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Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters - and limitations - of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance.

The Miracle of Your Voice - Class 1 - Registrations consists of two versions of a class that both use practical and easy to follow exercises and plenty of feel-good-about-your-voice moments to encourage a positive, affirming learning experience. The first class is 40 minutes and the second is a 10-minute quick reference version. These classes are suitable for all and cover the basics of good posture for singing and speaking and the three vocal registrations of your voice.

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it's a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page.

Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too: when you dream up a great riff or chord progression, you naturally want to sit down and play it right away. Ear training helps you do just that.

How to Write a Hit Song: The Beginner's Guide is a comprehensive guide for aspiring songwriters who want to learn the art of creating catchy and memorable songs. This book covers all aspects of the songwriting process, from finding inspiration and developing song ideas, to crafting lyrics and melodies that resonate with listeners.

In this audiobook, the author teaches you everything you need to know to improve your vocal techniques. If you want to know the types of voices and how to control your high notes then How to Sing 2020 Edition is the perfect audiobook for you.

This drum book is designed specifically for beginners. We will have fun going through it in an easy to understand way. After the short amount of time it will take you to go through the drum lessons, you will know how to play drum beats on the drum set. You will be able to play along to some of your favorite songs and start to play in a band. And you will learn basic sticking patterns to practice so you can continue to get better at playing the drums.

If you've ever been told you can't even carry a tune - think again. On Sing Your Heart Out, vocal coach and master teacher Arthur Joseph shows you how to discover your authentic singing voice through self-discovery exercises that are simple to practice and profoundly effective. For over 32 years, Joseph's methods have helped thousands of students find their natural vocal talents - quickly and naturally.

For centuries, opera has used women’s voices to convey male stories. Within an art form dominated by men, the female voice is a means to an end: controlled, denatured, and crafted to carry words and intentions that belie the true depth and complexity of the female experience. Here, author and opera singer Fides Krucker shows listeners what it means to find—and use—our authentic voice, to sing wildly and uninhibited from the depths of our bodies and spirits.

This book is for you whether you're auditioning for music schools or bands, never learned to sight-read well, or want to read music better. Instead of giving you endless exercises, I show and tell you the basic principles that actually make you sight-read faster. Other books give you all kinds of levels, tons of exercises, and endless practice material for sight-reading, but no one ever shows you the basic principles that make you sight-read faster.

In this book, the author teaches you everything you need to know to learn how to write and sing a song. If you want to know the types of voices and how to control your vocality, then The Songwriter Masterclass is the perfect book for you. Here is what you will find inside: how to write and sing a song, how to improve your vocality, learn how to manage your vocals, write the perfect lyrics, and much more!

Many people aspire to be great songwriters, but they don't know where to begin or how to get the ball rolling. They dabble in it here and there, but they don't ever fully express themselves as they should, and music becomes a frustration. In this book, I am going to help you take your skills to the next level. You have your foot in the door, you've started your skill, and you have the basics, but I'm going to take you to the next step. I'm going to launch you from beginner to intermediate, and show you how to truly write a song.

The Miracle of Your Voice - Class 2 - Breath is a 55-minute class suitable for everyone. The class naturally progresses from the first class in this series. It consists of a gentle physical warm-up followed by a number of fun, confidence-boosting vocal breathing exercises. It also includes a song study and plenty of tools to help you be more confident in the way you use your voice. The class is devised and instructed by Barbara Ann Grant, an exceptional vocal coach, a classically trained mezzo soprano and a sound healer.

Everything you think you know about learning guitar is wrong. Skeptical? You shouldn't be, because the unfortunate truth is that as a budding guitarist, your chances of actually succeeding are about 10 percent. Learn Guitar in Record Time contains the keys to guitar mastery. This audiobook is about using uncommon meta learning principles to absolutely dominate the guitar-learning process.

Music not only excites and electrifies, but it produces and orchestrates neural functionality. Just listening synchronizes brainwaves, the nervous system, pain tolerance, mood, and your immune system. Musicians have sophisticated neural networks like tracks of the railroads. It grows more mass in the brain (especially the hippocampus), boosts cognition, linguistics, spatial rotation, social interaction, and empathy.

In this completely “all-audio” lesson, you will learn a fingerstyle solo of “Mary Did You Know” without tab, music, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by the detailed “by ear” lesson that lets you memorize the song as you learn it. Add this new Christmas standard to your repertoire today! This is a level two lesson.

You will learn everything that you have to and would like to learn about the ukulele with the help of this book. We will start with the basic information about the ukulele - where it originated and what its parts are. We will progress into learning the different techniques and tips that will help you master the art of playing the ukulele and guarantee you the ability to play the ukulele effortlessly and beautifully.

Fictional drama about the meeting between Nadia Boulanger and Astor Piazzola that changed both the history of tango and the life of the musician. The famous author of Adios Nonino, Libertango, and Oblivion abandoned when young the tango and the bandoneon to learn and compose classical music. The meeting with the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger helped Piazzola to retrieve his musical roots and to revolutionize the Argentine tango with new techniques.

Guitar Mastery is a step-by-step, easy guide which will teach you how to play guitar. All necessary information about guitar is covered in brief in this book. With help of this book, you can learn guitar at the comfort of your home.

50 Things to Know About Being a Music Teacher, by author Juan Rangel, offers a holistic approach to teaching music. Most books on teaching music give you a pedagogy and offer lesson plans that fit a very structured mold. Although there's nothing wrong with that, the musical experience is unique to everyone and doesn’t fit just one specific personality. Based on first hand knowledge, there are many talented music teachers, but being exceptional is something that eludes most.