Dennis DeSantis: Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers (2015, Ableton)
Published April 28, 2015 by Ableton.
this one's great, full of ideas for a n00b like me.
I am starting with Ableton and a couple of valuable insights are more than appreciated!
I read this book straight through; I am not an experienced composer. I'll be back in the future once I run into specific problems when making music.
In the meantime I've learned a lot about how to listen to music and for that it is already worthwhile. I found the sections on attentive listening, effective melodic composition, harmonic vs surface rhythm, and composition forms all very enlightening. This is another one of those books that seems to uncover a whole slice of the world by giving me the tools to think about it.
