Five by five

The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever! Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the book, how to choose the best voicings and how to construct chords, this extensive, 272-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings of 44 chord qualities for each of the twelve musical keys - 2,640 chords in all! For each, there is a clearly illustrated chord frame, as well as an actual photo of the chord being played! Includes info on basic fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms, and more. Great for all guitarists!

This book is a reference guide for guitarists. It is not intended as a method book, but rather as reference book of chords that are easily accesbile to the beginner or advanced guitarist.

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This book is a step-by-step guide to MI's well-known Harmony and Theory class. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and more!

Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. This book also covers the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. An excellent resource for both written and computer notation software!

This book has a very specific purpose: to help songwriters find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyrics writing, and this guide will provide all of the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. The exercises and worksheets help experienced writers take a fresh look at their techniques, and prevent novices from developing bad habits. Use this book to start writing better than ever before!

The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level Two is an intermediate-level course covering larger chord forms, 'definitive' chords in major and minor keys, substitutions, analysis of key centers in tunes, 'upper structure' chords, voiceleading, and pentatonic and blues scale applications, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.

A Composer's Insight, Volume 1 - with a foreword by Michael Colgrass - is the first in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspectives acquired from personal interviews with each composer. An excellent resource for conductors, composers or enthusiasts interested in acquiring a richer musical understanding of the composers' training, compositional approach, musical influences and interpretative ideas. Features the music of: Timothy Broege, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, John Harbison, Karel Husa, Alfred Reed and others.

As the author write:"This little volume is a hybrid". It is an elementary instruction book in composing music. But it is also a performance book that can be used by a group of players interested in contemporary music. And it is invitably a reflection of Ross Lee Finney reflection of ideas and convictions about composing music formed from years of teaching experiance. This volume is the first of three. It avoids as much as possible problems of melody and harmony. There are ten pieced included in this book to illustrate not only compositional problems but also to supply music that group can perform to develope technique.

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The AudioPro Home Recording Course was created to familiarise musicians with the fundamentals of studio recording using explanations and examples that are easy to understand.
The text is complemented by hundreds of illustrations and two CDs containing information and audio examples.
Volume two covers: impedance and wiring (high impedance vs. low impedance, terminology, balanced vs. unbalanced); bass guitar (electric/synth, recording, mic techniques, EQ); harmonics/overtones/partials; vocals (recording, mic techniques, effects, EQ); acoustic piano and rhodes (recording, mic techniques, signal processing, sampled sounds, EQ); recording synthesisers (recording, combining textures, EQ, brass); the total recording session (instruments, preparing the recorder, media selection, time code); panning and stereo imaging; mixdown to master product (mixdown machine, tape choice, theories and concepts, setup procedure; building the mix; preparing master for duplication).

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Students join Spike and Party Cat as they explore the sights and tourist attractions in Music City. Their visit includes assignments that help students sharpen their music reading skills, learn to read ledger-line notes, and identify intervals, half and whole steps, and major/minor five-finger patterns. Corresponds to Piano Lessons Books 3 and 4.

From the selection and preparation of the raw materials to the fine-tuning and finishing of the final product, 88 Keys follows the creation of a piano in the Steinway & Sons factory in Long Island City, New York-a process that has changed little in the one hundred years that Steinway, the world's premier paino manufacturer, has been in bursiness. An introduction relates the history of the piano and traces the history of the Steinway itself. The Story follows step by step the creation of the concert grand piano from 12,000 individual parts. The exquisitely detailed Five levels of exciting and highly effective games that reinforce students' learning of lines and spaces, key signatures, rhythmic patterns, five finger tune-ups, chords, and more. An invaluable resource for teachers as well as parents!

A comprehensive tutor series for beginners of all ages. Well presented with color pictures, useful information and guidance material. The aim of the book is to teach in the most natural and enjoyable way, through popular melodies. The method enables the student to progress in a logical fashion through Pre A to F. A recommended and thorough series.

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