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Deke’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Deke’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Deke Sharon
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A Cappella Arranging
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The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
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Love Songs A Cappella
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A Cappella Jazz Broadway
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Deke Sharon's Books - a guide
I get asked from time to time what my books contain. Here's a cheat sheet:
A Cappella Arranging, with Dylan Bell (2012):
• For beginners through experts
• Ten step method to get you started right away
• Creative process: “The dreamer, the editor, and the critic”
• Advanced sections on bass lines, textures, rhythm, writers block, much more
• Many music examples throughout, short phrases through full song Read more of this blog post »
A Cappella Arranging, with Dylan Bell (2012):
• For beginners through experts
• Ten step method to get you started right away
• Creative process: “The dreamer, the editor, and the critic”
• Advanced sections on bass lines, textures, rhythm, writers block, much more
• Many music examples throughout, short phrases through full song Read more of this blog post »
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Eefje Smeulders has
completed their goal of reading 30 books for the 2020 Reading Challenge!
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The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
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Elliott McCrory has
completed his goal of reading 15 books for the 2019 Reading Challenge!
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Deke wants to read 75 books in the 2019 Reading Challenge
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May 09, 2018 08:45AM
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| My favorite book so far this year (and I've read over 40). It's a lovely, sweet, honest portrait of a father and young son who just lost their spouse/mother and are trying to navigate life together in 1950s Manhattan. There's not a word or moment was ...more | |
“I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.”
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“Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.”
― The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
― The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
“You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.”
― The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
― The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing
“There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. All pop music today-jazz, swing, be-bop, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Stones, rock and roll, hip hop and on and on- is derived from the blues.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.”
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