Links update: 24/11/2020

Thomas Cochran shows you how to make your very first beat with Ableton Live! See how to produce your first beat from scratch, using nothing but Ableton Live, including software installation and understanding Live's layout, all the way to exporting your finished beat and more. This series is designed for the absolute newcomer to Ableton Live.

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Links update: 19/07/2024

Audacity is a powerful open-source app for recording and editing audio… and best of all it’s free! Let our audio expert Joe Albano guide you through all the features of this popular audio editor for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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Links update: 22/11/2021

Welcome to the COMPLETE HISTORY OF MUSIC, PART 2!

This class is for anyone who has wondered about the origins of music, how it came to be, and where it came from.

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Skillshare - Cinematic Music Composition - Rhythm & Percussion TUTORiAL



MP4, 1920x1080 , 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 44.1kHz, 2ch | Duration: 4h 40m
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 2.64 GB

Cinematic Music Composition - Rhythm & Percussion

Hello Composers, Mike here. And you are about to go on a new learning adventure. Your destination for this journey, is to unlock the secrets of rhythm in music composition. And your end goal is to become a master of using rhythm in your cinematic music compositions.

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Udemy - Easiest Instrument To Learn-Keyboard Notes, Chords & Scales TUTORiAL



MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz
Language: English | VTT | Size: 301 MB | Duration: 31 mins

What you'll learn
The basic structure of keyboard notes
The difference between black and white keys
How to identify different octaves
The basics of major and minor chords, all the way from A to G

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Udemy Sing Better Today TUTORiAL



P2P | 1.44 GB

Want to quickly expand your vocal range, hit high notes with power and gain control of your voice?

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The Sound System Design Primer



English | ISBN: 113871688X | 2019 | 610 pages | PDF | 114 MB

The Sound System Design Primer is an introduction to the many topics, technologies, and sub-disciplines that make up contemporary sound systems design.

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Digital Signal Processing in Audio and Acoustical Engineering



English | 2019 | ISBN: 1466593881 | 242 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Starting with essential maths, fundamentals of signals and systems, and classical concepts of DSP, this book presents, from an application-oriented perspective, modern concepts and methods of DSP including machine learning for audio acoustics and engineering. Content highlights include but are not limited to room acoustic parameter measurements, filter design, codecs, machine learning for audio pattern recognition and machine audition, spatial audio, array technologies and hearing aids. Some research outcomes are fed into book as worked examples. As a research informed text, the book attempts to present DSP and machine learning from a new and more relevant angle to acousticians and audio engineers.

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Sonic Academy Tech Tips Volume 47 with Dirty Secretz TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | 1.1 GB

This week we welcome back Richie aka Dirty Secretz for a new set of tips and tricks in Ableton in Tech Tips Volume 47.

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Live Electronic Music : Composition, Performance, Study



English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138022608 | 359 Pages | 15 MB

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer’s role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently precise or transmitted in a nontraditional format. Thus, at the core of this project is an absence. The objects of study lack a reliably precise graphical representation of the work as the composer or the composer/performer conceived or imagined it. How do we compose, perform and study music that cannot be set in conventional notation? The authors of this book examine this problem from the complementary perspectives of the composer, the performer, the musical assistant, the audio engineer, the computer scientist and the musicologist.

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Links update: 18/11/2023

This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. The chapters combine insights from established academic writers with the work of younger scholars, some of whom are directly engaged in contemporary underground music scenes.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education : Perspectives and Practices



English | 2019 | ISBN: 1350049417 | 505 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Educationdraws together current thinking and practice on popular music education from empirical, ethnographic, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Through a series of unique chapters from authors working at the forefront of music education, this book explores the ways in which an international group of music educators each approach popular music education. Chapters discuss pedagogies from across the spectrum of formal to informal learning, including “outside” and “other” perspectives that provide insight into the myriad ways in which popular music education is developed and implemented. The book is organized into the following sections:

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Hip Hop Around the World : An Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]



English | 2019 | ISBN: 0313357587 | 945 Pages | PDF | 30 MB

This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity.

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Groove3 MODO Drum Explained TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | 215 MB

Eli Krantzberg brings you in-depth IK Multimedia MODO Drum videos! Learn MODO Drum inside and out, including how to make your first drum part. These MODO Drum tutorials are for those just starting out with the MODO Drum virtual instrument, as well as intermediate MODO Drum users.

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Collective Participation and Audience Engagement in Rap Music



English | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 154 Pages | ISBN : 3030253767 | 4 MB

Why do rap MCs present their studio recorded lyrics as “live and direct”? Why do they so insistently define abilities or actions, theirs or someone else’s, against a pre-existing signifier? This book examines the compositional practice of rap lyricists and offers compelling answers to these questions. Through a 40 year-span analysis of the music, it argues that whether through the privileging of chanted call-and-response phrases or through rhetorical strategies meant to assist in getting one’s listening audience open, the focus of the first rap MCs on community building and successful performer-audience cooperation has remained prevalent on rap records with lyrics and production techniques encouraging the listener to become physically and emotionally involved in recorded performances.

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