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Independent Music and Digital Technology in the Philippines

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In the first in-depth investigation into the independent music scene in the Philippines, Monika E. Schoop exposes and portrays the as yet unexplored restructurings of the Philippine music industries, showing that digital technologies have played an ambivalent role in these developments.

Based on extensive fieldwork online and offline, the book explores the diverse and innovative music production, distribution, promotion and financing strategies that have become constitutive of the independent music scene in twenty-first-century Manila.

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Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology, Revised Selected Papers from CMST

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The book presents selected papers at the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held virtually in June 2022, organized by Zhejiang University, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals.

The primary aim of the conference is to promote the collaboration between art society and technical society in China. In this book, the paper included covers a wide range topic from speech, signal processing, music understanding, machine learning, and signal processing for advanced medical diagnosis and treatment applications, which demonstrates the target of CSMT merging arts and science research together.

Its content caters to scholars, researchers, engineers, artists, and education practitioners not only from academia but also industry, who are interested in audio/acoustics analysis signal processing, music, sound, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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DAFX – Digital Audio Effects

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* Digital Audio Effects (DAFX) covers the use of digital signal processing and its applications to sounds * Discusses digital audio effects from both an introductory level, for musicians, and an advanced level, for signal processing engineers * Explains what can be done in the digital processing of sounds in the form of computer algorithms and sound examples resulting from these transformations * Brings together essential DSP algorithms for sound processing, providing an excellent introduction to the topic

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Music Production, A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students

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In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music industry and music production technologies.

From dissecting compositions to understanding studio technologies, from coaching vocalists and instrumentalists to arranging and orchestration, from musicianship to marketing, advertising, and promotion, Michael Zager takes us on a tour of the world of music production and the recording industry, helping students and professionals keep pace with this rapidly changing profession.

This third edition features: New interviews with eminent industry professionals Updated information on current trends in producing popular music and the impacts of the Music Modernization Act Additional material on video game music End-of-chapter assignments for course usage An instructor’s manual is available.

Please email textbooks@rowman.com.

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Creativities, Technologies, and Media in Music Learning and Teaching

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Creativities, Media, and Technology in Music Learning and Teaching reviews the diverse types of creativity found within music education practice across the globe. The volume explores the transformative changes within the discipline resulting from new technologies and rapid advances in media, and the implications these have for the future.

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Episode 61 – Liam Thomas: Creating Music & Spicing Up A Music Career

One of the aims of the GMI – Guitar & Music Institute’s podcast is to bring new people to a wider audience who are creating a life in the world of music. There are many ways that people can be involved in music, but in this episode, Ged Brockie interviews American guitarist and composer Liam Thomas who outlines the many opportunities available to people making their way in muisc.

Liam has his own band, has created many compositions but along with that, Liam also works in the world of music publishing. To be exact, Liam heads up the J.W. Pepper “My Score” team ensuring that composers from America and around the world are able to create income from uploading their music to the J.W. Pepper My Score platform.

In this wide ranging interview, Liam discusses his early years, his motivations for playing and composing music as well as the important work he carries out in one of the world biggest publishers.

Podcast Ep 61 – Table Of Contents

0.00 – 2.30 Introduction

2.30 Studies and education.

3.50 Guitar influences.

6.03 Liam’s family background.

10.18 Deciding to make music a career choice.

12.35 Don’t be afraid to also work in other sectors.

14.00 Performance opportunities in America.

15.50 How do composers can make an income?

16.46 Is the emergence of AI making it more difficult for musicians?

23.03 Liam and his role within J.W. Pepper publishing.

24.55 How J.W. Pepper is changing with the rise of the digital revolution.

27.27 Discussing the Hal Leonard buy out.

28.15 Defining the “My Score” opportunities.

32.46 Liam discusses the formation and history of J.W. Pepper.

33.17 The extended reach of the company.

34.12 Liam’s plans for the future and final thoughts.

All music played in this podcast comes with the knowledge and prior permission Liam Thomas.

For those wishing to learn more about Liam, his music, band and his work with J.W. Pepper, please check these website links.

https://www.jwpepper.com/myscore/liamthomasmusic My “My Score” profile.

https://www.jwpepper.com/myscore General “My Score” website landing page, for anyone interested in signing up after listening to the show.

https://flow.page/obsl.pa The flow page for Liam’s band, Obsolescence.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/liamthomas2/fire–ice-feat-nathan-hansen Some of Liam’s solo music from graduate school.

Fretboard Freedom

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(Guitar Educational). This revolutionary approach to chord-tone soloing features a 52-week, one-lick-per-day method for visualizing and navigating the neck of the guitar. Rock, metal, blues, jazz, country, R&B and funk are covered.

Topics include: all 12 major, minor and dominant key centers; 12 popular chord progressions; half-diminished and diminished scales; harmonic minor and whole-tone scales; and much more. The accompanying audio tracks feature demonstrations of all 365 licks! Written by Troy Nelson, author of the #1 bestseller Guitar Aerobics and former editor-in-chief of Guitar One .

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The Complete Guitar Player: Rock Songbook

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The Complete Guitar Player: Rock Songbook features a massive collection of 50 hard-rocking hits from the best of classic and contemporary rock music. Each song has been carefully arranged with melody lines in standard notation, lyrics, Guitar chord boxes, as well as strumming and picking patterns – Perfect great for aspiring rock rhythm or lead Guitarists.

Each and every tune included in this chordbook is a true rock classic. Old favourites by The Kinks and Jimi Hendrix are matched by modern classics such as Radiohead’s Creep and Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon.

Ideal for beginners, as well as intermediate Guitarists looking to expand their repertoire, you’ll be singing, strumming and soloing your way through the best rock music of the past half-century. Songlist: – All Day And All Of The Night [The Kinks] – All Right Now [Free] – Alone [Heart] – Black [Pearl Jam] – Born To Be Wild [Steppenwolf] – Call Me [Blondie] – Chasing Cars [Snow Patrol] – Cocaine [Eric Clapton] – Crazy Little Thing Called Love [Queen] – Creep [Radiohead] – Don’t Look Back In Anger [Oasis] – Every Breath You Take [The Police] – Eye Of The Tiger [Survivor] – Here I Go Again [Whitesnake] – Heroes [David Bowie] – Hey Joe [Jimi Hendrix] – Highway To Hell [AC/DC] – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing [Aerosmith] – I Saw Her Standing There [The Beatles] – I Want You To Want Me [Cheap Trick] – If It Makes You Happy [Sheryl Crow] – Jessie’s Girl [Rick Springfield] – Lithium [Nirvana] – Livin’ On A Prayer [Bon Jovi] – London Calling [The Clash] – Money For Nothing [Dire Straits] -More Than A Feeling [Boston] – Mr.

Brightside [The Killers] – Paperback Writer [The Beatles] – Rock And Roll All Nite [Kiss] – Roxanne [The Police] – Sex On Fire [Kings of Leon] – Should I Stay Or Should I Go [The Clash] – Since You’ve Been Gone [Rainbow] – Smells Like Teen Spirit [Nirvana] – Song 2 [Blur] – Substitute [The Who] – Sultans Of Swing [Dire Straits] – Summer Of ’69 [Bryan Adams] – Supersonic [Oasis] – Teenage Kicks [The Undertones] – The Final Countdown [Europe] – The Passenger [Iggy Pop] – Use Somebody [Kings of Leon] – Whiskey In The Jar [Thin Lizzy] – Yellow [Coldplay] – You Really Got Me [The Kinks] – You Shook Me All Night Long [AC/DC] – Ziggy Stardust [David Bowie] – Zombie [The Cranberries]

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Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method with Audio

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(Guitar Tab Method). The First and Only Beginning Guitar Method of Its Kind! This is the guitar method students and teachers have been waiting for. Learn single notes with riffs like “Day Tripper” and “Crazy Train,” power chords with classics by AC/DC and the Who, strumming with songs from Neil Young and Nirvana, and much more.

The method’s unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin will keep them playing and having fun.

Book 1 includes: parts of the guitar, easy-to-follow guitar tablature, notes & riffs starting on the low E string, tempo & time signatures, understanding notes and rests, palm muting, vibrato, power chords, open chords, strumming, slides and slurs, hammer-ons and pull-offs, many music styles, nearly 100 riffs and songs, audio with demos of every example, and more!

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Small Signal Audio Design

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Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, microphony in capacitors, and much, much more.

This book continues the engaging prose style familiar to readers as you learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea, the pitfalls of plating gold on copper, and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design.

Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion transform the performance of low-cost opamps build active filters with very low noise and distortion while saving money on expensive capacitors make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers use load synthesis to make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics sum, switch, clip, compress, and route audio signals build simple but ultra-low noise power supplies be confident that phase perception is not an issue Including all the crucial theories, but with minimal mathematics, Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying, researching, or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.

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