Check out this revolutionary platform for musical creativity and you won't look back. Songtrix Gold 3.0 supports musicians in the same flexible and open-ended way that a word processor supports writers. Compose a chord sequence and apply styles to produce a professional musical arrangement in seconds. Or create your own masterpiece from scratch, using intuitive events like strums and drum rolls for rapid drafting and refinement of musical ideas.

See, Hear and Understand - ChordWizard Music Theory 3.0 contains How Music Works, a comprehensive suite of multimedia tutorials that explain music in clear, simple language you can relate to.

MixMeister Fusion is an all-new pro DJ software application. It combines the spontaneity of live DJ performances with the pinpoint precision of the best studio production software, and it represents the next step in digital DJ creativity. Fusion lets you maintain two, three, even up to eight songs in a perfect beat mix at all times, so you're free to improvise with effects and shape the music in a million ways. It supports harmonic mixing, VST effects, intelligent looping, MIDI hardware controllers, and a ton of other new stuff.

Anyone can learn to solo on the guitar! Even if you???�?�?re a novice, as long as you know your basic chords, you can start playing melodies and improvising lead parts. Marcy Marxer???�?�?s user-friendly method brings all the notes, frets and strings into clear focus, giving you an invaluable roadmap to the guitar fingerboard. Marcy has successfully taught this foolproof method at guitar camps and workshops across the country. She provides both practical exercises and theoretical knowledge to demystify the guitar for learning players. Starting with warm-up exercises to isolate and strengthen your fingers, you???�?�?ll learn to play with proper hand position and learn to build pick accuracy and speed. Marcy then shows how to play scales horizontally (up the neck) and vertically (across the strings), and provides easy ways to find the notes anywhere on the guitar neck.

MixMeister Fusion is an all-new pro DJ software application. It combines the spontaneity of live DJ performances with the pinpoint precision of the best studio production software, and it represents the next step in digital DJ creativity.
Fusion lets you maintain two, three, even up to eight songs in a perfect beat mix at all times, so you're free to improvise with effects and shape the music in a million ways. It supports harmonic mixing, VST effects, intelligent looping, MIDI hardware controllers, and a ton of other new stuff.MixMeister Fusion + Video is the ultimate audio and video mixing system for live DJ performances. Built on top of our groundbreaking MixMeister Fusion software, this add-on module lets you mix full-motion, beat-matched videos right alongside your audio mix.Play hands-on or hands-off. Fusion + Video lets you control exact video sequences and transitions, or you can use the montage builder to automatically create video mixes in perfect sync with the beat. This feature is perfect for displaying lots of short ambient or psychadelic clips in sync with a song.

The Complete Jazz Guitar Method
Intermediate by Jodi Fisher

Ableton Live is about making music; for composition, songwriting, recording, production, remixing and live performance. Live's nonlinear, intuitive flow, alongside powerful real-time editing and flexible performance options, make it a unique studio tool and a favorite with live performers. If you'd rather be "making music" than just "using music software," Ableton Live is for you. Live 8, the latest version, includes a wealth of new techniques and improvements with a new groove engine, revamped warping, live looping, new effects, crossfades in the Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor. Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.

eMedia Intermediate Piano & Keyboard Method is a comprehensive musical experience on CD-ROM. It teaches you to improve your playing, gain control of the keyboard, and develop your musicianship. You???�?�?ll learn to play pieces by famous composers in a broad range of musical styles, from Baroque to the present. You will also develop your musical creativity by learning how to improvise. Vadim Ghin, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, guides you with video demonstrations of techniques and practical advice that will elevate your playing to a new standard. Alongside conventional scales, chord progressions and finger techniques, you will learn the blues form, scales, and patterns needed to create your own improvisations and songs.

Animators need to know a lot about acting, but they don't need to know everything. For example, an animator does not need to learn how to make himself cry because, if he started crying, he wouldn't be able to see to animate! Much of acting theory, as it is taught to actual actors, is devoted to training the actor how to emotionally stimulate himself, a skill that animators simply do not need.

In Acting for Animators, acting teacher Ed Hooks explains seven essential acting principles, focusing on the connections between thinking, emotion and physical movement. He discusses the importance of empathy in acting and tells how to achieve it in animation. This book is chock full of good stuff for the animator and, already, is on a growing number of "must read" lists. Many animation schools are making it a required text.

Ableton Live 7 is your companion during every stage of the musical process, from creation to production to performance.
Users of the popular sequencing software Ableton Live will notice some big changes in it's latest version Live 7. Like big hitters Cubase and Logic, Live 7 has been designed to utilise 64 bit processing technology (that's top end professional computers like a Mac Pro) as well as being able to run on consumer desktop and laptops. Whilst still being the number one application for live artists and DJ's, it is now breaking on the top end level of production.

New features include a greater level of virtual instruments like drum kits, analog synthesisers and piano's. It also can now boast a vast sample library as well as reaching a higher level of audio fidelity.