Books
My fiction, humor, and guitar method books.
Baron Britpop Blastfurnace
The Grand Story Of The Seemingly Impossible Adventures Of Baron Britpop Blastfurnace is an adventure tale set in the late 18th century. It is the story of a curious young blacksmith from The Austrian Netherlands named Britpop Blastfurnace. In a moment of inspiration, Britpop invents silent horseshoes and suddenly finds himself a Baron with an estate and wealth. Before settling down as a Baron, he decides to go on an adventure to France with his valet, Andelbert.The adventure takes them across the ocean and back. Featuring historical characters and events, pirates, intriguing locations, friendship, mystery, romance, life and death drama, humor, action, and much more.
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Mark Starlin Writes! Stories
Mark Starlin Writes! Stories is a collection of fiction stories ranging from 50 words to over 5000 words. The stories cover a range of genres and topics. While varied in subject matter, my goal was to make them all entertaining. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Includes: Vintage Poster Stories • Hollister Bootstone • Max Headline • Littletown • Humor • Sci-fi • Romance • Adventure • Fantasy • Western • Mystery • Time Travel • Animals • Pirates • And More!
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Mark Starlin Writes! Humor
Mark Starlin Writes! Humor is a collection of over 240 humor stories ranging from less than a minute to over five minutes in length. They are perfect for a quick laugh or smile. Sometimes witty, sometimes wacky, sometimes weird, but always entertaining.
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Starlin Guitar Method Fundamentals
The Starlin Guitar Method series of books are designed to give you a complete foundation for playing guitar.
Fundamentals covers rhythm guitar, guitar techniques, chords, music theory, and essentials such as tuning and capos. It also teaches you to read music notation and TAB. Plus it contains one important feature many guitar methods lack: easy to understand explanations of every topic.
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Starlin Guitar Method Fingerstyle
The Starlin Guitar Method series of books are designed to give you a complete foundation for playing guitar.
Fingerstyle teaches you how to play using your fingers instead of a pick. Covering a wide variety of techniques and playing styles. Including the easy-to-understand explanations you expect from Starlin Guitar Method books.
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Starlin Guitar Method Soloing 1
The Starlin Guitar Method series of books are designed to give you a complete foundation for playing guitar.
Soloing 1 is a key-based visual approach to learning to solo on guitar (also called improvising.) By learning five patterns for the Major, Minor, Pentatonic, and Blues scales, you will be able to improvise in any key at any position on the fretboard. Soloing also teaches the techniques that make your soloing more interesting, such as bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, vibrato, octaves, tapping, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to be able to play solos on the guitar this book will take you there.
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Starlin Guitar Method Book 1
Starlin Guitar Method Book 2
Starlin Guitar Method Soloing Quick Start Guide
Soloing (also called improvising or lead guitar) can seem like a mystery when you see someone’s fingers flying around the fretboard of the guitar. But it can be learned. In fact, it is no more difficult to learn than any other aspect of guitar playing. However, like any musical ability, it takes time and practice to become skilled at it. This book will give you the tools you need to begin improvising on guitar. Your goal is to take these tools and begin to develop your own lead guitar “voice.”
This free Quick Start guide is all you need to get started soloing on guitar. It features a key-based visual approach to soloing. You can use it to learn how to jam along with the Jam Tracks in the Media section of my website. Improvising on guitar is fun. Give it a try.