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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers
In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making. Volume one looks at fifty songs from the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1938 with Charlie Christian’s first recording session, and ending in 1956. Along the way, it looks at Louis Jordan, LaVern Baker, the Ink Spots, Fats Domino, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackie Brenston, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.Read more
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Music Production | 2024+ Edition: The Professional Studio Guide for Producers, Songwriters, Artists & Audio Mastering Engineers
Techniques, tricks, and pro tips to make your sound the very best it can be!
Do you want to make better music? How about achieving a professional sound? Or even being able to work in professional studios?
If you’re serious about improving your music production, songwriting, and audio engineering skills to a professional level, then keep on reading….
Most musicians dream of making professional sounding music. But in order to create great music, they need to understand the steps and tools involved. With proper skill development, creativity, and knowledge, anyone can reach that professional level.
This book will show you how, whether you want to build a studio, work in one, start a label, or to make better music. Inside, you will find up-to-date, practical, and well-explained techniques in a professional guide for 2024 and beyond.
Here is just a tiny fraction of what you will discover:
- Studio design, acoustics + how to set up your own pro studio in 6 steps
- The hit songwriting formula—songwriting, lyrics, melody, and construction
- Types of microphones, selection, placement and optimization
- Tips for recording vocals, guitars, drums, and other instruments
- Motivation and mental hacks (get your mental game together and your production skills will go through the roof!)
- Record labels vs. indie production + business, marketing and legal tips
- Step by step guide to mix and master your music—even if you’re not a technical person
- Music Production as a career – education, qualifications and requirements
- Film, TV, Live events, Video Games, Podcasts, Radio and more
- Advanced techniques for compression, stereo, automation, EQ, and unconventional recording methods
- Advances in technology including Artificial Intelligence for music
- Everything you need to know about audio, recording and music production in 2024, and beyond
And much, much more…
Save yourself months of going through low-quality YouTube tutorials and get all the information you need in one place.
Become the music producer you’ve always wanted to be and start making your best music.
Get started now with this book.
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Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989
With 25 albums of pop music, 5 of classical – a total of around 500 songs – released over the course of more than half a century, Paul McCartney’s career, on his own and with Wings, boasts an incredible catalogue that’s always striving to free itself from the shadow of The Beatles. The stories behind the songs, demos and studio recordings, unreleased tracks, recording dates, musicians, live performances and tours, covers, events: Music Is Ideas Volume 1 traces McCartney’s post-Beatles output from 1970 to 1989 in the form of 346 song sheets, filled with details of the recordings and stories behind the sessions. Accompanied by photos, and drawing on interviews and contemporary reviews, this reference book draws the portrait of a musical craftsman who has elevated popular song to an art-form.Read more
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The Greatest 100 Albums to own on Vinyl: The must have records for your collection
* Even in this digital age, we haven’t moved so far from our past that there’s no room for the traditional musical format that is vinyl. * In 100 Greatest Albums You Should Own On Vinyl, we collate the greatest albums to have ever been pressed and then sold on vinyl since the ’50s. * From the bands and solo artists that made the music possible. * The sleeve art and limited edition extras of the records themselves. * Take a trip back in time to discover the ultimate artists and their best records for the definitive list of vinyl that should be part of any collection! * Van Morrison * Def Leppard * Bob Dylan * The Beatles * The Rolling Stones * Dr Dre * Kate Bush * Sex Pistols * Nirvana * The White Stripes * The Jimi Hendrix Experience and many more.Read more
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The Greatest Albums to Own on Vinyl Ever: The Must Have Albums for Your Collection
The Greatest Albums To Own On Vinyl Ever collates the greatest records to have ever been pressed and sold on vinyl since the 1950s. From the bands and solo artists that made the music, to the sleeve art and limited edition extras of the record itself, we will take you on the ultimate journey of musical discovery.Read more
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The Official Charts – The Sixties
The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of both singles and album charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Sixties Hits Book. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.Read more
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The Official Eighties Hits Book
This book is a companion volume to The Official Albums and Singles Chart books of the 1980s that were recently published on behalf of the Official Chart Company. Those books replicate the weekly charts throughout the eighties, while this book takes the data and produces artist by artist listings of hit singles and albums. Each artist entry contains brief biographical information, including individual dates of birth and place of birth (where known), together with details of awards and honours – BRIT Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Europe awards and Birthday and New Years Honours List awards. Singles and albums that have attained silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum status are also identified, together with RIAA Diamond Awards. This is the ultimate chart trivia book for the 1980s!Read more
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The Official Singles Chart – The Seventies
The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day.Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.Read more
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The Rare Record Price Guide 2024
This is the most up-to-date version of the now world-renowned Rare Record Price Guide. It is the undisputed key text detailing pricings for a huge array and range of vinyl, from familiar classics to lost, underground albums of yesteryear.Read more
£26.70£33.30The Rare Record Price Guide 2024
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The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (Routledge Music Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.
Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.
Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.
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The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 5 2010-1019
Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing vol. 5 traces the ups-and-downs of a remarkable career. Using facts, figures and anecdotes, it reveals the influences and stories behind every song written by Paul McCartney from 2010 to 2019, who played on them, where and when. Taking an in-depth look at McCartney’s recording sessions, Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing unravels the stimuli of contemporary events, the musical influences that have shaped his life and the studio experimentation that helped fashion his music. Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing is a fascinating guide to Paul McCartney and his music that maps his journey from ex-Beatle to twenty-first century renaissance man. Fully illustrated with hundreds of examples of rare album artwork and record labels, this is the ultimate exploration of the ex-Beatle’s solo recording career.
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The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock: Third Edition
“The Book to discover the Music of the Seventies” Back in print for 2020! The definitive record guide to the progressive era of rock music, Strawberry Bricks presents a comprehensive discography with reviews of 500+ albums, with band histories, musical synopses, key tracks and critical commentary, all presented in the historical context of a timeline. Beginning in 1967 and continuing through 1982, a generation of musicians took rock music in directions unforeseen as they charted what would become known as progressive rock. From art rock to krautrock, from England to Germany to Italy and all across Europe, Strawberry Bricks offers a candid reappraisal of rock’s most cerebral genre.Read more
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