Accordingly, this book:
• uplifts and encourages where hope is needed
• increases spirituality and love of God
• Removes the music notation barrier
• gives personal joy to both player and listener
• encourages children to play beautiful guitar music
• increases the love for these and other hymns
• increases the desire for more guitar music

Harmonic melody is the essence of orchestra and keyboard music, with each note of the melody played within the context of a chord (three to six or more notes played together). As common as harmonic melody is there have only been a few artists over time, pl ayingharmonic melody style on the guitar. The reason is unique to the guitar because staff notation is suited perfectly to orchestras and keyboards, but not to the guitar. Staff notation does not show the actual finger placement of chords and, just as importantly, gives no instruction for the right hand fingering. Some of the same things can be said of numeric-tablature for guitar. Traditionally, it takes years of study and practice to bring out the beauty of the guitar using traditional notation methods of staff and number-tablature.

However, full-picture GuitarPerfect notation solves these traditional time-worn problems simply, quickly, and easily, and enables the guitarist to discover the amazing beauty of music when played on the guitar in harmonic melody style made possible with the GuitarPerfect notation-Simple, Easy. Beautiful