Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry



English | 2018 | ISBN: 1538111438 | 386 Pages | PDF | 3 MB

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?

The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the diversity of the American music industry, spanning classical to country and hip hop to heavy metal.

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Links update: 23/08/2020

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?

Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, 'Why This Sound?', presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of 'Sonic Labor.' Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary 'Living with Sounds.' The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how “Sound Works” today.

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Links update: 09/11/2020

Explore the sweet melodies and interesting flurries that you can add to your own solos, as you learn Sam's brand new rock track with slow licks, breakdown sections and complete TAB/Notation!

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Udemy Rapidly Read Music Like a Pro TUTORiAL



P2P | 656 MB

This course is designed to dramatically increase your musical horizons. It will take you from little to no knowledge of written music, to being able to read and interpret music.

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Links update: 10/05/2023

In this Groove3 video tutorial series, studio wizard Larry Holcombe serves up ways to use and get creative with Soundtoys plug-ins! See how to craft unique, powerful sounds and effects using some of Soundtoys best processors. Download the tracks and stems Larry uses in the videos so you can follow along at home.

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Links update: 15/03/2020

Get up and running with Pro Tools. In collaboration with Avid (makers of Pro Tools), we have teamed up with Frank D. Cook, author of the Avid Pro Tools 101 book, to create this course. Here, Frank translates the official Avid training into an online course covering all of the fundamentals for using this popular digital audio workstation. Frank starts by going over basic digital audio concepts and the Pro Tools software interface. He quickly moves into creating a Pro Tools session and making an audio recording. Then, he explains how to import audio, work with MIDI, and select, navigate, and edit within the Pro Tools interface. He wraps up by demonstrating basic mixing and automation techniques and showing how to bounce down a final mix.

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Links update: 20/02/2021

Suffering from tutorial overwhelm? Tips and tricks are good, but they only take you so far.

In order to get pro caliber mixes, you must learn to THINK like a pro mixer... and that only happens through osmosis. That's why I want to let you be virtually "in the room" with me while I mix a song from start to finish.

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Skillshare Music Theory Fundamentals Begginer TUTORiAL



FANTASTiC | 470 MB

This class will introduce you to the theory of music, providing the skills needed to read and write standard music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and introduce some basics of listening.

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Links update: 02/01/2021

This is the perfect place to start for beginner piano players! Take all the guess work out of how and what to practice. This program comes with specially designed practice videos for each lesson.

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Groove3 Orchestral Percussion SDX Explained TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | 666 MB

In this in depth video tutorial series, Toontrack master Luke Oswald explains everything you need to know about the epic Orchestral Percussion SDX expansion library from Toontrack. Starting with how to install the expansion, coverage of all its features and functions, customization ideas, tips and tricks, and sound design examples, we have you covered when learning about this massive sound library for Superior Drummer 3.t

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Check links: 14/09/2021 All links are alive!

Proving once again why he's on the precipice of modern metal guitar playing, Sergey Golovin returns with his brand new track 'Bouncing Ball' and you can learn every note lick by lick!

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MacProVideo Logic Pro X 502 Studio Series Recording Vocals TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | 1.2 GB

A lot of techniques and concepts need to be mastered for capturing great-sounding vocals with Apple’s Logic Pro X. Watch this advanced course by audio engineer Joshua Carney and learn them all!

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Udemy PianoFox - Master the Piano From Beginner to Pro Tutorial



P4 | Video: AVC 1280x720 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | Duration: 4.5 Hours | Lec: 93 | 1.24 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Master beginning piano the SMART way with a new and easy, step-by-step series of fun and engaging lessons

Let's face it! EVERYONE has to start somewhere. You can't play the piano without lots of time and practice, but PianoFox can change that! With easy to use lessons, PianoFox can help play like a pro in weeks! Have you ever wanted to just sit down and play piano like the pros? Now you can!

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Links update: 19/07/2021

Do you want to be able to sit down at the piano, without music, and just play? If so, this course is for you.

Specially created for those of you wanting to learn Blues piano, using a mixture of songs and exercises, the piano lessons build up in achievable stages and will encourage you to eventually be able to improvise cool blues piano on the spot. Yes that's right, by the end of the course you will be able to improvise blues piano, and it will all be coming out of your own head!

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