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Blank Sheet Music for Guitar, 100 Pages of Blank Guitar Manuscript Paper, Sheet Music for Guitar with Staff, Tab Lines, Lyric Lines and Chord Boxes.

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Blank Sheet Music for Guitar, New Book Released

New Release from Acoustic Music TV, Blank Sheet Music for Guitar, 100 Pages of Blank Guitar Manuscript Paper Sheet Music with Staff, Tab Lines, Lyric Lines and Chord Boxes

This book is designed for writing guitar music. It includes blank staff pages plus 10 blank additional pages in the back with extra chord boxes. We have given you plenty of room to write your guitar music with each page containing 3 sets of Staff and TAB lines, lots of room for scribbling. We also include lyric lines to write your words on and chord boxes for each measure.

This book like all our books contain Basic Music Notation Guide for Guitars, showing notes, basic staff and TAB layout and a fret board with notes for the first 12 frets. Also includes descriptions of what is a chord, highlighting six different ways to show chords and how to read a Guitar Chord Box. Includes Notes That Make Up a Major Chord, Chords for the Major Keys, Scale and Arpeggios layouts and Chord Spellings for the Major Triad through the Sus 2 chords. Gives you a good resource to help you get started writing your songs.

We also include our most popular guitar chord fingering charts, gives you a great reference when figuring out your music.



Chord charts included in the book
• The Seven Basic Guitar Chords, Major, Minor and 7th

• The Seven Guitar Keys with I, IV, V and V7 Chords in First Position

• Guitar Barre Chords for 5th and 6th strings

• Major Movable Soloing Scale for Folk or Country Music for Any Key

• Minor Pentatonic Movable Soloing Scale for Blues, Rock or Latin Music

• Movable Arpeggio Scale for Any Guitar Key

 This makes a great gift for your favorite musician, gift for him, her, mom, dad, brother or sister, excellent for all.

 This book is available at Amazon.com Blank Sheet Music for Guitar: 100 Blank Manuscript Pages with Staff, TAB, Lyric Lines and Chord Boxes

Key Left Hand Charts from Left Hand Chords

Below are several key pages for guitar, mandolin and ukulele from our new book Left Hand Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo

Seven Basic Left Hand Guitar Chords, Major, Minor, and Seventh Chords, A, B, C, D, E, F and G

Seven Basic Left Hand 2 Finger Mandolin Chords, Major, Minor, and Seventh Chords, A, B, C, D, E, F and G

Seven Basic Left Hand Ukulele Chords, Major, Minor, and Seventh Chords, A, B, C, D, E, F and G

Mandolin Photo Chord Book, Initial Design Concept

Thanks everyone who made comments and voted on my mandolin chord pictures, Photo A's view was the clear winner but there was also a strong vote for using both photos in the book. Above is an image with my first pass for the page design of the new chord photo book. I would love any comments on it good or bad. I will reshoot the photos but they will be along this line. 

 The thought is to include a variety of ways to show chords, pictures, fret board, chord box, staff lines and TAB lines.  FPO means for position only, I don't have that image at the moment but that is where one would go.

Our Best Selling Design, 3 Guitars with no Text

We have a lot of different designs on CafePress based on our Notebook Music Charts, from guitars to mandolins, ukes and banjos, to our chord charts. Over the last 3 months our Three Guitars without Text design has been our best selling. Thank you everyone.

You can see all the items with this design at CafePress, including shirts, mugs, clocks, kids and pets, bags, notebooks and tiles. Visit the page Three Guitars with no Text.

Sweet Georgia Brown on Guitar and Mandolin

Curtis Jones (guitar) and Jeff Midkiff (mandolin) playing an acoustic version of Sweet Georgia Brown, a highly recognized song used by the Harlem Globetrotters

Yamaha Gigmaker Deluxe Acoustic Guitar Package

A great place to get started playing guitar, the Yamaha Gigmaker Acoustic Guitar. Everything you need, a nice entry level guitar, a tuner, case, picks and strap. Plus an instructional DVD full of lessons. Yamaha is a well respected name in the music instrument world, I have one of their guitars and love it. This package pulls it all together.

This is the little more expensive package, just under $200, this also comes in a standard version, but this guitar comes with a solid Spruce top, Mahogany back and side and a Rosewood fingerboard, just a little nicer. The deluxe and standard packages are both great ways for the first time player to get started.

Some excellent reviews on Amazon on this package, "Beautiful guitar, fast shipping...what more can you ask for? My son took guitar in school this year and was hooked. I didn't want to spend a fortune when he wanted a guitar for his 13th birthday so after ALOT of research, I found this steal! It's a really nice instrument. The guitar player next door was impressed with it as well. I like that this kit comes with everything he'll need to get started." And this quote "I did not expect the high level of finish and quality for the price.Great starter package."

Click through to Amazon to learn more about this package

Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar Pack with Amp and Accessories, Candy Apple Red

Ok so we can't ignore the electric guitars, remember we are acoustic and acoustic is sound and well here we are. Just saying Fender Starcaster gets the juices going, and candy apple red well, what more do you want except for the screaming fans.

This is a great package on Amazon, you got the Strat with great sound, a cool little Squier SP-1- amp and all the accessories. The cable, tuner, gig bag, stand, strap, picks and a instructional DVD to get every player going. Did we say candy apple red. This is a great beginner package, perfect for the teen student getting into playing the guitar.

Lots of great reviews on Amazon with comments like, "As a beginning guitarist, I think the product is excellent. The little amp seems to have a lot of volume and good tone, and the guitar is very well made from what I can tell. It sounds good, feels good, and plays very well." and "One final note, the guitar not only sounds great, it looks beautiful as well. The candy-apple red color is rich and deep (slightly darker than the picture), and the finish has no flaws at all."

Check out all the details at Amazon on this cool electric guitar

Yamaha C40 Classical Guitar Package from Amazon

The Yamaha C40 is a guitar I can personally vouch for. This is my guitar and I have loved it. I bought a used C40 from my guitar teacher for $50. I always felt the guitar maker just had a great day the day he made mine. This is an acoustic classical guitar with nylon strings with a beautiful sound. Don't let the under $150 price fool you, this guitar has been a friend to me.

Here is what Amazon says about it. Yamaha guitar packages are an affordable, all in one solution to guitarists seeking a high quality instrument with multiple accessories. The C40 package includes a full sized Yamaha C40 nylon string classical guitar, a guitar case and a CD with examples for the student to listen to and play along with. The C40 guitar features beautiful Indonesian Mahogany back and sides, a Spruce top, Javanese Rosewood fretboard and bridge, and chrome tuners.

What is great about the nylon string guitars is that you can play them for hours, when everyone else's fingers are hurting you can just keep going. Also if you play at home around a family you can play these very quietly, they are just beautiful classical guitars at a great entry level price.

Check them out on Amazon, tell them Bruce sent you.

Takamine S35 Jasmine Acoustic Guitar (Natural)

Right at the top of the list for an entry level guitar, the Takamine S35 Jasmine Acoustic Guitar. A good deal at the $200 list price but for this year it is great at $74 at last we checked.

As Amazon says the best deal you'll find in a great acoustic guitar, the Jasmine S35 features a Spruce top and Mahogany back & sides with a satin finish. Contemporary styling and time-tested construction methods produce an instrument that is built to last and, most importantly, sounds powerful and clean on all strings, from treble to bass. Chrome covered tuning machines and a rosewood fretboard are also featured.

Good base, nice treble, just a great way to start. This guitar has over 60 reviews with comments like, "very good acoustic smooth sound," "a good beginner's guitar," "smooth, solid, rich wood, this guitar is top notch." A great place to begin learning the guitar.

Check it out at Amazon, click on the affiliate link below.

Movable Soloing Scale for Folk or Country Music, Any Key

This chart shows a Major Movable Soloing Scale for Folk or Country Music for any key. Great for playing soloing notes over a song while someone else is playing or you can use it to add accent notes to your own playing.

This pattern is used for playing guitar solos for folk and country songs. It is a movable pattern because all of the strings are closed and it can be used for any key. Starting on the 6th string locate the note that matches the key you are playing in. You can now play this pattern or parts of it over any of the chords of the key and it should sound pretty good, i.e. key of C starts on the C note at the 8th fret on the 6th string, key of A would start at the 5th fret. For the key of G some of the notes use the guitar nut or are open strings.

I find that the higher notes on strings 1 and 2 stand out better because of the pitch but all of them work.

Lots of good info in the Dummies books, I start my own Guitar learning with Guitar for Dummies, you can pick up a copy at Amazon, (affiliate link)

PDF of Guitar Barre Chords on the 6th String

Above is our guitar Barre Chord chart for root notes on the 6th string. The 6th string Barre Chords may be a more common but the advantage of knowing both 5th and 6th is that you don't have to move your hand around as much, the chords for each key are all right there.

Let say you are playing the blues in A. You can put on a Barre Chord at the 5th fret of the E string. The IV chord or the D chord is just below it on the 5th string , just move down one string to the D string 5th fret and you are in a D chord. The fingering is a little different, check out the 5th String Chart. Slide the hand up the fret board 2 frets to the E note and you have the 5th or V chord or E chord. The blues, I, IV, V or A, D and E, make your 7ths and you have the blues.

If you are a beginner I would check out this book from Amazon, it got a lot of great reviews. Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, Book 1 (Book and DVD) (Amazon affiliate link)

Free PDF Mandolin Movable Arpeggio Scale

What is an arpeggio, from Wikipedia "an arpeggio is a broken chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously" like if you are strumming. " An arpeggio in the key of C major going up two octaves would be the notes (C, E, G, C, E, G, C)."

Our latest chart is a Movable Mandolin Arpeggio Scale. Using the fingering above you can create an arpeggio scale for any key. This is done by finding the root note of the key you are in and then using the finger positions above to create your scale. This makes it very easy to produce notes for a solo or accents to the song you are playing.

You can see all of our chord and music charts at www.AcousticMusicTV.com, also want to dig in a little deeper with arpeggios, check this book from Amazon, Mel Bay presents Fluid Soloing - Book 1 Arpeggios for Lead Rock Guitar, (affiliate link)

Download Free Mandolin Chord Chart

Above is our new Acoustic Music TV pdf Mandolin Chord Chart. A nice simple to read chord chart with the 7 major mandolin chords illustrated. Shows the basic Major, Minor and the 7th fingerings for each chord. Perfect for the beginning Mandolin student. Take it with you everywhere. Also check out the guitar chord charts and sheet music templates. Just sign up on the upper right.

You can see samples of all our Chord Charts at www.AcousticMusicTV.com

Pick up a copy today of Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo at Amazon.com