Not only an introduction to the techniques needed to play the electric guitar, this book is designed to inspire a passion for music that will transcend many young adults fickle fads.

This is the guide to using this technology to generate your own killer rhythm lines. Includes FREE CD ROM.

This handbook covers all the material needed for the Teachers' Diploma examination in the electric guitar, and includes advice and tips about preparing for the examination.

Explains the nature of analog sound creation followed by the story of its birth and its development by various designers, manufacturers and performers. This book examines the individual components of analog sound creation. It is accompanied by a CD which gives many examples of analog sound creation basics as well as advanced techniques.

Kids these days don't want to be rock stars anymore, they want to be DJ's! This clear, easy reference book is the definitive guide to becoming a DJ. It includes a CD-ROM providing audio and visual aids to the techniques taught.

From shopping for the first electric guitar to setting customised action, a player's primer for owning and maintaining an electric guitar.

Shows you things you need to know to compose great tunes using the digital tools. This guide explains the digital music basics, including how to work with the hardware and software, use templates from the companion CD-ROM to make a quick start, build your first tune, and save it in different formats.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music. This book presents insight into various aspects of electronic music, including the music itself, the instruments, and the industry.

Making Music With Samples is packed with creative, hands-on tips - aimed at getting the reader actively enjoying the art of sampling as quickly and easily as possible - interspersed with snippets of essential theoretical stuff: whether it's the science of sound, or copyright legalities. Starting with the absolute basics of what sampling is, author Dan Duffell progresses from simpler, widely-used .

Explains what a modular synthesizer is, how it works, and how to use software synthesizers to make music. This book also explains what the basic building blocks of modular synthesis are, and how they interact.

Offers a treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that led to electronic music. This book outlines key composers, inventions, and concepts, ranging from Edgard Varese to Brian Eno; musique concrete to turntablism; and, compositional techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis.

The invention and impact of the Moog synthesizer.

Helps you learn how technological developments in keyboards helped artists such as Erasure, Human League, Peter Gabriel, and Kraftwerk create entirely new sounds and how their production tricks can help you make great music. This book teaches you how to recreate the sounds of the '80s using the synths and recording software on your computer.

In this book/CD-ROM package, Aikin, a former senior editor of Keyboard magazine, maps out the components of contemporary synthesizers in detail and shows how they can be harnessed to create new sounds. Each chapter of the book presents hands-on projects that will help musicians hone their skills and increase their creativity, with projects

A chronicle of the American electric guitar in all its variations and its journey to musical fame as the dominant instrument of jazz, country and rock. Successes and failures of the pioneering manufacturers are explored and manufacturers featured include Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker and Gretsch.

Develops both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. This work contains chapters that starts with a theoretical description of one technique or problem area and ends with a series of working examples, covering a range of applications. It is also suitable for computer music researchers.

Updated for the second edition, this text provides a comprehensive exploration of the vintage synthesizer that has paved the way since the 1960s for today's fast-paced electronic music world.