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HOW TO MAKE GREAT MUSIC WITHOUT FORMAL TRAINING Have you ever wanted to pick up a musical instrument and just play? Maybe it seems too late in life and without formal education just a hopeless dream. Maybe you already have musical ability, but don't know how to take it to the next level. The great news is there is a powerful way to learn and develop real music making skills without countless hours of traditional education. Both beginner and highly skilled musician can reap the benefits. Become a real musician if you never were, then go beyond as far as you desire. Perform and sound great for others or just for your own satisfaction. Be highly effective in creative musical artistry, musical arranging and composing. If you want the keys to fulfill your goals in music, keep reading. Music is something most of us love. Often it has deep meaning and impact, whether in people's lives throughout the world or just on a personal level. Would it be LIFE ENRICHING to learn real musical skills? Would music add a whole new part or dimension to your life? I'll teach you that it easily can, but how? From what we traditionally know, learning to play a musical instrument, including singing, takes some discipline. It takes hours of dedicated, daily practice you don't want to put in. Perhaps you've tried to take piano, guitar, singing or other lessons, but it just didn't work out or wasn't worth the needed TIME AND EFFORT. You feel you don't have any natural, musical talent, and you can't read a single note. Well, did you know many famous musicians can't either? If only you knew a simpler, LESS FORMAL WAY of learning and playing music. YES, there is an approach to have you playing great music in a fraction of the usual learning curve. It doesn't' require you to be greatly gifted or highly knowledgeable of all the music theories and principles traditionally taught. A very basic and MINIMAL AMOUNT of musical knowledge is plenty for you or anyone to make an ENORMOUS LEAP into the world of music making. The ways of teaching music are often technical, complex and tedious. They lose their charm, and do not make use of our more natural, creative, artistic powers. The ideas in this book focus more on these skills and abilities. As a result they are MORE ENJOYABLE, SATISFYING, and EMPOWERING. Without expensive and extensive training, and whether a beginner or highly skilled musician, you can learn ASAP to reach a higher level with your music. In this book you will DISCOVER the keys in relation to: - Playing the music you love, but ONLY DREAMT of making yourself - Rising above traditional, complex, and technical lessons - Honing creative, musical skills WITHOUT COUNTLESS TIME spent - Seeing the big picture of music and HOW IT REALLY WORKS - Finding your UNIQUE STYLE and taking it to the next level - Performing and enjoying music BEYOND what you ever thought possible Take a giant leap forward with your music skills. READ THIS BOOK.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Harmony and voice leading is a textbook in two volumes dealing with tonal organization in the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.

This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book is essential to any musician looking for a handy reference for the correct notation of music. A most welcome and beneficial source for every musician, whether using a pencil or a computer.

At last, an orchestration book tailor-made for the classroom musician on a budget. Any teacher, student or professional musician, whether a composer, orchestrator, arranger, performer or enthusiast will find this thoroughly comprehensive dictionary full of the most needed information on over 150 instruments. Designed for quick and easy reference, the Essential Dictionary of Orchestration includes those much-needed instrument ranges, general characteristics, tone quality descriptions, technical pitfalls, useful scoring tips and much more!