Open D is a very common open tuning used to play slide blues guitar. You can hear it on recordings by players like Charley Patton, Blind Willie Johnson and Ry Cooder. This book presents all the building blocks a guitarist need to get started playing in this tuning; scales, chords, turnarounds and most important complete transcriptions of eight blues songs. The songs are composed to provide the player with a wide variety of ways to play the blues in open D. They are also a lot of fun! The book is a 64 page PDF in both standard notation and tablature. You can see videos of all the songs in the book here. Get the book from my store here.
Five Bass Solos
(2026)
As a bass player your are often relegated to the role of accompanist. You are part of a rhythm section being the glue between the percussion instruments and the chord and melody instruments. That’s not a bad place to be, but sometimes it can be liberating to break free from the chains of the ensemble and let the bass guitar get the spotlight as a solo instrument. That's what this book is for. All of the music in this book can be played on a 4 string bass guitar. Of course an instrument with a bigger range also works. The book is in PDF format with both standard notation and tablature. You can see videos of all the songs in the book here. Get the book from my store here.
Learn how to play Slide Blues Guitar in Open G
(2025)
Open G is the most common open tuning used to play slide blues guitar. It was used by players like Son House, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. This book presents all the building blocks a guitarist need to get started playing in this tuning; scales, chords, turnarounds and most important complete transcriptions of eight blues songs. The songs are composed to provide the player with a wide variety of ways to play the blues in open G. They are also a lot of fun! The book is a 51 page PDF in both standard notation and tablature. You can see videos of all the songs in the book here. Get the book from my store here.
Five Swedish Folk Tunes for Solo Guitar
(2025)
This collection of Swedish folk tunes focuses on the the more melancholic and minor key based side of the Scandinavian music tradition. Death is a reoccuring theme... The guitar arrangements can be described as easy or intermediate. To make the book accessible for players that may not be comfortable with standard notation there is also tablature. All the tunes have indications for left hand fingerings, but feel free to try other fingerings that may suite your hands better. Since there is tablature indications refering to which string is to be used have been left out. Get the book here.
100 Alternate Picking Exercises for Guitar
(2024)
Alternate picking is a fundamental skill for anyone playing guitar with a pick. This book is meant to show the guitarist how to navigate through the strings with precision and speed. All of the exercises are built around a downstroke pick escape, meaning they switch to another string only after a downstroke. This system is used by players like Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin. Symbols indicating whether a note is to be played with a downstroke or upstroke are included in every exercise. Tonally all of the exercises are composed in some variant of A minor, but since there are no open strings in them they are easy to transpose to any key. The book is a 41 page PDF in standard notation and tablature. Get the book here.
Birds - 7 Miniatures for Guitar Trio (2022)
These seven trio pieces are short, just eight bars each, and easy to play. All the miniatures are composed using only natural notes, there are no sharps or flats. Each piece is based on one of the seven modes of the major scale so all of them have its own tonal personality. Rhythmically they are very simple with no rests, and they are all played in the first position of the fretboard. All in all these miniatures are meant to be a good place for young students or other beginners to start playing together. Get the book here.
Six Easy Etudes for Classical Guitar (2022)
This collection of etudes are written specifically for guitarists who want to take their first steps in to the world of classical guitar. They are composed to give both the right and the left hand a good starting point that will make taking on easy classical repertoire more approachable. The book has both standard notation and tablature. All the etudes are played in the first position of the fingerboard and have detailed fingerings for both hands.Get the book here.
10 Classical Duets for Bass Guitar (2018)
10 Classical Duets for Bass Guitar is a collection of music from the classical genre arranged for two bass guitars. The music spans from baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach to present day minimalist Arvo Pärt. The emphasis is on 20th century music like Bartók and Stravinsky. The arrangements are written so that they can be played on 24 fret 4-string bass guitars. All the music is in standard notation in a 19 page PDF. You can here recordings of all the duets in this video. Get the book here.
10 Solo Pieces for Bass Guitar
(2017)
10 Solo Pieces for Bass Guitar is a collection of original music written specifically for the bass guitar as a solo instrument. The difficulty of the music ranges from easy to advanced. You can play all the pieces on a 4-string bass. Of course an instrument with an even wider range works fine too. The book is a 22 page PDF in standard notation and tablature. You can see all the pieces played in this video. Get the book here.
Bartók for Two Guitars
(2016)
Bartók for Two Guitars is a collection of 25 Béla Bartók pieces arranged for a guitar duo. Since Bartók never composed for the guitar this music has been carefully transcribed to make it fit this particular instrument. The pieces in the book has been arranged in order to be progressively more challenging. The purpose of the book is to broaden the repertoire available to students and teachers of the classical guitar. These pieces offers a taste of the often absent 20th century music without being hard to either perform or listen to. The book is a 34 page PDF. The music is written in standard notation.
