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Most of what feels like hard work at the guitar isn’t work at all — it’s tension the music never asked for. Your fretting fingers were never meant to supply the force: your arm already outweighs what any note needs, and learning to let that weight through is the difference between an arm that finishes an hour tired and one that finishes the way it started.

Read it instantly inside My Practice Canvas — nothing to ship, nothing to wait for.

Content highlights

• 23 chapters, over 70,000 words, 20 diagrams and 30 photographs
• Learning by feel — building the inner map of your hands with your eyes closed
• The least force a note needs, and where the rest of it comes from
• Balance: the arm, the throttle, and the aim
• One model for both hands — extend, close, release, return
• The return, the untaught half of every note
• Speed is grouping, not fast fingers
• Tone, expression, and reading for where the effort really lives
• Fear, energy, and the player’s mind
• The Learning Game — the practice system that makes what you find dependable
• Questions — how to decide what to work on at all, with a hundred for the practice room
• Performance, repertoire, belief, purpose, and the checklist for your first sixty seconds
• A register of everything the method has retired in thirty years, by name and with the reason
• Lifetime updates — every future update included, free

Concert works recorded in pristine detail, highlighting the repertoire I perform most often on stage. Expect balanced tone, breathing room between movements, and liner notes inside the email receipt.

Physical discs ship free anywhere in the mainland US. Digital files include download links plus liner notes.

Bossa nova, samba, and choro arrangements tracked with warm microphones and subtle percussion textures. Great for relaxed listening or studying Brazilian comping ideas.

Free US shipping, or receive a download link via email.

American and modern repertoire with cinematic dynamics. Expect energetic articulations, harmonics, and arrangements suited for headphones.

Ships free in the US or arrives as a download set.

Romantic melodies and movie themes arranged for solo guitar. Perfect for weddings, background playlists, or inspiration.

Every physical CD ships free; digital bundles arrive via email.

Get every CD (Classical, Brazilian, Contemporary, and Love Songs) in one shipment or digital drop. Ideal for collectors or gifting.

One click, every project. Physical bundle ships free with tracking.

Brasileirinho

Send $14 and you’ll receive my solo guitar arrangement of Waldir Azevedo’s choro classic — full sheet music (no tab), directly from me.

Please allow up to 24 hours for the reply email.

Checkout with PayPal — $14

Include any questions in your PayPal message.

Fantasie by Weiss

Send $10 and you’ll receive the tab plus sheet music directly from me. Mention any articulation notes in your PayPal message.

Please allow up to 24 hours for the reply email.

Checkout with PayPal — $10

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All is Full of Love

Send $10 and receive the full notation (no tab) for my arrangement of Björk’s classic. Include any tuning questions in PayPal comments.

Delivery time: under 24 hours.

Checkout with PayPal — $10

Include any tuning questions in your PayPal note.

Best Easy Tabs requests

Buy me a coffee ($7) and I will send you the tab for any video whose thumbnail is labeled BEST EASY TABS on my YouTube channel. Leave the song title in your PayPal note.