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 The Greg Howard Songbook 
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Hi everyone,

It looks like I'll have these just in time to bring some to Pittsburgh this weekend, and SE should have them by Oct. 7th.

The Greg Howard Songbook
116 pages
14 original songs arranged for solo performance in StaffTab
with exercises to help you learn them
and lead sheets in a standard music font so you can play them with other musicians if you want

Del Mar
Requiem for Persephone
Adrift (with transcribed solo)
Morning Song (with transcribed solo)
Softly She Walks (transcribed completely from the CD)
Blue Ridge (with transcribed solo)
Where Are You Tonight?
Quince Street
Sangre de Cristo
El Chicle
Goya’s Dream
Cross Country
Blues for Ayman
Blues for the Status Quo

There is material for players of all skill levels to work on.

The Book is printed at 9"x12" on high-quality paper with a wire binding to keep it open on a music stand.

A new practice aid, called Keymaps, are shown in actual fretboard size so you can see and practice motions within a key and transitions form one position to another "on the page" and also see them clearly on the instrument.

Here's a low-res sample:

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I'll post ordering info when I have them in hand. Price will be $37 + shipping.

a CD of recorded versions, with some new recordings will follow in about 6-8 weeks or so.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the song selection poll thread and for all the enthusiasm for the project. I hope it lives up to your expectations and will give you years of fun and engaging practice.

And a big thanks to Glenn Poorman for all the time and energy he put into editing this!

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Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:34 pm
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Well done Greg. Just in time for Christmas. I'm looking forward to exploring some of these nuggets I've been listening to for years.

-Walter

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Man! It was a real privilege to be able to work on this. Some of these tunes are the tunes that motivated me to put in the time to learn this instrument way back when.

For the rest of you ... you will will love this book. Really nice tunes coupled with very useful exercises. It will be the first of its kind and will hopefully inspire some other people to start charting some of there stuff.

A Stick repertoire. Who'd of thunk it.

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Oh yeah!

Been looking forward to this!

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Hope you can bring a supply to FredTap as well 8-)


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Can't wait to pick it up at FredTap!


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Hi Everyone,

I just shopped the first batch of these off to SE. They should have them by Tuesday.

As soon as I have the shipping rates worked out for individual books I'll post direct ordering info here.

In the meantime, you can read all about it at:

http://www.stick.com/features/book/

Thanks to Glenn for his amazing editing job and to all you folks and the
folks at SE who have been so encouraging of this project.

On to Pittsburgh!

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One thing I forgot to mention was that the book will also work well for the Extended Alto and Alto tunings, though on the Alto tuning there will be one or two moments where you will run out of frets playing in the octave written.

For these short-scale instruments, the music is actually played at pitch, not an octave lower than written.

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Hi everyone,

I figured out the postage to send the books out, so here are the direct ordering prices from Espresso:

US: $41
Canada: $43
all other countries $50

These are probably the same as getting it from SE, so if you're thinking about getting it from them, please do. I have no preference.

check or money order in US$ payable to "Espresso" to:

Espresso
P O Box 4051
Charlottesville VA 22903-1051
USA

You can also use PayPal. Email me and I will tell you what PayPal address to use.

If you want to get anything else like a CD, let me know and I can tell you how much the total would be. I have a lot of Sticks and Stones and Code Magenta CDs sitting in a box, so you can get one of those for just $5 more if you like...

Please do not use the forum's PM to contact me about this, please email me at stickist@aol.com

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Books are going out. I've received a couple of asking about rating the songs by difficulty, so here's an approximate listing with 1 as the easiest and 5 as the hardest.

Del Mar 1
Requiem for Persephone 1
Adrift 2
Morning Song 3
Softly She walks 4 (because of the solo, the main tune is a 1)
Blue Ridge 4
Where Are You Tonight 2
Quince Street 3
Sangre de Cristo 2
El Chicle 3
Goyas Dream 3
Cross Country 3
Blues for Ayman 5
Blues for the Status Quo 3

If you are working on these and fin something easier or harder than suggested, I'd love to know.

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