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By Skip Anna
Guitar Learning Books
The Full-Blast, Take-No-Prisoners Guitar Method!
Comprehensive 11 Volume guide covering everything from basic chords to advanced techniques.
Cool Music Stuff
Music Theory for the Guitarist
By Skip Anna
Music Theory For The Guitarist Volumes 1 - 7
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 1
Volume 1 β Constructing major scales. 70 pages + 10-pg. Appendix
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 2
Volume 2 β The Intervals of Minor Triads. 79 pages + 13-pg. Appendix
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 3
Volume 3 β Introduction to Scale Modes and Minor Pentatonic Scales. 113 pages.
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 4
Volume 4 β The Minor Modes. 114 pages
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 5
Volume 5 β The Major Pentatonic Scales, single-position patterns and their fingerings, Full fingerboard diagrams and Exercises. 170 pages
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 6
Volume 6 β Using Major & Minor Modes together. 104 pages
Music Theory for the Guitarist Volume 7
Volume 7 β Major Blues Scales. 94 pages
The Fingerboard Revealed
The Fingerboard Revealed
Use simple concepts of Music Theory to "map" the notes of basic chords and scales on the fingerboard of fretted string instruments
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Folk Guitar Books
By Skip Anna
A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer
A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer
Introduction to Fingerstyle Technique and Pattern-Picking
A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement
A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement
A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement.
Fingerstyle Guitar
A Method for Learning Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Volumes 1 - 4
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 1
Add simple melodies to an alternating bass. Then play melodies with more complex rhythms.
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 2
Introduction to Position II, slides, 1-note position changes & grace notes.
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 3
Introduction to sixteenth note rhythms. Eighth note bass lines.
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 4
Introduction to counterpoint and counterpoint bass lines.
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 5 - Part A
Songs and Tunes arranged with "Pulse" (monotonic) bass lines.
Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 5 - Part B
The Blues equivalent of "Pulse" bass is called "Dead Thumb".
Originally βpart A & Bβ were intended to be in a single volume, but it was getting pretty big, and the mostly folk songs of part A are stylistically a lot different than the mostly blues songs in part B)
Writing a Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement
Writing a Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement β Part 1
Turn a simple melody and its chords, into a fingerstyle guitar arrangement.
A Flatpick Folio
A Flatpick Folio
A graded collection of Flatpick-Style arrangements of Folk and Old-Time songs.
Folk Guitar Method
Folk Guitar Method Volume 1
Learn guitar "from the ground up": Parts of the Guitar, and how to tune it.
Folk Guitar Method Volume 2
Picking up from where Volume 1 leaves off. Learn about sharps & flats.
Folk Tab Guitar
Folk Tab Guitar
For the "Note-a-phobic" β this book is like an abridged version of "The (mostly) Folk Guitar Method Vol 1."
π Holiday Special π
Christmas Guitar Books & Music
Classical, Jazz, and Pop Arrangements
By Skip Anna
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folios
These Folios of Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements of Christmas music are companions to each of the four volumes of the βFingerstyle Guitarβ books. The song arrangements in each folio correlate to the material covered in the corresponding βFingerstyle Guitarβ book.
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folio 1
All arrangements in this folio are in position I (where the reading and playing is easy).
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folio 2
All the arrangements are in positions I-III on the fingerboard of the guitar.
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folio 3
All the arrangements are played in positions I-V β coordinating with Volume 3 of Fingerstyle Guitar method.
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folio 4 - Part A
Advanced arrangements of Traditional carols all the way up to position XII.
Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar Folio 4 - Part B
Advanced arrangements of Folk carols, crazy Bluesy arrangements, and Pop/Jazz Christmas songs.
Flatpick-style Christmas Guitar Folios
Flatpick-style Christmas Guitar Folio 1
Christmas music from Europe played in "down-home" American flatpick-style arrangements.
Flatpick-style Christmas Guitar Folio 2
Traditional American folk carols in flatpick style arrangements.
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Practice Exercises
Hundreds of exercises and songs to practice, from simple chord progressions to complex solos.
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