Now is the right time to become an American Federation of Musicians member. From ragtime to rap, from the early phonograph to today's digital recordings, the AFM has been there for its members. And now there are more benefits available to AFM members than ever before, including a multi-million dollar pension fund, excellent contract protection, instrument and travelers insurance, work referral programs and access to licensed booking agents to keep you working.
As an AFM member, you are part of a membership of more than 80,000 musicians. Experience has proven that collective activity on behalf of individuals with similar interests is the most effective way to achieve a goal. The AFM can negotiate agreements and administer contracts, procure valuable benefits and achieve legislative goals. A single musician has no such power.
The AFM has a proud history of managing change rather than being victimized by it. We find strength in adversity, and when the going gets tough, we get creative - all on your behalf.
Like the industry, the AFM is also changing and evolving, and its policies and programs will move in new directions dictated by its members. As a member, you will determine these directions through your interest and involvement. Your membership card will be your key to participation in governing your union, keeping it responsive to your needs and enabling it to serve you better. To become a member now, visit www.afm.org/join.
This collection of more than 250 best-loved piano masterpieces from the Baroque period through the 20th century, includes works by beloved composers, from Bach and Dussek to Krebs and Tchaikovsky, and many more.
Designers of today’s electric guitars draw heavily on great instruments created in the ’50s and ’60s. This book details how those masterpieces happened, why they are still relevant, and the effects they continue to have on modern guitar design.
Alfred’s Pop Steel Drum Series book and CD set includes medium to difficult traditional calypso and pop classics with “virtual” steel band backing tracks and treble clef lead sheets for any melodic instrument.
Make Your Own Music is a complete classroom curriculum for learning and teaching music technology, incorporating composition ideas, notation, and digital audio workstation (DAW) proficiencies.
This book by singer-songwriter Jessi Colter tells the story of her career, love, and faith, as well as life as the wife of music legend Waylon Jennings.
This extensive and thorough exercise book for guitar places focus on dexterity and physical technique.
Based on a combination of an Eastern modal system (maqam) and Western harmony applied to oriental modalities, flamenco has long confused Western composers. This series is a theoretical and practical manual for composers and performers interested in modal music, and/or flamenco modalities.
This book provides piano, vocal, and guitar arrangements for all of the songs on Carrie Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 album.
For more than a century, Vassily Brandt’s etudes have prepared trumpet players to play orchestral standards. This new edition was created to foster renewed awareness of note groupings, sequences, stylistic emphasis, and syncopation.
The Neumann U 67 tube microphone, introduced in 1960, quickly became the quintessential studio workhorse, defining the sound of the ’60s.