The lines were never the problem.
Sixty Major II-V-I ideas, each with the exact picking and fingering that finally makes them playable.
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You know the feeling. You find a beautiful line, you learn every note, and it still comes out stiff.
You slow it down. You drill it. And somehow it never sits in your hands the way it sits in your head. So you go looking for more lines, more transcriptions, more vocabulary, and the pile keeps growing while the fluency doesn't.
You start to wonder if it's you. It isn't. And it isn't the ideas either.
Your two hands aren't talking.
Here is what took me a long time to understand, and longer to teach. The problem is almost never the notes. It's the connection between your two hands. The right hand (picking) and the left hand (fingering) have to agree on one efficient path through the line.
When they don't agree, you fight the guitar on every phrase. When they do, the line almost plays itself. That agreement is the missing link, and it's the thing this book is built around.
Most players study what to play and ignore how the hands should move to play it. Fix the how, and the vocabulary you already own starts to sound like music instead of homework.
Not just lines. The mechanics to play them.
Pocket Book Vol. 1 gives you 60 Major II-V-I single-line ideas. But the ideas are only half of it. Every line arrives with the correct picking direction and the fingering choices that let you play it faster, cleaner, and with real fluency. You get the vocabulary and the exact way to move through it.
- 0160 Major II-V-I lines, selected to expand your improvising vocabulary
- 02Correct picking direction marked on every single line
- 03Fingering choices that take the fight out of your left hand
- 04Readable anywhere, on computer, tablet, or phone
- 05Yours to keep, instant download after checkout
Play the phrases the way you hear them.
Play the lines you love at the tempo you actually hear in your head. Stop collecting vocabulary you can't use, and start improvising with phrases that come out clean. Build a Major II-V-I foundation solid enough to lean on in any tune, in any key.
This is for you if
- You know your basic chords and want your single-note playing to sound fluent
- You have shelves of licks you still can't play smoothly
- You want vocabulary and the mechanics to use it, in one place
This is not for you if
- You're picking up a guitar for the very first time
- You want backing tracks or video lessons rather than written lines
- You're looking for a genre other than jazz phrasing
I'm Peter Farrell. I have spent over 35 years playing, studying, and teaching the guitar, and most of that time I've been chasing one question: why can some players make a line sing while others fight every note?
The answer lives in the mechanics between the hands. That's what I teach, and that's exactly what you'll find written into every line of this book. No filler, no theory you'll never use. Just the ideas and the way to play them.
60 Major II-V-I lines, with the correct picking and fingering on every one. Instant download, yours to keep.
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P.S. The reason your lines sound stiff isn't the notes, it's the connection between your two hands. This book puts that connection on the page, sixty times over, for less than the price of a single lesson.