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<em>The Real Frank Zappa Book</em> - Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso Half autobiography, half perspective on leading a band that influenced me a lot on leading a band of my own
Yeah! that’s the one . And yeah it’s not complicated but totally drives that song. ive seen people debate if paul played it or not.
I'm not entirely clear what you're trying to do, but this book can help you get more comfortable with taking leads from fake books and applying appropriate ideas. It covers both comping and faking with leads in a variety of styles, including R&B and gospel. Depending on the type of soul stuff you're talking about, it's going to share a lot with gospel as it is basically secular gospel.
You could also check into this series of books for some slightly more targeted and deeper ideas in various styles, though I feel like the Pop books will give you more overall and you can go deeper from there later.
At the very least, if you practice a lot of the comping patterns from the book, even if you don't feel entirely comfortable realizing your own versions of tunes on the fly from a lead, the technical practice of lining up many of the rhythmic components of each style as well as understanding a little more about the theory will makes it much easier to work from pre-arranged sheet music written in those styles.
Have you heard of a lead sheet? It's a piece of music where only the melody is notated and the chords are noted above the staff. Jazz players use them all the time. They come compiled in "fake books". You could get a fake book and play along to them like you do the app. If there are chords you don't know you could supplement with a chord chart for reference. IMO, apps are a waste and will never beat some old fashioned pencil and paper work.
Been there. You never want to feel like you are phoning it in. The best thing to do is see if you can get the band to agree to attempt playing something on the edge of all of your abilities. See if the band rises to the challenge. I’ve found as long as I’m learning and being challenged I don’t lose that excitement, fear, and sense of stretching myself. I’d recommend reading, “The Inner Game of Music” addressing some mental models to strengthen play.
At the same time- 4 bands is a lot to spread yourself across. Is the time justified in being away from the wife and kids? You need to find that joy back in why you play music. Perhaps, depending on the age of your children, you can stop the band and start teaching your children. Seeing the excitement and growth in someone learning music brings back that joy of playing for ourselves. At least that’s my experience. Good luck!
Hey! I played the violin for four years with a teacher, then three years without one. Teachers can never be a bad thing because they can teach you skills and concepts that will let you move on by yourself later. I started learning the piano around a month before you with nothing but a book I got from Amazon and it's going great so far! Teachers can help you move forward faster, but if you're not in a rush, everything you need can be found in YouTube videos, books, and even from people you know who play piano IRL and on Reddit. Nice playing and good luck!
Seems to me like you mostly answered your own question in the second sentence.
Having said that, raving didn't start in earnest until the meeting of house and ecstasy happened in the late 80's. The watershed moment was the Second Summer of Love in 1988 which happened in UK but it's reverberations were felt across Europe.
Playing house means house in the broadest sense of the genre: everything from acid house, piano house, club house, deep house, Detroit techno and garage house , early hardcore techno, early trance, perhaps even disco related stuff like new beat and high energy. The hardcore and pre-hardcore divide is a very UK point of view to approach this question by the way. Mainland Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium etc.) raving has a stronger unbroken four-to-the-floor lineage. It's not that UK hardcore, didn't happen (in fact it was massively influential) there, but the hardcore rave moment was more defined by Parkzicht sound, PCP label and R&S to name only a few important names from rave's formative years.
..and before house it was all kinds of pop/disco music, but that was a different beast in a sense. One could argue effectively there's a disco continuum where music and industry (discotheques, dj's, record labels etc) that seamlessly shifted from pop/disco to house music for the newer generation of dancers.
If you want to read up on the subject this book might be a good start.
I haven’t read them , some of my friends did Nd they highly recommend these 2
Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415923735/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_W6G74VHTM6S0MNGW5KJQ
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802146104/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_PX3VCGEM9HBWXD8CRJ4Y?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Hope you find what you are looking for there or at least they help you as starting point.
I would also check YouTube, there has to be some documentaries there as well.
Re-reading Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton. The one before that was A Whole Lot of History by the absolute queen that is Kimberley Walsh.
He said it in his debate with John Lofton on CNN's Crossfire. You can find it through Google quite easily. He advocated for classical conservatism in that whole debate and in general.
Also check out the contents page of his autobiography on Amazon, and you can see that chapter 17 is called Practical Conservatism. He talks about his conservatism there.
I would encourage you to check out the Pop Piano Book, by Mark Harrison. While you will need to read notes at a basic level at least (it uses musical notation), it goes over a lot of material that will be of great interest to you: particularly things like chords, chord progressions, and different contemporary music styles. I included the Amazon link because you can use their 'look inside' feature to see the table of contents and some of the content to better determine if it's worth picking up or not.
That's so sick! I feel like you'd appreciate the documentary on Netflix called What We Started. There's a fascinating book I read about all this called "Generation Ecstasy". That guy goes into incredible detail.
https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Ecstasy-World-Techno-Culture/dp/0415923735
Buying music: beatport.com, bandcamp, Juno digital, traxsource, bleep.com, 7digital, boomkat
(Bandcamp is the best imho)
You can find free downloads sometimes on Soundcloud
Read up on history by getting these books: Last night a DJ saved my life by Bill Brewster https://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-DJ-Saved-Life/dp/0802146104
Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds
Watch on YouTube Club Ready DJ School videos of other pro/pro-level DJs in your preferred genre and style
You might take a look at The Pop Piano Book, by Mark Harrison -- it's essentially a method book for contemporary piano. I included the Amazon link because it has the 'look inside' pages that'll let you see the table of contents and some sample pages so you can get a better idea of whether it's what you're looking for.
I’m using this book and I’m loving it so far.
Piano Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Piano Songs, Read Music, Theory & Technique (Book & Streaming Video Lessons) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692926437/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_E6BQ4Y6DAEFAD3W6SVK7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Hey I'm just like you, a guitar player wanting to play piano. I bought this book before Xmas and im almost at the end of it. It starts with really simple songs and got my left hand up the speed after a months or so. Its now April and my piano playing is way more solid.
https://www.amazon.ca/Piano-Book-Adult-Beginners-Technique/dp/0692926437
Just FYI thats link to the Canadian Amazon.
The first thing to do is look for a copy of The Beatles: Complete Scores. Here's the Amazon link. That will help a lot with the other tips that have been given.
[](/krarityhillbilly)I have a strong suspicion that computers will never quite pull off my favorite sounds considering I've heard them less and less as music production moved more into the digital age.
If an AI ever does manage to evoke the filthy wails of Gear Jammer in an original way, I'll call humanity obsolete.
Tho pop music on the other hand is already mostly algorithmic as it is, heck there's a whole book on the process to synthesize a chart topper. It's almost all written by the same 2 guys too. Get them on board with the AI team, give them a copy of vocaloid, and I'm sure we won't have any mortal popstars in a few years.
If you're trying to learn how to play keyboard too, an intro to piano book will help you learn basic theory fundamentals and help you learn keyboard too.
I looked around and I found this one on amazon that seems good
Grab this book. Not only will it help you learn to comp in many styles, but if you pay attention to the theory stuff that it really tries to force you to grasp, you'll mostly be able to pick up on almost any other comping style by just understanding what's happening.
I've been taking lessons as a 30-something adult for 4 years now, and I sought out a teacher who could teach me jazz and the blues. I was also a brand new student of music so I am learning theory, using lesson books, and classical minuets and musettes. His process for the jazz stuff has been around learning the standards, which has tons of popular and familiar tunes from the last ~125 years. The old editions used to have Christmas and other holiday pieces, but they make a separate edition for that now.
Since this book only has lead sheets, you apply your own creativity for the left hand accompaniment, or in my case, the patterns my teacher is teaching me.
Try something like the Pop Piano Book by Harrison.
I haven't tried beta blockers due to other health problems, but The Inner Game of Music helped me greatly. It takes a few months to really work through all of it properly, but now I can use that kick of adrenaline to perform even better. It's worth a read, even if you still decide to use beta blockers.
This book will help you a lot with comping patterns for a lot of styles and some more contemporary theory stuff. That will be the most bang for your buck and where I'd recommend starting.
If you want to look at other specific styles a bit more in detail, check some of these books out.
I don't know about websites but here are two books for The Beatles and Queen that may be good for your purposes.
Beatles: https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Complete-Scores-Transcribed-Score/dp/0793518326
Queen: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/best-of-queen-transcribed-score-sheet-music/5679977
Not sure you read the comments you get for your rants. Because your last rant on Bollywood cinematography was full of logical fallacies and you got called out. Now the same mistake in this rant too.
>Moreoever, there is no concept of singer-songwriter in Bollywood. One guy writes the music, one guy writes the lyrics, and one guy sings.
Even in international music it is extremely rare that a single person creates lyrics, melody, harmony, arrangement, production etc. on his/her own. Record labels employ an army of professionals who do all of that. The record artist is only a pretty face that can be marketted.
Read this book for the detailed process that happens inside record labels: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Machine-Inside-Hit-Factory/dp/0393241920/
A piece of advice I had when I was younger and wondering how long it takes to get a piece right...
"A good musician practices until they get a piece right, a great musician practices until they can't get it wrong."
I suffer greatly from stage fright. That piece of advice helped more than any other as if you practice enough (and I mean just at the point you figure you're done practicing, go over the piece another half dozen times!) you can rely on muscle memory to get you through.
That meant that I could play pieces through despite my nerves and actually enjoy playing to the point that I could think more about performing the music rather than just playing it.
A great book on this topic is 'the Inner Game of Music' by Barry Green
https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Music-Barry-Green/dp/0385231261
That's a great read and fullof insight on this subject.
My girlfriend does ballet but doesn't perform. However, she was in a show shortly after we met and texting me about how nervous she was before she was going on stage. I simply said "Nerves are natural. Just remember, you have practiced - you know the moves and your body knows what to do." She said that immediately calmed her down and helped her focus.
Hope some of that is useful.
See this thread for why sheet music rarely matches what was originally played. However, some publishers are starting to publish accurate transcriptions of the originals for those people who want them. For the Beatles, someone in that same thread posted a link to The Beatles: Complete Scores which is supposedly quite accurate.
You could get something like this, but it might not quite be the era you're looking for.
Not much to do with guitar, specifically, but has a lot to do with music in general and is a very enjoyable read.