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Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary, this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures, transposition, chord inversion, key centers, harmonizing the major and minor scales, extended chords, modulation and much more. Packed with info from the Harmony & Theory course at Musicians Institute!

If the muse seems to have lost your address, or a big writer's block has hit you squarely in the head, the Hal Leonard Pocket Rhyming Dictionary may be just the inspiration you need to get your words to once again flow freely! A treasure trove of 30,000 entries organized alpha-phonetically to maximize word choice and minimize cross-referencing, this concise and user-friendly new resource is ideal for singer/songwriters, writers and poets, whether serious or recreational, professional or amateur. Encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and much more, this is by far the most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market. Includes a foreword by Nashville songwriting legend Buzz Cason! The Pocket Rhyming Dictionary follows in the footsteps of these other handy resources from leading music print publisher Hal Leonard: The Pocket Music Dictionary (HL00183006, ISBN 0-7935-1654-4) and Pocket Music Theory (HL00330968, ISBN 0-634-04771-X).

As one of the original MIDI and digital-audio workstations for both Mac OS and Windows platforms, Cubase has built a large and loyal following among beginning and experienced music creators. Author Brian McConnon channels his 15 years of working daily with the program and other Cubase power users into the ultimate guide to the most productive tips, tricks, and shortcuts for making great music with Cubase 5. Includes: Tips on Cubase 5's new features, including VariAudio and Pitch Correct for vocals, Groove Agent One and Beat Designer for rhythm creation, and LoopMash Expert tips from well-known artists, producers, and engineers who use Cubase 5 professionally for records, multimedia, and soundtracks CD-ROM with session files, QuickTime movies, audio examples, and more

Apple's Logic 9 is the most comprehensive and complete music production softwarepackage on the market today. Logic 9 Studio comes with an impressive array of software instruments, plug-ins, synthesizers, applications, and more, while the slimmed-down Logic 9 Express delivers an amazing amount of power with many of the same plug-ins and a nearly identical digital audio and MIDI workstation production application. Power Tools for Logic 9 unlocks Logic's immense capabilities to help you achieve amazing results for your audio and music productions with techniques you won't find in beginner-level books or videos. Rick Silva teaches you powerful ways to use both Studio and Express, giving you easy-to-understand strategies for using the complex production tools built into Logic. You'll tap into known features in ways you never thought of before whilelearning to use new features to produce spectacular audio recordings. Go beyond beginner with Power Tools for Logic 9!

The opportunities for musicians to market and sell their music on the Internet have never been greater than they are today. This book levels the playing field by giving every musician the opportunity to promote and sell their music to a global audience. It addresses the various technical issues (Mac and Windows) today's musicians face preparing and uploading their music to a website, and includes details on how they can get the biggest websites to notice their songs. An accompanying CD-ROM provides helpful HTML templates and audio test files (in various web-ready formats) that allow musicians to upload and test web audio files from a free web hosting site, set up e-commerce music sites, and much more. The bible for musicians wishing to take advantage of all of the opportunities the Internet offers for promotion, sale and distribution of music!