Brent C Robitaille

The Ultimate Musician's Practice Planner is a practical system designed to help musicians stay focused, organized, and steadily improving throughout the year. After years of teaching, I noticed that most players were practicing hard but without a clear sense of direction. They jumped from piece to piece, exercise to exercise, and idea to idea without a structure to tie them all together. I wanted to build something that made everyday practice easier to follow and easier to measure, and something that kept key theory tools close by so you never have to search around for the basics. This planner brings everything into one place: daily practice pages, weekly and monthly reviews, clear goal-setting, a space for teacher notes, and a full theory and reference section that musicians rely on most. It is designed to be simple to use, flexible for any instrument, and strong enough to support a full year of progress.What's InsidePart 1: Foundations and SetupPart 2: The Practice System (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) This planner follows a simple, steady routine that works for any instrument or level.Part 3: Integrated Theory and Reference A complete set of the core charts musicians rely on most: Part 4: Creative and Notes Section A flexible space for ideas, sketches, and notes: You can start this planner at any time of year. I truly believe that those who stick with a consistent process always improve, which is why I created this framework. If I only realized earlier that getting better wasn't about filling my head with more stuff, but about keeping focused, I would have progressed much faster. Over time, this planner transforms scattered effort into a single, integrated approach, allowing you to stop chasing loose notes and start achieving measurable, consistent results.

Master the Blues in Open G Guitar Tuning (DGDGBD)101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Guitar Tuning is the most complete book ever written exclusively for blues in DGDGBD tuning. It is suitable for beginners and intermediate guitarists and an excellent reference for advanced guitarists. Guitarist Brent Robitaille has written over 50 instructional guitar books and is recommended by students worldwide. Brent is a well-known session guitarist who has recorded extensively and specializes in altered tunings and blues. His latest book, 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Tuning, is a complete course covering a wide range of essential blues styles, including traditional, Delta, rock, funk, and jazz blues. The 101 riffs and solos cover stylistic riffs, practical one- and two-bar riffs, blues rhythm guitar riffs, fingerstyle patterns, slide guitar, and solos, all designed to be immediately applicable to your playing, ensuring that your time and effort will be well-spent.Using a combination of slide, fingerstyle, and pick playing, you will cover all the bases needed to develop a solid blues technique in open G guitar. Refer regularly to the extensive scale charts, which show the blues, major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales, chords and arpeggio patterns, essential blues chords and progressions presented in all keys.Additional material on slide guitar playing includes accompaniment with a bottleneck slide, chords with slide and fingers, and exercises to develop your steel skills further. Best of all, you can go to Brent's website to listen to all the audio tracks and a selection of videos to enhance your learning. If you want to begin or continue exploring the world of open G, you are in the right place. Everything you need to master the blues with essential lessons in 6-string DGDGBD open guitar tuning

Unlock the unique world of the 2-String Cigar Box Guitar (CBG) with this comprehensive guide that takes you on a musical journey from beginner to advanced levels. Focused on the 2-string cigar box guitar tuned a perfect fifth apart: G (2nd string) and D (1st string), this book delves into playing techniques, a curated collection of beginner, intermediate, and advanced pieces with fingering, chord charts, scales, arpeggios, blues riffs and chord progressions, how to play slide guitar, fingerboard charts, and audio and video online to guide your journey. Packed with invaluable insights for enthusiasts and aspiring two-stringers alike.Do you have a 2-string cigar box guitar collecting dust, or are you considering buying an easy instrument to learn? You are at the right place, so let's get started

Is the Mandola the perfect Celtic instrument?Tuned a fifth lower (CGDA) and about 2 inches longer than a mandolin, the mandola is excellent for Celtic music as a solo or band instrument. The Celtic Mandola Music Book is packed with great tunes, chords, exercises, and technique tips, adding to a limited selection of books. This book was written specifically for the mandola and will help you get the most from the alto voice range. The mandola is akin to the viola in the string orchestra but can also be an excellent solo instrument. Blends well with guitars, violins and other string instruments. There are two editions for sale of this book, one written in treble clef and the other in alto clef. Choose which edition best suits your reading skill. Notation, tablature, chords, fingerings and slurring are included in the over 40 pieces. From best-selling author Brent Robitaille.Highly recommended for all mandola players.There is a selection of audio and video tracks on the author's website. See details inside the book.

A Better Way To Learn Guitar Chords?Learn your first 99+ guitar chords quickly using Brent's visual system tried and tested with thousands of students. Designed for the complete beginner to intermediate level guitar players of any age. The chords you will learn are the most frequently played chords in pop, country, folk, and rock guitar playing. Start off learning the 16 easy 1, 2, and 3 finger chords, then move on to the 12 essential chords all guitarists must know. Make sure to take all the visual quizzes to help memorize these important chord shapes Next comes 35 more commonly used chords, followed by the 16 sharps and flats chords. After you have a good grasp of these chords, you can start to focus on playing barre chords. Brent has included 7 tips to master barre chords with accompanying exercises.If you are into rock music, work on the 4 main power chords with some great little song patterns. Then on to the 8 moveable chords that you can transpose up and down the guitar neck.Also, three of the most important charts you will ever need are included: the major key chart showing the chords in each key (which is great for learning or writing your own songs); a handy capo chart to help you transpose to any key; the all-important guitar fingerboard charts, so you know where you are going. As an added bonus, there are three different printable blank guitar chord charts to add more chords to your repertoire or just write down your favourite songs.The Beginner Guitar Chord Book will you get jamming in no time. Check out Brent's website for the accompanying video and audio tracks, plus a good selection of guitar books and free lessons.

45 New Classical Guitar Arrangements in Open D TuningThe classical guitar book in open D guitar tuning presents a new, and I think, additional way of approaching classical guitar repertoire. Tuning to an open chord, in this case, DADF#AD can have its benefits. The most obvious is that a major chord can be played with a single finger, or in the key of D, with open strings. Every attempt has been made to keep true to the original manuscripts, but occasionally the tune is transposed from the original, or the odd note has been altered to make the pieces playable. I have kept the arrangements primarily in the keys of D, G or A to take full advantage of the open strings in D tuning. In short, this book may not be for the classical guitar purist but does expand the repertoire that is lacking with open tunings. There is a good selection of graded pieces from prominent classical guitar composers like Aguado, Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi and Carulli, plus other well-known works by Bach, Dowland, Satie, Beethoven, de Visee, Diabelli, Grieg, Haydn, O'Carolan, Pachelbel, Paganini, Petzold, Sanz, Schumann and Vivaldi. I also adapted 24 of the Giuliani right-hand exercises, major and minor scales and arpeggios, plus fretboard charts to further develop your knowledge and technique in Open D. Each piece has notation, tablature in Open D tuning, right- and left-hand fingerings, and performance markings. Look for the audio tracks on my website in the guitar books section: https: //brentrobitaille.com

Can't read music? Try Fiddle Tab. Fiddle Tab is a fun and easy way to learn traditional fiddle tunes with large, easy-to-read big notes with letters inside. Use the fiddle fingerboard tab charts or just read the big letter notes to learn tunes fast. Thirty of the most requested traditional tunes in a single collection. Bowing exercises, scales, numerous fingerboard arpeggio charts, and guitar chords also included.Tablature or "tab" is a fun way to get a quick start on the violin. Fiddle tab is a straightforward shorthand system of showing what notes to play. Once you learn how to read tab, you will be amazed at how fast you can learn a few simple tunes and build your confidence.Fiddle tab works in the first position where most traditional and Celtic fiddle tunes are played. If you do not intend to learn Paganini, then you should be fine with fiddle tab for a while. As you progress, you will eventually need to learn the "legit" way of reading music.

Tuning your guitar to DADF#AD or "Open D" tuning compliments Celtic guitar music perfectly. It is easy to create drones and overlap notes that sound reminiscent of a harp or bagpipe. The 30+ tunes represent a good selection of well known Celtic session tunes and songs. There are jigs, reels, songs, hornpipes, waltzes plus instructions on how to read tablature and note rhythms. There are also some DADF#AD chords, Celtic strumming patterns, major and minor scales, and a full DADF#AD fingerboard chart.I hope you enjoy this collection Please visit my website for audio and related books and sheet music: kalymimusic.com/product/celtic-flatpicking-open-d-guitar-tuningkalymimusic.com

Play Jazz & Blues on the Cigar Box Guitar. Learning to play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar is simultaneously easy and difficult. Easy because you only have 3 or 4 strings to worry about so fewer options than a standard 6 string guitar. Difficult because getting good full-sounding chords with 3 or 4 strings in GDG or GDGB tuning often requires bigger stretches for chords or large skips up and down the neck to play all the notes. The new two-book series "Jazz & Blues Unlimited" provides an excellent resource on both 3 and 4 string cigar box guitars covering most topics required to successfully play jazz