Brett Ecklund

If you are a professional musician who has been writing, recording, teaching, and performing, for more than three decades, and, you know all of the notes, all of the chords, and all of the scales, in all of the keys, and, you are able to strum, pluck, hammer, pull, bend, slide, tap, and sweep, your way around the entire fretboard with relative ease, then, this book is probably not meant for you...Now, if you are seriously interested in Music Theory and Modern Technique, and it's practical application to the guitar, and wish to learn personally from someone who has dedicated their entire life to the mastery of music, then, please, by all means, allow me to explain...

To Shine And Cast No Shadows brings to light the deeper meaning beneath the pivotal events that have turned a young man towards the realization of his enlightenment. In the book, Teo Templum gradually awakens to the awareness that the times in his life when he had been the most tested were, in fact, necessary steps in his spiritual evolution. Blended in with Teo's memories of his awkward adolescent struggles are a retelling of what his thoughts and feelings were during these moments of truth, and an explanation of the way that adversity has shaped his beliefs and affected his behavior.

I stand before you without fear, for I have fully realized the limitless potential of a beneficial existence. I speak of peace as I have personally experienced it. A voice of reason that is free of ego, and rings true in the vacant spaces where the empty promises of state sponsored propaganda, scientific hypothesis, and religious rhetoric, have left you with more questions than answers, more hype than hope, and more prayers than prosperity.

"Like a canary in a coalmine who sings the song of the fiery phoenix, and through music, transcends the black ashes of the prison of its past, my ballad a torch, illuminating the narrow path that leads to the source of divine inspiration. A guide for those who wish to brave the maze of dark corridors that underlie the human condition in a quest to master peace."

Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Arranged for One Guitar by Brett Ecklund. Tablature and notation.