Jason Blume

Jimmy Kachulis

C. J. Watson

Jeffrey P. Fisher

Ron Gorow

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Michael Miller

William Russo

Elvo D'Amante

Elvo S. D'Amante

Jack Perricone

Keith Wyatt

Steve Turner

Rikky Rooksby

Alicia Keyes

Rikky Rooksby

Carl P. Austin

Bill Edwards

Rikky Rooksby

Virginia L. Grattan

Henry Boye

James W. Dearing

Gary Hustwit

Cliffie Stone, Joan Carol Stone

Marc Schonbrun

Aschmann Lis

Richard J. Scott

Rosanne Cash

Jimmy Kachulis

Jimmy Webb

Jai Josefs 

Paul Zollo

Pamela Phillips Oland

Brent Mann

Amy Appleby

Harriet Schock

Steve Schalchlim, composer/lyricist, past Managing Director National Academy of Songwriters
Harriet Schock is a rare talent. In today's music industry, Schock stands out because she gets back to the basics. . . . - Harriet Kaplan, Music Connection Harriet Schock performs the amazing feat of being a precise, merticulous song craftswoman without sacrificing even an iota of the rich emotionalism that makes love songs worth listening to.

Product Description:
Drawing on years of experience as a successful songwriter and an inspirational teacher of others in perfecting this craft, Harriet Schock covers every aspect involved in making your talents shine. From finding the time to write, to sources of inspiration, and how to evaluate criticism, she knows first-hand the joys and frustrations of becoming remarkable. Contains her newly released CD, rosebud

Steve Gillette

Product Description:
ÕSongwriting and the Creative ProcessÕ is a complete guide to developing songwriting skills from inception of the idea to completing the son g. Comes to us from Sing Out Publications. 

Reviewer:Robin Hurt
"Songwriting and the Creative Process" has plenty of info on the nuts and bolts of writing commercially acceptable music. Song structure, rhyme and meter, and a good section on hearing musical intervals are included. There are headings under "Courting the Muse" I find interesting and informative, and problems such as "writer's block" are addressed. One thing that I liked was the overall layout of the book which is neatly broken into easily digestable bits. I may be a little overenthusiastic, but I'll give it five stars. 

Product Description:
With candor and passion, 15 of the nation's most talented tunesmiths offer personal accounts of how they create their works, what their songs mean to them, and how they keep their creativity flowing. This entertaining collection on one-on-one interviews provides inspiration and advice for songwriters and music afficionados 

Robin Randall

Product Description:
This book/CD package is for the singer, songwriter, or musician who wants to create a lead sheet or chord chart that is easy to follow. The CD includes over 70 demo tracks. The instruction covers: song form, transposition, considering the instrumentation, scales, keys, rhythm, chords, slash notation, and other basics, beaming, stemming, syncopation, intervals, chord symbols, sample songs, common terms, and important tips. It also includes sample songs, common terms, and important tips for anyone putting music on paper!

Richard J. Scott

Product Description:

Money Chords is a comprehensive reference book of popular chord progressions. It identifies the eighty most popular chord progressions that have been used time and again to write hit songs and twelve tools to create them. The book is the result of the compilation and analysis of a representative sampling of over two thousand popular chord progressions that took several years to compile. Chord progressions are categorized both chronologically and by progression type. Chronological listings identify progression types common to a specific time period and the evolution of various progression types. Progression type listings compare how the best songwriters and performers have utilized similar chord progressions. Money Chords is intended to be a songwriter’s tool box to help stimulate the creation of many more great songs in the new millenium.

Stephen Citron

Product Description:
An invaluable sourcebook covering finding a song concept, choosing a form, writing lyrics, rhyming, constructing a melody, adding harmony, selecting rhythm, and much more. "Today's aspiring writers are fortunate indeed to have such a splendid guide." - Dory Previn 

Mark McGrain

From the Publisher
Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. Learn the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. This guide will teach you how to create professional manuscripts and is an excellent resource for both handwritten notation and computer software programs.

Product Description:
Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. This book also covers the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. An excellent resource for both written and computer notation software!

Jimmy Kachulis

Product Description:
Learn the fundamental techniques behind today's hit songs, with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own songs. Quit wrestling with writer's block, and learn to make the songwriting process easy, fun, and intuitive. Kachulis covers a variety of topics, including: colors of chords and keys * chord embellishments and progressions to enrich your palette of colors * dozens of ways to modify your harmonies and progressions * the most common chord progressions used in hit songs * and more. Practice your songs with an accompaniment on the play-along CD!

Jason Blume

Product Description:
Jason Blume's Inside Songwriting: Getting to the Heart of Creativity picks up where his bestselling 6 Steps to Songwriting Success left off.

A songwriters' version of Natalie Goldberg's classic, million-selling, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - a book that virtually every serious student of creative writing reads - Blume's new offering is an inspirational book of insights and lessons meant to speak to songwriters, singers, and musicians. It provides an uncensored, behind-the-scenes look at the author's personal experience as a struggling, and then successful songwriter, and thereby offers comfort and hope, as well as valuable tools to other songwriters, whether they are just beginning, or well into their journey.

Inside Songwriting was undertaken when Blume realized that while most of his songwriting students had read Goldberg's book, there was nothing available to them that would address their unique issues in music. While not a traditional "how-to," each of the 60-plus short chapters relates galvanizing and/or educational anecdotes and is filled with valuable insights and lessons.

Ben Duncan

Product Description:
From faders to frequencies, microphones to mixing, pink noise to polarity, this is the all-inclusive manual for creating the finest sound for live performances. It applies to the entire range of stage performers and their equipment - solo acoustic guitar and vocal, full-scale band requiring complex amplification, or electronica DJ working multiple turntables. Every aspect of live sound is covered, including: analyzing venue needs, acquiring and managing the ideal sound system, setting up and testing equipment, understanding and applying the theories of acoustics, maintenance, trouble-shooting, and much more. Also features a 15,000-word technical glossary. 

J. Michael Gillette

From Book News, Inc.
Gillette (theatre, U. of Arizona) has revised his successful textbook, and has added material on projections, design process, drafting for lighting. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description:
This comprehensive survey of the practical and aesthetic aspects of basic lighting design treats lighting design for the stage as both an art closely integrated with the director’s, actor’s, and playwright’s vision, and a craft that provides practical solutions for the manipulation of stage space.

Rikky Rooksby

Product Description:
Rikky Rooksby helps you transform your guitar-playing skills into creative songwriting techniques. Using well-known songs as examples, plus lots of easy-to-read graphics, he explains and demonstrates how lyrics, melody, harmony, and rhythm work in a song. Rikky's straightforward style will have you up and writing on your guitar with easeâ€"even if you never have before.

You'll learn how to write words to melodies and vice versa; how to understand, develop, and embellish a melody; how chords create harmony; and how tempos and time signatures differ. The book also analyzes classic and unusual song structures and their elementsâ€"from intros to bridges to codasâ€"and discusses the benefits and problems of writing songs on different kinds of guitars. 

Bruce Arnold

From the Publisher
We are very excited about Mr. Arnold's Workbook series. The feedback we have received has validated our instincts that the books are a long-needed breakthrough in music education. Mr. Arnold has culled from his many years of teaching both privately and on the university level, and has provided information and teaching approaches which have never been presented in quite this way. The serious student will find the books to be a real "Rosetta Stone" for music theory and its application, while the professional musician will find them to be bountiful compendiums of information and lifelong companions in the voyage of musical discovery.

Product Description:
Music Theory Workbook for Guitar is an excellent learning tool for both the beginner who has no knowledge of music theory, and the advanced student looking to improve their knowledge of the guitar fretboard. An easy to understand music theory section is included to help a beginner understand the basic theory of interval and chord construction. This book takes a student from the most simple construction of basic intervals to the most advanced chord structure while at all times applying this to the guitar fretboard. All answers are included in the book so a students can check their work.

Molly-Ann Leikin

Reviewer: A reader
A practical reference book from a music industry insider. There are no get rich quick ideas as the author lays down useful step by step directions to not only writing a hit song but how to market it as well. Tips on submitting just lyrics (with no music) are also covered. A great guide for those looking to break into the music industry. 

Bruce Arnold

From the Publisher
We are very excited about Mr. Arnold's Workbook series. The feedback we have received has validated our instincts that the books are a long-needed breakthrough in music education. Mr. Arnold has culled from his many years of teaching both privately and on the university level, and has provided information and teaching approaches which have never been presented in quite this way. The serious student will find the books to be a real "Rosetta Stone" for music theory and its application, while the professional musician will find them to be compendiums of valuable information and lifelong companions in the voyage of musical discovery.

We are also excited about the comping styles books which take the progressions examined in the Chord Workbooks and teach a student how to play them in a blues, jazz and funk style.

Product Description:
Chord Workbook for Guitar's theory section helps a beginner understand the basic theory of chord building in simple easy to understand language. Chord progressions are provided to show how to apply chord voicings to common song forms. Advanced students will find the chord reharmonization section to be of particular interest, providing them with a lifetime of possibilities. All chord progressions are presented with chord symbols and in music notation to show smooth voice leading. The notated chord voicings also provide professional guitarists an opportunity to strengthen their sight reading.

Bruce Arnold 

Here’s what you get with "First Steps:"

1. All the most commonly played guitar chords . 
2.  Both Open and Barre Chords with practice chord progressions and the strumming directions which most books do not include. 
3. Videos demonstrating chords with special added notes
4. The easiest fingering patterns for both chords and scales along with tips on the common problems you will encounter
5.  The "scratch" method: This will get you switching between chords more fluidly and make your songs sound like music right away.
6.  A Video on the popular "CAGED" Method for learning chords 
7.  how to tune the guitar
8.  Music Theory information
9.  note chart 
10.  which chords go together the best
11.  Hammer-ons, Pulloffs, Slides, Bends, Vibrato
12. how to add notes into chords to give them more interesting sounds
13.  A learning tool called "cycle 5" .
14.  An entire section in the book explaining all aspects of rhythm
15.  The Blues. "First Steps" gives you access to a large online resource 
16.  A resource of 22 different scales is presented in the form of videos

by Scott Hunter Stark

Product Description:
Get ready to learn live sound reinforcement using the best-selling title on the subject available! The simple language, detailed illustrations, and concrete examples in this book are suitable for novice to intermediate-level users. "Live Sound Reinforcement" outlines all aspects of P.A. system operation and commonly encountered sound system design concerns. Topics include microphones, speaker systems, equalizers, mixers, signal processors, amplifiers, system wiring and interfaces, indoor and outdoor sound considerations and psychoacoustics.