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Dive deeper into the “why” and “how” of music with the tools of tension, resolution, and inversion! Complete book contents below:Rhythm 5: How to Understand, Write, and Perform Eighth Notes10. Eighth Notes10. Beat Divisions11. Downbeat & Upbeat12. How to Write Whole, Half, Quarter, and Eighth Notes17. How to Count and Clap Eighth Notes20. How to Write Music 325. Rhythm 6: Strong & Weak Beats: Eighth Notes26. Strong and Weak Beats28. Strong and Weak Beats: 28. Strong and Weak Beats:29. Time Signature:29. Strong and Weak Beats:31. Meter33. Rhythm 7: Eighth Rests & Single Eighth Notes34. Single Eighth Notes35. Eighth Rests37. How to Write Music 443. Composition Ideas45. Rhythm 8: Dotted & Double-Dotted Notes & Rests46. Dotted Quarter Note48. Double-Dotted Half Note49. Dotted Quarter Rest51. Rhythm 9: Anacrusis & Ties52. Anacrusis55. Review: Ties57. Rhythm 10: Repeat Signs, Marks, & Symbols58. Measure Repeat Signs60. Multiple Repeat Signs62. 1st and 2nd Endings64. Other Repeat Marks67. Tempo Marks69. Dynamic Marks 1 & Performance Marks 170. Dynamics 172. Performance Marks 175. Articulation Marks 176. Staccato77. Slurs & Legato81. Pitch and Notes 5: Bass Clef82. Notes on the Staff: Review84. Clef Connections85. Bass Clef: Level 1 Theory Review91. Pitch and Notes 6: More Theory92. The Grand Staff 193. Accidentals 295. Pitch and Notes 7: Simple Intervals 296. Simple Intervals: Review97. Interval Distance Shortcut 198. Augmented Seconds: A299. Simple Interval Inversions100. Interval Distance Shortcut 2101. Consonance & Dissonance 1102. Augmented Fifths: A5103. Pitch and Notes 8: Scales 2104. New Major Scales105. New Natural Minor Scales106. Major Pentatonic Scale107. Minor Pentatonic Scale109. Harmonic Minor Scale111. Real Melodic Minor Scale113. Classical Melodic Minor Scale115. All Minor Scales117. Harmony 2: Power Chords118. Power Chords120. Power Chord Inversions121. Harmony 3: Triads 2122. Triad Quality124. Arpeggios 1: Triads125. Alberti Bass 1: Triads125. Broken Chords 1: Triads126. Inversions 1: Triads127. Figured Bass 1: Triads129. Slash Chords 1: Triads130. Scales Harmonized to the Fifth 1132. Scales Harmonized to the Fifth: Inversions133. Harmony 4: Seventh Chords 1134. Seventh Chords135. Seventh Chord Quality 1136. Classical Seventh Chord Symbols137. Arpeggios 2: Seventh Chords137. Broken Chords 2: Seventh Chords138. Major Scales Harmonized to the Seventh140. Natural Minor Scales Harmonized to the Seventh143. Analysis 2: Lyrics in Modern Popular Music144. How to Identify Rhymes145. Rhyme Scheme and Analysis146. Analysis 3: Modern Popular Music Form147. Parts of Songs152. How to Perform a Form Analysis153. Analysis 4: Dominant to Tonic Tension154. Inversion Chords Analysis155. v or V?157. V or V7?159. Dominant Tonic Analysis161. Level 2 Analysis162. How To Write Music 2: Songs & Compositions163. How to Write Songs168. How to Write Compositions Read more

God is revealing Himself more and more through the Arts, which are proving to be more visible and are impacting the lives of our children and youths. The Word of God is coming through different avenues in various creative ways, especially since this new norm of life is transforming our homes, communities and nations.God wants us to forget the former things and embrace the New thing that He is doing, using a more practical method of delivery. He created all music but not all music glorifies Him. He is redeeming, reshaping and restoring what the enemy destroyed.With gospel reggae music comes the dance, to enhance and deliver His Word which not only provides entertainment, but brings salvation, healing and deliverance because of its visibility.Do you need a breakthrough from suicidal attempts, oppression, sexual immorality, fear and intimidation? Have you discovered your talent to sing gospel reggae music but are hiding it because you are fearful? Are you afraid to dance this type of music because you feel dance is not of God?Now this is the time to break free from your fear and fulfil that long-time passion and help to make a difference in this changing world. Covid-19 has brought negativity to so many homes and lives, but there is also a positive side to it—it helps us realise that God's DNA is embedded in us for greater works.AI Disclosure: Gold Nugget on cover and inside book generated with imagine.art Read more

Learn 30 super-easy big-note sheet music hymns for mandolin! This big book of easy mandolin hymns sheet music includes extra-large music staffs and notes, letters (note names) inside all noteheads, lyrics, chord charts, strum patterns, and easy-to-use mandolin TAB for 30 popular worship songs!No complicated mandolin arrangements here! Instead, Super Easy Mandolin Hymns Sheet Music for Beginners is arranged with beginning mandolin players of all ages in mind. This easy mandolin songbook is the best way to learn your favorite worship songs on the instrument. It's never too late to learn how to play the mandolin!This simple mandolin songbook is over 100 pages long and is the best way to learn your favorite worship songs on mandolin. This large print mandolin songbook with letters is a collection of 30 of the most beloved hymns and gospels.With each song, you'll get:A beginner-level big-note song arrangementExtra-large music staffs and notesLetters (note names) inside all noteheadsChord chartsStrum patternsLyricsEasy-to-understand mandolin TABDownloadable and streamable audio tracksThis is the ultimate mandolin sheet music songbook for learning your favorite hymns and gospels—fast!The 30 Songs:Abide With MeAmazing GraceAre You Washed in the Blood?Be Still, My SoulBe Thou My VisionBlessed AssuranceCome, Thou FountCrown Him With Many CrownsDoxologyGreat Is Thy FaithfulnessHoly, Holy, HolyHow Firm a FoundationI Love to Tell the StoryI Need Thee Every HourI Surrender AllIn the GardenIt Is Well With My SoulJesus Loves MeJoyful, Joyful, We Adore TheeJust As I AmRock of AgesSoftly and TenderlySweet Hour of PrayerThe Old Rugged CrossThis Little Light of MineTo God Be the GloryTurn Your Eyes Upon JesusWhat a Friend We Have in JesusWhen the Saints Go Marching InWill the Circle Be UnbrokenSuper Easy Mandolin Hymns Sheet Music for Beginners includes some of the most beloved worship songs ever written!REMEMBER: Free access to instant audio downloads from Troy Nelson Music’s website is included.BONUS: Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Just email us, and we'll happily help you.Since 2016, Troy Nelson Music has offered customers the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow lesson books and songbooks for a variety of instruments—everything from guitar and mandolin to piano, saxophone, and clarinet. With 30+ years in the music publishing industry, veteran guitarist Troy Nelson has sold hundreds of thousands of books as both an author and publisher due to the quality and effectiveness of his books and the service he provides.FREE access to audio demonstrations. Download or stream the arrangements of each song! Read more

From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure. Rodeheaver rose to fame as the trombone-playing song leader for evangelist Billy Sunday. As revivalism declined after World War I, Rodeheaver leveraged his place in America's newborn celebrity culture to start the first gospel record label and launch a nationwide radio program. His groundbreaking combination of hymnal publishing and recording technology helped define the early Christian music industry. In his later years, he influenced figures like Billy Graham and witnessed the music's split into southern gospel and black gospel. Clear-eyed and revealing, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry is an overdue consideration of a pioneering figure in American music. Read more

In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours of interviews with artists, ministers, and historians--as well as relatives and friends of gospel pioneers--to recover forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and industry leaders. He also examines the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's rise to popularity and granted social mobility to a number of its practitioners. As Marovich shows, the music expressed a yearning for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. Yet it also helped give voice to a people--and lift a nation. A City Called Heaven celebrates a sound too mighty and too joyous for even church walls to hold. Read more

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Play your first hymn in minutes with beginner-friendly piano sheet music!Celebrate your faith with this beautifully simple collection of beloved worship songs, carefully arranged for beginner pianists. Piano People Beginner Worship Songbook offers a selection of timeless hymns and spiritual songs, each arranged with easy-to-read notation and simplified rhythms, making them perfect for early learners.Inside you'll find:30 popular worship songs, from “Amazing Grace" to “Oh When The Saints”A “Crash Course” should you need a refresher before you playEasy-to-follow sheet music, each including lyricsClear guidance on hand placements to avoid common beginner mistakesHelpful tips and fingering to guide you along the wayPiano People Beginner Worship Songbook is divided into two parts. Part 1 explores songs in C major using a simple C-F-G accompaniment. Each song uses a left-hand accompaniment based on these three notes. Part 2 follows the very same formula in F major, using a simple F-Bb-C accompaniment. This means you can spend less time practising, and more time playing!Whether you're playing for family and friends, or simply enjoying a quiet moment of reflection, this charming collection is the perfect fit for any beginner pianist. Let the joyful sounds of worship fill your home - one note at a time! Read more

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This folio celebrates the Gaithers' long career in Christian music with piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of 30 of their best-loved songs, including: Abide in Me * Because He Lives * He Started the Whole World Singing * I Am Loved * I Will Praise Him * The King Is Coming * Something Beautiful * There's Something About That Name * Upon This Rock * We'll Be There * Worthy the Lamb * and more. Read more

The first biography of arguably the most influential gospel artist of the 20th century, brought to life through interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andraé Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction. His compositions-"The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power," "Through It All," "Jesus is the Answer," "Soon and Very Soon," and others-set the gold standard for gospel music and remain staples in modern hymnals today. He is often spoken of in the same "genius" pantheon as Mahalia Jackson, Thomas Dorsey, and the Rev. James Cleveland and was lauded as "the foremost gospel singer of his generation" by former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama upon his death in 2015. In Soon and Very Soon, authors Robert Darden and Stephen Newby celebrate the countless ways that Crouch indelibly changed the course of gospel and popular music. Not least among them was Crouch's progressive pursuit to address the sociopolitical issues of his time, including AIDS, prejudice, abuse, housing insecurity, and addiction. With his twin sister Sandra, Crouch served as minister of the church their father founded and ministered to individuals experiencing these issues despite ongoing criticism from some church members. Crouch's group "The Disciples" were the first bi-racial musical ensemble in gospel music and performed in a range of venues from mega-churches to Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall, in addition to network television programs ranging from Soul Train to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to Saturday Night Live. In doing so, Crouch and his Disciples introduced jazz, funk, classical, calypso, Latin and other musical elements into gospel. By the peak of his career, Crouch's influence was so pervasive that he recorded, performed with, and composed for some of the most powerful names in popular music, including Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Quincy Jones, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna. To illuminate the vivid world in which Crouch lived, Darden and Newby include interviews with surviving musicians, collaborators, friends, and family members, complete with musical analysis of Crouch's compositions and lyrics. As a major intervention in gospel and popular music studies, Soon and Very Soon tells the fascinating and dynamic story of one of the true giants in American popular music. Read more

Bluegrass Fakebook 150 All Time Favorites Includes 50 Gospel Tunes for Guitar Banjo & Mandolin by Bert Casey - This handy songbook contains bluegrass lyrics, bluegrass gospel lyrics, chord progressions, and melody lines to 150 of the all-time favorite Bluegrass songs, including 50 gospel tunes, as well as many "new" bluegrass songs. Printed in large, easy-to-read type with one song per page, this book is excellent for use on stage or in jam sessions, because everyone can read along. Also includes chord charts for the guitar, banjo, and mandolin to help you learn your favorite bluegrass chords and a listing of currently available recordings of each song. Now all those obscure verses you can never remember are right at your fingertips. Read more

“A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis!This is the untold story of living legend Mavis Staples—lead singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the civil rights era. One of the most enduring artists of popular music, Mavis and her talented family fused gospel, soul, folk, and rock to transcend racism and oppression through song. Honing her prodigious talent on the Southern gospel circuit of the 1950s, Mavis and the Staple Singers went on to sell more than 30 million records, with message-oriented soul music that became a soundtrack to the civil rights movement—inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr. himself. Critically acclaimed biographer and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot cuts to the heart of Mavis Staples’s music, revealing the intimate stories of her sixty-year career. From her love affair with Bob Dylan, to her creative collaborations with Prince, to her recent revival alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, this definitive account shows Mavis as you’ve never seen her before. I’ll Take You There was written with the complete cooperation of Mavis and her family. Readers will also hear from Prince, Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne, and many others whose lives have been influenced by Mavis’s talent. Filled with never-before-told stories, this fascinating biography illuminates a legendary singer and group during a historic period of change in America. “Ultimately, Kot depicts the endurance of Mavis Staples and her family’s music as an inspiration, a saga that takes us, like the song that inspired this book’s name, to a place where ain’t nobody crying” (The Washington Post). Read more

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50 popular gospel song chord sheets for guitar INCLUDES: Amazing Grace • Blessed Assurance • Bringing In The Sheaves • Calling You • Do Lord • Down By The Riverside • Farther Along • Give Me That Old Time Religion • Give Thanks • Here I Am Lord • His Eye Is On The Sparrow • How Great Thou Art • In The Garden • I Love To Tell The Story • I Saw The Light • I Surrender All • I’ll Fly Away • It Is No Secret • Jesus Loves Me • Just A Closer Walk With Thee • Just A Little Talk With Jesus • Just As I Am • Just Over In The Gloryland • Keep On The Sunny Side • Leaning On The Everlasting Arms • Let Us Break Bread Together • Lord I’m Coming Home • Love Lifted Me • My Wonderful Lord • Nearer My God To Thee • Peace In The Valley • Precious Lord • Rock Of Ages • Shall We Gather At The River • Since Jesus Came Into My Heart • Softly And Tenderly • Sweet By And By • Sweet Hour Of Prayer • Swing Low • The Church In The Wildwood • The Old Rugged Cross • The Wayfaring Stranger • Uncloudy Day • Victory In Jesus • We Gather Together • What A Friend We Have In Jesus • When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder • When We All Get To Heaven • Whispering Hope • Will The Circle Be Unbroken Read more

50 POPULAR CLASSIC GOSPEL SONGS! With Chords over Lyrics, Song Intros, and Chord Diagrams including: A Friend Like You • Alleluia #1 • Angel Band (My Immortal Home) • Be Thou My Vision • Because He Lives • Blessed Be The Tie That Binds • Borning Cry • Create In Me A Clean Heart • Everything Is Beautiful • Faith Of Our Fathers • From The Rising Of The Sun • Heavenly Sunlight • He Keeps Me Singing • He Lives • He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands • Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty • I Have Decided To Follow Jesus • I Know Who Holds Tomorrow • I Shall Not Be Moved • I’m Gonna Sing When The Spirit Says Sing • It Is Well With My Soul • Jesus On The Main Line • Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee • Life’s Railway To Heaven • Lord Of The Dance • Morning Has Broken • My Savior First Of All • Near The Cross • On Christ The Solid Rock • Pass It On • Peace Like A River • People Get Ready • Precious Memories • Put Your Hand In The Hand • Seek Ye First • Send The Light • Spirit Of The Living God • Standing On The Promises • Take Our Bread • There Is Power In The Blood • They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love • This Is The Day • This Little Light Of Mine • This Old House • This Train Is Bound For Glory • What A Difference You’ve Made In My Life • What Would You Give In Exchange • When The Saints Go Marching In • Wings Of A Dove • You’re Drifting Away Read more

The queen of gospel and a symbol of integrity, Mahalia Jackson was the embodiment of an era. Accurate, well-researched, and rich with the music, faith, people, and events that sparked the spirit of the time, Just Mahalia, Baby is a fast-paced and engaging biography. From the poverty of her New Orleans childhood, where she sang in church and was exposed to the rhythms of ragtime jazz, through troubled times and triumphs, and on to Chicago, wealth, and worldwide acclaim, her biographer Laurraine Goreau chronicles Mahalia's storied life and career.Mahalia went to receptions for presidents, sang at a freedom rally to set the mood before Martin Luther King spoke, toured the world, and remained a dedicated fighter for black people's rights. Generous and warm-hearted, she won the respect and admiration of those who knew her, whether personally or through her music.Downbeat magazine named her one of the top four jazz vocalists along with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan, yet she remained undaunted by fame. "Don't make me no saint, baby!" she told Laurraine Goreau. "Tell the real story of me." Read more

A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey). In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and obsession, from country blues singers and male sopranos to European intellectuals and the originators of radio soap opera—figures transfixed and transformed who helped to change the American cultural landscape. Heilbut writes about Aretha Franklin, the longest-lasting female star of our time, who changed performing for women of all races. He writes about Aretha’s evolution as a singer and performer (she came out of the tradition of Mahalia Jackson); before Aretha, there were only two blues-singing gospel women—Dinah Washington, who told it like it was, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who specialized, like Aretha, in ambivalence, erotic gospel, and holy blues. We see the influence of Aretha’s father, C. L. Franklin, famous pastor of Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church. Franklin’s albums preached a theology of liberation and racial pride that sold millions and helped prepare the way for Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend Franklin was considered royalty and, Heilbut writes, it was inevitable that his daughter would become the Queen of Soul. In “The Children and Their Secret Closet,” Heilbut writes about gays in the Pentecostal church, the black church’s rock and shield for more than a hundred years, its true heroes, and among its most faithful members and vivid celebrants. And he explores, as well, the influential role of gays in the white Pentecostal church. In “Somebody Else’s Paradise,” Heilbut writes about the German exiles who fled Hitler—Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Marlene Dietrich, and others—and their long reach into the world of American science, art, politics, and literature. He contemplates the continued relevance of the émigré Joseph Roth, a Galician Jew, who died an impoverished alcoholic and is now considered the peer of Kafka and Thomas Mann. And in “Brave Tomorrows for Bachelor’s Children,” Heilbut explores the evolution of the soap opera. He writes about the form itself and how it catered to social outcasts and have-nots; the writers insisting its values were traditional, conservative; their critics seeing soap operas as the secret saboteurs of traditional marriage—the women as castrating wives; their husbands as emasculated men. Heilbut writes that soaps went beyond melodrama, deep into the perverse and the surreal, domesticating Freud and making sibling rivalry, transference, and Oedipal and Electra complexes the stuff of daily life.  And he writes of the “daytime serial’s unwed mother,” Irna Phillips, a Chicago wannabe actress (a Margaret Hamilton of the shtetl) who created radio’s most seminal soap operas—Today’s Children, The Road of Life among them—and for television, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, etc., and who became known as the “queen of the soaps.” Hers, Heilbut writes, was the proud perspective of someone who didn’t fit anywhere, the stray no one loved. The Fan Who Knew Too Much is a revelatory look at some of our American icons and iconic institutions, high, low, and exalted. Read more

World's Greatest Gospel Songs contains some of the most uplifting, powerful and emotionally charged songs of all time. Each piece has been carefully arranged with a very accessible approach and features: a vocal line for solo or group singing; an appropriately selected key to accommodate a comfortable vocal range; up to three verses of lyrics; first and second endings with a "turnaround" plus a final ending; guitar chords; dynamics; a piano accompaniment that is complete in itself for solo performance. Read more

Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "real" masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "alpha-male preacher", the "effeminate choir director" and homo-antagonism, are all in play. The "flamboyant" male vocalists formed in the black Pentecostal music ministry tradition, through their vocal styles, gestures, and attire in church services, display a spectrum of gender performances - from "hyper-masculine" to feminine masculine - to their fellow worshippers, subtly protesting and critiquing the otherwise heteronormative theology in which the service is entrenched. And while the performativity of these men is characterized by cynics as "flaming," a similar musicalized "fire" - that of the Holy Spirit - moves through the bodies of Pentecostal worshippers, endowing them religio-culturally, physically, and spiritually like "fire shut up in their bones".Using the lenses of ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, men's studies, queer studies, and theology, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes how male vocalists traverse their tightly-knit social networks and negotiate their identities through and beyond the worship experience. Author Alisha Jones ultimately addresses the ways in which gospel music and performance can afford African American men not only greater visibility, but also an affirmation of their fitness to minister through speech and song. Read more