I have been looking over Mark's book these last few days, and I have to say I am quite impressed.

It covers:
Topics covered include:

Music Theory
Rhythm Theory
Note Reading
Single Note Guitar Skills
Open Chords
Power Chords
Barre Chords
Partial and other movable chord shapes
7th and 9th Chords
Chart reading
Rhythm Guitar
Strumming in Eighth and Sixteenth Note Rhythms
Arpeggiated or "Broken" Chords
Alternate Picking
What I especially like are all the note reading exercises. I haven't seen many guitar books who do a good job with helping the student learn to read charts, but this book is very well designed in this area.

As a guitar teacher myself, this book is an excellent tool for teaching guitar.

Mark, one thing I was wondering, do you have or will you have, audio clips of the examples in the book? I think that would be an excellent thing to have. I find when teaching that it really helps the student to have audio examples to listen to when they are practicing at home.

I think it is an excellent book for beginners and/or those who know the "campfire chords" and a couple of songs, but who wants to get a solid foundation for playing guitar.

The book is available from LULU.



Good job with the book, Mark. It must have a been a lot of work to put it together.