Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1381391

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Contemporary,Folk,Instructional,Pop,Rock. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Danny Crocome Music #966102. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1381391).

These info sheets show guitarists how to the following 5 chord types for all natural notes from A to G:
1. Major
2. Minor
3. Dominant 7 (7th chords)
4. Major 7, and
5. Minor 7

The sheets show the most commonly used chord voicings for each of the 35 chords, plus a handy description of each chord type, with two adjectives describing the recognizable sound of each kind of chord. A handy resource for beginner to intermediate guitarists to keep in their guitar case or sheet music folder, plus a great tool for classroom/guitar teachers to use with their students.

Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1344037

Composed by Danny Crocome. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Folk,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #929519. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1344037).

These sheets show guitarists how to make their rhythm guitar style sound more fluid and musical by incorporating chord inversions into their playing. The examples show some common chord progressions, and then different ways to approach each pattern to make it sound smoother and more melodic via the use of inversions. There are examples in the commonly heard keys of C, G, D, A and E major. Plus an 8-bar original composition that utilizes a variety of chord inversions.

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 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1344031

Composed by Danny Crocome. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Folk,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #929510. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1344031).

These sheets show guitarists how to make their rhythm guitar playing sound more fluid and musical by incorporating slash chords into their chord changes. The examples show some common chord progressions, and then different ways to approach each pattern to make it sound smoother and more melodic.
There are examples in the commonly heard keys of C, G, D, A and E major. Plus an 8-bar original composition that utilizes a variety of slash chords.

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.

Guitar - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1175289

Composed by Brian Streckfus. Instructional. Guitar Tab. 5 pages. Brian Streckfus #774500. Published by Brian Streckfus (A0.1175289).

Pages: 5 (84 chords to name)

Objective:
Instead of learning chords one by one, you instead learn how to build chords yourself. Also, this mindset helps in composing, because instead of seeing things as wrong chord versus correct chord, you simply see it as every harmony as a name. Like many things in life, theoritcal concepts can allow you to formulate thousands of outcomes in a single day. 

Tips:
1. You start counting from 0 for this exercise if that makes any sense. Avoid the common fence post error by overcounting by 1. Other times you start counting from 1 in music is when talking about scale degrees. What is the distance from C to E? C(0) C#(1) D(2) D#(3) E(4).
2. Use the chromatic scale at the top to help in counting.
3. E# = F...Fb = E...B# = C...Cb = B...In otherwords, don't let strange enharmonics confuse you. Picture the black key sometimes missing between white keys on a piano in your mind if it helps. 
4. Even though enharmonics like E# can seem confusing, they can actually add clarity sometimes because they cause the chord to stack perfectly in the sheet music and letter names. A# C# E#...versus...A# C# F...Sure, F is easier to understand in a part, but it actually makes the harmony harder to understand because not it looks like it isn't 3rds, even though it is.
5. I included tab just to make this worksheet a little bit more interesting; however, the guitar chords that result are NOT practical. Voicings of common guitar chords are much more spread out, and often contain more duplicate letter names. Practical guitar chords is sort of a different conversation. I sort of did this intentionally to prove that perfectly stacked voicings do not work well on guitar. C E G Bb perfectly in order in harmony, sounds like it would be easy on guitar, but it is not.
6. To make this more practical on guitar, I recommend building the chords yourself by simply knowing letter names well on guitar. The next time something asks for G major, don't just play a common voicing, actually find G B D randomly on the guitar neck. 
7. Often the fifth of a chord is removed since it is the least important to invoking the flavor of the chord. This is especially true on guitar because we quickly run out of fingers and strings.
8. The nature of the piano lends pianists to constantly seeing these distances on a linear plane. Conversely, guitar is a very murky instrument since the real distances of pitches is counterintuitive to arbitrary (usually) fret numbers! That is why many guitarists would benefit from thinking this way, instead of thinking of chords simply as shapes (which is also important for different reasons). In other words, try to build a chord on one string on guitar. It is impractical, but the half step distances required for chords will make much more sense.

To Do:
1. Slight differences in how the sheet look need to be made similiar.
2. Remove green line.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1346163

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Country,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #930985. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1346163).

These info sheets teach guitarists how chords are constructed from the notes of the E Major scale, and show how to play the diatonic chords in the key of E major as:
1. Triads (3-note chords)
2. Open chords (the common chord shapes used by guitarists)
3. Tetrads (4-note chords)
4. Triads as barre chords
5. Tetrads as barre chords

Plus a selection of common chord progressions in the key of E major. Learning and applying this information is hugely beneficial for any aspiring guitarist, composer or singer/songwriter.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1346151

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Country,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #930975. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1346151).

These info sheets teach guitarists how chords are constructed from the notes of the A Major scale, and show how to play the diatonic chords in the key of A major as:
1. Triads (3-note chords)
2. Open chords (the common chord shapes used by guitarists)
3. Tetrads (4-note chords)
4. Triads as barre chords
5. Tetrads as barre chords

Plus a selection of common chord progressions in the key of A major. Learning and applying this information is hugely beneficial for any aspiring guitarist, composer or singer/songwriter.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1345212

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Country,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #930149. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1345212).

These info sheets teach guitarists how chords are constructed from the notes of the C Major scale, and show how to play the diatonic chords in the key of C major as:
1. Triads (3-note chords)
2. Open chords (the common chord shapes used by guitarists)
3. Tetrads (4-note chords)
4. Triads as barre chords
5. Tetrads as barre chords

Plus a selection of common chord progressions in the key of C major. Learning and applying this information is hugely beneficial for any aspiring guitarist, composer or singer/songwriter.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1345661

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Country,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #930549. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1345661).

These info sheets teach guitarists how chords are constructed from the notes of the G Major scale, and show how to play the diatonic chords in the key of G major as:
1. Triads (3-note chords)
2. Open chords (the common chord shapes used by guitarists)
3. Tetrads (4-note chords)
4. Triads as barre chords
5. Tetrads as barre chords

Plus a selection of common chord progressions in the key of G major. Learning and applying this information is hugely beneficial for any aspiring guitarist, composer or singer/songwriter.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1345878

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Country,Instructional,Pop,Rock,Singer/Songwriter. Guitar Tab. 3 pages. Danny Crocome Music #930761. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1345878).

These info sheets teach guitarists how chords are constructed from the notes of the D Major scale, and show how to play the diatonic chords in the key of D major as:
1. Triads (3-note chords)
2. Open chords (the common chord shapes used by guitarists)
3. Tetrads (4-note chords)
4. Triads as barre chords
5. Tetrads as barre chords

Plus a selection of common chord progressions in the key of D major. Learning and applying this information is hugely beneficial for any aspiring guitarist, composer or singer/songwriter.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1050065

Composed by F. Shubert. Arranged by Calum Wood. Classical,Praise & Worship,Sacred,Wedding. Guitar Tab. 2 pages. Calum Wood #654468. Published by Calum Wood (A0.1050065).

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Our Ave Maria music score is the perfect addition to your performance repertoire, whether you're a soloist, a choir, or a small ensemble. With its exquisite melodies and rich harmonies, it's sure to leave a lasting impression on your listeners.

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The origins of the prayer Hail Mary can be traced back to the Bible, where it is recorded in the Gospel of Luke. The prayer is a traditional Catholic devotional that honors the Virgin Mary, and has been an important part of Catholic liturgy and piety for centuries.

The musical setting of Ave Maria that is most commonly known today was composed by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert in 1825. Schubert's version of Ave Maria was originally written as part of a song cycle titled Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Miller's Wife) but it soon became popular as a standalone piece.

Schubert's version of Ave Maria was written for voice and piano, and its soaring melody and gentle accompaniment captured the beauty and reverence of the prayer. Schubert's composition has been performed and recorded countless times by musicians around the world, and it remains one of his most beloved and enduring works.

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Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1186419

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Danny Crocome. 20th Century,Baroque,Comedy,Film/TV,Jazz. Guitar Tab. 1 pages. Danny Crocome Music #786080. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1186419).

This info sheet shows guitarists how to play five commonly heard endings in the key of B Major, in a variety of styles including jazz, blues and baroque. You can play these licks at the end of any piece of music in the key of B Major. A fun way to liven up the end of a tune.

Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1187680

Composed by traditional, various. Arranged by Danny Crocome. Baroque,Blues,Comedy,Film/TV,Jazz. Guitar Tab. 1 pages. Danny Crocome Music #787289. Published by Danny Crocome Music (A0.1187680).

This info sheet shows guitarists how to play five commonly heard endings in the key of F Major, in a variety of styles including jazz, blues and baroque. You can play these licks at the end of any piece of music in the key of F Major. A fun way to liven up the end of a tune.