Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1130978 Composed by James Pierpont and Tom Paxton. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Children,Christian,Christmas,Instructional,Religious. Chords/Lyrics. 3 pages. Brian Streckfus #731250. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1130978). Key: C Major ~1. Guitar Arrangement Lead Sheet Style ~ 2. Beginner ~ 3. Guitar Tab ~ 4. Chord Charts ~ 5. Less stereotypical chords ~ 6. Fingerings and letter names added to aid in sight-reading ~ 7. Voice leading considerations 8. Making the music idiomatic for guitar I sometimes put .midi .xml .sib .mp3 and other stem files on https://www.patreon.com/brianstreckfus If you really want to make changes to my arrangements, that would be the best way to grab the sheet music files themselves rather than a .pdf.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1177429 Composed by Brian Streckfus. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Instructional. Tablature. 13 pages. Brian Streckfus #777440. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1177429). Major/Minor/Pentatonic Forms for Guitar (Sheet Music + Tab + Fretboard)Learn every key on guitar with very few pages. Pages: 13Bonus Pages:1. A Major Scale across the full neck (to see how they all combine resulting in knowing the full neck)2. Blank scale chart to add in memorization and making alterations.Scales included:1. F Major2. C Major3. G Major4. D Major5. A MajorTips:1. There is a reason why it is not 12 or 24 scales. Since these scales are easy to move higher or lower, just these 5 Major will lead to all 24 major/minor keys throughout the entire fretboard. Therefore, making a C# Major scale chart is uneccessary, and if you are doing so, you may be over thinking music. Instead, it is better to ask yourself how do I play C major but 1 pitch higher and use previous work you have done to your advantage. 2. These scales do not end on the home note. This is a disadvantage in this way, however, knowing large portions of the scale neck in one position will allow you to play a key throughout the fretboard with no gaps in notes. In otherwords, learning one ocatave scales can have concise music theory, but it's impossible to know the scale in every part of the neck completely that way. Features:1. Color coding. Blue notes are home (tonic) notes. Red notes are away (dominant) notes. Simplifying harmony this much can often make you more creative not less since you are crafting the harmonies yourself. 2. Left hand fingerings added. Don't mistake these for fingering numbers.3. Letter names to aid in memorization.Notes:I realize that the hand written font doesn't look the most professional, however this is intentional. I tried making these in photo editors, but since every shape was perfect they were actually harder to memorize from (kind of living driving in a tunnel with no landmarks).

Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1162493 Composed by Brian Streckfus. Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #762858. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1162493). Key: E Harmonic minor Meter: 6/81. Written for guitar. 2. Guitar TAB added.3. Guitar chord diagrams and chord nomenclature added to roughly summarize the harmony.4. Guitar left hand fingerings added.5. Letter names added to note heads to aid in sight-reading. Tips:1. Understanding the key of this is rather tricky. I'd say it is a mode of E harmonic minor. There's also arugably E natural minor and A dorian.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1370027 Composed by Brian Streckfus. Instructional,Singer/Songwriter. Tablature. 6 pages. Brian Streckfus #954402. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1370027). I created this to make learning the most common chords on guitar easier. Learning chords on guitar is quite difficult; fret numbers are quite arbitary to what the chord is. There are patterns to follow, but they are buried in a convoluted foggy swamp. The tuning of guitar strings essentially puts the music theory in a blender and one has to study for a long time to decode it. It is my hope that this PDF will shine some light on how chords are built, and why some of them have a lot of clarity in how they are working, and why others seem completely random. This PDF shows chords that commonly happen in pop music, so it is by no means an exhaustive list. For knowing how to use chords, see my chord progression generator uploads.Tips:1. There is redundacy for a reason; this pdf shows multiple ways of playing the same chord.2. The first two pages are for the music theory purists in that there is hardly ever an uneccesary note to mantain the name of the chord. This is useful for understanding what notes are needed for a chord (it's a cliche for guitarists to have overly large chords).3. Pages 3 and 4 are the famous voicings. 4. Pages 5 and 6 are the bar chord versions. These versions are physically harder to play, but they can add a lot of clarity and simplicity to your playing (the famous voicings on pages 3 and 4 are seemingly random). They are much easier to slide to any key you want and much easier to see similiarities and patterns between chords.

Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1181680 By Frederic Chopin. By Fre�de�ric Chopin. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. 19th Century,Contemporary,Instructional,Romantic Period. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #781456. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1181680). Disclaimer: This is a two page excerpt with mostly only the beginning and end of the original piece. This is still a work in progress, the middle section is going to be difficult, if not impossible on guitar. Some may see this as more of an homage to Chopin rather than a historically accurate version. That being said, both this arrangement and the original are incredible pieces of music, and it may be my favorite piece of all time, and I think jaws would drop if the average person hears a guitarist effortlessly playing Chopin as if it was meant for guitar. 1. Arranged for guitar. 2. Guitar Tablature added. 3. Key changed 4. Notes removed and and inverted chords changed to be idiomatic for guitar.5. Slurs added. 6. Chord nomenclature added. 7. Piano pedal and phrase markings are a bit unnecessary for a guitarist so they are not included. Slurs and ties are more important for a guitarist, so I don't want a ton of swoops symbols obscuring slurs and ties. As with the other Chopin arrangement I made, I want super romantic music while making sure it isn't super difficult to play. If I wanted a super hard version, I would just find the public domain version and read treble and bass clef in a difficult key for free. There could also be a lot more mantaining of historical accuracy if this was arranged for a 7 or 8 string guitar. Having a low E and Eb would really changed the trajectory of the arrangement. Sure a guitar can play an Eb chord, but it always sounds too high pitched, when really the original has a low powerful bass note as the music inflects a different key. So that's why I took some liberty with the bass notes for guitar. It's incredibly grimy sounding even though A minor isn't typically seen as a dark and low key.Tips:1. A Bb chord in the key of a minor is an example of a Neopolitan chord, named after a city in Italy. This is one main essence of Chopin, and constantly using them allows him to really toy around with the key and suspense. To Do:1. Measure 10 is glitched out. Sorry. It is correct in a way but it is strangely spaced. It is a challenge because at times it looks like measures have the incorrect amount of beats, but I think Chopin's freedom of rhythm is the reason why, and bizarre triplets and quintuplets are being forced into the measure. 2. Combination version without tab?3. The full piece?4. Add rhythm to tab?

Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1278738 Composed by Fre�de�ric Chopin. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. 19th Century,Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Guitar Tab. 7 pages. Brian Streckfus #870305. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1278738). Pages: 7Key: Transposed from G minor to A minor (whole step down tuning)I included both the tablature version and just the sheet music version so that this is more inclusive. Just be careful of your printers settings if you don't want to print the whole pdf!Chopin is my favorite composer and this is great piece. It is ambitious to arrange and perform this on guitar. Compromises have to be constantly made, and so of course some bass clef notes or duplicate letter names have been removed. The B section is especially difficult since all notes might be possible if it was played an octave up, but then the mood and tone completely changes. 1. Arranged for guitar. 2. Slurs added 3. Glissandos added. 4. Composer indications added. 5. Guitar tablature added. 6. Chord nomenclature added.7. I transposed the key to make it more idiomatic for guitar.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1329807 Composed by Mykola Leontovych. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Christmas,Classical,Holiday,Instructional,Traditional. Tablature. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #917794. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1329807). Key: D minorThis version has a slightly metal music vibe since it is in the key of D minor and in drop D tuning.1. Arranged for guitar. 2. Tablature added. 3. Harmony altered to be idiomatic for guitar. 4. Slurs idiomatic for guitar added. 5. Dynamic indicators added. 6. Chord Nomenclature Added.

Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1162518 Composed by Brian Streckfus. Instructional. Guitar Tab. 8 pages. Brian Streckfus #762886. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1162518). Hopefully after playing these you will believe in all of your fingers more and be able to minimize any unnecessary movement. Often musicians are guilty of not thinking about technique when playing songs, so it's nice to have some bread and butter notes to allow you to focus on your technique, such as getting your pinky to be closer to the fret board, or playing on your finger tips more.This is a work in progress but it is eight pages. I have to work on making the formatting look cleaner and perhaps adding more than 23 exercises with guitar tablature.

Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1162362 Composed by Traditional Scottish Folk. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Celtic,Folk,Holiday,Instructional,Irish,Traditional. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #762722. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1162362). 1. Arranged for guitar. 2. Guitar TAB added. 3. Re-harmonized to be idiomatic for guitar and have more adventerous harmony. 4. Grace notes added.5. The grace notes, uncommon harmony, and overly drenched G major pentatonic sound lead to a more Irish/Celtic/Scottish idiom, as if this was written for bag pipes. 6. Too many versions of public domain songs will just phone in the chords in my opinion with a I IV and V7. This version is a bit jazzed up, which may not be what you looking for. If you are looking for real basic accompianiment this isn't the version for you, though I do try to use as many open strings on the guitar as possible, and the chords are often small.7. The other problem I often see with public domain songs is that the famous cowboy guitar chords most versions use lead to a lot of clunky part writing in my opinion (no thought of tendency tones, no thought of smooth voice leading, parralel 8ves and 5ths, doubled 3rds, etc). Those voicings are easier to sight-read, but are also not super creative, and as a teacher, I don't exactly want a student to see the same G Major voicing forever. That gives this false impression that that G major vocing is somehow superior. 8. Another small issue I see with public domain songs is that the vocal melody is sometimes not in the famous cowboy guitar chord. There is nothing wrong with that, and sometimes you want that, but since I like to train my singing with the help of my guitar, I like when arrangements make the vocal melody easy to add or remove on guitar. I can easily play a sophisticated solo version of this in a coffee shop, or I can just look at the chord nomenclature and see the song only from a rhythm section point of view when in a full band, when usually you purposely want to contribute less.9. Notes with an upward stem represent those notes being the original melody. This give arrangement a lot of replay value because a skillfull performer can improvise the background harmonies.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1329832 By #1 Holiday Carolers. By Meredith Willson. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Children,Christmas,Holiday,Instructional,Traditional. Tablature. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #917817. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1329832). Key: C MajorPages: 21. Guitar tablature added2. Slurs idiomatic for guitar added3. Chord nomenclature added4. Lyrics added5. Left Hand guitar fingerings added6. Fonts made larger and more appealing.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1276814 Composed by Traditional Anon. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Tablature. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #868501. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1276814). Key: A minor (harmonic)Pages: 2This is a medium difficulty finger style piece. It reminds me of the difficulty of Fernando Sor or Matteo Carcassi etudes, so it's great to use this to fine tune technical aspects of your playing. 1. Arranged for guitar. 2. Guitar tablature added. 3. Slurs/slides/stacatto added. 4. Fingerings added. 5. Chord nomenclature added. (classical music doesn't normal have these. They tend to never summarize the notes perfectly, but it's clear to me that they aid in playing the music better in many aspects.)6. Position markers added7. Letter names on white note heads addedTips:1. I imagine E would be played louder.2. Generally, minor chords are played quieter.3. The form is ABA.4. The key change is to the parallel major, A Major. This is a romantic key change (basically Beethoven and after).  5. This piece is beautiful and easy to engrave since it symmetrical.  4 measure phrases. 32 measures fits perfectly on two pages. I say this somewhat jokingly, but the time signature is 32/16/8/4/2 (look into hypermeter).  I enjoy when pieces of music are 4 measure phrases, because then the staff lines themselves actually represent true musical phrases. The opposite of this is called upbeat phrasing, which is when a phrase starts in the middle of a measure.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1151175 Composed by Mauro Giuliani. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Classical. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #751354. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1151175). 1. Tablature added 2. Font larger. 3. Fingerings left blank so that a studious can practice making decisions.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1126157 Composed by Edvard Grieg. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. 19th Century,Children,Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Tablature. 1 pages. Brian Streckfus #726865. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1126157). ~1. Guitar Arrangement ~ 2. Beginner ~ 3. Guitar Tab ~ 4. Chords Analyzed ~ 5. Fingerings and letter names added to aid in sight-reading.

Easy Guitar (with TAB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1125826 Composed by Traditional Anon. Arranged by Brian Streckfus. Children,Christian,Christmas,Instructional,Traditional. Tablature. 2 pages. Brian Streckfus #726568. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1125826). ~1. Guitar Arrangement ~ 2. Beginner ~ 3. Guitar Tab ~ 4. Chord Charts ~ 5. Less stereotypical chords ~ 6. Fingerings and letter names added to aid in sight-reading ~ 7. Voice leading considerations.

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1133809 Composed by Brian Streckfus. Instructional. Individual part. 1 pages. Brian Streckfus #733923. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1133809). 1. Guitar Arrangement 2. Beginner 3. Guitar Tab 4. Chord Charts 5. Less stereotypical chords 6. Fingerings and letter names added to aid in sight-reading 7. Voice leading considerations 8. Learn music theory from songs designed to teach you it, not from songs designed to be commercially successful?More professional sheet music probably uses less numbers by the notes, however, I designed this more for someone who is struggling with reading sheet music. It also changes what notes it is using often, so it is not exactly easy.