Educational

This handy guide provides everything you need to know to go pro, including information about personal managers, music attorneys, business managers and booking agents, record companies, A&R, publishing, songwriting, demo tapes and press kits, self-promotion, and much more. A must for all musicians!

John Jacobson has written a comprehensive resource book that covers the basics of choreography and staging. Featuring a step-by-step approach and dozens of helpful photos, this powerful teaching tool will help you and your groups develop the know-how to add professional pizzazz to your musical performances. Topics include: The Basics Come First, Putting It All Together, Staging the Concert, and Movement and Staging for the Young Choir. Video 4-Pak also available separately: 08745826.

Here is a handy all-in-one resource collection that will help you introduce your upper elementary and middle school students to the great masterworks of the 20th century. Developed by Music Alive! magazine, each section features a specific composer and includes a reproducible student article (written at an appealing age-appropriate level), reproducible student sheets (including games, activities, and listening maps keyed to the selected composition for that composer), and a detailed National Standard-based lesson plan. All the musical examples are on the CD included with the book. Featured composers include: Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Bla Bartk, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aaron Copland, John Cage, Leonard Bernstein. Available: Teacher's Handbook.

The Great Jazz Drummers is an excellent reference for any drummer or jazz enthusiast. It features biographies and photos of 62 influential drummers, as well as a CD featuring 16 artists to demonstrate the gradual progression of jazz drumming through seven decades.

This tribute to Gretsch kits features full-color photos and interviews with sensational players like Louie Bellson, Jimmy Cobb, Chuck Flores, Phil Grant, Jake Hanna, Elvin Jones, Don Lamond, Charlie Persip, Dick Shanahan, and others. Written by Chet Falzerano, a contributor to Modern Drummer, Percussive Notes, and Not So Modern Drummer magazines, plus the books Guide to Vintage Drums and Star Sets.

A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques, the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording, humanizing drum patterns, mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles, and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since, many true Guerrillas still record to analog tape, we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition, further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable, user-frienly recording title on the market.

The Yamaha Guide to Sound Systems for Worship is written to assist in the design, purchase and operation of a sound system. It provides the basic information on sound systems that is most needed by ministers, members of boards of trustees and worship and music committees, interested members of congregations, and even employees of musical instrument dealers that sell sound systems. To be of greatest value to all, it is written to be both nondenominational and non-brand-name.

With over 100,000 units sold, the Roland VS-880, its little sister the VS-840, and its big brother the VS-1680, have presented unparalleled record production opportunities to the music community. In this book from the publishers of Electronic Musician magazine, you'll learn plain English techniques for mastering this incredible self-contained recording machine, including the basics of digital recording, plus editing/mixing/automation, using effects and mastering your finished mix to compact disk. Learn to use virtual tracks, sub-mix on top of other tracks, track levels, with specific examples such as recording V/O, and compression, recording from a submixer and linking multiple units. A must-have for any VS user!

Written by the publisher of Not So Modern Drummer magazine, this is an essential guide for collectors-to-be that want to shop around, or for current collectors to discover drums outside their area of interest. Includes many photos.