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| Daily Ukulele: A Jumpin’ Jim’s Ukulele Songbook
A daily allowance of music is one of the healthiest lifestyle habits you can practice. This book compiles 365 arrangements with melody, lyrics, and chord grids, so you can play a different song on ukulele every day. Liz and Jim Beloff, Flea Market Music and Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
Elements: A Comprehensive Guide to Improving Your Drumset Vocabulary
Comprehensive system for building drum vocabulary and the ability to improvise within that vocabulary. Exercises in the book show you how to execute accent figures, play accents combined with double-stroke rolls, orchestrate your ideas in unique and effective ways, create drum fills, and solo around the hits while playing with a band, no matter where the hits fall. John Favicchia, Wizdom Media, Whippany, NJ, 2010. |
Essential Grooves for Writing, Performing, and Producing Contemporary Music
The book and accompanying CD and DVD contain scores, mixed audio tracks, and component audio files. Writers can study the grooves and use them as basic rhythmic material, instrumentalists can learn to play these styles from the scores and audio tracks, while producers can use the component audio files as raw material for creating original music. Dan Moretti, Matthew Nicholl, and Oscar Stagnaro, Sher Music Company, Petaluma, CA, 2010. |
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| On the Beaten Path: The Drummer’s Guide to Musical Styles and the Legends Who Defined Them
The book explores the musical careers of drummers such as Carter Beauford, Mitch Mitchell, and Ringo Starr, and shows how they set up their kits, plus provides instruction on the beats that made them great. Rick Lackowski, Alfred Music Company, Van Nuys, CA, 2010. |
Beyond the Metronome
Guide for all musicians, full of lessons, exercises, and 346 inchronicity tracks on CD to help you develop and internalize your sense of time. Malcolm Santiago, Minneapolis, MN, 2010. |
Creativity to Community: Arts Nonprofit Success One Coffee at a Time
Matt Hinsley shares his 15 years of experience running and growing Austin Classical Guitar Society and what he’s learned about community service, relations, and support. Matthew Hinsley, EnvisionArts Publishing, Austin, TX, 2010. |
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| Pop Goes to Court: Rock ‘n’ Pop’s Greatest Court Battles
Details various court cases involving famous musicians, including Elvis Presley, Ozzy Osbourne, George Michael, George Harrison, and others. Brian Southall, Omnibus Press, London, UK, 2008. |
Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music [DVD Series] This virtual learning kit is just what you've been looking for to get your students and children to love music as much as you do. Steve Gilreath, QuaverMusic.com, Nashville, TN, 2011. |
Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years, 1984-1990
Considered by some to be the greatest composer of all time, this photographic collection commemorates the last years of the great Leonard Bernstein. Steve J. Sherman, Amadeus Press, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
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| Songwriting: The Words, the Music, and the Money
An included DVD demonstrates the collaborative process at work in the creation of new songs. Dick Weissman, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
Drum Aerobics
A 52-Week, One- Exercise-Per-Day Workout Program for Developing, Improving, and Maintaining Drum Technique Andy Ziker, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
Jazz Drumming Transitions
Learn to solo over different kinds of ostinatos, play metric modulations and tempo changes, transition from traditional big band swing charts to contemporary jazz, and switch between sticks and brushes. Terry O’Mahoney, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
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| The Music of Gordon Goodwin
Volume 4 in The Alfred Jazz Play-Along Series contains nine Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band classics with multiple parts and a CD to play along to. Alfred Music Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2010. |
The Secret Life of Musical Notation
How do we know musical symbols had the same meaning in the 17th and 18th century? This book looks into the possibility that composers have been misinterpretted. Andy Ziker, Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, 2010. |
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bluegrass Banjo Favorites
Although playing hot bluegrass banjo requires knowledge and practice, most bluegrass songs draw from the same small group of chords and techniques. Dennis Caplinger, Alfred Music Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2010. |
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