This Book Shreds
Learn How Music Can Help You Live with Purpose, Make Friends, and Create Magical Moments
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Rob Spampinato
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Rob Spampinato
About this listen
Are you ready to learn what it takes to shred? Do you want to make music more than just a dream or a hobby? In This Book Shreds, Rob will teach you how to:
- Use the power of music to create lifelong connections with people who are awesome.
- Write mind-bending songs based on universal emotions and simple research.
- Create a mindset foundation that will keep you from quitting just when your brain is on the verge of connecting all the dots.
- Embrace making mistakes as part of the music-learning process.
- Approach practice from a different angle to make you play better every time you sit down to jam.
- Balance music with the rest of your life so that you don’t get caught up in the potential-fame trap.
- Set goals and achieve them by embracing your unique voice while building confidence.
- Build out your rock-star persona.
- Slay stage fright by doing the work beforehand and learning how to diversify your shredding skills.
- Be a considerate member of your band and use those methods to be a compassionate person people love to be around.
- Use borrowed magic to get you gigs when you’re first starting out.
- Incorporate rest and health into your music routine and life.
If you’ve ever tried to learn an instrument before and it felt was too hard, you aren’t alone. But Rob’s unique method will give you all the mental, emotional, and physical tools you need to make music more than a wish or a hobby: You’ll be able to make music a lifestyle. And the difference is, you need an overall approach that can be customized to you.
Learn what shredding takes today and get your copy now.
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From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hometown Heroes
- By Tommy Garou on 12-13-18
By: Michael Barclay
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
- By: Maurice White, Herb Powell
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 548
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 485
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Story5 out of 5 stars 478
The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David Foster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maurice--Earth, Wind and Fire
- By Linda Ealey on 02-28-17
By: Maurice White, and others
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Your Song Changed My Life
- From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
- By: Bob Boilen
- Narrated by: Bob Boilen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others - published in association with NPR Music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cool if you know all interviewed artists
- By Farfield on 12-05-16
By: Bob Boilen
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Light & Shade
- Conversations with Jimmy Page
- By: Brad Tolinski
- Narrated by: Robert Fass, John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 157
More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band's notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books; yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir nor cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Production History, FY!
- By Amy Peacock on 02-21-17
By: Brad Tolinski
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Failing Up
- How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
- By: Leslie Odom Jr.
- Narrated by: Leslie Odom Jr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,705
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,537
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,535
Leslie Odom Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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When you take one step, the universe takes two
- By Amy Aguilar on 04-11-18
By: Leslie Odom Jr.
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The Collaborative Habit
- Life Lessons for Working Together
- By: Twyla Tharp
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle. Her professional life has been - and continues to be - one collaboration after another. In this practical sequel to her national best seller The Creative Habit, Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her - and can be for you.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Awful narration
- By Anastasia Lattanand on 05-14-16
By: Twyla Tharp
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I Am Brian Wilson
- By: Brian Wilson, Ben Greenman - contributor
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 611
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 542
As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like "In My Room", "God Only Knows", and "Good Vibrations" forever expanded the possibilities of pop songwriting.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surviving the Minor Keys in Life - Love Overcomes
- By Russell on 12-01-16
By: Brian Wilson, and others
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Naked at the Albert Hall
- The Inside Story of Singing
- By: Tracey Thorn
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
In her bestselling autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a 30-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage fright.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- By Jane Sheedy on 01-11-17
By: Tracey Thorn
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Write Songs Right Now
- By: Alex Forbes
- Narrated by: Alex Forbes
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs - an approach that been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of old wine in new skins, still good for that
- By Marc on 01-12-14
By: Alex Forbes
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One Direction: Who We Are
- Our Official Autobiography
- By: One Direction
- Narrated by: One Direction
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 648
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 570
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Story5 out of 5 stars 572
In their first in-depth autobiography, pop sensations Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry, and Louis tell the story of their lives. From nervously auditioning for The X Factor and meeting one another for the first time, to filming their hit movie This Is Us and releasing their best-selling third album, Midnight Memories, it really has been one incredible journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very cute
- By Vandy on 12-16-14
By: One Direction
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Torment Saint
- The Life of Elliott Smith
- By: William Todd Schultz
- Narrated by: Travis Young
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Elliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the 90s, adored by fans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies. The sadness had its sources in life. There was trauma from an early age, years of drug abuse, and a chronic sense of disconnection that sometimes seemed self-engineered. Smith died violently in LA in 2003, under what some believe to be questionable circumstances, of stab wounds to the chest. By this time fame had found him, and record-buyers who shared the listening experience felt he spoke directly to them from beyond: astute, damaged, lovelorn, fighting, until he could fight no more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost interesting, often overwrought, poorly read
- By PerpetualGeorge on 01-27-14
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Lose Well
- By: Chris Gethard
- Narrated by: Chris Gethard
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 341
Let’s face it: we all want a seat at the cool table, a great job, and loads of money. But most of us won’t be able to achieve this widely accepted, black-or-white, definition of winning, which makes us feel like failures, that we’re destined to a life of loserdom. That’s the conventional wisdom. It’s also crap, according to comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard, who knows a thing of two about losing. Failing is an art form, he argues; in fact, it’s the only the way we’re ever going to discover who we are, what we really want, and how to live the kind of life we only dreamed about.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WHAT A LOSER
- By Amazon Customer on 01-26-19
By: Chris Gethard
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Begin with Yes
- A Short Conversation That Will Change Your Life Forever
- By: Paul S. Boynton
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
The law of attraction tells us that whatever we focus our attention on, consciously or not, we attract into our lives. Think happy thoughts, enjoy happy experiences. And vice versa. The best-selling Begin with Yes introduces the law of action, a principle that reverses the order - and is equally powerful: What we do affects how we think and the kinds of experiences we have. When we take small, manageable steps, we feel more positive, and our lives flow more smoothly. Begin with Yes is all about setting things in motion and opening new doors. Getting unstuck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New approach to difficulty
- By Valgal on 07-28-22
By: Paul S. Boynton
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The Emperor of Sound
- A Memoir
- By: Timbaland, Veronica Chambers
- Narrated by: William Harper
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 279
Timbaland is indisputably one of the most innovative music producers working today. The Grammy Award–wining producer, rapper, songwriter, and composer has collaborated with the mega-superstars of pop, rap, hip-hop, and R&B, from Jay Z to 50, Madonna to Justin, Nelly to Björk. His solo album Shock Value has sales tipped in the millions, and the video for his international chart-topping single "Apologize" has been viewed more than 100 million times on YouTube.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's called a De-esser
- By Ethan on 05-02-16
By: Timbaland, and others
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Daily Love
- Growing into Grace
- By: Mastin Kipp
- Narrated by: Mastin Kipp
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
We seek solace from our suffering and look for wisdom outside the confines of dogma, but soon we're drowning in vague spiritual lingo - intention, higher self, attraction, vibration - that's poetry at best and manipulation at worst. Mastin Kipp offers no fancy degrees, just his life and his scars, which form a roadmap to help guide you through the uncertainty that lies ahead, marking where the cliffs are slippery, where the sun burns hot - and where Grace blossoms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- By Elizabeth on 07-01-15
By: Mastin Kipp
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Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance
- Advice and Inspiration from the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Coach of 7 NCAA Championship Teams
- By: Valorie Kondos Field, Steve Cooper - contributor
- Narrated by: Valorie Kondos Field
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story5 out of 5 stars 161
Miss Val has shaped her UCLA gymnastics program as a life-skills class, and now she's sharing those lessons with you, whether you're an athlete, business leader, or simply someone who wants to own his or her destiny. Miss Val's philosophies are timeless. Her coaching style is unorthodox. Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance is a thought-provoking, fun journey through the personal stories and anecdotes of the 35-year career of a dancer/choreographer turned athletic coach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring doesn't begin to describe this book
- By MG on 03-06-19
By: Valorie Kondos Field, and others
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I'll Never Change My Name
- An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars
- By: Valentin Chmerkovskiy
- Narrated by: Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Maks Chmerkovskiy
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story5 out of 5 stars 155
Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and beloved Dancing with the Stars ballroom dancer invites fans into his life as never before, sharing the experiences, including the failures and successes, that have shaped him, from his early childhood in Ukraine to growing up as an immigrant in the US to his rise to international fame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must for Dancing with the Stars fans
- By Rana I O on 03-10-18