Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why by Dale Purves



English | 2017 | ISBN: 067454515X | 157 Pages | 4.88 MB

The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organised scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? In Music as Biology, Dale Purves argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent.

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Links update: 15/05/2017

The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion is an essential practical resource for instrumental music teachers and band directors. Author Stewart Hoffman, a Juilliard-trained percussionist, performer, private instructor, and former classroom teacher, offers comprehensive yet accessible and clearly written handbook to help set teachers and students alike firmly on the road to classroom success. In this book, he offers a thorough foundation in snare drum, timpani, keyboard percussion, drum set, and auxiliary and Latin percussion techniques. More than this, he provides practical advice on curriculum and methodology, packing page after page with teaching tips developed through the decades of experience.

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Links update: 09/05/2017

Phil tackles ‘Rhythm’ and all that surrounds it.

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Links update: 09/05/2017

This lesson, Phil tackles ‘Chords’ and all that surrounds them.

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Links update: 21/05/2020

Top Deep House Producer Tom Demac will take you through a step by step guide to making House and Deep House Music with Ableton Live. The course covers everything you could possibly need to know and more about making this style of music.

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Metal Method - Easy Guitar Modes Package with Sarah Spisak (2017)



P2P | Feb 06 2017 | 7.65 GB

Sarah Spisak has been making music theory fun and accessible for countless guitarists over the years. Her ground-breaking “Melodic Principles” course briefly covered a nine-note block system for mastering the modes and covering the entire fretboard with minimal time and effort. Now she has expanded on this innovative method and packed the course with fun-to-play exercises, solos and backing tracks.

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Links update: 02/02/2024

Sonic Academy welcomes back UK House legend Steve Mac for another exciting course.
This time he takes us through how he creates a Tech House monster - starting with the Akai MPC before moving into Logic for the arrangement.

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Links update: 27/02/2021

In this in-depth video tutorial series, Luke Oswald explains how drum replacement works and covers some of the most popular plug-ins for drum replacement, as well as using features found in some DAWs. See how to get awesome sounding drum takes every time!

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Links update: 03/05/2017

A Classical Method of Instruction: Are you one of the twenty million Americans who took piano lessons in their youth but never became proficient? Dan and I are, and a seemingly common denominator amongst us quitters is that piano teachers within the last 100 years have relied too much on rigid teaching methods that result in months or even years of drudgery before a child is adept at making music.

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Links update: 05/11/2021

If you’re a student of Kontakt scripting, you’ve built some sample libraries, and you want to see more advanced concepts used in a real world project then these tutorial videos are made for you.

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Sound & Recording - Februar 2017



German | 84 pages | True PDF | 14 MB

Studio Akustik optimieren +++ 3-Wege-Monitor mit AMT-Hochtöner +++ 3D-Mikrofon +++ Tor zum Mixing-Multiversum +++ Bruno Mars +++

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Links update: 25/01/2022

Ableton Live’s MIDI FX are truly transformative. Ableton-certified trainer Noah Pred explores these powerful FX in this extremely focussed, in-action FastTrack™ course. Watch and master Live's MIDI FX now!

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Links update: 26/03/2017

A documentary on how the Roland TR-808 changed the musical world

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Links update: 03/05/2017

Sampler is capable of really advanced sampling and resampling. This course lets you access these features with an indepth look at Ableton Sampler.

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