Links update: 11/08/2024

Strumming Made Easy is the ultimate guide to strumming so songs sound great when you play them on your guitar.

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Links update: 16/08/2024

Ultimate Chops Builder is designed to free you from the physical limitations between your hands and your brain

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Links update: 04/12/2025

In this set of lessons, Tony Lee will teach "Black Hole Sun", by Soundgarden. Tony will talk about the song and the gear and tones, then break down the intro parts before teaching the verse. The chorus guitars follow, then the rhythm for the solo and the massive solo itself. We'll learn the last chorus and outro, then do full and single guitar play along performances. We'll finish up with a jam along where you take over.

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Links update: 23/03/2025

Metal Songwriting is a step by step guide to writing metal songs and solos, featuring Steve’s original metal song “Stargazer” as an example

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Links update: 14/02/2022

Ear Training 2.0 shows you how to play songs by ear and know what scales to use for your guitar solos

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Links update: 13/12/2025

Song Secrets helps you play new songs faster and write your own from scratch

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Ask Video Physical Modeling 101 Physical Modeling Explored TUTORiAL



TUTORiAL | 637 MB

What exactly is Physical Modeling and what can it do for your music? Join audio expert Joe Albano in this course to find out!
Physical Modeling simulates the properties of acoustic sound sources, such as string, brass or wind instruments. With physical modeling instruments, complex mathematical algorithms are used to generate the sound, but thankfully, you don't have to be a math genius to use them. In this course, synth expert Joe Albano takes a look at this unique synthesis method, and gives an overview of different software and hardware instruments that use it.

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Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries



English | ISBN:178938253X | 280 pages | True (PDF, EPUB) | 8 MB

The music industries are fueled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses, and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the revenues of music makers, and they shape the policies of governments and legislators. Yet many of these statistics are generated by the music industries themselves, and their accuracy can be questioned. Music by Numbers sets out to explore this shadowy terrain.

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Links update: 18/01/2024

PLAY MIND-BLOWING SOLOS OVER ANY SONG

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Audio Mastering Essential Practices by Jonathan Wyner (FULL BOOK) MP4



MP4 | 118.64 MB

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 and tools of audio mastering, suitable for commercial and home/project studio environments. Technical discussions address gear, studio setup, methodologies, goals, and other considerations for making tracks sound their best, individually and in relationship to other tracks. The accompanying recording has audio examples that support two detailed case studies where readers can follow a mastering engineer's manipulations step by step.

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Skillshare Practical Music Theory For Producers - Writing In Key TUTORiAL



TUTORiAL | 236 MB

Eurgh, music theory...
‘Music theory’ are two dreaded words, carrying with them a sense of intimidation and boredom. As a music producer, you might hear these two words and think: ‘this isn’t relevant,’ ‘I don’t need this,’ ‘It’s all just jargon!’.

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Groove3 Scaler Explained TUTORiAL



TUTORiAL | 352 MB

Studio expert Larry Holcombe presents comprehensive Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 video tutorials! If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the features and functions available in Scaler and use them to create a world of new ideas, expressions and melodies, this course is the one to watch. Larry walks you through the basics and then dives into the more advanced features and functions, as well as shows you them in action by creating different song ideas from scratch. These videos are for new Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 users.

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Links update: 02/02/2022

Ableton Live pro Thomas Cochran presents in-depth Ableton Live 11 video tutorials! If you are new to Ableton Live 11 and want to learn the program from the ground up the right way, this course is for you. Thomas starts at the beginning with the important basics and takes you all the way through to exporting your very first song. Two Ableton Live projects that Thomas creates in the videos are also included so you can follow along on your system. These videos are designed for those who are new to Ableton Live 11.

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Links update: 21/09/2025

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet of any of these is enough to transport listeners into the piece's sonic and emotional world. But what makes musical motives so powerful? In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach looks at the ways that motives the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes that are ever-present in music unify musical compositions and shape our experiences of them.

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Sounds from Within: Phenomenology and Practice



English | 262 pages | 3030725065 | PDF | 5 MB

This book transforms phenomenology, music, technology, and the cultural arts from within. Gathering contributions by performing artists, media technology designers, nomadic composers, and distinguished musicological scholars, it explores a rich array of concepts such as embodiment, art and technology, mindfulness meditation, time and space in music, self and emptiness, as well as cultural heritage preservation. It does so via close studies on music phenomenology theory, works involving experimental music and technology, and related cultural and historical issues.

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