Guitar eBooks

This book focuses on the core components that make up the forms for improvisation in this style, written in a clear and concise manner with lots of great photos.

This book focuses on Johnny Smith’s trademark 3 octave scale and arpeggio fingerings. Johnny provides numerous exercises to develop your knowledge of scales and arpeggios in every key. 22 Pages with detailed fingering and pick stroke suggestions.

Eddie Lang’s Fingerboard Harmony for Guitar documents Lang’s incredible fret board knowledge. It includes hundreds of examples of his chord shapes, fingerings, and reharmonization techniques. An invaluable resource for any guitarist, especially one trying to emulate Lang’s brilliant chordal work. This highly organized and well thought out book uses a teaching system that simultaneously incorporates the strengths of "eye-minded," "ear-minded," and "motor-minded" students . Includes chord diagrams and fingerings. 103 p.

This wonderful vintage guitar tutor is still usefull today! Click Here for the Table of Contents: TOC

This wonderful vintage guitar tutor is still usefull today! Click Here for the Table of Contents: TOC

This book features six Johnny Smith arrangements of classical themes for solo guitar. The titles are: Holiday Suite Theme Background Music for Gift Giving Music to Dine With Thoughts of Gaiety Man’s Desiring (Cantata OP.147) by J.S. Bach 19 Pages with detailed fingering and pick stroke suggestions.

Eddie Langs Modern Advanced Guitar Method documents Langs incredible fret board knowledge. It includes hundreds of examples of his chord shapes, arpeggios, and lead lines.

This book features six Johnny Smith arrangements of classical themes for solo guitar. The titles are: Suite in B Minor Theme Air for a G String by J.S. Bach Dance of the Reed Pipes by P. Tschaikowsky Theme from Piano Concerto in A Minor by R. Schuman Londonderry Air 19 Pages with detailed fingering and pick stroke suggestions. A few nice pictures as well.

This wonderful guitar method was written by the American guitar pioneer Vahdah Olcott-Bickford. It ranks among some of the best classical guitar methods ever produced.

This wonderful vintage guitar tutor is still usefull today!

Transcriptions of Charley (sic) Christians 1941 jam session at Mintons Playhouse. This live jam session is revered by Charlie Christian fans as his best work ever recorded. This book contains the solos only, heads are not included. The following 4 tunes are included: Swing to Bop (Topsy) Lips Flips (Stomopin at the Savoy) Guys Got to Go (I Got Rhythm) Up on Teddys Hill (Honeysuckle Rose) 17 pages.

An excellent method book by George Van Eps, one of the pioneers of solo jazz guitar. This method focuses on developing a thorough harmonic knowledge of the guitar. 82 examples develop the students ability to create smooth voice leading, harmonize scales, and develop right hand picking technique. Incidentally, Van Eps recommends using a picking technique very similar to the Gypsy Picking style of Django Reinhardt. 40 pages with fingerings, pick stroke markings, and photos.

This very comphrehensive chord dictionary is an incredible resource for those trying to emulate the voicings used by the great rhythm guitarists of the Swing era. Antone focuses on full sounding 5 and 6 note voicings that are also favored by Gypsy jazz musicians. Similarly, he makes clever use of the thumb and one finger double stops to creat full, lush, complex sounding voicings. Includes chord diagrams,fingerings, and standard notation. 38 p.