Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter: Guitar Accompaniment for Composition is the ultimate guide to learning the guitar from a songwriting perspective. Whether you write, sing, or play a different instrument, Beginning Guitar for the Songwriterwill provide detailed instruction on essential topics on guitar harmony, technique, and rhythm, with a focus on being able to create unique chord progressions and accompaniment patterns. Authored by Ian Robbins, this text provides a fresh and humorous approach to learning guitar by focusing on an ideal approach to composing Pop, Folk, Rock, and Country guitar parts, without being weighted down with staff notation pitch reading. Instead, this book focuses on tablature and rhythmic notation so as to expedite the process in which one can begin to compose guitar parts for their own original music.
Artistic photography, color-coded tables, chord diagrams, practice exercises, assignments and even emojis help guide the reader to insure comprehensive understanding of the presented material.
Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter includes:
- Information on the advantages and disadvantages of different acoustic and electric guitars
- A thorough guide to guitar and musical terminology
- Over 20 different open chord shapes
- Barre and Power chords
- Pick-style and fingerstyle accompaniment patterns
- Instructions on reading tablature and rhythmic notation
- Photographic dillustrations of hand and finger placement
- Numerous practice progressions
- Compositional tips and tricks
About the author
Ian Robbins graduated from USC with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Studio/Jazz performance. He has had airplay on KJAZ 88.1FM and other national jazz stations as a member of the Bruce Escovitz Jazz Orchestra (BEJO). He recorded on BEJO’s 2008 Album Invitation. Invitation spent several weeks in the top half of the Billboard Jazz charts. Ian recently recorded Guitar, Ukulele and Mandolin tracks for a song used for a promotional video for the NBC TV Show This Is Us. Lately Ian has performed with Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.- The winner of NBC’s America’s Got Talent Season 6. Ian has previously performed/recorded with Barry Manilow, Bonnie Raitt, Wynton Marsalis, Peter Erskine, Toni Tennille, Louis Bellson, Ndugu Chancellor, Stu Hamm, Kurt Elling, Ernie Watts, Marilyn Mc Coo, Alan Chang, Scott Henderson, and many others. Ian has also done session work for Grammy winning producer Bobby Watson and for Nickelodeon Studios. Recently Ian recorded for the JGAH project in Korea (arranged by Dr. Rachel Yoon), a Korean traditional music group that has performed live over 200 times along to Ian’s prerecorded fusion guitar tracks.
Ian is currently on the faculty at Musician’s Institute. As part of the Bachelor Degree Program he teaches Guitar Technique, Guitar Reading, Songwriting, Performance Classes in Punk, Blues Rock and Fusion (the latter with former co/teacher Russell Ferrante), Ear Training, Private Lessons and Open Counseling. He also teaches the KPOP, Zawinul and Coffee House International LPWs.
Ian Robbins is also the lead guitarist/singer/songwriter of original punk rock band Get Out™. Get Out™ has released 6 albums, which have sold on 6 continents and performed hundreds of shows. Get Out™’s You Tube channel currently has over 40, 000 views (none of which were purchased). They have been endorsed by energy drink company Nitro 2 Go and have gotten airplay on various local stations. The band has performed on LA18 television and has shared the stage with such national acts as Voodoo Glow Skulls, Streetlight Manifesto, MXPX, and Suburban Legends. In January 2015, Get Out™ released Epilogue with the help of drummer Jeff Bowders (Paul Gilbert, Shakira). Epilogue is a 19 minute progressive punk rock epic currently being sold on i Tunes and other online distributors. Get Out™ will release their 7th album We Were Here First this year.
Ian is a member of Hip Hop/Electronica group Dancing Mischief, which has received airplay on KCRW FM.
Ian also plays guitar for Korean Grammy winning artist Ann One. Ann One has performed at KCON 2018, the Korean Society of Maryland’s annual festival, on LA18’s Halo Halo, and was featured on the pilot episode of the Asian American web series Sessions at Studio 5A.
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