Mastery of Self Promotion is the third leg of the career success stool needed to complete an artists education on how to be successful with their art. In response to his first two art marketing books; Jack White received requests to focus on making it outside of the traditional art gallery scene. Mastery of Self Promotion answers questions on licensing; negotiating license contracts; what to expect from print companies; self publishing; where to sell and where not to sell your work. Covers copyright; bartering; insurance; teamwork; networking; record keeping and a myriad of other topics for serious artists; giving sound advice to those seeking to earn a living in the volatile world of art.
#374192 in eBooks 2008-05-19 2017-07-13File Name: B017RMH6IM
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Big range of challenges for beginners.By EmommyI got this for my fourth grade son and his friends. to encourage his recorder playing. I think hes pretty excited about it. so I am hopeful that it will work out for him. There are features of the book that I think are very helpful for early beginners who are learning musical notation at the same time as the instrument (like my son). The notes are in large print. with the name of the note written inside the head of each note. Very helpful! Also. there are no key signatures. and each note is written with its sharp or flat. as required. This is sort of helpful. Most of the pieces are cluttered with sharps and/or flats. which is kind of intimidating. even though in most cases it just means the piece is arranged in a key other than C. I can see. though. how a kid who is new to reading music might find it a useful crutch. But it does not much help musical understanding. Normally when you see an accidental it means something has happened harmonically in the music. and when youre just going along in your main key the music looks plain and clean.Some of the rhythms are a little simplified. which is generally good for beginners with basic reading skills. and if they know the music they can correct the rhythms themselves. Also there is a pretty good technical section at the beginning of the book that briefly explains recorder technique and fingering and the rudiments of music notation. and provides two very simple tunes to practice on. You could theoretically use this as a stand-alone primer for starting recorder.Overall. though. I think the difficulty of the pieces is a bit high for kids who are assumed to have so little musical experience that they benefit from the above beginner-oriented features. Yodas theme is the easiest. as it involves very simple rhythms. and only a one-octave C scale augmented with F#. The Duel of the Fates is also fairly accessible. using only the first register (up to D). and the new note of Bb as well as F#.It would probably be helpful if the songs were arranged in this way. in order of difficulty. but they are not (those are #6 and #5 respectively). I would put "May the force be with you" next. which is arranged in D minor with just one octave of range and the Bb the only "tricky" note. But with a lot of skips. it is actually pretty challenging for a beginner. Princess Leias theme adds Db. and also requires only the first register. Like the "force" theme. it is a lovely. lyrical tune. which a motivated beginner can probably master with some effort.The Star Wars main theme is arranged in the key of F. goes up into the second register and involves big intervals and triplet rhythms. so now were getting into challenging territory for kids. Still playable. though. Good challenge for kids. who will surely WANT very badly to play this tune. But the Imperial March is downright hard. and it is made harder by the choice of arranging it in the key of Eb. I find it MUCH easier to play on the recorder transposed down a half step into D. which would also be a lot easier to read. (On the other hand. if you want to do a duet with someone playing a Bb instrument like trumpet or clarinet. Eb is good because the other person would be playing in F. which is easy). By the time your beginning recorder student is playing chromatic scales in both the first and second registers. and reading all kinds of accidentals and dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythms. maybe a little transposing is not going to throw them one bit.I didnt mention "Throne room." which as little more than a reprise of the force theme seems like a waste of space.13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Good. But not "easy" or "beginner."By MJF LimeI love these songs and love that its put together. but theres no way these are "easy." I teach recorder. and there are accidentals like crazy. of course. But more troubling are the high notes! I cant hardly get them out without a terrible squeak. let alone a beginner.7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. I LOVE THIS!By Tina BassettI LOVE THIS!!! When my kid brought home that cursed recorder. I cried. Really. I did. I was doing my usual Star Wars stuff browsing when I came across this. If Im going to have to listen to that stupid recorder. I might as well listen to it play songs I actually WANT to hear!Ill gladly listen to anything John Williams over "Hot Cross Buns" any day!I highly recommend this to any of my fellow geeks/nerds with kids :)
