Future and current independent private music educators will find this book an invaluable resources for establishing and maintaining a private music studio. Private music instructors will learn what they should expect professionaly, personally, and financially from their independent music instruction business. Until now, no single resource has existed that fully explains how to run this type of business successfully.

This book presents all aspects of private music instruction through an easy-to-read, concise, and engaging instructional format. Following the sound advice presented will help to greatly alleviate the problems that all beginning independent instructors face by specifically mapping out chronological steps for establishing and maintaining a private instruction music business.

The field of private music education has been inundated by less-than-professional individuals who have made it difficult for legitimate, qualified instructors. The Private Music Instruction Manual shares years of information and experiences in the hope of legitimizing the field of private music instruction.

In a world where there is decreasing priority and structure in public music education, private music instructors become increasingly important to prepare the next generation of musicians. No matter the size of your private music instruction business, the advice presented in The Private Music Instruction Manual will help to improve any private music business.

From the Midwest Book Review:

With The Private Music Instruction Manual; A Guide For The Independent Music Educator, author Rebecca Osborn draws upon her many years of experience and expertise as an adjunct college music professor and owner of three private music studies to write an informed and informative guidebook specifically for musicians and music instructors who want to teach students in a profitable private practice but are not familiar with or knowledgeable about setting up a music instruction business enterprise. Rebecca Osborne provides a wealth of invaluable, professional, effectively organized and presented instructions on establishing and maintaining a music teaching business and shows what to expect professional, personally, and financially from independent music instruction. If you want to make money teaching other how to play any kind of music instrument, then you need to give a careful (and profitable!) reading to Rebecca Osborn's The Private Music Instruction Manual!

Design and Build Your Own Live-Sound Speakers is written for the performing musician, DJ, club or hall owner who wants to build pro-audio speaker cabinets rivaling the best store-bought models for a fraction of the retail price, seeks to unnderstand and improve the performance of an existing cabinet, or wants to create a unique speaker design for a particular purpose.

Written for the complete novice, this book explains driver selection, construction techniques and basic sound-reproduction concepts in a simple and friendly way. While several sample projects are included and explained, the emphasis is on giving the beginner knowledge and ability to design and build something that fits her needs and budget. Using common tools and readily available supplies and parts, the reader can create stage cabinets that are attractive, durable, powerful and efficient.

Full of explanations, usage tips and shortcuts, this book is a refreshing alternative to other publications that are overly technical, geared toward hi-fi applications, or assume electronic or woodworking experience most performers simply don't possess. Discussions of bi-amping, speaker connection, reconing, and building "rack cases" supplement the main text with real-world advice for those who haven't forgotten that the point of it all is to make music!

It is not only a book on how to learn to play flamenco mechanically but also to understand it. It is for all guitarists, professionals and amateurs.

It includes brief notes about the history of harmony and of flamenco, harmonic characteristics of different styles in addition to practical exercises of auto-correction.

It is the ideal complement to all other available methods of learning the flamenco guitar is available. The student will benefit immediately from this book without having to consult complicated books on classic harmony or jazz. On reading it he will be able to enter in the passionate world of composition, with little effort and will create his own falsettos along all the neck of the guitar.

The didactic contents, as well as its signicant contribution to the theory regarding the "Flamenco Guitar" have been guaranteed by two of their main references as Paco de Lucía and Enrique de Melchor:

“Thank you José. Flamenco music was feeling the need of having such a book”. Paco de Lucía

"The book is of great importance because it proves the richness of flamenco regarding music and it allows those people who do not have previous experiences to know, feel or interpret the Flamenco music to get involved and be introduced in this wonderful music and its variety of styles in an appropriate manner", Enrique de Melchor.

Bases armónicas de la guitarra flamenca utiliza una teoría musical universal. Este enfoque pretende poner al alcance del guitarrista flamenco una serie de herramientas que le permitan potenciar su creatividad sin necesidad de memorizar. Al mismo tiempo facilita al guitarrista no flamenco interesado en la fusión, la incursión en una música tan compleja a través de una base teórica que ya conoce.

No es un libro solo para aprender a tocar flamenco de una forma mecánica sino también para comprenderlo y está dirigido a todo tipo de guitarristas, tanto profesionales como no profesionales.   Incluye breves apuntes de historia de la armonía y del flamenco, características armónicas de los diferentes palos, así como ejercicios prácticos con autocorrección.    Es el complemento ideal de cualquier método de aprendizaje de guitarra flamenca de los que dispongas. En seguida sacarás partido a lo aprendido en este libro sin necesidad de que consultes los complicados libros de la armonía clásica y/o de Jazz. Con su lectura podrás adentrarte en el apasionante mundo de la composición con poco esfuerzo y crearás tus propias "falsetas" por todo el mástil de la guitarra. Aquí tienes justo lo que necesitas.

El contenido didáctico del libro así como su importante contribución a la teoría de la guitarra flamenca han sido avalados por dos de sus principales referentes como son Paco de Lucía y Enrique de Melchor:

“Gracias José, el flamenco estaba necesitando un libro como éste”. Paco de Lucía

“La obra es de suma importancia porque demuestra la riqueza del flamenco como música en sí y por servir a aquellos que, sin las vivencias precisas para conocer, sentir e interpretar la música flamenca, puedan acercarse a ella y adentrarse en su variedad estilística de una forma acertada”. Enrique de Melchor

Cello Playing for Music Lovers provides beginners and intermediate students with an authoritative, step-by-step guide to learning to play the cello. The book includes musical examples from folk, Broadway and classical traditions. It illustrates correct playing positions with twenty photos. Written from the student's viewpoint, it:

• teaches all the required skills, including
• reading music,
• using the bow effectively,
• analyzing musical structures,
• improvising, and playing by ear.

The book starts from scratch with songs transcribed for beginners and advances gradually to 4th position Included are folk songs, hymns, Broadway standards like "Some Enchanted Evening," and classical selections like a Bach Prelude and Sarabande. Later sections explore some music theory and how to play in chamber music groups. Gifted cellist Erik Friedlander plays the 116 musical figures discussed in the book on the accompanying play along CD.

The author, a Ph.D. and experienced teacher, presents this fascinating material in small, logical steps. As cellist Aaron Minsky said, "Your idea that the cello can be enjoyed on a simple level even within a few weeks of study is very true. . . This book will bring the joys of cello playing to many people who would not have believed it possible."

Playing the cello will give any music lover unparalleled satisfaction. If you always wished you could do it "in your next life," do it now.

Imaginez un livre qui vous montre en quelques pages et de façon simple, comment comprendre, apprendre, mémoriser, jouer et placer correctement dans un morceau de musique, toutes les sortes d'accords connus de la guitare. Nous avons pour cela, créé, pour la 1ière fois des patronymes d'accords et des méthodes mnemotechniques (cependant logiques) afin d'« accoucher » de cette « révolution musicale ». LES ACCORDS ET LEUR UTILISATION SUR LA GUITARE NE SERONT PLUS UN SECRET POUR PERSONNE !.

The unique design of this book will introduce you gradually and easily to the wonderful world of music. The first of two learning phases is based exclusively on the key of G and the keys of C major and A minor (white keys). This makes it easier to master the learning process and to assimilate the musical text using new and entertaining rhythmic figures. Each new element comes with a theoretical component as well as written and rhythmic exercises.

The second learning phase introduces the F key using simple, graduated exercises, and explains sharp and flat notes (black keys). This teaching method, originally designed for children, has long been tested on people of all ages, and has shown itself to be both very useful and well accepted by all.

The repertory includes many multicultural songs, among them the most melodious works for beginners created by such great composers as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Purcell, Tchaikovsky, Steibelt and Corelli (among others).

This series is thorough in its presentation of music theory and harmony that is covered in many undergraduate theory courses and the high school AP exam. All elements are taught both on the page and the keyboard.

Features:

• Keyboard skills are integrated into every lesson, enabling you to hear, feel, and "see" the music as you learn.
• Frequent reviews provide ample opportunities to steadily strengthen your knowledge of every element.
• Numerous diagrams allow you to easily visualize each new concept, taking the mystery out of learning music theory!
• In the hands-on approach, you will have many changes to practice what you learn in each lesson as it is being taught with the drills and exercises that follow.
  
• Extra features include the medieval modes and introduction to jazz-pop.

Music Theory Step by Step: Level One and Music Theory Step by Step: Level Two are also available from Trafford Publishing.

In addition to keyboard basics, the first level also covers the complete major scales, the treble and bass clefs, and introduces rhythms, intervals, and chords. If you are at the junior high school level, or if you are older but prefer to begin the study of musical theory at a leisurely pace in a thorough, step by step method, then this book is for you.

Features:

• Keyboard skills are integrated into every lesson, enabling you to hear, feel, and "see" the music as you learn.
• Frequent reviews provide ample opportunities to steadily strengthen your knowledge of every element.
• Numerous diagrams allow you to easily visualize each new concept, taking the mystery out of learning music theory!
• In the hands-on approach, you will have many changes to practice what you learn in each lesson as it is being taught with the drills and exercises that follow.

Music Theory Step by Step: Level Two and Music Theory Step by Step: Level Three are also available from Trafford Publishing.

Features:

• Keyboard skills are integrated into every lesson, enabling you to hear, feel, and "see" the music as you learn.
• Frequent reviews provide ample opportunities to steadily strengthen your knowledge of every element.
• Numerous diagrams allow you to easily visualize each new concept, taking the mystery out of learning music theory!
• In the hands-on approach, you will have many changes to practice what you learn in each lesson as it is being taught with the drills and exercises that follow.

Music Theory Step by Step: Level One and Music Theory Step by Step: Level Three are also available from Trafford Publishing.

The drummers of today are reaching new levels of speed, control, endurance and musicality. Now more than ever drummers need to develop their hands and feet to a high level of skill in order to compete in the music business. Techniques in Interdependence is about learning how your limbs work together and how they relate to time. Practicing and applying the exercises in this book will help you develop interdependence.

Reviews

" 'I love this book!' In this day and age when there are so many drum instructional books to choose from, Techniques in Interdependence Volume I is a book that you will actually use. Comprehensive and well conceived, its vast number of patterns and combinations will benefit all levels of students, instructors, and pros, as well as to help identify each player's strengths and weaknesses. And that's crucial, because every drummers style is a combination of both what a drummer can, and cannot play."

-Paul Wertico
(Paul Wertico Trio, Larry Coryell Trio, Pat Metheny Group, Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, Clinician)

"Bryan has created an interdependence version of the George Stone classic 'Stick Control'. Every permutation and combination are outlined in detail which leads the student in the right direction for a step by step understanding and execution of coordination between all limbs."

-Grant Collins
(Australian Drum Master, The Collins/Wardingham Project)