Songwriting Software Express, Issue # 9 -- New Guitar E-Book

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1. Learn To Play Guitar Or Upgrade Your Playing With New E-Book - Geared To Songwriters
2. This Month's Notable Quote

I'm happy to be rolling out the first in a new developing collection of first time online digital e-books and resources to help your songwriting efforts. In this issue I'm debuting From Guitar Owner To Guitar Player by singer/songwriter Evyn Charles.

Evyn has written a comprehensive yet focussed manual that cuts right to the chase of the just the need-to-know essentials for starting or improving your guitar playing skills to help you better write and share your songs.

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Learn To Play Guitar Or Upgrade Your Playing With New E-Book - Geared To Songwriters

Learn to play guitar with an e-book that cuts right down to the must know essentials for songwriting. Just the meat and potatoes, no stuffing.

Singer-songwriter and guitar teacher Evyn Charles, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, has written an easy to follow guitar lesson e-book geared directly towards songwriting and I'm glad to have the first opportunity to introduce it to you.

It's a comprehensive guide to getting to the essentials that you as a songwriter should know to craft your best songs musically but leaves out the fluff.

Evyn's book has become the principal guide driving his group guitar lessons and private instruction and now for the first time is available online as a guitar lesson e-book.

This book, first written in 1998 and just revised in 2002, will take you from understanding and playing basic chord progressions all the way to incorporating "guitar only" chords found in a lot of today's popular music.

Total beginners to those playing for some time will find this book of guitar lessons and instruction a cohesive primer to the main points of enjoyable playing and songwriting.

For those just starting out it gets you oriented quickly to the basic parts of the guitar to how to strum to how to tune your guitar.

Already playing first position chords but want to go beyond that and begin to incorporate barre chords and take advantage of the entire neck? Then skip to that section and get a quick primer to get you learning the main barre chord positions quickly and efficiently.

Specifically, Evyn shows you how by learning barre chords on just two strings you'll cover almost any likely combination of chords you'd encounter in today's popular songs all the way back to the classic tunes. From there you'll see how you can begin incorporating these same ideas into your own songs.

The title of the book is aptly named From Guitar Owner To Guitar Player because a lot of you, like I had been for a long time, had purchased a guitar learned some chords but never began to develop beyond that.

With Evyn's book you'll quickly start to see and shortly be able to apply straight forward yet expanded ways to play chords beyond just first position. You learn accompaniment that can enhance the sound of your songs and you gain better understanding of how to develop your songs musically.

Let's take a quick summary look at a number of benefits this book is loaded with:

Here's what another student of From Guitar Owner To Guitar Player had to say ...

"The more I play, I find I need to keep going back to Evyn's book and apply the extremely useful tools that he has laid out. The book is written so it is very easy to grasp the concepts and, as I get better, I keep using it to help me move farther along. There is so much to learn that the info contained is the backbone of the technique; it helps you to get to where you want to be, no matter how good, you need to have this foundation to understand the important concepts of how and why guitar playing can sound so good, and what you need in order to accomplish that goal. Great stuff! Thanks".
- Jim Oliva

Take a look at the "to the point" table of contents below:

TABLE OF CONTENTS for FROM GUITAR OWNER TO GUITAR PLAYER

Introduction 3
Symbols & Notation 4

BEGINNING COURSE

Holding the Guitar 6
Positioning the Left Hand 6
Tuning 6
Learning and Practicing Chords 8
Right Hand Techniques 9
Chord Shapes 10
Chord Exercises 13
Barre Chords 14
The Blues 19

INTERMEDIATE COURSE

Notes, Scales and Keys--The Basics 20
Chord Numbering System and Transposing 21
Fingerpicking 22
Learning the Names of the Notes on the 5th and 6th Strings 23
Chords 24
Chord Shapes-Continued (Major Seventh) 26
The Major Scale 27
Using the Major Scale to Build Chords 29
The Minor Scale 30
Pentatonic Scales 31
Chord Progressions 32
Dominant Chord Principle 32
Know Your Fretboard 33

ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE COURSE

Learning the Notes on the 4th and 3rd Strings 34
Learning the Notes on the 2nd String 35
"Just For Guitar" Chords 37
Improvising and Solo Playing 38

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About the Author

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Evyn's teaching style is evident in his book and translates into a logical systematic approach that can help you breakthrough to a whole new level of playing.

Another one of Evyn's graduates commented this...

"I wanted to say thanks for the enlightenment! Truly, I've been playing guitar for over 10 years and had just hit a wall. Your 6 week class made the last 10 years make sense while giving the guitar a new life for me. I really appreciate it".
- John Benitz

Vince Lombardi 1913-1970; US football coach known for his motivational drive & ideals, coached the Green Bay Packers to victories in Super Bowls I & II

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