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Ready to unleash the awesome power of Ableton Live 6? As its name suggests, Ableton Live 6 was designed with the live performer in mind, but it goes well beyond that. You can integrate this live performance and studio software into your existing home or professional music studio to produce, compose, DJ, and much more. But how? Ableton Live 6 Power! is the key you need to revolutionize your studio by incorporating Live 6. Written for musicians by a fellow musician who uses Live on a daily basis, this useful guide explores fundamental and advanced Live features, and provides insider tips, tricks, and interviews with Live power users to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the ins and outs of this powerful software. Whether you are a beginner in the digital audio field or a seasoned pro, Ableton Live 6 Power! is the reference you need to take your music to the next level.

SKU: 331795 ISBN: 1598633252 UPC: 082039533254

Ableton Live 4 Power!

Covering the latest version of Live, this book leads readers through all the features and functions of this dynamic software. Live's audience is a growing and loyal group of enthusiasts who have embraced this unique and powerful product through its several revisions. The latest version of Live offers a mix of features that will excite and extend its userbase. Going well beyond the manual, Ableton Live 4 Power! provides complete how-to information and extra tips, tricks, and user profiles that will be of great benefit to eager users of Live. Written by Ableton's PR and Artist Relations Manager, Dave Hill Jr., and M-Audio (U.S. distributor of Live) Technical Marketer, Chad Carrier, this book offers incomparable expertise as both authors know the ins and outs of this software and have been using Live since its inception.

SKU: 331840 ISBN: 1592005314 UPC: 082039505312

Acid Pro 5 Power! - The Offical Guide to Sony Acid Pro 5

ACID, whose manufacturer, Sonic Foundry, was recently acquired by Sony, is the #1 product in the loop-based composition category. This fun and popular Windows-based application is accessible to beginners, but used by professionals for serious artistic and commercial music creation. Geared towards both musically-oriented people with few computer skills and computer-oriented people with little music training, this book provides in-depth coverage of this powerful application and is an effective guide to learning the many features ACID has to offer. As a revision to the successful ACID Power!, this book makes it easier to create amazing audio on the PC. Readers learn to master ACID's features, record audio and MIDI tracks, burn songs to redistribute on CD or over the internet, and add music to video. The easy-to-understand, thorough approach of this book will smoothly guide readers through this application, offering many expert tips and tricks, along with not just the how, but the why behind the learned skills.

SKU: 331845 ISBN: 159200329X UPC: 082039503295

Acoustic Rock - Easy Rhythm Guitar Volume 4

The songs in the Hal Leonard Easy Rhythm Guitar books are presented with large, easy-to-read Rhythm Tab notation. The rhythm guitar part, or accompaniment, is carefully arranged for beginner to intermediate players. Chord frames are provided to help the player with left-hand fingerings. Lyrics and a melody cue are also included. Just listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The audio CD works on any CD player. For PC and MAC users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! This pack lets you play the chords and riffs of 10 classic folk pop songs, including: Band on the Run · Free Fallin' · Maggie May · Night Moves · Time for Me to Fly · and more.

SKU: 699899 ISBN: 1423420292 UPC: 884088110796

Acoustic Rock for Guitar

This handy guidebook helps you discover: basic string patterns; how to read rhythm charts; classic acoustic parts in the style of The Beatles, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, and Sheryl Crow; the basics of fingerstyle guitar; classic fingerstyle parts in the style of James Taylor, Extreme, Crosby Stills & Nash, and Eric Clapton; and more!

SKU: 695019 ISBN: 0793543754 UPC: 073999950199

Acoustic Rock for Guitar

SKU: 695271 ISBN: 0793590043 UPC: 073999952711

Acting in the Million Dollar Minute

While television commercials often elicit groans from the viewer, they mean work for actors and can be the bread-and-butter backbone of an actor's career, providing a safety net of income while he or she climbs the ladder to greater success. And for those actors who achieve face-to-product recognition, commercial work can provide handsome residuals for years to come. While many books on the market include some information on commercial work, Acting in the Million Dollar Minute deals exclusively with the art and business of acting in commercials. Here the art is narrow: script terminology and procedure, commercial dialogue, camera staging, working the product, sample commercial scripts, and detailed analysis of how a commercial is actually shot; while the business side, reflecting the general industry, broadens to include training, photos, the resume, unions, actor-agency contracts, the interview, the screen test, callbacks, pay and working conditions, and a complete list of SAG and AFTRA offices. In this revised and updated edition, this book provides direction on how to: Decipher the meaning behind the commercial script; Begin and end every commercial performance; Get the auditioners' attention immediately when the camera begins rolling; Compel the auditioners, with the sheer force of your performance, to actually watch your playback tape; Take the camera from another actor (i.e. upstaging); Give the director a performance that makes his or her job easier in the editing room.

SKU: 332683 ISBN: 0879103078 UPC: 073999319880

Action! Establishing Your Career in Film and Television Production

A life in the movies has been an American dream for a century. Many people dream of becoming Hollywood professionals, but either aim too high (by trying to produce their own feature film) or too low (by hanging around restaurants frequented by movie stars) and end up frustrated. Wouldn't it be great if someone who knew what to do, someone who had achieved acclaim in the field, would walk us through the steps to success? At last, here is a book by a seasoned movie and television professional, Emmy winner Sandra Gordon, that is filled with practical, yet highly effective ways to build a career in entertainment. Gordon calls upon her own experience working on the television series PARTY OF FIVE, the movie RUDY and many more. There are many books that teach job-seekers how to write resumes or ace interviews, but not many books like ACTION! Uniquely designed for individuals who are interested in a career in the entertainment industry, whether they are recent college graduates or middle-aged career changers, ACTION! takes the formula out of the job-hunting book to the next step, telling its readers not only how to write their resumes, but where to send them, how to keep their jobs once they are hired, and how to advance in their career.

SKU: 314563 ISBN: 1557835845 UPC: 073999145632

Adobe Audition Ignite!

Filled with step-by-step instructions in an easy-to-follow format, this book is ideal for new users or upgrade users of Audition. Readers are guided by descriptive screenshots on all the features of this popular audio editing and mixing software package. With its hundreds of features and effects and endless manipulation tools, Audition isn't the type of application that most people can pick up and begin using right away without some outside help. With the growing number of users, there is a need for a resource that clearly shows how to use the program and get the utmost value out of its functionalities. Audition Ignite! takes a potentially very confusing topic and makes it simpler to comprehend. It allows eager readers to jump right into using the software in no time.

SKU: 331825 ISBN: 1592004296 UPC: 082039504292

All About Bass

Bass playing made fun and easy Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the bass guitar? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your bass playing quest, then this is it: All About Bass is for you. Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting tid-bits on bass makes & models, care and maintenance, other fretted instruments, and other fun stuff about the bass. This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes: · An introduction to bass · Step-by-step music reading instruction · How to play by ear and improvise · Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs · Performing tips · CD includes over 90 tracks for demo and play-along. Over 40 popular songs, including: All Shook Up · Another One Bites the Dust · Born Under a Bad Sign · Brick House · Come Together · Get up (I Feel like Being) a Sex Machine · The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) · I Got You (I Feel Good) · In the Midnight Hour · Message in a Bottle · Paperback Writer · Pride and Joy · Sweet Emotion · You Can't Hurry Love · and many more.

SKU: 695930 ISBN: 1423408179 UPC: 884088039561

All About Drums

Drumset playing made fun and easy Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the drumset? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your drumset playing quest, then this is it: All About Drums is for you. Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, creating your own beats, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing the beats and fills to your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting tid-bits on drumset makes & models, care and maintenance, additional percussion instruments, and other fun stuff about the drumset. This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes: · An introduction to the drumset · Step-by-step music reading instruction · How to create your own beats, fills, & solos · Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs · Performing tips · CD includes over 90 tracks for demo and play-along. Over 40 favorite songs, including: Come Together · Detroit Rock City · Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover · Hurts So Good · Message in a Bottle · Oh, Pretty Woman · Pour Some Sugar on Me · Shattered · Smells like Teen Spirit · Swingtown · Walk This Way · The Zephyr Song · and more.

SKU: 6620098 ISBN: 1423408187 UPC: 884088039578

All About Hard Disk Recorders

Be successful in the world of hard disk recorders! If you are new to hard disk recording, or if you're just seeking more background knowledge, this book contains a wealth of information. Modern computer-based recording technology offers all sorts of inspiring tools, and the hard disk recorder is at the center of it all. This book takes you from the very beginning with an overview, to practical tips for taking advantage of the choices you have with this flexible recording system. Topics include: setting up a hard drive; how hard disk recordings work; principles of audio editing; nondestructive editing; maintaining a hard drive; how a work station operates; and more. A glossary of terms supports your reading as you dive into this musical adventure. This book is a perfect first step to a whole new era of recording technology!

SKU: 331033 ISBN: 0634057340 UPC: 073999608328

All About Piano

A Fun and Simple Guide to Playing Piano Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the piano? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your piano playing quest, then this is it: All About Piano is for you. Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting tid-bits on piano makes & models, care and maintenance, other keyboard instruments, and other fun stuff about the piano. This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes: · An introduction to pianos and keyboard instruments · Step-by-step music reading instruction · How to play by ear and improvise · Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs · Performing tips. Over 40 popular songs, including: All My Loving (The Beatles) · Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John) · Für Elise (Beethoven) · Imagine (John Lennon) · Linus and Lucy (Vince Guaraldi) · Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) · Your Cheatin' Heart (Hank Williams) · and more. The CD includes 70 tracks for demo and play-along.

SKU: 311298 ISBN: 1423408160 UPC: 884088039554

All Music Guide - 4th Edition

From folk to avant-garde to world music, this fun-to-browse book easily guides readers to more than 20,000 great recordings by over 4,000 artists through thorough reviews and ratings. Arranged by genre (the book covers 16 styles in all), each section provides informed essays on how the music evolved and its various styles, intriguing artist biographies, and insightful reviews and ratings of the top recordings. The lives and work of major artists are described in depth. Easy-to-read music maps chart the development of each genre, its key players, and their influences. Now in its fourth edition, this authoritative reference highlights essential collection albums as well as first purchase recordings to help listeners buy CDs. Nearly 1,500 info-packed pages! Makes you delirious with knowledge. - Entertainment Weekly The most useful single volume your money can buy. - Mojo

SKU: 330733 ISBN: 0879306270 UPC: 073999307337

Alla Turca Jazz

Based on the final movement of Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, this arrangement by Turkish composer Say (b. 1970) incorporates typical jazz elements into this classical masterwork, creating a challenging, encore-ready showpiece.

SKU: 49016752 ISBN: UPC: 884088213756

American Basses

The first comprehensive book on American-made electric and acoustic bass guitars, American Basses offers a wealth of well-researched information about all of the important builders, from one-man shops to the biggest manufacturers. Hundreds of full-color photos illustrate the wide range of instruments available, and special insider essays take you step by step through the bassmaking process, from concept and design to final setup. Includes how-to tips from top builders and designers on topics such as: neck and bridge setup; active vs. passive pickups; bolt-on vs. neck-through design; tonewood characteristics; defeating hum and buzz; string angle and tone; and more. What a book! I feel much closer to my bass guitar after having read American Basses. - Will Lee, Bass Player for The Late Show with David Letterman

SKU: 331070 ISBN: 0879307218 UPC: 073999243710

American Muse - Life and Times of William Schuman

President of The Juilliard School and then Lincoln Center from 1945 to 1968, Schuman (1910-1992) was an artistic catalyst who was instrumental in shaping how America perceived and supported music, dance and drama in the second half of the twentieth centry. His influence as an administrator, educator and composer made him known during this period as the most powerful person in the arts in the United States. Complex, driven, and filled with a confident optimism that characterized America of the time, he thought of himself as part of many different worlds. Those worlds included his life as a composer of more than one hundred works in chamber, orchestral, operatic, and choral settings. His music has been characterized as full of American directness in its vibrant rhythms and brilliant orchestrations. This first-ever complete biography of Schuman will bring the many threads of his life together within the context of the personalities and events that shaped how we experience the arts in America in the twenty-first century.

SKU: 331747 ISBN: 1574671731 UPC: 884088133160

American Theatre Revolution - My Half Century at Circle in the Square

This is Theodore Mann's account of his own and the Circle's remarkable history. At times it's difficult to tell where the two diverge, so integral to the company has he been. From Thornton Wilder to Al Pacino, it seems as if every great actor and playwright of the past fifty years has had his or her best work at Circle. As befits a story about theatre, it is at times comic and at times tragic. If you ever wondered how Off-Broadway ever came to be (and how it ever managed to survive), this is the tale to read. DVD BONUS: As a special bonus, An American Theatre Revolution includes a DVD of the 1977 CBS-TV Camera Three program Twenty Five Years of Circle in the Square. It features Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott, Vanessa Redgrave, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones, and Mann himself talking about their experiences at the theatre and includes excerpts of such noted Circle in the Square productions as Death of a Salesman, Mourning Becomes Electra, and The Lady from the Sea.

SKU: 314696 ISBN: 1557836450 UPC: 073999146967

And the Show Goes On

From Booklist: Actor-director-producer Leonard has a real gift for storytelling that he displays to the fullest in a breezy, readable memoir of his life in show business. Starting out as an actor in 1930s New York in such forgotten hit plays as Hotel Alimony, Fly Away Home, and Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Leonard had the foresight and financial need to leap first to radio and movies, then to television, in which he created or produced such rerun perennials as Make Room for Daddy, The Andy Griffith Show, and the controversial (for its time) I Spy. Along the way, Leonard met lots and lots of fascinating people--John Garfield, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, Carl Reiner, and Bill Cosby, to mention a few of the dozens about whom Leonard has a funny story or three to tell. Some of these stories are well known, such as those of the closeness of the writers, actors, and staff of The Dick Van Dyke Show; others are not, such as those of Leonard's various, sometimes dangerous, adventures around the world while filming I Spy. -Jack Helbig

SKU: 332422 ISBN: 0879101849 UPC: 073999458923

Animal Tales

Imagine how different the world looks from a giraffe's perspective. Or the beautiful view a snail enjoys as he moves along at a slow, easy pace. Learn how a zebra discovers life is not a simple as black and white. Young readers (and 'good listeners') in grades 2-5 will meet a host of animal friends in this character-building collection of 8 interactive stories, songs and activities. For maximum learning and participation, a variety of reading and performance options are included to involve from one reader to a whole group. The life lessons from the animal tales are reinforced with songs, activities and puzzles. And everything is reproducible! A recording of the stories and songs is also available for loads of listening and interactive fun! Available: Teacher Edition (with reproducible pages), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (Teacher & P/A CD). For Gr. 2-5.

SKU: 9970751 ISBN: 1423413296 UPC: 884088074364

Animal Tales

SKU: 9970752 ISBN: 1423414721 UPC: 884088074371

Animal Tales

SKU: 9970765 ISBN: 142341330X UPC: 884088084806

Anthropology

In the skilled hands of Mark Taylor, this uptempo bebop classic becomes a showstopper! Listen for the masterful Bird sax soli as well as tight ensemble sounds, all at a brisk pace. If your band is ready for something they can sink their teeth into, this may be the perfect chart.

SKU: 7011411 ISBN: UPC: 884088155797

Applause!

This piece was inspired by a variety of music such as Broadway musicals, French cancan, and circus marches. A special rhythm pattern called Ipponjime(or Sanbonjime) is played by the percussion (3+3+3+1) in the first four measures. This is how people freely clap their hands when ceremonies or parties end in Japan. This custom of clapping hands reflects Japanese people's spirit to readily move on to the next step. As the infectious work comes to its exciting conclusion every player shouts yeah! ensuring you will definitely hear rapturous applause!

SKU: 44003097 ISBN: UPC: 884088079499

Applause! Full Score

SKU: 44003098 ISBN: UPC: 884088079505

Arpeggios - Guitar Reference Guide

This book in the new Guitar Reference Guides series allows players to find any arpeggio quickly and with ease. No music reading is required, as each arpeggio is shown in diagram form. Unlike other giant arpeggio books that cover only the most common arpeggios, this book presents every arpeggio type with numerous fingering options. Ideal for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow guide to last a lifetime, and for consummate professionals who need a reference of arpeggios for every possible musical situation.

SKU: 2500125 ISBN: 1575602466 UPC: 073999695601

Art of Torah Cantillation

You can chant Torah! This unique, step-by-step book/CD pack will lead the novice through each step of learning how to chant Torah. Divided into 13 lessons and additional useful appendices and bibliography, the book allows the reader to self-teach the important principles of Torah cantillation. The only prerequisites are a basic ability to read Hebrew and a willingness to learn. Perfect for B'nai Mitzvah students, beginning learners, and adult education courses. Includes: step-by-step exercises and instructions; CD recordings that correspond to the exercises; both male and female recorded voices; a glossary, list of parashot, High Holy Day cantillation; and more.

SKU: 191039 ISBN: UPC: 073999227802

Assignment: Earth (Musical)

What can kids do? Plenty! Join the E Team as they apply Kid Power to the problems we all face in cleaning up the environment. The eight exciting original unison/2-part songs in this contemporary all-school revue feature styles from Broadway to pop and from rap to rock which are flexible enough to perform with one class or an entire school! Short, easy-to-learn dialogue and simple staging options will make this a can't fail show that will inspire as well as entertain. The comprehensive suggestions in the Teacher's Manual give you lots of ideas for enrichment activities in science, reading, art, and creative writing. Available: Teacher's Manual, Singer's Edition 5-Pak, Preview Cassette (full performance only), Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: 30 minutes. For gr. 3-8.

SKU: 40326084 ISBN: UPC: 073999572728

Assignment: Earth (Musical)

SKU: 40326085 ISBN: UPC: 073999260854

Assignment: Earth (Musical)

SKU: 40326088 ISBN: UPC: 884088091613

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