New CD Now Available on iTunes & Amazon Downloads Throttle Twister on iTunes! Throttle Twister on Amazon Downloads! For a taste of the CD, click here to download "Healer", the 5th track. The entire CD is transcribed in both tablature and traditional notation for you here in an 8.25" by 11" book. Click to buy it at amazon. Guitar Speak I'm always happy to answer questions about my books and CDs, about practicing, and about guitar playing in general. When someone writes me, the discussion ends up on my blog, Barrett's Guitar Q&A (with the names changed to protect the innocent!). Guitar Reading Workbook The idea for the Guitar Reading Workbook (click to buy it) came from Reading classes I teach to beginning GIT students. I gave them extra diagram exercises sort of like those in the Fretboard Workbook. They said it helped them learn and made the subject more fun, so I expanded the idea into a complete reading method book. (Not to be confused with the Guitar FRETBOARD Workbook, which may be what you're after.) After some concise explanation of a topic, you get a written exercise that solidifies the concept. Early ones might take about 5 minutes to complete. Later ones can take up to half an hour. The exercises differ from chapter to chapter. Sometimes you just have to write the names of some notes or chords that you see on the staff. In others, you write which beat number a rhythm falls on. Later, you'll read some tab and translate it into regular notation, or look at some notes and identify the chord they make, and so on. When you've finished the written part, you pick up the guitar, turn on the metronome, and play the notation. Throughout the book I try to make everything as easy and clear as possible, so you don't ever have to learn two new things at once. But if you get this book, you should spend at least 6 months to a year with it. Go slowly! It starts out basic but takes you into some reasonably advanced territory. This new book is available at amazon.com, or you can order it from any regular bookstore (if they don't already have it).