Composing Digital Music For Dummies

If you want to compose great music using the latest and coolest digital tools,then you’ve come to the right place! But before you become a householdname, check out Chapter 1 and get an introduction to the world of digitalmusic, what you need to participate, and where you can go from here. InChapter 2, you get the real scoop on who does what in the digital musicindustry, from video game composers to experimental electronic artists. Youeven get a brief rundown on how records are made. In Chapter 3, I offer up aprimer on basic music notation: what the funny little dots...
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Composing Digital Music For Dummies ComposingDigital Music FORDUMmIES ‰ by Russell Dean Vines ComposingDigital Music FORDUMmIES ‰ ComposingDigital Music FORDUMmIES ‰ by Russell Dean VinesDisclaimer: This eBook does not include ancillary media that was packaged with theprinted version of the book.Composing Digital Music For Dummies®Published byWiley Publishing, Inc.111 River St.Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774www.wiley.comCopyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IndianaPublished simultaneously in CanadaNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or byany means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permittedunder Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permissionof the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the CopyrightClearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. 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Some content that appears in print maynot be available in electronic books.Library of Congress Control Number:ISBN: 978-0-470-17095-3Manufactured in the United States of America10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1About the Author Russell Dean Vines is a music industry veteran, with more than 40 years of experience as a bandleader, sideman, composer, arranger, clinician, lecturer, and consultant. Russ started music lessons as soon as he entered elementary school, eventu- ally studying violin, French horn, guitar, piano, tenor saxophone, and his pri- mary instrument, bass. He decided to become a professional musician when he was in middle school. While attending a dinner show at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nevada, Russ realized that the tuxedo-clad musicians in the house orchestra dressed better and probably earned more than the hard- scrabble ranchers he’d grown up among throughout the West. At age 13, he booked his first gig, in a biker roadhouse in Reno, playing bass alongside one of the rare female baritone vocalists who could also play barrelhouse piano, and a little person on drums. Russ’s featured solo con- sisted of blowing bubbles with a straw in a glass of water, improvising on the theme from the TV show Flipper. The gig paid more than his paper route and made it possible for Russ to buy cutout records on sale at the local Western Auto store. There he discovered the music of multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk (pre-Rahsaan) and bassist Charles Mingus. The adolescent Russ found their music weird but appealing. Down Beat magazine awarded the young bassist/composer a Hall of Fame scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Charlie Mariano, Major (Mule) Holley, Herb Pomeroy, John LaPorta, and others. Russ learned many valuable lessons, such as: * Don’t accept a gig at a joint that has chicken-wire surrounding the bandstand. * Playing outside has nothing to do with the weather. * It’s a mistake to leave your ax onstage between sets, because it could be in the pawnshop before you get back. Having absorbed too much information in Boston, Russ returned to Reno, where he performed as a sideman in Reno nightspots, working with well- known entertainers including George Benson; John Denver; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Dean Martin. For several years he p ...