Digital Music Doctor provides instructional materials for producers, engineers, and computer-based musicians with easy to understand DVDs. Digital Music Doctors DVDs cover topics including: Digital Audio, Mixing, Mastering, and Recording with such software titles as ProTools, Cubase, SONAR, GarageBand, SoundForge, ACID and many more.

Digital Music Doctor Mixing and Mastering - Know It All! DVD
Digital Music Doctor’s Mixing & Mastering DVD is your complete guide to digital audio mixing and mastering. The tutorials begin with an “Overview” section, which introduces the necessary audio engineering concepts. Both the “Mixing” and “Mastering” sections are organized into a straightforward framework consisting of 5 elements: volume, panning, dynamics, EQ, and FX.The tutorials illustrate the principles and concepts of mixing and mastering using a number of examples created in popular pro audio products. Examples in the “Mixing” section use primarily Pro Tools, Sonar, and Cubase, and examples in the “Mastering” section concentrate on Ozone, Sound Forge, and Audition. Audio plug-ins from Waves Audio, PSP Audioware, and Camel Audio are also demonstrated.The Mixing & Mastering tutorials are 2 hours and 50 minutes of Adobe Flash interactive videos in DVD and digital distribution formats.Overview Introduction: Covers the course overview, navigation, framework, and monitoring. Length is 7:11. Audio Environment: Sets the stage by introducing the audio engineering concepts necessary for an understanding of digital mixing and mastering. Includes sample rate, bit depth dither, plug-ins (DX/VST/RTAS/AU), mixer architecture, clipping, freezing, Fletcher-Munson Effect, and audio meters. Length is 16:35.Mixing Primary products featured in this section include Cakewalk Sonar 6, Steinberg Cubase 4, and DigiDesign Pro Tools 7. Volume: Topics include baseline, relative levels, master level, track automation, clip automation, and grouping. Length is 8:48. Panning: Topics include stereo pan laws, pseudo stereo, panning conventions, and Waves PAZ Analyzer. Length is 7:29. Dynamics: Covers compression, limiting, expansion, gates, submixes, New York compression, side chains, and electronica (CamelSpace). Length is 23:46. EQ: Topics include goals, EQ ranges, filter types, bandwidth (Q), EQ examples, and noise reduction. Length is 19:56. FX: Covers delay, chorus, flanging, distortion and exciters, FX panning and EQ, reverb, Sony Acoustic Mirror, Perfect Space Convolution reverb, electronica (CampelPhat), RoomWorks reverb, and guitar amp simularion (Amplitube 2). Length is 26:50.Mastering Primary products featured in this section include iZotope Ozone 3, Sound Forge 8, and Adobe Audition 2 (Cool Edit). Techniques: Covers spectral analysis, CD master creation, and Sony CD Architect. 13 minutes. Volume: Topics are peak/RMS normalization and volume maximization. 10:24 in length. Panning: Stereo expansion is the primary topic of this portion of the mastering section. 6:32 in length. Dynamics: Focuses on multiband compression and compares several popular plug-ins, including Waves C4 Compressor, PSP Audioware Vintage Warmer, and Sonitus:fx Multiband. 8:19 in length. EQ: Covers EQ profiles, multiband exciters, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Pro Tools 7-Band EQ, Waves Renaissance EQ, and PSP Audioware 6-Band EQ. 11:08 in length.

Digital Music Doctor Digital Producer - Know It All! DVD
Digital Music Doctor’s Digital Producer DVD is your complete guide to making music using digital sources: loops, synthesizers, and samplers. The tutorials cover a wide variety of musical genres-everything from making beats to creating orchestral tracks.The “Overview” and “Concepts” sections present a brief history of digital music production and the role of the producer, as well as providing a foundation of basic audio and MIDI concepts used throughout the course. There are two general sections, “Synths & Samplers” and “Time & Pitch,” which illustrate the techniques of digital music production. These sections use examples primarily from Native Instruments Absynth and Kontakt, as well as Sony Acid Pro and Pro Tools Beat Detective.There are four sections which address creating music for specific instrument groups: the “Drums” section uses examples from FXpansion BFD and GURU, as well as Ableton Live Impulse and FL Studio. The “Guitar & Bass” section focuses on Steinberg Virtual Guitarist, MusicLab RealGuitar, Spectrasonics Trilogy, and Bornemark Broomstick Bass. The “Jazz & Orchestra” section includes examples from the Garritan Jazz & Big Band, Cakewalk Dimension Pro, Giga Virtual Instrument, Propellerheads Reason Piano Refill, and Kontakt. The “Vocals” section covers vocal editing and processing using Melodyne Celemony and the Waves Vocal Bundle, as well as addressing such topics as Vocoders, stutter, and vocal extraction.The Digital Producer tutorials are 4 hours and 6 minutes of Adobe Flash interactive videos in data DVD format.Overview Introduction: Covers the course overview and navigation. 6:15 in length. History: Addresses digital music production and producers. 5:11 in length.Audio Primary products featured in this section include Adobe Audition Pro Tools, Cakewalk Sonar, and Dimension Pro. Audio: Covers digital audio, harmonics, and ADSR envelopes. 10:21 in length. MIDI: Topics include channels, patches, note events, editors, quantizing, and controllers. 12:22 in length.Synthesizers & Samplers Primary products featured in this section include Native Instruments Absynth and Kontakt, Cakewalk Dimension Pro, Garritan Jazz & Big Band, Reason Subtractor Malstrom, Ableton Live, and Arturia MiniMoog. Synthesizers: Covers architecture, multitimbrality, subtractive synthesis, wavetable synthesis, polyphony, and sample-based synths. 10:45 in length. Samplers: Covers multisampling, zone mapping, velocity switching, cross fading, sample editing, and disk streaming. 9:41 in length. Modifiers: Topics include filters, LFOs, envelopes, and FX. 10:18 in length. Techniques: Covers oscillator layering, sample laying, patch layering, granular synthesis, FM synthesis, and virtual instruments. 16:34 in length.Time & Pitch Primary products featured in this section include Sony Acid Pro, Cubase Audio Warp, Pro Tools Beat Detective, Reason Dr. Rex NN-XT, and Celemony Melodyne.

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Kultur International Films specializes in the world’s greatest performing arts and cultural programming on DVD. Kultur offers titles featuring the legends of Opera, Ballet, Comedy, Classical, Rock, Pop and Jazz & R&B music. For over 25 years, Kultur has been the leading source for world-class performing arts titles. They also offer the largest collection of art, literature and history programs; as seen on Public Television, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Ovation, Bravo and many other networks.

Kultur La Guitarra: Classical Music Performance DVD
Julian Bream is celebrated as one of the world’s leading classical guitarists. He is featured in this series of eight 30-minute films, shot entirely on location in Spain, playing some of the finest pieces in the repertoire of the Spanish guitar. The program traces the evolution of the Spanish guitar over five centuries, from 1500 to the present day. Together, its music and history paint a rich portrait of Spain and her people. Bream plays in some of Spain’s most magnificent old buildings and beautiful landscapes, creating through his performances a visual evocation of the culture, history and society that has given birth to the music. Seville, Toledo, Madrid, Barcelona and the Pyrenees -these and other locations form a vivid backdrop to his playing. Each program travels between Spain’s past and present and includes a wealth of historical documentation -paintings, manuscripts, biographical sketches of composers, period instruments -as well as film of life in Spain today.For this series, Julian Bream asked the outstanding Spanish guitar maker, his long standing friend and colleague José Romanillos to make him a vihuela and a Baroque Spanish guitar and for the first time, he performs publicly on these instruments. In episode 4, he is joined by another master performer, Paco Peña, who plays Flamenco guitar and talks with Bream about its origins and meaning.

Kultur Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concert 9-DVD Set
From 1958 through 1973, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic thrilled audiences with wonderful concert experiences presented in a sparkling music-with-commentary format: The Young People’s Concert. Viewed nationwide on CBS television, and eventually telecast around the world, The Young People’s Concerts turned an entire generation into music lovers. Includes 9 DVDs in this set.

Kultur Famous Composers Wolfgang Mozart DVD
The Famous Composers Wolfgang Mozart DVD is an insightful program that uncovers his character and explores the obstacles he overcame in trying to establish himself as an independent artist when musicians were still seen as servants to the rich and powerful. Mozart’s years in Vienna (1781-91) were his most productive. There, he wrote his great masterpieces including opera Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, the Jupiter Symphony, Quintet In G Minor and his last great work, the Requiem, which he composed just before his death at the age of thirty-five. The program concludes with a brief overview of Mozart’s work that is useful to experienced music lovers and newcomers alike. The soundtrack features a selection of Mozart’s compositions played by members of the Elysium Ensemble.

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Learn to master your favorite music instrument with an informative, easy to follow teaching DVD from the SMP music library. SMP DVDs employ split screen close-up camera angles combined with slow, phrase by phrase song demos so you can see exactly how to play. Slow and fast demos of songs are also provided so you can play along. Music concepts are made clear and easy to understand by the generous use of illustrations with colorful highlighting. SMP DVDs also include a handy case-size music booklet that you can carry around with you inside your instrument case.

SMP Beginning Electric Guitar DVD You’re in total control while your own private teacher patiently guides you from your first chord all the way through to complete compositions. Several months of valuable lessons are included with phrase-by-phrase demonstrations, split-screen close-ups, band accompaniment to play along with, and a tablature booklet which shows you graphically which strings to play on which frets. Learn bar chords, rhythm patterns, flashy riffs and licks, left-hand fingering techniques, pentatonic scales, and improvisation.

SMP Beginning Bass Guitar DVD You’re in total control while your own private teacher patiently guides you from your first notes all the way through to complete compositions. Several months of valuable lessons are included with phrase-by-phrase demonstrations, split-screen closeups, band accompaniment to play along with, and a tablature booklet (which shows you graphically which strings to play on which frets). Learn major and minor scales, rhythmic variations, bass lines, runs, triads, octaves, arpeggios, and walking bass patterns.

SMP Beginning Keyboard DVD Several months of valuable lessons are included with phrase-by-phrase demonstrations, split-screen closeups, and a booklet of written transcriptions. Learn typical electric keyboard functions and controls, rhythm and voice options, sight reading for the right hand, and auto accompaniment for the left hand.

SMP Beginning Drumming (DVD) For the beginner to intermediate level player. The SMP Beginning Drumming DVD includes techniques are demonstrated slowly with split screen closeups so you can see exactly how to play them. You’ll learn stick action, rides, drumbeats, fills, and how to establish a groove using all the drums and cymbals in your kit.

SMP Beginning Acoustic Guitar (DVD) Several months of valuable lessons are programmed into this one easy-to-navigate DVD.You’ll start out learning chords and strumming patterns so you can sing and play along. The songs are demonstrated slowly, phrase by phrase with split screen close-ups so you can see exactly how to play them. Then you’ll learn how to add the melody to your chord strums to create lead solo arrangements for a variety of familiar songs. By the time you’re finished, you’ll learn hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, tablature, rhythm patterns, arpeggiated rhythm, endings, and more.

SMP Beginning Dobro DVD You’re in total control while your own private teacher patiently guides you from your first notes all the way through to complete compositions. Several months of valuable lessons are included with phrase-by-phrase demonstrations, split-screen close-ups, band accompaniment to play along with, and a tablature booklet (which shows you graphically which strings to play on which frets). Learn rolls and other right-hand picking techniques, general slide handling, slants, pull-offs, hammer-ons, harmonic chimes, plus flashy intros and endings while playing popular tunes.

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Writer’s Digest Lyric Writing Books

Here are a couple of excellent lyric writing books from Writer’s Digest to help you craft your songs. Anyone who sings or writes music can benefit from the advice in these books. They cover song structure, idea generation, rhyming schemes, pitching songs, and other aspects of songwritng.

Writer’s Digest The Craft of Lyric Writing Book
With over 100,000 copies in print, successful author and songwriter Sheila Davis provides a complete guide to writing words for and to music, showing how to create lyrics with universal appeal, choose a song form, and more. 350 pages.

Writer’s Digest You Can Write Song Lyrics Book
Anyone who’s dreamed of writing a hit song but doesn’t know how to start will welcome the inspiration and practical instruction offered by successful lyricist Terry Cox. Readers will learn about basic song components, collaborative songwriting, and creative ways to come up with song ideas. Cox also takes the reader through the stages of writing lyrics for a song, from choosing a title to the chorus, verses and the bridge. Readers will even find sections on getting the song performed, recorded and getting people in the music business interested.