The ultimate guide to starting, keeping, and tracking your music collection with this guided journal, including expert advice, lists, and a log to keep track of over 300 records. Vinyl records are back—in a big way. Music lovers are turning back to vinyl for its pure sound and the fun of collection. If you’re an avid collector or are looking to start your collection, this book will walk you through the basics of what is sure to become your newest passion; and give you the space to keep track of your own growing collection. Whether your musical tastes are jazz, rock, country, classical, or showtunes, you can find vinyl records from your favorite artists—but you have to know where to look. And DJ-turned-vinyl expert Jenna Miles will let you know all that and more! With essential guidance on storing, cleaning, and fixing records, this guided journal is a must-have for music fans everywhere.

Do you want to learn and understand the basics of the Cricut Maker 3 and Cricut Explore 3 machines? If so, then this Cricut Maker 3 and Cricut Explore 3 Beginners Guide Book will get you started on your crafting journey. This comprehensive book will make understanding Cricut Maker 3 and Explore 3 cutting machines easy. You will find that managing your machines will be stressless, and you will get optimal performance. This book includes answers to the most popular questions on the mind of new users of the Cricut Maker 3 and the Cricut Explore 3. It contains the fundamentals and beginner guides for handling the Cricut Maker 3 and Explore 3 machines, along with advanced tricks, tips and hacks that you will need on your crafting and designing journey. This Cricut Maker 3 and Cricut Explore 3 Beginners Guide Book includes very detailed instructions on how to maximize the advantages of your Cricut machine. In this Cricut guide, you will: Discover all you need to know about the Cricut Maker 3 and the Cricut Explore 3 machine. You will find the pros and cons of each machine and their key differences. Learn about the features of the Cricut Maker 3 and the Cricut Explore 3. Discover the necessary tools, accessories, and supplies needed for your Cricut Maker 3 and the Cricut Explore 3. Find how to setup both machines and setup Design Space for optimal use. Learn how to make your first projects and designs with your cutting machine. Discover tricks, tips and hacks on how to use your cutting mats. Find a detailed Design Space guide. Learn all you need to know about other designing software that will be useful for crafts and projects. Discover a comprehensive Blade and Machine Tool guide for your Cricut Maker 3 and Explore 3 machines, exclusive tools, QuickSwap tools, blade care, etc. Find the best laptops that can be used with the Cricut Explore 3 or Maker 3 cutting machines. Discover the Print then Cut quick start guide. Find how to make money with your Cricut with business ideas that you can look into. Find a Cricut Vinyl guide, how to use iron to transfer HTV, how to weed your vinyl, plus tips and hacks. Discover a very detailed troubleshooting guide for all the common problems that can be encountered on your machine. Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional crafter, you can master your Cricut cutting machine and earn some additional cash through a Cricut-associated business, or make beautiful gifts for your family and friends. This book will make your crafting dreams into a reality! So, what are you waiting for? Click BUY NOW and grab this book today!

Featuring individual artists, the hottest genres, rarities, tips for buying and selling, not to mention the critical differences between modern reissues vs. early pressings, this exciting new title is the perfect how-to guide for a new generation of vinyl record music lovers and collectors. Vinyl records are Back in Black. And this how-to guide is the perfect reference for the millions of young vinyl enthusiasts--as well as an older crowd returning to their vinyl roots. You will find chapters on collecting individual artists and genres (Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Psych, Punk, Surf, Northern Soul and many others taking you through the advent of vinyl to today. Author Dave Thompson will discuss the greatest rarities on the market, grading, artwork, the keys to successful buying and selling, coloured vinyl, picture discs and a host of other cool topics sure to light the fire to those new (and old) to the vinyl party. AUTHOR: Dave Thompson is one of the leading authorities on all things music. He is the editor and vinyl record market analyst for Standard Catalog of American Records, Goldmine Album Price Guide and Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide. Thompson has published more than 100 books--including 1000 Songs That Rock Your World--and is a regular contributor to Goldmine magazine, as well as Rolling Stone. A prodigious writer, Thompson was ranked as one of the Top 5 biographers by Mojo magazine. His biographies have included works on David Bowie, Deep Purple, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, KISS and many, many more. SELLING POINTS: * A handy, compact how-to guide for collecting vinyl records that includes the greatest rarities on the market in collectible genres such as Rock, Punk, Surf, Psychedelic, Northern Soul and more. * Play it or stash it - shows readers what's valuable and what's simply fun. * Includes a Grading Guide - so you don't get screwed by the unrighteous. * For the 7th straight year, more vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since Nielsen started tracking music sales in 1991.

This book--which won the 2000 DRUM Magazine Readers' Poll for "Best Instructional Book"--is a complete, step-by-step course on conga drumming. It's the book we looked for but couldn't find when we were first learning to drum. We did everything we could to make it user-friendly, so even non-musicians could understand it. The book teaches families of drum parts for several authentic Afro-Caribbean rhythms, including rumba, bomba, calypso, conga, and bembe. The instruction is clear and step-by-step, and the writing creates the intimate feel of private lessons. The charts are big and easy to read. Life-like illustrations clearly demonstrate proper technique for each stroke. Please note: audio files of the CD that comes with the print version of this book are not included in this ebook version (but are available separately).

From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services, digital technology has paved the way for the analog revival; from multiplatinum megahits to ultra-obscure private presses, millions of records are available for purchase from all over the world. Vinyl Age is the ultimate post-internet guide to record collecting. Written by Max Brzezinski of Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest high-end record dealers, Vinyl Age combines an engaging narrative and incisive analysis to reveal the joys and explain the complexities of the contemporary vinyl scene. Brzezinski demystifies the record game and imparts the skills essential to modern record digging -- how to research, find, buy, evaluate, and understand vinyl in the twenty-first century.

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An in-depth and comprehensive guide to – and history of – music collecting, The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released – and some that are now almost completely forgotten. Based on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, this revamped, colorful, expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders, 78s, and Edison records on through 45s, LPs, 8-tracks, cassettes, bootlegs, CDs, MiniDiscs, MP3s, LPs, and other formats. Landmark labels, collectable artists, specialist themes, and more are explored across a series of essays, while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl, this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all, the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.

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