A Comprehensive Rhythm Program For Musicians-Volume 3 continues with the following concepts: note and rest recognition; time signatures 2/2 and cut time; note and rest groupings in the time signatures; demonstrations exercises and dictations covering these areas.

Gary Hess has constructed this comprehensive Musicians Institute Private Lessons volume as an encyclodaepic guide to notes rests counting subdiving time signatures triplets ties dottes notes and rests cut time and more! A valuable reference for all instruments and musicians!

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new issues introduced by the digital age as well as continuing issues of traditional copyright law. Whether you are an artist lawyer entertainment Web site administrator record label executive student or other participant in the music industry this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you helping you use the law toyour benefit. - How do you get fair compensation for your work and avoid making costly mistakes? - Can you control who is selling your music on their website? - Is it legal to create mash-ups? - What qualifies as fair use? - How do you clear another artist's samples to use in your own recordings? - What is the Creative Commons/Copyleft movement? - How do you clear music for use in an online music service or store? - Who decides who gets paid how much and by whom? You will learn the answers to these questions as well as: - The basics of copyright law looking at the Copyright Act while explaining it in plain language - How revenue streams for music are generated under copyright law - The reasoning behind high-profile court decisions related to copyright violations -What licenses are needed for the legal online delivery of music - The intricacies of using music on sites like YouTube Pandora and Spotify - Deficiencies in current copyright law and new business model ideas

Ringo: With A Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With A Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs addictions and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy. Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle one of Liverpool's most gritty rough-and-tumble neighborhoods he rose from a hardscrabblechildhood marked by serious illnesses long hospital stays and little schooling to emerge against all odds as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse and ultimately his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.

Most musicians are familiar with the famous Bigsby Vibrato but not as many know about the wonderful Guitars that Paul Bigsby built in the 1940s.Bigsby who was responsible for developing and refining the pedal steel Guitar also built the first modern solid body electic Guitar for Merle Travis in 1948 predating Leo Fender and Gibson's Les Paul by a number of years.The Story of Paul Bigsby tells how Bigsby influenced Fender and Gibson as well as a number of other Guitar manufacturers in building techniques and design. This deluxe illustrated coffee table book contains over 300 colour and black & white photos.

in the Home Studio-Today's smart singer-songwriter needs to be able to produce high-quality demo recordings without breaking the bank. With this informative Berklee Guide you can learn how to acquire and use songwriter-appropriate home studio gear so that you can create your own professional recordings at home whatever your budget living arrangement or technological aptitude. By the end of the book you will understand the key concepts of how the recording process works and how to get the best sound possible out of whatever equipment you own and whatever style of music you produce. The Singer-Songwriter's Guide To Recording In The Home Studio makes recordingeasy ? so you can put your effort into thinking about creative songwriting and performing rather than struggling with technology.

Electric Guitars and Basses tells the story in full colour of one of the most influential forces on American culture in the 20th century - the Electric Guitar.From the earliest 'lap steels' that reshaped the sound of Hawaiian music the the 'Spanish-neck' models that created a new voice in the Jazz world and powered the early rock and rollers and on to the solid body models that shattered conventional ideas of Guitar design and Guitar music all of the classic and historically important models are displayed and discussed by Guitar experts George Gruhn and Walter Carter.This new edition features an additional 16 pages of important instruments andnewly discovered information.

Celebrating 50 years of Fender Strat-The world's most famous guitar celebrates 50 years! Fully authorized by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and written by best-selling author/historian Tom Wheeler this remarkable book showcaes the worldwide cooperation of photographers magazines musicians and museums to produce this beautiful and inspiring book this milestone deserves. This Book/CD offers the best photos quotes facts & sounds to celebrate this achievement. With a forward by Eric Clapton and a CD featuring musical examples of famous Strat sounds and styles.

This 6-page foldout guide is a tool for parents to help their children build good practice habits. It brings together a variety of widely used practice tips written in a way that is easy for children to understand. Parents who use this guide regularly even if they have limited time or little knowledge of music can greatly improve the quality of their children's practice sessions. When practicing is interesting and fun children get good results and want to practice more.

1833 to the Present Day-First published in 2001 and now updated and expanded History of the American Guitar begins in New York City in the 1830s with the arrival of Christian Martin from Germany to set up the Martin company. From that historic moment the book takes readers on a fascinating and comprehensive visual tour of U.S. guitar history. Over 75 brand names are represented with more than 300 guitars photographed in stunning detail including Bigsby Danelectro D'Angelico D'Aquisto Ditson Dobro Dyer Epiphone Fender Gibson Gretsch James Trussart Kay Maccaferri Martin Micro-Frets Mosrite Oahu Ovation Regal Rickenbacker Stella Stromberg Suhr Taylor Vega Washburn Wilkanowski and many more. The interrelated stories of the Guitar Mandolin and Banjo are mixed seamlessly with the history of the diverse American music that grew and prospered with these instruments from country to blues from jazz to rock. The bulk of the instruments illustrated were part of the celebrated collection of Scott Chinery photographed before Chinery's untimely death and the subsequent break-up of his unique collection. The book presents every important episode in the story of the American luthier's art and is an unparalleled resource for every musician collector and music fan.

The Other Side of the Story-Legendary for their construction and longevity Music Man amps have earned the trust and respect of musicians worldwide. The company was the brainchild of industry vets Leo Fender Forrest White and Tom Walker. This book examines the latter – the company's “genius chief pilot/navigator” – particularly during the productive epoch from 1978 to 1982.