Hello to all!
I’m thrilled to announce my latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Art of Songwriting will be available at bookstores everywhere as of tomorrow, August 2!
This is a new experience for me as it’s the first book I’ve co-written, working with Nashville songwriter, Casey Kelly. As you can read in his bio on Amazon, Casey is the writer of several Grammy-nominated songs, and his songwriting catalogue includes Kenny Rogers & Dottie West’s “Anyone Who Isn’t Me Tonight,” Tanya Tucker’s “Soon” and George Strait’s country music standard, “The Cowboy Rides Away.” In addition to his songwriting, Casey works as a session player and singer and performs in clubs and concerts for audiences throughout the US and Europe. A frequent mentor, panelist and workshop contributor, Casey is a member of ASCAP, NSAI and he is currently a Songwriters
Guild of America Board of Councilors member, and Vice President.
This is also a new experience in that this book is the first of mine that’s available for Kindle and other online electronic book devices. I don’t think that was even possible for my first book, and that came out just five years ago!
Anway, there’s a lot here that hopefully you’ll like and enjoy. And, if it’s not too much to ask, should you decide to order one through Amazon, be sure to use the Guitar Noise affiliate link. And, as always, don’t hesitate to either post a note here or drop me an email directly (dhodgeguitar@aol.com) with whatever questions you might have.
Peace
December 27th, 2016 @ 9:41 am
Bought your book Idiots Guide to Guitar Theory. Tried to find the tracks at idiotsguides.com/guitartheory and I’m taken to book companies selling your book. Where are the Tracks????
December 29th, 2016 @ 3:04 pm
Hi John
Thank you for writing.
Unfortunately, the “Guitar Theory” book was one of four of my books where the URLs for the audio files got changed when DK Publishing took over the “Idiot’s Guides” from Alpha Publishing. When they changed their website (almost over two years ago now), not all the audio tracks made the switch. They are still available, just at a different URL than that listed in the book. Here’s the one you want:
Guitar Theory
And should you ever need them, here are the URLs for the other three books:
Playing Guitar
Ukulele
Art of Songwriting
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any difficulties downloading the files.
And also please feel free to email me anytime with any questions that you may have concerning the book. As with almost all books, there are a few typos and such in there, so if something doesn’t quite make sense, just drop me a note.
Thank you once more for picking up the book. I look forward to chatting with you again.
Peace