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Entertaining and edifying

Revisado: 04-02-23

The book could only use improvement in helping people navigate sectors of the economy where takers are predominant. Otherwise, a great Reid.

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Worth more than one listen

Revisado: 09-17-22

Friendly teacher with economic approach to a complicated subject. Mixing is an art, but it requires a system.

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Magical

Revisado: 07-04-22

Funny and charming throughout, and the ending blew me away. Awesome combination of music and Storytelling. The best I’ve heard.

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Impressive work—and entertaining

Revisado: 04-25-22

Matthew Pollard has a clear love for the subject. He’s not only business savvy but also elegant and engaging. Book is replete with movie references and metaphors. Entertainment value definitely helps with motivating the reader to take heed and take action.

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Analysis sacrificed for name-dropping

Revisado: 02-14-22

Bill Messenger is awesome, but… I would have preferred more analysis of great musicals and less name-dropping.

Of course, certain people like Burt Williams need to come into focus—but sometimes the personalities drown out the understanding of musical theater as an evolving art form.

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One of the most likable and useful books for computer musicians

Revisado: 12-01-21

Compare this with Ari’s Take—yes, it’s smart, but is the size of Moby Dick and mostly recommends fairly expensive gear. This will give you easy to follow advice to improve your craft first. You’ll narrow down your to-do list and proceed with confidence.

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Handsdown worst audiobook on the subject

Revisado: 06-17-21

The intro makes it seem promising because he says "this book is for you if..." and lists a number of categories. Unfortunately, the book is not true to this promise. Instead of explaining anything in music theory apart from half-steps, scales and chords, the author rants about WHY one should learn music theory and HOW one finds the best teacher. Actually, Mr. Morgan, you are the teacher. No one bought this book with any doubts about learning music theory. They counted on you to teach them something, and you didn't deliver. You wasted their time.
Also, though lip service is paid to Sanatra, Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, etc., the only genre discussed at length in "the state of modern music" is classical music (sometimes called concert music). Interesting rant on the misguided practice of ultra serialism, but not helpful to anyone that isn't interesting in becoming a composer of modern / postmodern concert music.

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Helpful to build your library of concepts

Revisado: 02-21-21

If you don’t know what a dominant 7 is, might be worth your time. If you do, you might not need this book.
Author very nice guy and informative. But you’ll need more if you’re serious about theory. He spent too much time on easy stuff, and only scratches the surface of the difficult stuff.

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Not well structured

Revisado: 09-26-20

There's too much emphasis on the Roman emperors as a cult of personalities rather than as executives of economic and social policy. Why, for example, was Augustus such a great emperor? If you listen to this series, the answer is: "he ended the civil war [i.e., killed off belligerents] and didn't piss off the elites." Really?! That's it?! What about founding one of history's first ever fire brigades? What about his welfare policies? Bread and circuses? Admittedly, this stuff does come up in one of the later lectures, but it should have been a running theme throughout. If you like to think of Roman history as a Hollywood action film, this might be for you. If you're looking for some depth in constitutionalism and what made Rome, by the standards of its own time (emphatically not by the standards of ours), a relatively enlightened and prosperous empire, this does not deliver.

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Enlightening

Revisado: 08-01-18

Title says it all. Eleven more words are required. Now only six. Now only three.

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