Business Technical category: 711 books
The Independent Piano Teacher's Studio Handbook
Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Teaching Studio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
(Educational Piano Library). This handy and thorough guide is designed to help the independent piano teacher in all aspects of running his/her own studio. Whether it be business practices such as payment plans, taxes, and marketing, or teaching tips involving technique, composition, or sight reading,...
Music Marketing for the DIY Musician
Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low Budget
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
There has never been a greater need for practical DIY marketing advice from a musician who has been there and succeeded than now – at a time when new technologies make it more possible than ever for musicians to attract attention independently and leverage their own careers, and record industry...
The Art of Music Production
The Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings. Now in its fourth edition, it is the definitive guide to the art and business of music production. Author and producer Richard James Burgess...
Writing Music for Commercials
Television, Radio, and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
In Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media, professor, composer, arranger, and producer Michael Zager describes the process of composing and arranging music specifically for commercials across the growing variety of media formats. Writing music for commercials requires composers...
by Jonathan Wyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
(Berklee Guide). Improve the sound of your recordings. Mastering is the art of optimizing recorded sound, finding the ideal volume levels and tonal quality, and insuring data integrity necessary to produce a professional-quality duplication and distribution-ready master. This book introduces the techniques...
Allen Klein
The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The story of the notorious rock and roll manager, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest bands in music history.
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the...
by Pamela Phillips Oland
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Finally-the first songwriting guide to the most popular music genre in history! Written by a professional songwriter, The Art of Writing Love Songs provides inspiration to anyone seeking to write captivating songs about the most enduring musical subject of all. Readers will discover how to express...
The Half That's Never Been Told
The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
"Impassioned and engaging."
--Booklist
"A heartfelt tribute to Caribbean roots music and those who keep it alive."
--Kirkus Reviews
"In 1972, Gary Himelfarb...heard reggae music for the first time and fell in love. He embraced the music...with a passion that...
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by Brian Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This book takes a close look at the essential elements consistently found in the structure, melodies and lyrics of all hit songs. The book highlights and analyzes the most common errors that are made when these key components are built into a song, so that new writers can try to avoid such mistakes...
Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming
A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
(Berklee Press). Find better rhymes, and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhyme work for you, and your lyric writing will greatly...
Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle
The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada at that time. The Toronto business that was conducted...
The Melody Man
Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Joe Davis, the focus of The Melody Man enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s, copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee, oversaw hundreds...
Master Soundcloud
Music Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
If you are serious about your band promotion, you need to leverage the power of Soundcloud.
Lots of bands are struggling to grow their music business because they just don't know where to find their fans!
I feel your pain. In this book I will walk you through a complete marketing plan...
The Contemporary Minstrel
Songwriting, Recording and Making Money with Your Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In The Contemporary Minstrel, Louis Anthony deLise presents a first-of-its-kind organized and scholarly study of the craft of creating and marketing pop songs. He includes in this book a primer on music theory, detailed descriptions of all pop song forms, analysis of well-written songs and a complete...