The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music by Dave Stewart

The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music by Dave Stewart

Learning musical notation can be intimidating. But regardless of instrument or proficiency in reading music, there's hope and help for all musicians in this practical guide. Writing in a friendly manner that puts readers at ease, author Dave Stewart starts with the basics: staves, clefs, and how to find the notes. He then advances step by step through rhythm, key signatures, chords and intervals, and how to write it all down. This book is useful for novices, seasoned players who never learned to read music, and pros seeking a refresher course.

Dave Stewart is the creator and chairman of Weapons of Mass Entertainment, an idea factory dubbed a media firm for the future world by the Los Angeles Times. His career as a multimedia entrepreneur spans more than 25 years and more than 100 million album sales. Stewart has collaborated with some of the best, including Bono, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan, and has won best songwriter and best producer four times, as well as multiple Grammy and Life Time Achievement Awards. Stewart, who Dylan describes as a daring innovator, was just named one of Fast Company Magazine's 100 Most Innovative Individuals in Business. Stewart is a well-known public speaker who advises businesses on creativity and innovation on a regular basis.

He is a significant counselor to Nokia, where he has the title of change agent, and has pioneered a number of game-changing enterprises in the entertainment business. Stewart is a talented photographer and videographer who also knows how to mix a good vodka martini. Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution is co-authored by Mark Simmons, a branding guru, pioneer, and co-author of Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution. He has worked for Coca-Cola as a senior global marketer, run advertising firms in the UK and the US, served as an adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, and is the co-founder of useless.org, a social company dedicated to helping people use less and give more during the last two decades.

Mark is a frequent speaker on the topics of creativity, marketing, and branding at conferences. He is a firm believer in the power of ideas to transform business and society, and he works with organizations all around the world to put this belief into effect. Mark can be found on Twitter at @markjcsimmons.

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ISBN 13	9780879305703
ISBN 10	0879305703
Title	The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music
Author	Dave Stewart
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hal Leonard Corporation
Year published	1999-05-01
Number of pages	120
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