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Music Marketing for the DIY Musician: Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low Budget
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Music Marketing for the DIY Musician: Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low Budget

Music Marketing for the DIY Musician: Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low BudgetMusic Marketing for the DIY Musician is a proactive, step-by-step guide to producing a low-budget plan for marketing your music. New technologies make it more possible than ever for musicians to attract attention independently and leverage their own success. This book will help you see your music as a business where you can employ some of the same tools used by top companies, while always staying true to your artistic integrity. Author Bobby Borg shares his experiences from 25 years as a musician and entrepreneur, as well as research involving thousands of independent artists and marketing experts.

Music Marketing for the DIY Musician: Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low Budget, by Bobby Borg, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers
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Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers

Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and TeachersFresh Music chronicles 40 years of Local 9-535 (Boston, MA) member and guitarist Jon Damian’s Creative Workshop Ensemble (CreW), both at the Berklee College of Music and internationally. The book provides refreshing alternatives for improvising and teaching, and immerses and engages the reader in real and practical creative experiences. Written in the form of a play with characters consisting of the workshop members, including Damian, the book invites the reader to join in with CreW activities and ideas inspired by everything in the universe, from alphabets to zodiacs.

Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers, by Jon Damian, Yo! Publications, www.jondamian.com.

Basics in Jazz Arranging
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Basics in Jazz Arranging

Basics in Jazz ArrangingThis book is a must-have for anyone interested in learning about jazz arranging. Written by a renowned jazz educator and based on what he’s taught for more than 30 years, this book is a great tool for beginning arrangers, whether they are teaching themselves or taking a course. Basics in Jazz Arranging covers how to find the right song, how to adapt songs to the jazz style, how to set up your first small-group charts, and how to write for brass and woodwinds. Rutherford includes examples of his own original compositions and small group charts, along with a CD that features both full performances and rhythm section only tracks.

Basics in Jazz Arranging, by Paris Rutherford, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

roger waters
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Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall

roger watersThis book looks at the life of musician, activist, and Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters in an attempt to uncover the truth and depth behind the man. Tracing his life, from his childhood in England to today, and all the controversies in between, it is packed with insight and exclusive interviews with friends and associates. It also includes a complete discography and many rare photos.

Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall, by Dave Thompson,
Back Beat Books, www.backbeatbooks.com.

jazz virtuostics
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Jazz Virtuostics for Timpani: Etudes, Exercises, and Lead Sheets, Volume 1

jazz virtuosticsThough not considered an instrument common to jazz, timpani was employed in jazz by some of its big names, including Sonny Greer, Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Gene Krupa. Today jazz timpani is alive and well in this book, thanks to arranger Ian Finkel and timpanist Jonathan Haas of Local 802 (New York City). Together they present 56 exercises to prepare to play jazz and then nine lead sheets and etudes to practice what you’ve learned, referencing such classic tunes as Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm,” Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll,” and “Take the A Train.”

Jazz Virtuostics for Timpani: Etudes, Exercises, and Lead Sheets Volume 1, by Jonathan Haas and Ian Finkel, Bachovich Music Publications, www.bachovich.com.

 

Piano Styles of 23 Pop Masters
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Piano Styles of 23 Pop Masters: Secrets of the Great Contemporary Players

Piano Styles of 23 Pop MastersGet an in-depth look at the piano styles of today’s top rock, pop, and jazz artists through these melodic and harmonic techniques. This book for players of all levels profiles the styles 23 iconic performers, from the pop piano of Sarah McLachlan of Local 145 (Vancouver, BC) to the classic R&B and jazz fusion of George Duke, to the timeless music of Paul McCartney. For artists, like Herbie Hancock of Local 802 (New York City) and Bruce Hornsby of Local 125 (Norfolk, VA), known for their improvisation skills, there are examples of their soloing styles. Included is a play-along CD for all of the examples in the book.

Piano Styles of 23 Pop Masters: Secrets of the Great Contemporary Players, by Mark Harrison, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

Buck Owens
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Buck ’em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens

Buck OwensBuck Owens began creating his own brand of country music in Bakersfield, California, where he changed the way country records were mixed, produced, written, and perceived. In 1969, he began hosting the show Hee Haw and soon became a household name. Beginning in the late 1990s, Owens began working on this autobiography by meticulously recording his life story, from his childhood in Texas, to his glory years into a tape recorder. Producer and author Randy Poe transcribed the stories from the late musician’s recordings to create this book written in Owens’ own words.

Buck ’em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens, by Buck Owens with Randy Poe, Backbeat Books, www.backbeatbooks.com.

Classic Swing Drumming
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Classic Swing Drumming: Methods and Techniques for the Development of Swing Feel

Classic-Swing-DrummingFor more than 40 years, swing drummer Gregory Caputo, a member of Locals 9-535 (Boston, MA) and 171 (Springfield, MA), has played with many legends of swing, from Phil Woods of Locals 577 (Pocono, PA) and 802 (New York City) to David Brubeck and Duke Ellington. In this book, Caputo explains the fundamentals of swing drumming with many examples. Included are comments from many world-class musicians explaining what they like to hear from a drummer. Also available is Caputo’s Classic Swing with Modern Drive CD, featuring Phil Woods.

Classic Swing Drumming: Methods and Techniques for the Development of the Swing Feel, by Gregory Caputo, Pittsfield, MA, www.gregorycaputo.com.

Tin Pan Alley
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The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

The-B-SideDrawing on previously untapped archival sources and on scores of interviews, this book illuminates broad musical trends. It tells the story of how the stream of songs making up the Great American Songbook more or less dried up around 1950, a few years before rock and roll arrived. The B Side is about taste, and the economics and culture of songwriting, as researched and told by acclaimed cultural historian Ben Yagoda.

The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song, by Ben Yagoda, Riverhead Books, Penguin Group, www.penguin.com.

The Art of Memorizing Music
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By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music

by the heartIn this book, Local 198-457 (Providence, RI) member Paul Cienniwa takes readers from personal anecdote to practical skills for becoming a successful memorizing musician. It will give you techniques to boost your memorization skills, which you will carry for the rest of your life. Even if you already have a solid memorization practice, it will inspire some new or different approaches, while also reinforcing your own convictions. Many of the techniques presented are good for any type of practice. Even for nonmemorizing musicians, the book is a useful foundational study of how to practice.

By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music, by Paul Cienniwa, Providence, RI, www.amazon.com.