Berklee Workshop Series-Berklee Workshop Series. Get detailed practical advice on how to network adapt to different musical settings take full advantage of opportunities and be a successful musician. A consummate pro in constant demand DavidRosenthal conveys wisdom earned over two decades as a keyboardist touring musician producer bandleader and collaborator with everyone from Billy Joel and Robert Palmer to Cyndi Lauper and Enrique Iglesias. Separating the musicfrom the business he discusses the importance of networking hiring a good lawyer knowing your gear inside and out adapting your skills to different settings and most importantly being ready to seize opportunities wheneverthey arise. Put his strategies to work for your career! 36 minutes.

The second in a two-volume series based on over 40 years of music theory instruction at Berklee College of Music. This volume focuses on harmony including triads seventh chords inversions and voice leading for jazz blues andpopular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create effective harmonic accompaniments from a lead sheet. This revised edition includes an answer key for all exercises and lessons to check yourprogress.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists - 2nd Edition-Improve your songwriting technique with this practical and fun guide to the art of lyric writing from Berklee College of Music songwriting tutor Pat Pattison.If you have written lyrics before even at a professional level you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. In the Essential Guide To Rhyming you will be shown how to find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhymework for you and your lyric writing will greatly improve.You will learn to:Use different types of consonant and vowel sounds to improve your lyric story.Find more rhymes and choose which ones are most effective.Spotlight important ideas using rhyme.The second edition of this classic songwriting text contains new strategies and insights as well as analyses of the rhymes of Randy Newman Warren Zevon T.S. Eliot and other songwriters and poets.

Recordings Concerts Tours Studios and More-Get organized and take charge of your music projects! This book will help you harness your creativity into clear visions and effective work plans. Whether you are producing a recording going on tour developing a studio launching a business running a marketing campaign creating a music curriculum or any other project in the music industry these road-tested strategies will help you to succeed. Music projects come in all sizes budgets and levels of complexity but for any project setting up a process for planning executing and monitoring your work is crucial in achieving your goals. This book will help you clarify your vision and understand the workrequired to complete it on time within budget and to your highest possible quality standard. It is a comprehensive approach with hundreds of music industry-specific tools for keeping your work on track mitigating risk andreducing stress so that you can complete your project successfully. You will learn to: develop work strategies; delegate tasks; build and manage teams; organize your project office; develop production schedules;understand and organize contracts; analyze risk; and much more.

An Autobiography-In Learning To Listen: The Jazz Journey Of Gary Burton Gary Burton shares his 50 years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene.A seven-time Grammy Award-winner Burton made his first recordings at age 17 has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names and is one of only a few openly gay musicians in jazz. Burton is a true innovator both as a performer and an educator. His autobiography has been pegged as one of the most personal and insightful jazz books ever written.

A fully comprehensve guide to writing melody for the novice or seasoned songwriter alike. This exhaustive study breaks down the process of composing effective and poignant melodies for your songs whatever your style or orpurpose. Disciplines considered include:Rhythm and phrasing ideasSong sections and formal constructionComposing melodies over and against chord progressionsLots of unusual or characteristc tonalitiesincluding diatonic modes blues scales and more exotic harmoniesWriting melodies against basslines and riffsFull explanation of the theory and jargon is provided for those with no previous formal music theory making thiscomplete and highly intuitive guide accessible for all.

The interactive song lessons on this extremely comprehensive DVD disc represent a cross-section of modern guitar styles and song forms. The split-screen footage multiple camera angles and incredible close-ups let you watch Jim Kelly's hands to learn his secrets tips and tricks as he presents each tune as a full performance followed by a special teaching section. He plays in the style of guitar greats like Jeff Beck Wes Montgomery Stevie Ray Vaughan Joe Pass Pat Metheny and more. With over 90 minutes of guitar performance and instruction an accompanying booklet with standard notation and TAB and lessons in English Japanese and Spanish Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop DVD letseveryone have fun and improve their playing at their own pace. 90+ minutes.