Music eBooks and links

[paul, the]

'lo all,

I've had a couple of PMs asking about music books so I would like to request permission provide links to these books in this thread (edited). Obviously, most of these books are copywrited, so I assumed it sensible to request permission first. In my opinion, ebooks are a great way to try out a book. If I really like a book, I'll always purchase a copy for ease of use and a CD.

Of course I would understand if you guys said 'no way!' But I hope it's a 'yes way.'

So that this page isn't bone dry, here's some advice I gave in the mean time for finding free resources:


[quote]A neat trick is also to search University (.edu) sites for lessons lecturers have posted :-

Try copying this into Google:

filetype:pdf site:.edu

then follow it by whatever you want to search for ie blues bass lessons:

filetype:pdf site:.edu blues.bass

The first two results are these from the same parent site:

[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Theory/5blues.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Theory/5blues.pdf[/url]
[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Improv/219/3579Chrom.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Improv/219/3579Chrom.pdf[/url]

Now if you take away the specific file location in the html you get their root directories:

[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Theory/"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Theory/[/url]
[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Improv/"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/Jazz/Improv/[/url]

..Which have additional examples.

These were only the first two results, no doubt the wonderful wide web has more examples of loveliness in which we can indulge our frugality.

Here's a video that badly explains google search manipulation:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRv953XZX6Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRv953XZX6Y[/url]


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Hope this helps,

paul.[/quote]