Art Techniques

Get ready to enhance your musical ear with this accessible course for beginners. Throughout the piano is used to give clear, musical examples. This course will help you refine your pitch and intonation skills. Narrated by Jacob Acre and created by Anthony Brown the course offers a comprehensive guide to: understanding pitch; mastering intonation; and recognizing intervals. This will help complete beginners and even more seasoned musicians hone their skills.

In this audiobook, you will find detailed information on mind control. You will learn how the process is created and how it is imposed to the victim. A manipulator tries to transform you into a slave willing to follow any orders.

If you've ever taken classes in meditation or hatha yoga, then chances are you've heard the word “pranayama” mentioned at some point or another. Other similar terms include “breath control”, “pranic breathing”, “yoga breathing”, and “energy expansion.” This audiobook will teach you how to practice numerous specific breath control exercises on your own. Although pranayama is usually practiced together with hatha yoga, martial arts, and meditation, it can also stand on its own because of its many benefits.

In this audiobook, we’ll outline Capoeira's basics in terms of techniques and style. This informative guide will give you a brief history of this fascinating martial art and teach you some impressive offensive and defensive movements. You will also have the chance to learn many Brazilian terms and their cultural meanings. This audiobook outlines everything you need to know about Capoeira as one of the types of martial arts.

Sambo consists of different elements that range from throws, holds, and movements that you should know. This audiobook helps you learn the basics that can help improve your self-defense skills. Additionally, it provides a basic understanding of Sambo and how it differs from other disciplines in martial arts. It also outlines the benefits and everything you want to know about this kind of martial art.

If you're a self-taught guitarist wanting to play songs without spending all your time practicing, this may be the most important audiobook to which you ever listen....

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page: the topographical peaks and valleys, the circuitous melodic lines, the thoroughfares where all the voices convene, and so on.

Hi, fellow music lover! Congratulations on starting your music-making journey. I won't waste your time with a long introduction, but let me say a few words just to get us off on the right foot. Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: Music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too.

From your head to your feet, your body communicates something out to the world, whether you know it or not. Sometimes, this is helpful, but sometimes, you don’t want to reveal all of your cards. Becoming self-aware of your body language is the first step toward controlling and then utilizing body language to your benefit. Using this book, you can master the differences in body language needed to succeed at whatever role you’re playing, such as presenter, salesperson, or listener.

Do you want to know what the great musicians know? Culled from musician/author Stan Munslow's four decades of working alongside top players, as well as his research into the lives and wisdom of hundreds of celebrated music masters, this audiobook will give you a lifetime of life-smarts that will help you to become the best musician you can be, starting today!

What's not to love about smoked meat? They're God's gift to man, as far as I'm concerned. Ever so tender, so moist, so spicy, juicy, and wonderfully smoky! You could never accuse smoked meats of not having flavor, that's for sure. Now, the process of smoking meat can be pretty intimidating if you don't know what to do, but I've got to tell you, it's worth it.

Prince Siegfried comes of age and celebrates his 21st birthday in the palace gardens. The next day he is to finally choose his future bride at the court ball. Near the castle, on the shores of Swan Lake, the beautiful swan girl Odette emerges from the water in the moonlight. She is actually a princess transformed by the magician Rothbart. Siegfried is overwhelmed by her beauty and immediately swears his eternal love and loyalty. The curse of the evil wizard Rothbart is now supposed to be broken, but he has his own plans for Odette.

This book is for you if you want to... Start drum circles in your school, corporation, community, music store, band, or even your home! Share your musical talent with others in a way that reaches beyond performing. Inspire people of all ages, races, and abilities to discover their commonality through musical expression. The online audio features over 45 minutes of play-along grooves to jump-start your drum circle as well as a practice tool to develop your person percussion repertoire.

Being able to recognize manipulative persons or techniques is very difficult. We live among manipulative persons without recognizing them. More often, you come back from work and feel drained of all your energy. Manipulation, persuasion, mind control, and subliminal messages are all aspects of people's behavior. Some are able to use those techniques, others are not. This book will give you plenty of examples and scenarios where you can recognize individuals that use traits of persuasion, manipulation, and influence in both a negative fashion and for personal gain.

It all looks so easy. You just make viral YouTube videos or get on a reality talent show. Right? Wrong! Nancy Bos speaks real to teen girls about how to BE a singer. This book and journal lets teens explore all of the options including (and way beyond) being a pop star or professional singer. This is also a book for parents who want to understand the complex and vital relationship of music and singing and how it empowers our daughters. The Teen Girl's Singing Guide is personal, profound, and surprisingly practical!

Landscape painting is a genre that has captured the hearts and imaginations of artistic souls throughout history. From the early Renaissance to the present day, painters have sought to capture the beauty and essence of the natural world on their canvases. We will delve into the core principles and techniques that define landscape painting, exploring its various forms and styles.

When you're seen as non-threatening, whether due to your own submissiveness or because you never learned how to show yourself to be imposing and worthy of respect and attention, people often ignore you. You struggle to get dates. You never get picked for the promotion, and you may even struggle in interviews, frequently passed up for someone who was not nearly as qualified but better at influence and persuasion. You can fix this flaw, however. With the art of subliminal psychology, you can begin to systematically open all of those doors that were previously slammed shut in your face.

How to Develop a Powerful, Clear, and Resonant Speaking Voice is a straight-to-the-point, no-nonsense guide to simple techniques you can employ immediately to improve the quality of your voice. This audiobook, made for men and women, shows how to develop resonance, speak in the proper pitch, and use what’s called diaphragmatic breathing to magnify the power and expressiveness of your voice.

In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to watercolor paint the right way.

"The Songwriting Guitarist" author Mike Meiers shares his extensive knowledge and experience as a songwriter and guitar instructor spanning over a decade. This book presents a system that propelled Mike into commercial songwriting success and continues to secure major sync licensing placements and coveted songwriting guitarist gigs. Beyond mere guitar techniques, this guide delves into the art of songwriting, cultivating the right mindset, and undergoing a transformative journey.