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Read This Before You Begin
Sheet Music Assignment Tracker: PDF Practice Logs: PDF
Sound Files: Download the sound files and listen to them a zillion times prior to tackling each song. The sound files are to your right. If you’re on your phone, they’re down below.
Standard Notation: In tablature we trust, but we like standard notation too. If you want copies without tablature, we can make that happen. It’s the modern world and we own software.
What’s TuffAxe? It’s the chord-melody arrangement. Some people call it “fingerstyle.” It’s tough to play, and if you can do it, you’re “tuff” … that’s good.
Multiple Voicing: Each piece of sheet music is designed to be played in at least four different ways. Level 5 and 6 material is meant for ensemble work and usually has more voicings.
Our Books: We have pre-printed books waiting for you at the office. They have plenty of instruction not available online. Save your sanity and your printer and come buy them.
Copyright: Don’t sell anything you find on this page or we’ll hunt you down and start dating your sister. If there is no PDF, email me to acquire a copy after a short discussion about your plans.
Get a Teacher Ya Lunatic: Sheet music won’t make you a musician. You need tools. Get a qualified instructor and stop wasting time gutting it out by yourself with internet downloads.
Book 1: One Chord Songs
Yup, we know, these songs aren’t cool enough for you. Do ’em anyway. They’re way more important than you might imagine when getting started. They are the foundation for everything else in the program.
- Before You Begin: Holding, Tuning & Maintenance PDF
- Progress Check Sheet PDF
- Practice Log PDF
- Brother John PDF ~ Video ~ Lesson ~ Lesson
- Frère Jacques PDF ~ Lesson
- Farmer in the Dell PDF
- Row Row Row Your Boat PDF ~ Lesson
- Three Blind Mice PDF
Video Playlist for Level 1
Book 2: Two-ish Chord Songs
Most of these songs are on the annoying side, but some are wonderful and all are helpful to finish out your toolbox necessary to effectively play sophisticated music for the rest of your life. Melody, chords, TuffAxe, arpeggios… oh my. And yeah, the printed edition of Book 2 has tons of additional stuff you’ll want. Come buy the complete book.
- Progress Check Sheet PDF
- Practice Log PDF
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket PDF ~ Lesson
- Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’ PDF
- Alouette PDF
- Buffalo Gals PDF
- Carnival of Venice PDF
- Clementine PDF
- Day-O: The Banana Boat Song PDF
- Down in the Valley PDF
- Drunken Sailor PDF
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody PDF
- Hokey Pokey PDF
- Hush Little Baby PDF
- Itsy Bitsy Spider PDF
- La Cucaracha PDF
- London Bridge is Falling Down PDF
- Mary Had a Little Lamb PDF
- Pay Me My Money Down PDF
- Simple Gifts PDF
- Skip to My Loo PDF
- The More We Get Together PDF
- This Old Man PDF ~ Lesson
- Tom Dooley PDF
- Wheels on the Bus PDF
Book 3: Multi-Chord Public Domain Songs
If you can play all the parts of all these songs, you are ready for a life in guitar. Get the complete Book 3 to be cool and delightfully informed.
- Progress Check Sheet PDF
- Practice Log PDF
- Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman PDF ~ Lesson
- All Through the Night PDF
- Aloha ‘Oe PDF
- Amazing Grace PDF
- America the Beautiful PDF
- Andante in G by Carulli PDF
- Ash Grove PDF Coming Soon
- Beautiful Dreamer PDF
- Brahm’s Lullabye PDF
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon PDF
- Colorado Trail PDF
- Daisy Bell PDF
- Danny Boy PDF
- Down by the Riverside PDF
- Estudio in E Minor by Tàrrega PDF
- For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow PDF
- Für Elise PDF
- Happy Birthday PDF
- Heidenröslein PDF
- Home on the Range PDF
- House of the Rising Sun PDF
- I’ll See You in My Dreams PDF
- Internationalé PDF
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair PDF
- Kumbaya PDF
- Las Mañanitas PDF
- Last Rose of Summer PDF
- Minstrel Boy PDF
- Ode to Joy PDF Coming Soon
- On Top of Spaghetti PDF Coming Soon
- Parting Glass PDF Coming Soon
- Santa Lucia PDF
- Scarborough Fair PDF
- Streets of Laredo PDF
- This Little Light of Mine PDF
- Trumpet Voluntary PDF
- Waltzing Matilda PDF
- Water is Wide PDF
- When the Saints Go Marching In PDF
- Wildwood Flower PDF
- You are My Sunshine PDF
Book 4: Iconic Songs Worth Mastering
We’re developing eight books of modern songs you’ll likely spend significant time developing into something worth presenting to an audience … like your cat. Most are still under copyright protections to the original composer so we don’t post PDFs here. Should you like to tackle these songs, we’ll need to chat over email to get you started. Buying the pre-printed book will save your time, your printer, and your sanity. Stop by the shop (call first!), bring some cash (and a pretty girl), and let’s set you up for a healthy amount of musical aggravation and beauty. You’re lucky to know us. 😉
- Progress Check Sheet PDF
- Practice Log PDF
Beatles
- All My Loving
- Blackbird
- Eleanor Rigby
- Here Comes the Sun
- Hey Jude
- Imagine
- I’ve Just Seen a Face
- I Want to Hold Your Hand
- Let It Be
- Michelle
- Norwegian Wood
- Obladi Oblada
- Octopus’s Garden
- Penny Lane
- Something
- Strawberry Fields
- When I’m 64
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Yellow Submarine
- Yesterday
Spanish Influenced
Jazz-ish for Fingerstyle Guitar
- All of Me
- As Time Goes By
- Beyond the Sea
- Blue Moon
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Girl from Ipanema
- Harlem Nocturne
- La Vie en Rose
- Mack the Knife
- Misty
- Moon Glow
- Moon River
- My Funny Valentine
- Nature Boy
- Satin Doll
- Smile
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Take the A-Train
- What a Wonderful World
Cowboy Songs
- Ashokan Farewell
- Ghost Riders in the Sky
- This Land is Your Land
Tin Pan Alley
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
Broadway
- Edelweiss
- Summertime
- Try to Remember
Movies & TV
- Godfather Theme
- Hallelujah
- Over the Rainbow
- Remember Me
- Singing in the Rain
Popular (at some point)
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Both Sides Now
- Candle in the Wind
- Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
- Hotel California
- Love Me Tender
- Morning Has Broken
- Red Red Wine
- Sound of Silence
- YMCA
We anticipate having approximately one million songs in Level 4 in multiple books. Help us decide what is worth memorizing.
Book 5 & 6: Multipart Arrangements
If there is no PDF, it’s modern song likely still under copyright protections to the original composer, so we can chat on email about how you can have a copy. Arrangements usually have 7 parts: Lyrics, Chords, Guitar Melodies, Arpeggios, Basslines, Percussion, and TuffAxe (fingerstyle chord-melody). In addition to the conductor’s score and sound file, individual parts have their own sheets and sound files available too.
- Annie’s Song
- Bad Romance Poker Face Gaga Medley – Lyons
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik with Frankfurters PDF
- La Paloma PDF
- Lean on Me – Lyons
- Lara’s Theme
- Lyon’s Arpeggios – Lyons
- Melville Castle PDF
- Menuett Suite in G major & minor (but not really) PDF
- Of A’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw PDF
- Tears in Heaven
- Unchained Melody – Lyons
So much more is on the way … but the secretary who puts these together in pretty little packages with bows is “a bit of a drinker” if ya know what I mean.
Book 7: Classical Guitar
- Classical Music Program is being posted HERE. You’ll need a password (and patience).
Book 8: Christmas and Hanukkah
All these songs along with instruction not available online can be acquired in a pre-printed book. Come pick one up. If there is no PDF, it’s probably a modern song with copyright concerns, so we can chat about how you can have a copy over email.
Second Edition 2020
- Auld Lang Syne PDF
- Christmas Is (members)
- El Noi de la Mare PDF
- First Noel PDF
- Greensleeves PDF
- Imagine (members)
- Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring PDF
- Silent Night PDF
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas PDF
- Wonderful World (members)
- White Christmas (members)
- Winter Wonderland (members)
Stuff from the Previous Edition
- Adeste Fideles (2017-11-22) PDF
- Angels We Have Heard on High (2017-11-23) PDF
- Away in a Manger (2017-11-04) PDF
- Bring a Torch (2017-11-16) PDF
- Carol of the Bells
- Dreidel Song (2017-11-06) PDF
- Entre le Boeuf et l’Ane Gris (2017-11-23) PDF
- Happy Xmas – War is Over (2017-11-24)
- Jingle Bells (2017-12-01) PDF
- Joy to the World (2017-11-24) PDF
- Ner Li: I Have a Candle (2017-11-12) PDF
- O Come O Come Emmanuel (2017-11-24) PDF
- O Tannenbaum (2017-11-26) PDF
- Silver Bells (2017-11-22)
- Twelve Days of Christmas (2016-10-17) PDF
- Up on the House Top (2017-11-24) PDF
- We Three Kings (2017-11-24) PDF
Other Holiday Tunes
- Peter Cottontail (members)
Book 9: Theory and Comp
Book 10: Teacher’s Guide and Certification
