Tutorials Books

It is impossible to learn anything without your feet being firmly grounded. That's what this book offers. It will help build a grounded framework for the bass player. Greg Mooter invites the student to explore the intrument from the ground up. From cleaning the bass to polishing you techniques, all is inclusive. Whenever you read a paragraph, a page or a chapter, you'll come out of your exercises saying, "now that's much better". Greg offers a map to good and sound techniques for your development as a new, intermediate or in some cases veteran players. I urge you to consider this book not just as a purchase but as an investment into furthering your knowledge of the bass. Whether you play the upright or a 4,5 or 6 stringer, The Bass Player's Handbook must be an integral part of your learning and development. Develop your fingering, improve on listening to tones, make physical adjustments to your bass, how to warmup properly and without strain, of all these scenarios will improve day by day. This book is and will be very important to you within the first sitting. PLAY ON.

It is impossible to learn anything without your feet being firmly grounded. That's what this book offers. It will help build a grounded framework for the bass player. Greg Mooter invites the student to explore the intrument from the ground up. From cleaning the bass to polishing you techniques, all is inclusive. Whenever you read a paragraph, a page or a chapter, you'll come out of your exercises saying, "now that's much better". Greg offers a map to good and sound techniques for your development as a new, intermediate or in some cases veteran players. I urge you to consider this book not just as a purchase but as an investment into furthering your knowledge of the bass. Whether you play the upright or a 4,5 or 6 stringer, The Bass Player's Handbook must be an integral part of your learning and development. Develop your fingering, improve on listening to tones, make physical adjustments to your bass, how to warmup properly and without strain, of all these scenarios will improve day by day. This book is and will be very important to you within the first sitting. PLAY ON.

This book is best for those who have already taken a full course in tonal harmony and understand it well from a functional perspective but want to understand it better from a linear perspective.

It is a very complete course in common practice tonal harmony. It is in many ways an updated successor to Aldwell & Schachter in that it pays attention to every minute detail of voice leading and part-writing. Varieties of V-I take over 100 pages alone. For those interesting in mastering the common practice writing style, this is much better than, for example Benward or Piston, which focus more on the functional aspects of harmony, but neglect the linear. If you have this, W. A. Mathieu's Harmonic Experience, Bert Ligon's Jazz Theory text, and Ludmila Udmela's text on contemporary harmony you have 90% of what you need to know about tonal harmony.

Who is this book not for? It is not for those interested in learning harmony in Jazz, Pop, or 20th century styles. Also, the title "Complete Musician" is a misonomer. It is only common-practice harmony.

This book requires a solid foundation of the basics of music theory to absorb--I can imagine it being very confusing if used for unprepared college freshmen, because it doesn't spend much time on fundamentals.

...comprehensive, detailed but nevertheless succinct and to the point...the writing is a bit dry but after all it is a textbook.

I had skimmed through the authoritative Toolkit books and found them very verbose. This book is a very hands on no-nonsense introduction to Data Warehousing.

One of the thngs that this book provided that I haven't seen in any other DW books I've come across is actual MySQL scripts used to demonstrate each lesson. If you have read a few Data Warehousing books, you'd read that the ETL (Data loading) part is the most complex piece and most books won't go into detail how its done. This book provides detailed scripts on how one goes about getting data from a production database into the Data Warehouse. I think this alone is worth the price of the book!

I come from the OLTP side of the business having written many J2EE apps for e-commerce, content systems and enterprise intergration projects. My 15+ years of experience made me ill prepared for a BI project - I didn't have a clue what a "star schema" meant.

The chapters of this book are very easy to follow and in no time I totally understood the principles and practices behind OLAP, and felt comfortable enough to set up a very simple Data Warehouse.

I'm surprised this book isn't more well known as I can't recommend it enough!

I'm new to MySQL and this was my first book on the subject. The author has done a great job of writing for a specific skillset and not wasting our time with alot of fundamentals or too advanced stuff. I'm somewhat learning challenged and found the organization of the material to aid greatly in my grasp of the subject.

I loved the condition that the book came in. :) Plus the CD that came with it helped me understand the material in the book better.

I would recommend keeping this book and use it as a reference. It's very thorough and articulate. It's a must read if you're learning about Macro Economics.

For every kind of learning experience nothing beats having a "live" teacher illustrating the subject matter with his voice and actions, but this is even more important for learning a "visual" software tool like Flash. Learning Flash is not much about absorbing deep and intricated concepts that a well written book could expose at best, but mostly about learning to DO things, like drawing, or using the various capabilities the software has to offer. Books are nice & useful, but it's quite painful having to read pages of text just to know where the lasso tool is, and what it does. As next best thing to being in a classroom with an experienced teacher, comes having a series of video tutorials like in this title. And I have to say Shane Rebenschied has done an outstanding job. You can feel he knows what he is talking about, but at the same time he shows infinite clarity and patience (which is not true for example, for 3DMax guru George Maestri). I teach for a living so take my word on this: Shane is a kick ass teacher. Just let me point out that this title is really about the basics...the interface and main tools, drawing, symbols, graphics, animation, shape and motion tweens, text, button, movie clips, and a little bit of actionscript to give you basic control over your movie clips. At the end of this title you will be able to build simple movies like slide shows or basic animations , even add a preloader bar, create a dynamic menubar but you won't be nowhere near to building your own website. You will anyway get a solid and really painless intro to Flash foundations. My only gripe is about the outrageous price.. 140 bucks for 2 CD when an equivalente book would cost about $40?
The video course should cost LESS since you are even saving paper (and trees).

I am already a Flash user but I picked up this title anyway because I always learn so much from Shane and knew he would help me learn all I need to know about this new version of Flash.

Once again he made it simple and fun to learn. I came away knowing so much about this new version and had absolutely NO issues moving my projects and working in Flash 8.

His instruction was clear and to the point with detailed yet easy examples and fun exercises. You will not find yourself doing a lot of backtracking or spending a lot of time going over the same movie tutorial trying to "get it". You will move through lessons smoothly and come away feeling comfortable diving into Flash 8.

I highly recommend this title.

Having been through several jazz instruction books, this is by far the best. It runs its solo lines over complex chords- the kind you hear the better players actually playing over. It explains the concept behind the lines before giving them. This way, not only will the lines stick better, but you will have the background material to build your own lines. It is not a beginner book, but even a beginner could follow the well laid-out diagrams; it may just take him a while to get up to speed. Highly recommended if you desire to play in the styles of the artists mentioned. Great jazz guitar instruction book.

This book can help any intermediate level guitarist and it's very similar to the Brian Setzer learn a lick book available here. They're good values but I deduct a star for method. You are presented with the lick at full speed with a backing track and then played at a very slow speed without anything. Then you are given the backing track to play with at full speed. The way to properly learn these licks is to practice them slowly with a metronome and gradually increase the tempo until you can play them at proper tempo. Only then should you attempt to play them with the backing track. The author does not suggest this or even give the tempo. You have to figure it out for yourself. Also there is significant space used in explaining how the licks should be fingered. That could easily have been notated, freeing up space for more licks or rhythms. There are 39 pages in the book I got so that 16 page thing here is most likely a mistake. At 13 bucks, I thought it was a good value. The licks are pretty good and they'll get your fingers flying !

If you are self motivated and can follow witten instructions well, this is a great book. Mills, a virtuoso, takes you through all aspects of learning to play classical guitar, from technique, to readning music, to how to play some very musical pieces. It is a great book and well worth your time to use.

This classical guitar method is different from most in that it provides a "key by key" approach. Each lesson focuses on a single musical key. The method moves quickly and, in my opinion, will be most advantageous to the guitar student who already has a basic familiarity with the first position notes or, at the very least, a background knowledge of musical notation. Again, in my opionion, this is not the best method for the beginning classical guitarist who is trying to learn on his or her own.

prity nice book & covers all concepts starting from begining

If you have not touched Oracle any component of Oracle Developer/2000 before, this is the best book for you to start your learning process. Don't forget to check Learning Oracle Reports 2.5: a Tutorial for Forms Designers, Too. These two books make a perfect combination to introduce Oracle Developer/2000.

this book saved me hours of translation time in college. I had to use it at the library, now I'm building a personal library of my own and it is a must have. I will also get the italian word by word as well.

Lieder, Line by Line and Word for Word by Lois Phillips has been a great addition to my library. There are not only poetic translations of many art song texts but word-by-word translations which offers the reader a deeper understanding of the poetry. For a beginning singer who is not proficient with the German language, this book is a valuable source of information. I recommend it.

Indispensable reference for process engineers. Very good coverage of the basics. I would also suggest you these references:

i. Microlithography: Science and Technology by Bruce W. Smith
ii. Principles of Lithography by Harry J. Levinson

They are complementary. Enjoy!

This is one of the best texts I've seen in terms of understanding SPC's and DOE's for microlithography. This text is very very helpful for setting up SPC's for lithographic processes. It also helps greatly in setting up DOE frameworks for lithographic process development.I would definitely recommend this for anyone in the lithographic field.