this book showed me that I wasn’t so odd for feeling that.

I didn’t think there were people who felt the same way I felt when playing the guitar like so free and alive.

I have been learning to play guitar for about 4 and a half months now. So how do I start…Ok so I loved this book…I just couldn’t put it down! This book has inspired me to want to play the guitar even more and start writing my own music. If you want to read Guitar Notes in another language, the French, German, and Indonsian editions are available through amazon. You can find videos, how-to lessons, free songwriting notebooks, lyrics & chord sheets, reading guides, and tons of stuff about the book and about songwriting.

Avon School Middle High School (MA) One Book Choice 2014.

Kentucky (NKU) Bookfest Booklist Choice 2014.

Conneat (OH) English Festival Booklist Choice 2015.

MTV Hollywood Crush Choice for Best Books 2012.

South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee.

Winner of the Beehive Book Award (UT) for Best YA fiction 2015.

Listen and download all of the Guitar Notes songs. Here’s Lucky Me, which is the last song in the book: But did you know you can actually hear the songs? If you’ve read the book you know that Tripp and Lyla write eight songs in the book and the lyrics and chords are in the back of the book. Challenging each other to write songs, they begin to connect, even though circumstances threaten to tear them apart. But when Lyla begins leaving notes for him in between the strings of his guitar, his life intersects with hers in a way he never expected. To Tripp, she’s trying to become even more perfect–she’s already a straight-A student and an award-winning cellist.

One even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. On odd days, loner Tripp Broody uses a practice room to let loose on the guitar he’s borrowed from the school after his mom took his own away. It’s sort of like each soul has a sound that is its signature–and your soul just wants to feel the vibrations of this sound.

Guitar notes by mary amato