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It started with a spilled pint.
When a tourist knocked a fresh Guinness onto our founder's notes for a new guitar book, this sparked an idea ... beer-proof cheat sheets!
And the kind you can actually read in a dimly-lit pub, sized to hide behind a pint glass.
No music theory. No confusing chord charts. Just the essentials — the DNA of the songs you already love.
Trusted By Top Brands
When Yahoo!, Lexmark, and others saw how we could make a complicated topic simple and fun, they came to us for custom Guru books.
Rock star clients include ... LOGOS
Alberto-Culver
AT&T
CBS-TV
Dollar General
Frito-Lay
Hallmark Cards
Lexmark
PGA
Pepsi
World Wrestling Entertainment
Yahoo! ... and many more
We were honored to appear alongside Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd on special editions of Guitar World magazine
The original laminated books sold at Guitar Center
and other retailers in over 20 countries.
Each book includes classic rock and pop songs to reinforce your progress.
The DNA of rock and pop music... and it fits in the palm your hand!
From the Beatles to Beyoncé,
Arctic Monkeys to Metallica,
Taylor Swift to Coldplay
Now available as instant downloads online.
Now in 7 languages on www.gurubooks.guru
The original Gurus fit in your guitar case ... now they fit on your phone.
How a Guru Book is different...
The Guru cheat code book was designed to nestle comfy out of sight behind a pint glass --
yet be readable the dim pub light.
As a result, these pocket-size playbooks use easy-to-follow illustrations --
instead of the usual instruction book text-heavy, boring theory.
It's all based on this strict beer-vessel size requirement
(... and who are we to change the size of a pint? )
Show me the difference...
Sample Guru 2-page view
We use visual cues (not burden you with memorizing text)
And one simple instruction sequence given before you start
Guru Books
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We show, don't tell
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Use visual cues (not burden you with memorizing stuff)
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Less is more!
Left side: Yellow = your most likely chords
Then -- try right side
Length: 20 priceless pages to get you where you want to go
Size: Pocket-size (hides behind a pint glass)
Plus
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How to figure out the key
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Famous songs using those chords
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Handy hints
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Links for more songs you know
Typical instruction books
The typical books look like they want you to earn a Ph.D.
Why 200 pages long when you just want to have fun?
Other books
Most how-to books are based on a 200-page format with loads of useless text
you have to struggle through
(and you have to pay for all of those uncessary pages!).
And the chord dictionaries are famous for overwhelming you with hundreds of chord shapes with rarely-used variations.
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You could play guitar in Irish pubs for a lifetime and never need 95% of those shapes
Length: 200 pages
Size: visible behind a six-pack (soda or otherwise)
sample spread
vs
pages of b&w unuseful chord shapes and hundreds of pages of text
Coming soon ... the rest of our catalog!
We then expanded into other know-how series from Sports to Classic Literature,
giving you just the essentials you can master in minutes.
They fit perfectly on your phone so you always have them with you for the airport, bus,
even waiting in line for coffee.
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It took Tolstoy 1,500 pages to tell War and Peace. We did it in 1,500 words!
(And ... it still fits behind a pint glass).