Forms & Genres

Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. A NATURAL WOMAN chronicles King's extraordinary life, drawing readers into her musical world, including her phenomenally successful #1 album Tapestry, and into her journey as a performer, mother, wife and present-day activist. Deeply personal, King's long-awaited memoir offers readers a front-row seat to the woman behind the legend.

The book will include dozens of photos from King's childhood, her own family, and behind-the-scenes images from her performances.

In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America's foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA.

In The Songwriters Idea Book, Davis goes one step further, giving you 40 strategies for designing distinctive songs. You'll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain.

• You'll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate.
• You'll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering.
• You'll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia.
• You'll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words.
• And, you'll learn how to prevent writer's block, increase your productivity and maintain your creative flow.

Over 100 successful student lyrics from pop, country, cabaret, and theater serve as role-models to illustrate the "whole-brain" songwriting process.

This is a chronological presentation of the development of Western music within Western culture. This edition has increased coverage of 20th-century music, and timelines covering musical events throughout history.

Pattison presents a unique, in-depth approach to the process of lyric writing. Songwriters will examine 17 extraordinary songs and learn the distinct elements that make them so effective. Pattison then presents more than 30 lyric-writing exercises designed to achieve the same results. From generating lyric ideas and managing repetition to developing verses, it's all here. Songwriters will: find warm-up exercises that revolutionize songwriting imagery; use a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus to generate ideas and find snappy rhyme; create meaningful metaphors and similes while avoiding cliches; develop verses by using or breaking conventional rules; experiment with point of view in every lyric to make a song stand out

Easy arrangements of 120 Beatles hits. A truly remarkable collection including: All My Loving * And I Love Her * Come Together * Eleanor Rigby * Get Back * Help! * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Michelle * many, many more.

Known internationally as a curator and influencer amongst the world’s top DJs, producers, and artists, Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is at the nexus of music, fashion, and cultural trends. His record label Mad Decent has helped bring Brazilian baile funk, Angolan Kuduro, and other unknown music to clubs around the world, while his work as a producer has brought a unique sound to hits like M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now,” and Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls).”

128 Beats Per Minute follows Diplo on this fantastic journey, from his involvement with dub reggae in Jamaica to the electro/techno underground in Tel Aviv. Each chapter chronicles his tastes and travels, complete with tweets and playlists, as documented by photographer Shane McCauley. 128 Beats Per Minute provides unique access to the hottest scenes shaping music’s landscape today. 

Sixty-seven of the best songs of the rock era, all chosen from Rolling Stone® magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue. The songbook covers 67 classic songs spanning the classic rock era to the modern rock era all arranged to include all important guitar parts and yet remain easily playable. Songs Include: Alison * Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 * Back in Black * Bad Moon Rising * Beat It * Billie Jean * Bitter Sweet Symphony * Bizarre Love Triangle * Black Dog * Blitzkrieg Bop * Born in the U.S.A. * Born to Run * The Boys of Summer * Brown Sugar * Come Together * Comfortably Numb * Fake Plastic Trees * Family Affair * Fast Car * Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine * Gimme Shelter * Go Your Own Way * God Save the Queen * Good Times * Graceland * Heartbreaker * Highway to Hell * Hotel California * I Wanna Be Sedated * Into the Mystic * Iron Man * Kashmir * Knocking on Heaven's Door * Layla * Like a Prayer * Lola * London Calling * Losing My Religion * Lust for Life * Maggie May * Moondance * No Woman, No Cry * Paradise City * Paranoid * Paranoid Android * (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding? * Personality Crisis * Radio Free Europe * (Don t Fear) the Reaper * Respect * Sheena Is a Punk Rocker * Should I Stay or Should I Go * Spirit in the Sky * Stairway to Heaven * Stayin Alive * Sweet Child O' Mine * Tangled Up in Blue * Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) * Thunder Road * Walk on the Wild Side * Welcome to the Jungle * What s Going On * Whipping Post * Whole Lotta Love * Wild Horses * Wish You Were Here * You Can't Always Get What You Want.

The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he's found it, he distills here the wisdom he's acquired into seven "pillars," each based on a formative event in his life-from the moment he first heard the call of hip-hop to the death of his cousin and Clan- mate, Russell Jones, aka ODB. Delivered in RZA's unmistakable style, at once surprising, profound, and provocative, The Tao of Wu is a spiritual memoir the world has never seen before, and will never see again. A nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation, it will enlighten, entertain, and inspire.

These popular publications are compiled especially for the tastes and abilities of the talented teenage singer/actor. Songs span from classic stage musicals, to "the golden age of Hollywood," to the stage and cinema of the 1980s and '90s. Indispensible for teaching young singers, these book/CD packs also include notes on each selection. The Young Women's Edition includes 33 songs: Beauty and the Beast * Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend * Honey Bun * I Could Have Danced All Night * I Enjoy Being a Girl * I Have Confidence * Many a New Day * Memory * My Favorite Things * On My Own * Part of Your World * Sisters * Think of Me * Wouldn't It Be Loverly * and more.