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Writers of commercial music are more in demand than ever before. The rules have changed in the past decade, and the contemporary writer needs a multifaceted skillset in order to succeed in business. This book will help you master the three roles of the new job: writer, producer, and engineer. You will learn to set up a profitable business model for creating commercial music, providing your clients with music that fits their needs and budget, at today's...
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"Where do babies come from?" It's a question every child asks eventually, and Animals Mate is the simple, straightforward guide every parent needs to normalize sexual reproduction via adorable animal partners. With a modern design and beautiful illustrations, Animals Mate introduces facts about mating, including tactful discussion of the mechanics of the process, anatomical parts, and sperm and eggs. Bypass the awkwardness that often accompanies "the...
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Welcome to starting a local radio station. Every year more andmore people enjoy the benefits of independent radio stationsin their communities. Since 2001, the creation and growthof local and independent media around the world has beenremarkable; this achievement is part of the growth of the entiremedia sector, including commercial media, government mediaand community media.Internet radio station, online radio station, network radio or Iweb radio...
84) Indie Survival
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This eBook is a new acclaimed handbook for independent music artists and musicians looking to record, write, and promote without a label.
More indie artists are recording, distributing, marketing, and selling their own music now more than ever before in history. The Indie Survival is the critically-acclaimed, do-it-yourself modern classic that has been telling them how for years.
In this up-to-the-moment book, musicians cover everything musicians...
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Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music-first as Elvis, then as the next George Harrison-but it almost didn't turn out that way. Dutifully following the path his parents had laid out for him, he obtained an MBA from an Ivy League university and took a plum job in an industry he came to despise. Then, in 1970, a chance letter sent to CBS Records boss Clive...
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The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music is a must-have resource for anyone looking to release their music-equally valuable for first timers as well as for seasoned experts who want the latest information on technology and industry developments. Matthew Whiteside focuses on the areas that musicians can manage themselves, and highlights-with humour and encouragement-the potential benefits and pitfalls along the way.
87) Music Business Skills for Musicians: Make Money From Music, Discover the Music Industry and Explo
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If Your In The Music Business, Read On
Do you wonder why other artists are getting breaks and you are not?
Making it in the music industry isn't about catching that big break anymore. Getting your career off the ground can be a long and scary task. In this cutting-edge book Tommy Swindali maps out everything you need to know and provides you with the tools necessary to get to where you want to be.
The tools are yours to use, but only if you want...
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Music is understood to be the art of organizing a set of sounds and silences in a logical and sensible way, according to the principles of harmony, melody and rhythm. These principles have changed over time, which has allowed various artistic manifestations and explorations, which have in common the desire to move or produce an aesthetic effect on the listener. Music has accompanied man since time immemorial, both in his religious and social rites...
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A straightforward collection of advice not typically found in other recording books. From the author: Mixing many band-recorded albums, I've noticed there are several recurring issues in the tracking stage that have made mixing more difficult than it needs to be. These issues often require me to do a lot of salvage work before the actual mixing can begin. With the right tools and knowledge, flawed tracks can be greatly improved upon, but the results...
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The included online media are additional color illustrations drawn by Massy; to access, go to halleonard.com/mylibrary and use the unique code printed on the first page of the text.
It's time to unlearn the safe, plain-vanilla recording techniques you've been using all these years! Massey and Johnson introduce you to music industry professionals who discarded fixed notions of how music should be recorded, and created sounds and effects that made...
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Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world's most unforgettable records...
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New technologies are revolutionizing the music business. While these changes may be smashing traditional business models and creating havoc among the major record companies, they are also providing new opportunities for unsigned artists, independent labels, and music business entrepreneurs. The Future of the Music Business provides a legal and business road map for success in today's music business by setting forth a comprehensive summary of the rules...
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Do you feel like there's no way you'll mix a song demo as good as (insert name here)?
Are you struggling to understand how to make the worship band sound better?
Do you want to start being confident with your mixes?
Stephen Robert Cass has been playing and mixing songs in church and for bands for over 50 years. He has 14 album projects and hundreds of studio hours as a musician and producer and wants to help produce your next song demo or worship...
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Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history
This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman's remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the '70s and '80s. Along the way, Ted details his late '60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine...
97) Vanilla Doo-wop
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Vanilla Doo-wop highlights several fifties/sixties vocal groups, telling how they came to be, discusses their music, and provides discographies of the records they released. From Dion and the Belmonts, The Passions, The Tokens, The Critters, and many more, it's a great read for those interested in popular music from that era.
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The 4 Seasons with lead singer Frankie Valli rank among the top American vocal acts of all time. Collectively, Valli and the group amassed seven number one hits, 18 Top Tens and placed an incredible 61 singles in the Hot 100. They also placed 32 LPs on the top album charts. Their hit-making years spanned more than fifty years. 4 Seasons songs are some of the most recognizable tunes of the 60s/70s and continue today to be regulars on radio playlists....
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In 1966, a groupl of studio musicians hit it big with a novelty song based on an Alka-Seltzer ad. Unwilling to go on the road to promote it, the label recruited other musicians to become The T-Bones and claim the song as theirs. Among these musicians were Dan Hamilton, Joe Frank Carollo, and Tom Reynolds. After the song's popularity waned, the boys formed a new group which they aptly called Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. Their record, Don't Pull...
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The first title in the Laurier Digital series. Representing Sound elucidates the base technical ontology, the machine essence, of every recorded musical communication. In so doing, it suggests the broad contours of an unprecedented theoretical basis for considering recording practice that posits no fundamental relationship between it and live performance. Representing Sound thus complicates common conceptions of sound to include different ontological...
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