Publications

Publications

More than a dozen books, a couple of video courses, and a pile of articles, mostly one thing, really: teaching.

The writing started by accident. A literary agent called not long after I finished music school, asked if I'd write a guitar book, and even though I'd never written anything longer than a term paper, I said yes. That first one led to another, and another, and it turned into something I've done ever since. When I look at all of them together, they're really one thing: taking something that looks complicated and showing people how it actually fits together.

The Everything Music Theory Book propped at the piano

The one closest to me

The Efficient Guitarist, Volume I

Third edition ยท Volume II on the way

It's where I tried to put down everything I've figured out about how the guitar really works: not shapes and licks to memorize, but the system underneath that ties it all together. It lays out the entire fretboard in five movable shapes, so you can play in any key, anywhere on the neck. If you only look at one thing here, make it this one.

Books

Video courses

TrueFire

    Articles

    Writing & press