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There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera - and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen and La Boheme, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years.

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 piano. 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 Memorize Music is the guide that will get you playing from memory fastest, without resorting to shortcuts and tricks that make your playing less musical. Learn a step-by-step, easy-to-follow process that will help you memorize your piece; tips on more secure and more musical playing; ways to make memorization easier before you start memorizing; and much more!

10 Ways to Start a Song: Find Your Best! What I am going to do in this songwriting book is tell you some great tips that will help you write a song and get rid of that creative block you can experience from time to time. You feel like having no talent or abilities. Then start with any of the recommended ways, and slowly you will discover your strengths. I believe, if God has put in your heart a desire to write songs, He has also given you an ability to do it. It is important to use your strengths instead of torturing yourself with things you are not good at doing. Songwriting should be fun!...

Simple, easy-to-understand, and to-the-point way of learning Music Theory...Great for composers, nerds, instrument players, or complete beginners. If you’re a reasoning mind who wants to deconstruct music and see how it all fits together...you’ve picked the right audiobook...All the important information is included yet nothing is dragged beyond what needs to be said...If you are looking for a quick crash course on music theory without getting overwhelmed by complex terminology...this is it!

How to Keep Your Dukes Up in the Music Business is the guide every musician needs to navigate the music bizz. This book includes eight essential contracts that all musicians need, and with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment business and a music attorney today, Miss Krystle Shares some of the best kept industry secrets you need to know. Having the advantage means managing all the business aspects of your career, and it is an investment of time that will pay off in a big way.

If you are ready to strengthen your singing voice and develop pipes you’re proud of, then the 14-day guide to vocal health, posture, and stage presence in Find Your Own Singing Voice is for you. As cliché as it may sound, your voice is your best instrument. You may not know that vocal health depends on a variety of factors, from posture to diet, and by doing the right things, you can improve the sound and strength of your voice.

In his lectures (including an acclaimed TED talk) and now in this audiobook, Talgam shows why imposing your vision on your people is likely to backfire. Great conductors may know in advance how they want a piece to be played, but they make room for the creativity and passion of their musicians. They respect the gap between the baton and the instruments. They focus more on listening than on speaking.

Daniel Levitin follows up his acclaimed New York Times best-selling first book, This Is Your Brain on Music, with The World in Six Songs, an audacious look at how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms and gave rise to human culture.

In How to Get High: The Key to Escaping Vocal Prison and Making Singing High Notes Easy Again, Joshua Dennis goes through his tried and true method of vocal production that he learned from Master Teacher W. Stephen Smith. Mixed with his own methodology, Joshua not only tackles basic vocal principals, this book also tackles his struggles with the music industry and mental and physical help for singers.

Traditionally, piano lessons can be very boring and require a fixed time. Then many books are either too complex or boring. This often leaves people frustrated and feeling like giving up. Instead of typical text-heavy books, this book explains the essentials in an easy-to-understand way that will establish a strong foundation on which to build your musical knowledge.

Ten Telecaster Tales shares the process of Emmett writing and recording ten songs for his Telecaster guitar, walking listeners through the creative journey, musical composition, guitar playing, and more. The most elaborate and detailed “liner notes” of Emmett’s career.

You’ll see many little snippets in books and scattered all over the internet, but these are not the answers you are looking for. You might do all these things but find they don’t work. You might go to music college but find that on your first day, when you’re expecting to learn how to start creating vocal melodies, the thoughts of “Why am I here?” start to enter your mind. This audiobook is packed with tutorials demonstrating the kind of vocal melodies you can compose by using the methods in The Songwriting Magic Formula.

Are you struggling with guitar chords? Do you feel frustrated because you can't play your favorite songs on guitar? Then, this book is the best choice for you. This is your beginner textbook that will thoroughly and comprehensively guide you through the learning process starting from the basics and leading you to their implementation in a real song. It will let you understand the whole journey from the “birth” of a chord to its actual incorporation in music. This is a book that combines everything and comprises a great starting point for aspiring guitarists or guitar lovers who want to ...

Para miles de personas esto es "El Mejor Libro" para aprender a tocar guitarra acústica. Dentro está "Um Programa Completo" de lições para tocar que os ajudou a alcançar em semanas, o que levou muitas pessoas anos para aprender.

The lines are starting to blur between traditional and new classical, which is sometimes called “New Age,” “Meditative,” and “Focus Music.” It is easy to hear the influence of the great composers like Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven in the modern genre, and in this box set you’ll get to play in both worlds. This box set is loaded with Yiruma as well as Einaudi and Satie, whom most argue was the first of this genre. There is also the COMPLETE Sonata in C (all three movements) by Mozart (K545). This is over thirteen hours of high-quality piano instruction!

Having made his name in the late 1980s as a member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered the transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers about what we have thrown away in the process.

A lesson on the style of Black Sabbath from the Paranoid album. Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this classic heavy metal rock hit without using any music or tab. The entire lesson is taught “by ear”, and a full demonstration and backing tracks are included!

"A Meat and Potatoes Songwriting Manual" PRAISE FOR ON SONGWRITING“Veteran, versatile singer/songwriter Aaron Espe's new book is a remarkable and inspiring and courageous feat. It is a methodical and engaging deep-dive into the songwriting process, exploring creative psychology and providing useful tips to stay fresh through the ebbs and flows of songwriter life and craft. Above all, this book will challenge your thinking and, dare I say, perhaps make you a better writer after all is said and done. This meat and potatoes songwriting manual is a welcomed addition to the genre and has the ...

This Banjo by Ear bundle is designed for the beginner banjo player who wants to learn the standard bluegrass tunes while progressing in proficiency. Here you will find song lessons at a beginner level as well as those at an intermediate level that will take the student into alternate tunings and positions up the neck. Included in this bundle is the lesson “Banjo Basics", designed to bring the absolute beginner up to speed on banjo terminology and techniques.