Good Reads

“Lies My Music Teacher Told Me” - Gerald Eskelin

I picked up this gem about 15yrs ago and it forever changed how I took in and approached musical ideas. Well organized and written in concise common language this book will broaden your understanding no matter what level you are currently at, and you’ll want to read it over and over again as you progress on your own musical journey.

“The Sounds of Music” - Gerald Eskelin

This volume fleshes out the ideas presented in “Lies” into the form of a college textbook that I WISH I had.

“Temperament: The idea that solved music’s greatest riddle” - Stuart Isacoff

If there’s one thing about guitar and piano that frustrates me, it’s equal temperament. The amazing story behind it told through the lives of Pythagoras, Newton, Kepler, Galileo and a host of others you heard about in science class is like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. My copy had a different tagline, “How music became a battleground for the great minds of western civilization”, I guess that was a LITTLE over the top so they changed it for future editions lol.

“The Guitar Handbook” - Ralph Denyer

Boy oh boy when I got my hands on this as a kid learning to play guitar it became the bible, encyclopedia, dictionary. Continuously published since 1982, this is your desert island guitar manual.