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Complete Chord Guide (Not Just for Beginners!)
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About The Guitar Books
The 7 Day Practice Routine for Guitarists
“I wanted an organized practice routine for myself that I could do between my busy gig schedule…”
….the next thing I knew, I had written a 90 page book!
This is my best selling book written in 2018. Thousands of books sold, not a single bad review!
What’s Included In The 7 Day Guitar Practice Routine
- 90 Pages of Chords, Scales, Arpeggios and Music Theory for Guitarists.
- Printable Chord, Scale and Arpeggio Charts.
- A comprehensive 7 Day Practice Guide for Guitarists of any Skill Level.
- The Original Modal Workout.
- Printable Musical Examples in TAB & Standard Notation.
- Guitar Pro Files – Editable SOUND – MIDI – TAB – MUSIC Files.
- The Circle of Keys explained.
- FREE Lifetime Updates
- FREE Email support
- FREE Replacement copy anytime.
- BONUS – Guiliani’s 120 Arpeggio Studies!
- BONUS – Bach’s Bouree in E minor.
Also available in paperback from Amazon.com.
Classical Guitar – A Practical Guide (129 pages)
Classical Guitar – A Practical Guide Vol. 1
by Craig W. Smith
An introduction to the history, techniques, and music of the classical guitar. (129 pages TAB + Standard Notation)
The music of J.S. Bach, Fernando Sor, Ferdinand Carulli, Matteo Carcassi, Dionisio Aguado and more…
“If you have even a passing interest in finger-picking or Classical Guitar Music, you’ll love this book. An epic introduction to classical guitar music, history, composers, art, and… 25 beautiful pieces and accompanying lessons.”
What’s Included in The Classical Guitar Book
Also includes Guiliani’s 120 Right-Hand Studies, Classical Guitar Primer, and a Daily Practice Routine.
- 25 Etudes with accompanying lessons.
- A Daily Practice Routine for both hands.
- Classical Guitar Primer for beginners to advanced guitarists.
- Guiliani’s 120 Right Hand Studies complete.
- Detailed analysis of classical guitar music including art, history, composer bios and more.
- Audio Files
- Guitar Pro 7.5 Files with audio.
- Full color, high resolution .PDF compatible with any computer, smart phone or tablet.
ISBN: 978-1-7351548-0-0
Guitar Chords for Beginners and Beyond
The Beginner’s Guide to Chords (35 pages TAB, Standard + Charts)
- Essential Beginner Chord Shapes.
- Notes on the Fretboard Explained.
- Sharps and Flats Explained.
- CAGED System Explained.
- The Circle of Keys.
- How Chords Work Together.
- Barre Chord Shapes.
- How to Create Your Own Chords.
- Major & minor Chords Explained.
- Maj7, Dom7, minor7th Explained.
- Add9 chords.
- Inversions and Slash Chords Explained.
- 35 Page Printable .PDF file.
The Guitarist’s Modal Scale Workout
The Modal Scale Workout 2.0:
An Introduction to Modes and Modal Scale Theory for Guitarists
This ‘Modal Workout’ started off as a hand written scribble on some music paper that I handed out to my guitar students as a challenging exercise. The ‘workout’ provided the additional benefit of memorizing sequences and shapes in a key. Very useful for building improvisational skills and a strong technical foundation.
I finally got around to organizing it in to a full-size book.
I’ve tried to keep this book concise. You should expect the following results:
When I started my website, one of the first things I offered to the wonderful guitarists who joined my email list was this Guitar Modal Workout. A simple 2 page PDF. No instructions, no explanation, no text; just the same exercise I was handing out to students over 25 years ago.
About The Modal Workout
The funny thing was, guitarists loved it!
I finally got around to organizing it a bit better and with more explanation and thoughts on Guitar Modal Scales in general. I took a few excerpts from my online guitar lessons and included them here as accompaniment to fill things out.
There is much to explore down the modal theory rabbit-hole. I offer only the tip of the iceberg in this little guide. As always, I encourage you to take your own studies deeper and beyond what you can get from any one source.
Here’s what you can get in the new Guitar Modal Workout:
- Expanded and Revised Edition for 2020.
- Explanation of the Major Scale.
- Circle of Keys Explained.
- What a mode is and how to build them in any key.
- How modes and chords relate to each other on the guitar fretboard.
- All 7 Mode Shapes (block shapes).
- Also 7 Mode shapes (3 note-per-string shapes)
- Melodic Minor Mode shapes.
- Harmonic Minor Mode shapes.
- How modes overlap on the guitar neck.
- How to build sequences across modal scales.
- The original Modal Scale Workout.
- The updated 2020 Modal Scale 2.0 Workout.
- TAB and Standard Notation.
- Also available in paperback from Amazon.
