Perhaps you've always dreamed about performing your music for others. Grab a mic and let's get going! Share your music with family, friends, or even the whole world by writing a song and recording it. Learn the first steps in composing a hit song, then find out how to record your music and make it sound professional. Check out the handy Music-Making Checklist for tips and tricks as you get started. Are you ready to hit record?

Perhaps you've always dreamed about performing music. Learn the first steps in composing a hit song, and find out how to record your music and make it sound professional. Grab a mic and let's get going!

Language and the way that people communicate has evolved over time, now you can learn how to effectively use your voice in the most effective way possible in order to get your message across. Every time we open our mouths, we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us. The ability to speak clearly and confidently can make or break a presentation, an important meeting, or even a first date. Now, with the advent of Skype, YouTube, podcasting, Vine, and any number of reality talent competitions, your vocal presence has never been more necessary for success or more central to achieving your dreams. Roger Love has over 30 years of experience as one of the world's leading authorities on voice. Making use of the innovative techniques that have worked wonders with his professional clients, Love distills the best of his teaching in Set Your Voice Free, and shares exercises that will help readers bring emotion, range, and power to the way they speak. This updated edition incorporates what he's learned in the last 15 years as the Internet and talent competitions have completely changed the role your voice plays in your life. These are the new essentials for sounding authentic, persuasive, distinctive, and real in a world that demands nothing less.

Explains how to create songs to be played on guitar, including advice on such basics of songwriting as structure, rhythm, melody, and lyrics.

With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas. Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts that will launch song after song. Use the Starters to spark a brainstorm or set a series of notes in motion, get your feet dancing or fill your head with music. Listen to hit song examples as you work. All of the Starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters, but you make them your own. 365 ways to fuel your songwriting creativity: - 183 lyric situations, characters, emotions, and title ideas - 45 ways to easily create music tracks to write to - 42 melody patterns, phrase ideas, and note rhythms - 17 contemporary chord progressions - 22 ways to rewrite a song using Song Starters ...plus a grab bag of 56 assorted whimsical, stimulating, inspiring launch pads for lyrics, melodies, and chords that will let you free your muse and write from your heart. With Song Starters, you'll never have to face another blank page.

"I found the journal at work. Well, I don't know if you'd call it work, but that's where I found it. It's the lost journal of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors and visionaries ever. Before he died in 1943, he kept a notebook filled with spectacular claims and outrageous plans. One of these plans was for an "Interdimensional Transfer Apparatus"--That allowed someone (in this case me and my friend Pete) to travel to other versions of the infinite dimensions that make up the multiverse. Crazy, right? But that's just where the crazy starts." [back cover].

Do you play an instrument? Write songs? Played a few gigs? Wondering what comes next? If so, now is the time to get your music in front of a global audience – by getting it onto the internet. This book shows you how to record music, upload it and get it listened to and talked about throughout the connected world. And all without buying expensive studio equipment or signing away your rights to cigar-smoking middlemen.Written by experienced insiders, this book covers all the basic equipment and skills you will need to get the job done at home, without hiring a sound engineer, record producer or studio. Plus advice to help you run your band and get your music heard. So whatever kind of music you’re into, this book provides a path through the minefield of today’s music business. DIY recording is fun and cost effective – and for some lucky bands, the first step to making it big.About the authorAs someone who owns and runs a recording studio, Leo Coulter has a good background of the music business. Having started his career as a session guitarist, Leo now works principally as a composer, writing and producing songs for new and established artists. Richard Jones has worked widely within the music industry as a sound engineer, session pianist and songwriter. He has produced two original albums and has recently taken to building his own studio equipment.