Brian Streckfus

Pages: 144 – A substantial discount - 77.7% off! (if purchased separately) Music Theory for GuitaristsA Guitar-Specific System for Understanding Rhythm, Scales, Chords, and Harmony Music Theory for Guitarists is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly theory packet designed specifically for the guitar — not generic music theory adapted from piano, but theory presented the way guitarists actually see, play, and understand music. This 129-page packet is ideal for students, self-taught players, private

Pages: 108 - A substantial bundle deal - 88% cheaper than individual purchases Songs: 59 A collection of famous public domain songs mixed with a few of my original guitar studies. An excellent resource to have for a beginner guitarist with beginner friendly notation. It does an excellent job at slowly getting more difficult. This anthology doesn't avoid traditional sheet music notation, but instead has a highly scaffolded approach, allowing for the ability to learn sheet music while removing ted

All 24 keys written out in an extremely visual way. A unique PDF. These resources are on the internet on separate websites, but all combined on one page is rare. It really helps make scary and abstract concepts such as music theory and sight-reading less intimidating. Includes:Picture of a guitar neck with letter names written on it, making the PDF require no prerequisite skills.The letter names are color coded. Blue = tonic, Yellow = Predominant, Red = Dominant. It essentially represents cons

Pages: 15 All 12 keys of harmonic minor designed especially for guitar. Includes scale names, guitar tablature and letter names inside of note heads. This allows someone to play and learn this with little to no prerequisite skills (traditional sheet music is optional).

Pages: 53 (A fantastic deal! Months of guitar lesson plans!) Not random chords, but chords that belong with other and feel like a song, improving practicality and enjoyability. Excellent resource for teaching guitar since it feels like real songs teaching song-writing, music theory and rhythm/lead guitar concepts. Concepts Taught Include:1. What 7 chords happen naturally in a given key? 2. Modes. 3. Song structure like intro, verse, chorus, outro. 4. Sensible key changes, including secondary do

Includes: Vocals - Treble Clef Guitar - Chord diagram | Treble Clef | Tablature Bass - Bass Clef | Bass Tablature Drums - Rhythm Clef Also included is a miniature scale chart for guitar, perfect for writing out a scale to remember for improvisation. I've found that nothing gets a student more excited about music than writing their own song, or by making music theory more practical. I also sell a similar version like this for just guitar and just bass, whereas this is for a 4-piece band. This is

Study modes on guitar in the most fun way possible. Instead of reading about music theory in a book, this allows someone to play and listen to music theory. This has a tremendous amount of replay value since memorizing mode names takes some time. Features mode names, letters in note heads, and special notes in the mode in purple.

This is a study/etude that allows someone to learn and memorize modes through practical playing, instead of simply reading about them in a boring and abstract book. Features tab with rhythm, naming mode names, and letter names inside of note heads. Seeing modes as +1 or -1 what the key signature should be, is a really elegant way of understanding the modes that I don't hear anyone talking about. That system really shines well when the original key signature has a lot of #'s or b's to begin with

Pages: 2 Key: D Major (Drop D Tuning) This is a study/etude that allows someone to learn and memorize modes through playing, instead of simply reading about them in a book. Features tab with rhythm, naming mode names, and letter names inside of note heads. Utilizes drop D tuning so that you can constantly be comparing what the mode sounds like to a bass note. Seeing modes as +1 or -1 what the key signature should be, is a really elegant way of understanding the modes that I don't hear anyone tal

A guitar study that teaches a composition technique for changing keys called secondary dominance. It means to use the perfect chord that points strongly to another chord. Instead of simply reading about this, I think it's an interesting idea to play it. Features:1. Roman numeral analysis over secondary dominance chords 2. Letter names inside of noteheads (that's why there is strange time signature). The preview doesn't do this justice, but they are there. 3. Chord diagrams

18 question test about the circle of fifths in music. If you want to turn music into a more traditional worksheet learning style, where grading and holding the student accountable for completing a worksheet, then this is for you. I know that one of the greatest challenges is holding students accountable for practicing. Worksheets like this hold students accountable because they either did the worksheet or they didn't, instead of vague assignments, "Get better at the song this week," which most p

Pages: 15 Guitar Chord Exercises - Iterating Chords Do you wish you could sight-read chords such as Bm7 and Ab7 in real time and know them by heart? If so, then these exercises are for you. lIterating over the same chord type for memorization reasons. I deeply wanted to be a good rhythm guitarist, so I studied how to play these in as many ways as I could. They look unassuming and simple but there are many ways to work on it. Just trying to explain that there is a decade worth of work here: 1. Ch

Elegantly explains modes in a beginner friendly way. Just like many musicians should have the circle of fifths handy for their entire career, this sheet is similarly important for reference. Tips:1. Special notes are marked in a magenta color, bold and asterisk* 2. Thinking about modes as 1 accidental away from what it was "supposed to be" when compared to a regular major or minor scale is a very simple way to know how modes work in every key. 3. Solfedge added to aid in singing. Also it was a

12 Pages of not just random guitar chords, but chords that belong with each other. Includes major, minor, harmonic minor and modes. A capo could be easily used to transfer these to all keys, essentially explaining EVERY song that doesn't change key. Roman numeral analysis (A.K.A. Nashville numbers) designed specifically for guitar is a rare. Ask the student to create their own song, which always sparks enthusiasm from the student. There is plenty of free guitar chords on the internet, though i

Pages: 44 (130+ chord diagrams) - Includes print friendly, mostly white versions, while also including beautiful versions for online display. Learning chords one at a time (perhaps in songs) could lead to a slow, confusing, inconsistent, overly redundant memorization of chords. This pdf is designed to streamline the process by making movable shapes that are easy to change to any key. This is a great pdf for learning just about every chord in every position on guitar. As with many of my publicati

Covers 5 chord types for guitar in a very pedagogical sound way instead of randomly like most of the internet. This PDF is designed to bridge the gap between practical guitar chords and understanding theory. Most guitarists dislike theory because the theory book wasn't written for their instrument, and because there are no chord diagrams resulting in slow learning. It does an excellent job at slowly making the chords larger to slowly increase in difficulty, culminating in large barre chords. I

Instead of reading about modes in a book (and boring and confusing students to extreme levels), this is designed so that music theory concepts can be played and listened to.

Designed to teach Italian dynamics markings (volume).

Aids in understanding different types of endings in music for guitar. Great for understanding how to control the audiences expectations on when to applaud and not to applaud. Save perfect endings for the very last ending as the audience will instinctively know it is over (period in sentence writing). Save deceptive or imperfect endings for when you want to propel the music forward into a new section (comma in sentence writing).

The idea is to have songs you already know well to allow you to hear intervals in music. Jaws theme should remind you of a minor 2nd. "Happy Birthday" song should remind you of a major 2nd and so on. m2: Jaws Theme M2: Happy Birthday m3: Sad (Greensleeves) M3: Happy (Saints Go Marching In) P4: Here Comes the Bride D5: Evil (Sirens) P5: Star Wars Theme m6: Ice Cream Truck Song M6: Jingle Bells (Dashing Through the Snow) m7: No Song but Jazzy sounding M7: Somewhere Over the Rainbow P8: Somewhere O