Got little melodies, riffs or musical ideas that never go anywhere? Learn to turn them into complete, original solo guitar pieces while developing your guitar skills and musicianship along the way.
“A wonderful, unique book that will inspire you and help you tap into creativity you may never have known you had.”
Bill Piburn · Editor, Fingerstyle Guitar Journal
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When I started playing, I was almost tone-deaf. My guitar teacher once told me to sing a tune, and I froze.
Years later, after chords, scales and studying musicology, I still couldn't finish my own music. I had ideas. I didn't know how to put the pieces together.
More theory didn't fix it. More licks didn't fix it. What fixed it was a process.
Composing isn't a gift some people are born with. It's a skill, and like any skill, it needs steps.
Nature already has the steps. A seed doesn't become a tree all at once. It grows, stage by stage. Music can grow the same way: from one small idea, often one you sing, into a finished piece.
I've tested this process for years with my students. They finished music they never thought they could write.
Original pieces by guitarists who followed the same process that's in the book, and the comments they got when they shared them.
Hey! I’m Udi Glaser, a guitarist, composer and teacher based in London.
I picked up the guitar in 1991 and never really put it down. Since then, I’ve spent more than 20 years performing, teaching, composing and writing about music, including for Guitar World and Fingerstyle Guitar Journal.
I’ve always been fascinated by one question: how do we actually become more creative musicians?
That curiosity led me to study Musicology & Philosophy, sound, orchestration and music production at Berklee, and eventually complete an MA in Music Psychology (with Distinction), where I researched musical creativity.
Everything I teach comes from years of real-world playing and teaching, and a deep obsession with understanding how creativity actually works.
The whole process, step by step, in five stages: Sow, Elevate, Enrich, Develop, Share. 25 lessons, each with a challenge to try on your guitar.
One small idea grows, stage by stage, into a finished piece. 25 lessons, each with a challenge to try on your guitar.
Start with an idea
Sing · Step · Sign · Scale · ScribeGrow it above ground
Echo · Encrypt · Entrain · Express · EmbarkAdd harmony
Engage · Enroot · Entwine · Embellish · EvolveShape a complete piece
Discover · Deviate · Densify · Dramatise · DrawRelease it to the world
Scrutinise · Sharpen · Set · Select · SubmitEach stage of the book comes with an app or template, so you don't just read about the method, you do it.
Tap the play button on the page. This is how every example in the book works.
The real book, from the cover to the start of the first stage, Sow. Turn the pages and zoom in.
“Udi channels this encouraging approach into a practical, organic framework that demystifies composition and proves it's a nurtured skill rather than a magical gift.”
Bill Piburn · Editor, Fingerstyle Guitar JournalSee the whole process live. I take a random melody and grow it into music, coach a student through it, and show you the book and apps in action.
Without a process, the ideas stay where they are: in your phone, in your fingers, unfinished.
With one, you get a piece of your own that you can play, record and share, and the confidence to write the next one.
Two ways to start. Both get you the whole book and apps.
$69, once. No subscription, and every future update is free.
You don't read it all first. In lesson one you start with one small idea, and you grow it as you go. Every lesson ends with a challenge on your guitar.
If you know a few chords and scales, yes. Any style: fingerstyle, blues, rock, folk, classical or jazz.
Lessons are about 8 pages each, at your own pace. With Read to me, you can listen away from the guitar too.
YouTube teaches you other people's music, one video at a time. This is one process, start to finish, for writing your own.
Theory books explain the rules. They don't tell you what to play next. This book starts from your ideas and brings in theory only where it helps. You don't need to know theory to start.
The book is the full process at your own pace. If you want me to guide you through it with feedback, have a look at my Skool programme.
It's very individual. Students I guide one-to-one usually finish their first piece in about 60 days. The book is new, so I'll share readers' timelines as they finish.
You get instant access to the whole book and apps, so all sales are final. If anything doesn't work, email me at [email protected] and I'll sort it out.
Not at the moment. It's interactive, so the examples play and the book can read itself to you, which paper can't do.
Straight after checkout you'll see your personal access code, and it's emailed to you too. Tap "Open my book" and you're in.
Any phone, tablet or computer with a web browser: iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, Chromebook, plus an Apple Books edition. Your code works on up to 5 devices, and you can save the book so it works with no internet.
The web book updates itself the next time you open it online. For the Apple Books edition, download it again from the book’s menu.
Email me at [email protected] and I'll get back to you.
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