Roland Drum Machine Dictionary

A complete rhythm dictionary for all drum machines. This newly revised edition includes rock, jazz, Latin and special dance rhythms and a section in the style of today's most popular rock drummers.

Kristen Henderson has taken on the task of expressing the intangible through the use of concrete images that are familiar to the senses. Her strong imagery frequently evokes elements of nature, to carry us out of the technological consciousness of the modern world to a more natural, unencumbered state.

This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk). A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).

This useful hands-on text clearly explains DDL signal processors and how they can be applied to recording or live performance situations. Discusses the basic features common to most digital delays and provides programming information. Also includes two invaluable charts. The first chart converts beats per minute to milliseconds, the second converts milliseconds to click track.

At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of "Rickenbacker guitars" and "Gram Parsons." We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about "the MC5" or "Eno" or "the Hammond B3," not wanting to let on that we haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. Well, fret no more! The Rock Snob's Dictionary is here to define every single sacred totem of rock fandom's know-it-all fraternity, from Alt.country to Zimmy. (That's what Rock Snobs call Bob Dylan, by the way.)