Method Books

The Kristen R. Bromley Guitar Method series is based on the author’s extensive experience as a professional guitarist and noted educator.  In 20 plus years, Dr. Kristen Bromley has instructed hundreds of university students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses, along with child, adolescent, and adult learners.  In these books, Dr. Bromley dives into the various skills needed to play the guitar, while helping students learn to play music on the guitar. Most of the books include online access to hours of in-depth video lessons. See the following details for the available volumes:

Explanation and Details for Chords and Harmony Books 1 and 2

In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps beginning and intermediate level guitarists develop their ability to play chords, read chord symbols, understand chord theory, learn strumming and fingerpicking techniques for a variety of musical styles, and master musical skillsets through playing songs and exercises.  If you want to learn to play or get better at playing chords on the guitar, this is the book for you!

This book includes:

· Online access to over 35 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley specifically covering the materials in this book. 

· 30 chapters of step-by-step instruction of all the main chords and playing styles commonly used by guitarists. 

· Over 400 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.

· Theory explanations and numerous chord voicings for basic first position chords and movable forms like barre chords and power chords, plus sixth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, augmented, diminished, suspended, slash, and altered chords.       

· Multiple strumming and fingerpicking approaches for playing chords.

· Alternate tunings and playing with a capo.   

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Explanation and Details for Note Reading Books 1 and 2

In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn how to play individual notes on the guitar while reading music written in standard music notation.  The book begins as if a student has no prior knowledge of reading music notation or the location of notes on the guitar, and proceeds through playing notated music in any key in the open or first position on the guitar.  If you want to learn how to or get better at reading notes with the guitar, this is the book for you!   

This book includes:

· Online access to nearly 14 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book. 

· 25 chapters of step-by-step instruction that cover how to read notes on the guitar.

· Over 360 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.

· Theory explanations of notes, keys, chromatic pitches, and major and minor scales.       

· Right- and left-hand technique development, including alternate picking approaches.

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Explanation and Details for Note Reading Book 3

The Kristen R. Bromley Guitar Method series is based on the author’s extensive experience as a professional guitarist and noted educator.  In 20 plus years, Dr. Kristen Bromley has instructed hundreds of university students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses, along with child, adolescent, and adult learners.  In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn the pitches of the entire fretboard and how to read notes in any key along the neck.  The book builds on Note Reading Books 1 and 2, which takes students through playing notated music in the open or first position on the guitar.  If you want to master the neck and learn how to (or get better at) reading notes along the entire fretboard, this is the book for you!      

This book includes:

· Online access to nearly 20 hours of in-depth video lessons with Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book. 

· 25 chapters of step-by-step instruction that cover how to read notes along the entire fretboard of the guitar.

· Over 300 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through online video lessons.

· Theory explanations of notes, keys, chromatic pitches, and major and minor scales.       

· Right- and left-hand technique development.

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Explanation and Details for the Tablature Book

In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn how to play music on the guitar through reading tablature, a type of written notation specifically for the guitar.  The book begins as if a student has no prior knowledge of reading tablature or playing the guitar and proceeds through playing challenging pieces.  If you want to learn how to or get better at reading tablature with the guitar, this is the book for you!   

This book includes:

· Online access to nearly 16 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book. 

· A progressive study of reading tablature and developing guitar technique, especially for playing melodic lines.

· 200 songs and exercises that gradually progress from easy to very challenging, and which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.

· Explanations of tablature, musical notation devices, rhythm, measures, time signatures, and so on.       

· Right- and left-hand technique development.

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New, 2nd edition, Coming Soon!!!

Explanation and Details for the Theory and Technique Book

The 2nd edition of the Theory and Technique Book includes basic to advanced level concepts and contains both an extensive overview and in-depth look at the theoretical side of music and how that relates to playing the guitar, both in unlocking the mysteries of the guitar fretboard and in understanding the music that is played by the guitar. The book also dives into the technical (or technique) aspects of playing the guitar.

This Book Includes :

  • General music principles, standard and tablature notation, and how pitches are situated along the fretboard.
  • A scale system that unlocks the fretboard and provides a means for understanding and playing hundreds of scale modes.
  • Articulation, scale, and coordination exercises.
  • Approaches for improvising and composing melodies.
  • Harmonization principles, which include explanations on creating and understanding chord progressions and how they are related to melodies.
  • A deep exploration of chords and chord arpeggios and approaches for creating arpeggios and chord voicings on the guitar.
  • Picking and strumming technique development, and numerous strumming patterns for playing the guitar.
  • Fingerpicking technique development, and numerous fingerpicking patterns for playing chord arpeggios and exercises for developing single-line playing.
  • Suggestions for ear training.
  • Alternate Tuning
  • And so on!