Music Learning Recommended Resources
Links And Product Reviews 

Courses and Methods

Covers complimentary courses to the music theory course. Areas include piano/keyboard, guitar methods, bass guitar, singing, songwriting. We hope to add additional information on other instruments as we find it.

Music Software

Covers production, learning, guitar, notation, and other software categories related to making, playing, and creating music.

Acknowledgments and Music Learning Sites

Future down this page I list my personal acquaintances in the music learning business and provide acknowledgment of use of materials that helped in building this site.

Music Equipment Suppliers

Covers equipment suppliers where I've personally shopped or have good recommendations for associates. We find these merchants reputable and easy to work with.

Music Books and Sheet Music

Covers suppliers of sheet music and books.

Learning Methods and Personal Development

Covers general learning materials music and personal development. Megalearning by my mentor and other inspiring topics for your consideration.

MISCELLANOUS CATEGORIES

This area of recommended resources provides some odd and sometimes necessary needs of the musician and computer user.

Computer Maintenance
Web site building
Reference Sites - Resources

Acknowledgments and Other Music Learning Sites

Donna Cercone - Cercone Learning Systems

Donna Cercone was and is a teacher and mentor of mine. The basis of this site and the education materials within or a direct result of my 20 year association with her and the MegaLearning methods a Nightingale Conant CD series on learning techniques and methods.

Having personally studied with Ms. Cercone, I give this my full endorsement and personal recommendation. Read Review: MegaLearning

Bob Gillis Professional Musician and Teacher

Not so much a part of our recommended resources than an honor to let you know that my mentor and teacher of my daughter has recently added his web site to the web. Bob teaches in Denver Colorado and I have much respect for his teaching and musicianship.

He has just put up some new pages and has given us his own arrangement of Nature Boy and published a cut of it using his new digital samples for keyboard. Some amazing sound if you ask me. You can check it out at www.bob-gillis.com.

Bob Reno's Loving and Learning Music Theory

Composer, arranger, pianist and teacher. Bob has been primarily a composer, but shares my enthusiasm about music theory as a study of the discipline’s principles as opposed to its practice. Bob has been teaching music theory and composition, along with several other music courses since 1983, and is the author of Materials of Music, a two-year music theory text for colleges and universities.

This is a complimentary site to MLW and has several articles on harmony that are worth checking out. Visit Bob at Loving and Learning Music Theory.

Photo use:

I use many photos both personal and stock photos. To www.Dreamstime.com artists. Thanks for the many choices and uses. Royalties have been paid for inclusion of their work. Another source of great music related graphics is Linkware Graphics Music Images by SKDesigns. Great choices of graphics. http://linkwaregraphics.com/music/

Computer Maintenance

I'm a heavy power user of computers. One of the things that happens is the amount of corruption of files and registry cleaning that takes place. Using the free or shareware produces has been a mixed bag.

I've started going to the paid packages and have found them to provided a better experience overall. However, not all paid packages are created equal as you can imagine.

Recently I've become acquainted with a new site called Fix Your PC Problems.org that is developing articles on getting to know what the computer errors are and the causes. The recommended software that helps fix registry errors and identifies driver updates, spy ware and getting data back are good packages. If you are getting crashes and windows error messages this is a good place to learn about how to get them fixed.

Web Site Building

Should you be interested in starting your own web site there are a several tools and resources I have used.  I will add those that have been of the most use and beneficial to me here.
 
Site Build It (SBI) is my host and educator for building this web site. If you are just starting out I highly recommend it. The once a year fee includes the hosting and tools that is unmatchable by anyone else for the beginner. A direct link to find out information is on the bottom of every page of this web site next to the copyright.

Reference Sites

The Pegasus Directory - Is a highly ranked directory with lots of music related sites from downloads to instructional arts.

Small business web directory by category and pages.

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Some of these recommendation recourses are associates and affiliates that we think provide quality information and service. If you find that these recommendations don't live up to expectations please contact us with your specific comments about the products.