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Recommended Reading for Prospective Students

Berklee Press is the exclusive publisher of Berklee College of Music teaching methods and instruction. The following list was compiled by Berklee College of Music faculty for students entering the college. All of our authors are associated with Berklee. If it's taught at Berklee, it's published by Berklee Press.

Writing Skills and Arranging

Music Notation
Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments.

Bass Guitar

Berklee Practice Method: Bass
Lessons throughout this book guide you through playing basic grooves, walking bass lines, and other standard bass techniques. Daily practice routines are designed for practicing by yourself or with other musicians.

Reading Contemporary Electric Bass
A comprehensive collection of exercises and performance studies designed to enable the student to play in a wide range of musical styles, while improving technical proficiency.

Chord Studies for Electric Bass
Designed for intermediate to advanced players, this book develops all aspects of technique. Covers basic and extended chords in all keys. Also applies to acoustic bass study.

Drum Set

Berklee Practice Method: Drum Set
Master basic rhythms, beats, and subdivisions that every drummer in a band needs to keep the band rockin'.

The Reading Drummer
If you want to take your drumming chops to the next level, you must know how to read drum music! Ideal for beginners and pros alike interested in learning how to read drum music. A logical sequence of rhythms and drumming patterns with study hints and general practice tips.

Guitar

Berklee Practice Method: Guitar
Lessons throughout this book guide you through chord voicings and changes, scales, improvisation techniques, rhythm accompaniments, tablature, and traditional notation.

Advanced Reading Studies for Guitar
This Berklee Workshop is for serious guitar students who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing to the next level. Introduces studies in all keys, using positions eight through twelve, and utilizing all major, minor, and symmetric scales.

Classical Studies for Pick Style Guitar
An outstanding collection of solos and duets for intermediate to advanced pick-style guitarists. Features over 20 compositions, including pieces by Carcassi, Carulli, Sor, Bach, Paganini, Kreutzer, and Clementi.

Melodic Rhythms for Guitar
A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises.

A Modern Method for Guitar, Vol. 1
A practical and comprehensive guitar instruction method used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program. Volume 1 teaches the beginning guitar student all the fundamentals. Features "play-along" cassette.

Reading Studies for Guitar
A comprehensive approach to developing practical sight-reading skills for guitar. Studies will greatly improve reading and technical ability, covering positions 1 through 7 in all keys.

Piano / Keyboard

Berklee Practice Method: Keyboard
When you play keyboard in a band, your primary concern is chords, how to read and play them, how to progress from one to the next, and how they interact with other instruments, melodically and rhythmically. It's all inside!

Saxophone

Berklee Practice Method: Tenor Sax
Practice the techniques that are vital for the tenor sax player in an ensemble: melody and improvisation, and how to develop your mastery of phrasing, articulations, breathing, chords, scales, and improvisation techniques.

Music Business / Production

The Self-Promoting Musician
Take charge of your career with crucial do-it-yourself strategies. Features tips for writing business plans and press kits, using the Internet for promotion, customizing demos, getting music played on college radio, and a comprehensive musician's resource list.

Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools: 2nd Edition
This comprehensive home studio production guide will help songwriters, artists, engineers, and producers create professional-quality recordings . Updated for Pro Tools 6!

Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation
Finale made easy! The indispensable resource for learning to use this most powerful music notation software program. Master all of Finale's capabilities with step-by-step instructions. Compatible for both Macintosh and Windows computer platforms. Introducing the indispensable resource for learning to use this powerful and popular music notation software program.

Making Music Make Money
An insider's view of the music publishing business, and practical tips toward helping writers effectively assume their rightful role as a publisher of their own music.