Here's EVERYTHING you need to know about my book, recommended by Larry Coryell, Mark Egan and others!
I continually update the 40 pages in my book. Most changes are purely cosmetic, plus any typos discovered found get corrected.
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Update: I just concluded reading an article how a major college in Wisconsin is deleting many liberal arts courses ... https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/12/the-liberal-arts-may-not-survive-the-21st-century/577876/ geography, 2D and 3D art, history and all because their tuition needs to be so high, and, students can now learn what they need in many cases, outside the classroom. I tried and failed to get any institution to hire me (despite my obvious REAL WORLD qualifications) and now find myself in the unique position of not owing Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to some school that can't guarantee me a position anywhere. I am reminding you that my book, including shipping, (designed as a self-help manual that will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know, except reading music notation) WILL teach you to be a better guitarist than you would have been on your own, because you don't have the time to dedicate your whole life to guitar studies as I have chosen to do. Again, you'll spend more than the total cost of receiving my book on sending out application papers to some college, let alone the $50K a year it will cost you to end up learning LESS THAN IS IN MY BOOK. I GUARANTEE THAT and that is why the Summa cum Laude Juilliard grad who reviewed my book for the US Copyright Office told me there was more information in THE GUITAR EXPLAINED than she learned at that school and "could she CONTINUE STUDYING IT?" after granting me the copyright! I think that's a pretty solid recommendation, right?
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According to me, (as stated in bold letters on the cover,) "A 100% non-piano, guitar / bass-centric, atomic-level study of music theory as applied to the true natural architecture of the world's most innovative instrument". I MEAN THIS SINCERELY.
FIRST - I have recently passed sales of 3000 copies of my book,
no returns, no complaints, no big publishing company taking
the profits!!! Thank you, everybody!
SECONDLY, my book is ENTIRELY concerned with Guitar-Centric Theory and Architecture ... there is NO instruction (nor will there EVER be) in READING MUSIC NOTATION; I do not believe in learning notation until you firmly understand MUSIC THEORY and how it is applied to the guitar. So, to sum up at this juncture, the book teaches REAL, standard music theory and ALSO guitar-centric (or purely guitar related) Music Theory.
So READ THIS and see if it makes sense to you:
The language and characters of all numbers in the world are 0 - 9.
The language / characters of our Western reading and
writing are A - Z.
The language and characters of all music are Root - Major 7th,
which is called "The Twelve-Tone System".
If you had been taught the twelve-tone system at the same age as you were the other 2 languages you use every day, you would now speak, play and write music with the same ease. It's that SIMPLE.
But were you? Has ANY student I have ever taught music to
(and that's over 3000 physical humans) known this language when they came in for lessons - even when they had had other teachers? I SWEAR TO GOD - NOT ONE. You may now correct the failure of the educational system by beginning with the names of the notes and the titles for their positions within said twelve tones.
Has any guitar instruction manual taught you Root - Major 7th as the first lesson? Probably not. THIS does!! You must learn this language to understand what the names of chords mean, how to solo over them, how to speak music to other musicians and, most of all, how to replicate the results of your practice and learning, etc. Otherwise you will be "poking around" forever. It's all very well to say "I play blues and I don't need that". That's wrong, kid.
It's that -SIMPLE.
SO: PLEASE ASK YOURSELF THESE 3 QUESTIONS:
1. DO I REALLY KNOW WHERE I AM ON THE FRETBOARD WHEN I TRY TO SOLO ?
2. DO I KNOW HOW TO CREATE ANY CHORD BY MYSELF, ANYWHERE ON THE FRETBOARD, AT ANY TIME ?
3. HAVE I PAID FOR LESSONS BEFORE AND STILL FEEL UNSURE OF WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO PLAY, WHAT TO DO ?
If you answered yourself truthfully and the answers were NO - NO - YES, then my book is for you, beginner OR advanced! Please go read the testimonials on this site from geniuses like Larry Coryell and Mark Egan (Google them if you are unaware of their names!) and then realize that for less than a dinner date, you could know what you're doing forever. Then after your friends freak out, you can act all cool, knowing you were smart enough to trust me.
Again, *The Guitar Explained was reviewed by a Summa cum Laude graduate of the Juilliard School of Music who works for the Library of Congress and granted me the copyright based on correctness of the info. Not only did she tell me there was more information in my book than she was taught at Juilliard, she also praised the graphics, the clarity of explanations and asked if she could continue studying from it!
Again: I have sold over 1,500 copies without any requests for money back nor any complaints ... (there are those persons who feel you're too impatient or SPA [SmartPhoneAddicted] to EVER be able to read a BOOK - oh NO, a BOOK! Thousands of years of precedent, but YOU can't do it, they say ... LOL, not me - books don't need electricity to use them !!)
