Podcasting is like blogging out loud! It gives you a voice—one that can be heard worldwide on computers, iPods, or other MP3 players. You can podcast to boost your business, promote your passion, share your opinions, or just have fun. The point is to say what you want to say to those who want to hear it. With step-by-step explanations, screen shots, and tons of examples, this guide clues you in on recording, producing, and hosting your very own podcast with info on:
* Finding your voice and your niche, whether you want to talk tech, make your own kinds of music, educate listeners, make people laugh, do soundseeing tours, serialize your novel, or invent a new podcasting genre
* Getting the bare necessities (if you don’t already have them), including a microphone, recording software, and an audio card
* Audio editing software such as Audacity, Cakewalk for PCs, GarageBand for musicality, and Audio HiJack Pro for Macs
* Recording, including understanding dB (decibel levels), capturing or minimizing ambient noise, and more
* Editing with GarageBand or Audacity, adding bed music, and including intros and outros for a signature finishing touch
You want your podcast to be heard. Podcasting For Dummies helps you launch and promote it with info on how to:
* Downsize your audio files with MP3 compression
* Change bit rates and sample rates in Audacity and iTunes
* Create and edit your ID3 tags in Audacity or iTunes
* Post your show notes using Movable Type or Libsyn
* Simplify the RSS 2.0 feed by using blogging software or a podcast-hosting company such as Audioblog.com, Podcastamatic, and Feeder
* Ping for publicity
* Communicate with your listeners on your blog, through online discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups, or on online forums
Of course, if you want to be a podcatcher (a listener) and subscribe to podcasts, this guide shows you how to do that, too! Complete with a companion podcast—a free weekly audio commentary that will keep you up to speed on the podsphere—this guide helps you get your message heard, loud and clear.
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At first glance, a piano may seem like an intimidating instrument that would be very difficult to learn how to play, but despite what your seventh-grade piano teacher may say, playing piano isn’t brain surgery. It just takes time, practice, and patience.
Piano For Dummies starts at the very beginning and walks you through everything you need to know to turn that oversized hunk of furniture into an instrument that can make beautiful music. If you don’t know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory and applying it to playing the piano. And if you’ve been playing piano for a while – or took piano lessons when you were a child but haven’t played since – you can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing or use the book as a refresher course.
Here are some of the topics you’ll find in Piano For Dummies:
* Buying a piano: Acoustic versus electronic
* How a piano works, and how to care for one
* Left- and right-hand piano techniques
* Examining keys, scales, melodies, harmonies, and chords
* Plenty of musical examples to play
* The history of piano musical styles
* Advice for piano teachers
* A Top Ten list of pianists you should know about
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Here’s how to make sound decisions about a desktop studio
Get the lowdown on equipment, design your studio space, and set your music free!
If you’ve been dreaming of making music with your computer, wake up and get started! Musician Jeff Strong clears a path for you through all the confusing options, helping you sort out hardware and software choices, coax the sound you want from your equipment, work with equalizers and processors, and start your creative juices flowing!
Discover how to
* Choose the right system and install software
* Optimize studio sound for recording and mixing
* Understand audio interfaces, sound cards, and MIDI gear
* Compare popular programs
* Mix and master your tracks
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Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can! Music Composition For Dummies demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating melodies and chord progressions and working with instruments and voices.
In this fun and practical guide, you’ll learn how to match keys and chords to the mood you want to convey, work a form without limiting your creativity, and hammer out a musical idea, even when your mind is drawing a blank. You’ll find out how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, and video game soundtracks. And, you’ll learn what you need to know about music composition software, including Finale, Sebelius, Pro Tools, and more. Discover how to:
* Preserve and organize your musical ideas
* Work with established chord progressions or create your own
* Develop great rhythms
* Select the right instruments
* Find melodies in your head, your instrument, and the world around you
* Use major and minor scales
* Work with modes and moods
* Build melodic motifs and phrases
* Use the circle of fifths to harmonize
* Write for multiple voices
* Make a demo recording
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Shake the earth with deep, sonorous vibrations. Be the force that relentlessly drives the music. Rumble like the ominous thunder of an approaching storm. For you, it’s not enough just to be heard; you need to be felt, too. You need to play bass guitar.
Imagine your favorite music without bass. It doesn’t work, does it? The bass is the heartbeat of the music, the foundation of the groove, and the glue that holds together all the different instruments. You can feel the vibrations of the low notes – sometimes subtle and caressing, sometimes literally earthshaking – as they propel the song. The bass is the heart. So leave center stage to the other musicians – you have more important work to do. The limelight may be cool, but bassists rule!
You can find everything you need to dominate the bass in Bass Guitar For Dummies – whether you’re a beginner picking up a bass for the first time or an experienced player looking for way to improve. And you won’t drown in complicated music theory, either; this easy-to-understand reference gives you just enough music theory to get you on your way.
Bass Guitar For Dummies includes the following topics and more:
* Exploring the anatomy of a bass guitar
* Getting started: Holding your bass, positioning your hands, and striking notes
* Reading bass notation and understanding chords, scales, and octaves
* Creating a groove and playing solos and fills
* Examining different bass-playing styles, from rock and funk to blues and reggae
* Caring for your bass: Cleaning, changing strings, and so on
* Buying your own bass and accessories
* Top Ten lists on bassists you should know about
So put away the air bass guitar and get yourself the real thing. With the help of Bass Guitar For Dummies, you’ll be groovin’ in your own band in no time!
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