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Say goodbye to the days of propping up your iPad against a stack of books, or balancing it on your lap while you try to use your arsenal of nifty apps. IK Multimedia introduced the iKlip Studio, an adjustable iPad desktop stand meant to provide sturdy support for iPad and make it easier for you to work the touch screen.  

Hear ye! Ringing in the almighty year 2012, Seymour Duncan announced the Great Tone Treasure Hunt -- an online contest for guitarists and other musicians who want to play a little game and win some cool prizes. This treasure hunt begins January 1st and is sponsored in part by Godin, Cort, Richmond Guitars, Schecter Guitars, Jarrell Guitars, US Music Corp, and several artists.  

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about producing music with Sonar X1, with Cakewalk's latest video tutorial, Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop: Next Level With Craig Anderton. In this sequel to the first tutorial, Anderton covers even more pro-level production techniques in 30 all-new videos.  

Brush up on your EM know-how with Berkleemusic.com's upcoming "Composing And Producing Electronic Music" online course led by Loudon Stearns.  

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about pitch with the new Samplecraze video tutorial, Pitch Manipulation. The nearly one-hour-long production video tutorial covers all aspects of pitch, including what it is, how to define it, how to reference it, how to manipulate it in software, and more.  

Want to be a pro at Pro Tools 9? Sharpen your PT music production skills with the new video tutorial course from Infinite Skills called Learning Avid Pro Tools 9. This 9.5-hour tutorial offers Pro Tools 9 users the inside scoop on professional standard audio production techniques for music, voice, and soundtrack work.  

Take your pick -- along with the existing iKlip for iPad, IK Multimedia has made available its iKlip MINI for iPhone or iPod Touch. This universal microphone stand adapter lets you mount any iPhone or iPod Touch to a mic stand, pole, or tripod, so you can view your apps with ease.  

In the latest macProVideo tutorial, Maschine Quick Start, Native Instruments Product Specialist Matt Cellitti will guide you through Maschine's hardware and software interfaces and help you figure them out and make great music.  

With Lick Library's new Jam With Bullet For My Valentine guitar tuition DVD, you'll learn how to play the powerful metal riffs and thundering rhythms unique to the British metal band, Bullet For My Valentine. Led by guitarist Andy James (Sacred Mother Tongue), the tutorial guides you through seven of the band's top tracks, showing you in step-by-step-fashion how to play them exactly as you're used to hearing them.  

Ever wonder how the leading players in the house scene work with Ableton Live? Find out with Point Blank Online's upcoming Deep House Course for Ableton Live. This online music-production class will show up and coming house music producers how to use professional production techniques within Live, as well as offer tips on how to achieve your own authentic sound.  

So you have Cakewalk's Sonar X1 but you have yet to explore all the music-making possibilities it has to offer. That's where the new DVD tutorial, Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop With Craig Anderton, comes in. Hosted by Craig Anderton, the tutorial offers a series of advanced workshop videos with specialized tips on techniques from an industry pro.  

Say "cello" to new strings for violin, viola, and cello. D’Addario released its limited-edition Helicore / Kaplan Bonus Sets, which give Heliocore players some new options in the Kaplan line of strings.  

D'Addario released the Zyex Double Bass C-Extended-E String for the Zyex Double Bass Set. This new Zyex string has the warmth of a gut string with the snappiness of a metal string, making it ideal for players of jazz and baroque styles.  

Following the release of the iKlip for iPad, IK Multimedia announced the upcoming iKlip MINI for iPhone or iPod Touch. This universal microphone stand adapter lets you mount any iPhone or iPod Touch to a mic stand, pole, or tripod, so you can view your apps with ease.  

You might just be a secret Slayer-playing, thrash metal god, but you wouldn't know it unless you knew some of Kerry King's licks. With Lick Library's Quick Licks In The Style Of Kerry King Thrash Metal guitar tuition DVD, you can master King's killer techniques and learn to play his best licks.  

Point Blank Online announced open enrollment for its Dubstep Course for Logic users -- a Web-based, four-week class on how to make the ultimate in wobbly, dubby, bass-heavy dubstep in Apple Logic.  

With the Samplecraze Phase video tutorial, musicians and producers can learn all about phase and how it affects the mix in both good and bad ways. The Phase video explains in detail what phase is, how and why issues happen with phase, and how to correct them when working with individual sounds during the design process and / or with multiple tracks during mixing and production.  

At Wilco’s Solid State Festival at MASS MOCA, Create Digital Music and Moog Music will be hosting the Handmade Music Salon, where a number of inventors will be demonstrating their custom-modded, very hackable DIY instruments. Moog Music will also be presenting the prototype for a new Moog instrument, as well as the current lineup of Moog Music's analog synthesizers and effects.  

Just what you always wanted -- a tutorial DVD that will show you how to play not one, but five classic songs from the Celtic rock band, Thin Lizzy.  

Thusly do I Romeo paraphraseth: "what's in a beginner's pack? Would a banjo shipped individually sound or play as sweet as that which the Washburn B8 Banjo Pak Beginner's Package includeth?" Owen's not 100%; watch the video to find out wherefore.  

Noted producer, mixer, and sound designer Rich Tozzoli will give you the lowdown on his guitar production techniques with macProVideo's video tutorial, MacProVideo.com Rich Tozzoli: Producing And Mixing Guitars.  

If you're a working musician or in a band, networking means everything. The Nugs.net Appetizer app makes it easier for bands and fans to connect on Facebook; the app puts band details and music directly in your fans' news feeds, so your music and news goes straight to them instead of the other way around.  

No worries if you want to stand-mount an iPad 2 -- IK Multimedia is shipping its updated version of the iKlip universal mic stand mounting kit, which now includes snap-on adapters that fit the slimmer Pad 2.  

Learn the basics of how to produce a quality track within Cubase with macProVideo's new video tutorial. Cubase 6 101: Quick Start will guide you, in step by step fashion, through Cubase 6 and show you how to do everything from initial setup to recording.  

Luddites and technology moralists warn that the internet is going to replace real human relationships. We don't know about that, but we do know this: it's going to replace the relationship you have with your banjo teacher. Here's a list of the top five best online banjo instructional videos.  

Learn Ivan Coraliza's (iLL Factor) secrets to producing hits within Ableton Live, with FaderPro.com's "Are You Able" (AYA) Ableton Live-specific music production training course. The online course lets you "sit" in the studio with Coraliza and see exactly how he puts together a track, from start to finish.  

Ace Products announced the Kaces Razor Mobile Producer Bag, which features roomy, padded compartments and pockets big enough to tote your laptop, headphones, audio interfaces, CDs, cables, and all the other little things you need for a mobile recording session.  

Die-hard Def Leppard fans can play along with their favorite songs with Lick Library's new Def Leppard Guitar Tuition DVD. The DVD and CD set presented by Jamie Humphries offers sound advice on how to play choice guitar riffs, melodic lines, and more.  

Submit your best, most intriguingly original take on the Rova Saxophone Quartet's recording of Steve Adam’s piece, "Flip Trap," for the chance to win free Rova music, a limited-edition LP, collectible CD-ROM, and at least six months of fame on the quartet's Web site.  

Giving parents yet another chance to lament the opportunities that they never had when they were young, the Point Blank music school has announced open enrollment for five summer courses, which will give young adults hands-on training in music production, songwriting, singing, DJing, and broadcasting.