Country Guitar Styles - 2nd Edition

Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style: Rhythm guitar styles: String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends: Triadic pedal steel styles: Fingerpicking technique: Western swingstyle: Bluegrass lead and rhythm style: Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more! Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style: Rhythm guitar styles: String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends: Triadic pedal steel styles: Fingerpicking technique: Western swingstyle:Bluegrass lead and rhythm style: Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more! Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style: Rhythm guitar styles: String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends: Triadic pedal steel styles: Fingerpicking technique: Western swingstyle: Bluegrass lead and rhythm style: Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more!

Complete Guide to Film Scoring - 3rd Edition : The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV

Learn the business, process, and procedures of writing music for film, television, and other forms of media. This book goes step-by-step through the Berklee approach to the art of film scoring. In tracing the evolution of film music from its early silent film origins to today's contemporary practices, you will understand the conventions of the medium and gain a solid grounding for how to approach creating your own evocative scores. Read insights from many of today's film music professionals: composers, orchestrators, music editors, and others - providing an up-to-date account of the art and business of including music in film. Now in its third edition, this comprehensive guide has long been core to Berklee's world-renowned Screen Scoring Department curriculum, whose graduates are scoring films in Hollywood and for film studios worldwide. You will learn to: · Understand the processes and practices of how music fits into the post-production stage of a film's development. · Trace the history of film music, with its evolving technology and conventions, and see how age-old practices continue to influence today's scores. · Identify the major roles in the filmmaking process: the director, producer, music supervisor, music editor, and others. · See how music can serve diverse dramatic functions through the use of instrumental underscore and songs. · Recognize the similarities and differences in scoring for diverse genres such as animation and documentary films. · Navigate the business side of film scoring, understanding its most common compensation models and how they can play out in the long term.

Hammond Organ Complete - 2nd Edition : Tunes, Tones, and Techniques for Drawbar Keyboards

Build your Hammond chops! The secret to creating funky sizzles and classic Hammond sounds is mastering the combined use of the drawbars, expression pedal, and the Leslie speaker speed switch. Sound complicated and intimidating? It doesn't have to be! This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step through the techniques of playing the drawbar organ, one skill at a time. Whether you're comping a rock tune or playing lead in a jazz trio, command of the Hammond organ will make you a sought-after player. Groove with this fun and comprehensive Hammond method! Learn to: play gospel, R&B, jazz, blues, funk, and rock with an authentic Hammond feel: Improve your playing skills with hands-onexercises. The accompanying recordings include 21 exercises, plus performance demonstrations of eight songs with minus-organ versions so you can play along: Achieve special effects used by the great Hammond organists, including unique tips and tricks for all drawbar instruments: Understand all the parts of the organ and how to use them, including percussion, expression pedal, vibrato, chorus, and the Leslie speaker and much more! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Music Law in the Digital Age - 3rd Edition : Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business

A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 3

Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more. This edition with online audio includes demonstration tracks online for download or streaming performed and produced by Larry Baione.Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more. This online audio edition includes demonstration tracks online for download or streaming performed and produced by Larry Baione.

A Modern Method for Guitar - Complete Method : Volumes 1, 2, and 3 with 14+ Hours of Video and 123 Audio Tracks

The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand, Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1, 2, and 3, including all audio and video tracks. Now, serious guitar students and instructors, from beginning through advanced, have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos, duets, and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony, and rhythm. This edition contains audio andvideo produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department), demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.

The Berklee Correspondence Course : Music: Harmony and Arranging

You are about to embark on a course of study designed to give you, in the shortest possible time, a complete understanding of the principles of modern harmony, improvisation, and dance band arranging. The Berklee CorrespondenceCourse was first developed in the 1950s as a way to teach students at a distance - a precursor to today's Berklee Online. In those days, a student would receive lessons by mail and send their assignments back for grading byBerklee faculty. This book is an update of the 1971 edition. It features an answer key to many of the activities available online by accessing the unique code found on the first page of the book. The actual lesson material,together with the comments and suggestions of your personal instructor, should combine to provide you with a comprehensive knowledge of the techniques of modern music and jazz, in practice as well as in principle. Over 300 pages!