virtuoso pianist Janice ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go Guitar

    by Gordon Close ...
    Go Guitar offers instant success to almost everyone, young or old. This book uses a two stage approach. You start with color coded chords in an open D tuning so that you can play songs immediately and still learn strumming, rhythm, chord combinations and finger strength. Go Guitar avoids messing around. It takes you straight ahead to playing your favorite songs and knowing what you are doing. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Habits of a Successful Orchestra Director

    Christopher Selby and his team have created a resource that is rich with practical strategies for developing a successful orchestra program. This book will inspire young and veteran orchestra directors looking for fresh ideas about teaching orchestra students of all ages to:Perform with refined intonation, expressive musicianship, and a beautiful toneDevelop advanced performance technique, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guitar Zero

    The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

    by Gary Marcus ...
    On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone—of any age —can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do you have to start at the age of six?Using the tools of his day job as a cognitive psychologist, Gary Marcus becomes his own guinea pig as he takes up the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Guitar Chords!

    by Richard Moran ...
    Guitar Chords! Contains over 150 of the most essential guitar chords.Clear, specially commissioned high quality guitar chord diagrams show you the notes to play and the fingers to use, so you can play like the pros in no time!This book contains the following exclusive extras:- Guitar Fretboard Diagram- Guide to using our guitar chord diagrams- Chord reference guide ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laws of Brainjo: The Art & Science of Molding a Musical Mind

    by Josh Turknett ...
    HOW TO MOLD A MUSICAL MINDAnyone can learn to play music, and learn to play it well.Being able to play music is not about talent. It's not about aptitude.Being about to play music is not about the brain you have, but the brain you build.Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age.Yet, it doesn't come with a manual for how ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Learn Guitar the Easy Way with The Easiest Guitar Method. 7 Steps Beginners Must Take to Learn Guitar Successfully.

    by Michael Young ...
    Learn These 7 Highly Effective Steps to Get Playing Beginner Guitar Quickly and Easily.Have you tried guitar before but quit...for whatever reason?Do you struggle with chords?Do you need some inspiration and motivation to really make some progress with guitar?Or do you simply want to start from scratch?If any of these sounds like you, this book will show you the 7 steps to making real progress on ... Read more

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  • Big Guitar Chord Book

    by Richard Moran ...
    6 Strings is the unique new system of chord diagrams from Moran Education. All chords are displayed in a horizontal grid, rather than the vertical one employed in most guitar books. This system is proven to optimize your learning, allowing chord patterns to be learnt and digested much faster.With over 500 chords for the guitarist,arranged by root, and in full color on compatible devices, it's the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 44 Reasons Your Mixes Suck - A Mixing Engineer's Guide

    by Amos Clarke ...
    Let's face it: even after hours of sweat and anguish, your mix still isn't sounding like you want it. Perhaps it's nearly there, but there's something small that stops it from being a great mix. That 'something small' can be something big if it's the difference between a poor sounding mix and a pro sounding mix. Maybe you're simply missing some essential knowledge, or perhaps you've got into bad ... Read more

    Free

  • Ultimate Tapping for Bass Guitar

    Ultimate Tapping for Bass Guitar is the second book in the Bass Techniques series. Tapping is one of the least conventional ways of playing the bass, yet in the right hands it can be a very musical technique. The aim of the book is to demystify the various forms of tapping techniques that can be employed on the bass and to provide detailed instruction on how to develop them. This book also ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Synthesizer Cookbook: How to Use Filters

    Sound Design for Beginners, #2

    by Screech House ...
    Series Book 2 - Sound Design for Beginners
    INSTANTLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE FILTERS AND FULLY MASTER YOUR SYNTHESIZER, EVEN IF YOU'RE A COMPLETE BEGINNERNEW: The ultimate 4-part series for sensational sound designLearning how to do synthesis (the fundamental part of sound design), can be quite overwhelming, especially when you're a beginner. That's why music producer, best-selling author and CEO Cep from Screech House transformed his best ... Read more

    Free

  • The Art of Practicing

    A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

    by Deline Bruser ...
    An illustrated guide for the amateur and professional musician that teaches us how to transform practicing from an often laborious activity into an exhilarating and rewarding experienceForeword by Yehudi Menuhin • “Give this book to any musician you love and to any person who loves what music does for them and for the world.”—Richard Stoltzman, clarinetistIn The Art of Practicing, acclaimed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Barre Chords Unlocked

    by Peter Inglis ...
    Series series Inglis Academy: Keys to Guitar
    What will we learn in this book?How to play barre chords easily and without strain.Who is the book for?This book will help three main categories of guitarist:Beginners.2.Frustrated guitarists who want to get the guitar out of the closet and have another crack at it.3.People who wish to avoid strain injury.This book took over 40 years to write! Or to be more accurate, it took me over 40 years of ... Read more

    Free

  • Guitar for Students

    A Method for the Classroom and Private Student

    Series series USC
    This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players thru learning chords, scales and more advanced techniques. The appendix of the book offers scale, chord, and fretboard diagrams. This text is currently used in the beginning guitar classes at USC. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Chairs Are Where the People Go

    How to Live, Work, and Play in the City

    Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn't making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Bass Guitar (Free Video Available)

    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy bass lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"I love this book! It taught me everything I needed to know about playing bass." - Harry ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Naked Voice:A Wholistic Approach to Singing

    In The Naked Voice, W. Stephen Smith invites all singers to improve their vocal technique through his renowned and time-tested wholistic method. Focusing not only on the most important technical, but also on the often overlooked psychological and spiritual elements of learning to sing, his book allows readers to develop their own full and individual identities as singers. With philosophies and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Improvising Jazz

    by Jerry Coker ...
    With musical scores and helpful charts, noted jazz educator and featured jazz soloist, Jerry Coker, gives the beginning performer and the curious listener insights into the art of jazz improvisation.Improvising Jazz gives the beginning performer and the curious listener alike insights into the art of jazz improvisation. Jerry Coker, teacher and noted jazz saxophonist, explains the major concepts ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching

    Series series Dover Books On Music: Violin
    A celebrated instructor explains his philosophy of teaching and practice methods, including the appropriate combination of technique and interpretation. Ivan Galamian, a longtime Juilliard professor, incorporates aspects of both the Russian and French schools in a system both ingenious and logical. His tutelage has produced astonishing results with students, many of whom rank among the world's ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adventures in Arranging

    Composer/Arranger/Producer Dr. Richard Niles has had musical adventures with some of the world’s most successful and acclaimed artists from Paul McCartney to Pat Metheny, James Brown to Randy Brecker, Tina Turner to Michael McDonald, Ray Charles to the Pet Shop Boys.“My professional life has been amazing because I understood that the only difference between a job and an adventure was attitude.”His ... Read more

    $22.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ricardo Iznaola On Practicing

    A Manual for Students of Guitar Performance

    A concise booklet which presents a complete practicing methodology for guitarists. Topics discussed include the concepts of inner and outer poise, issues affecting practice, visualization and much more. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD