Fingerstyle guitar books
New editions expanded and improved in content and graphics, with thread binding for optimal durability.
It is an anthology that includes 33 pieces written in progressive order of difficulty.
Automatically downloadable audio files are available, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“If you can’t attend, then check out his instructional books such as ‘Easy Fingerstyle Songs’ and ‘Fingerstyle Blues Collection. They are full of great ideas and tunes that are guaranteed to galvanize your playing.” Acoustic Guitar Workshop – UK
“Easy Fingerstyle Songs is a reference text for teachers and fans.” Fingerpicking.net – I
“It features classics rearranged with simplicity and effectiveness that will give us little or big satisfaction. The sheet music always turns out to be very polished and easy to consult.” Axe – I
Fingerstyle Blues Collection
STANDARD TUNING
Music notation and tablature
Basic-intermediate-advanced level
A blues guitar method that includes 60 exercises and 20 complete songs with content presented in progressive order of difficulty.
Automatically downloadable audio files are available, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“The pieces performed by Morone are of real interest, and the execution, as well as being precise and very clear, has that hint of musicality that never hurts; in fact, it immediately makes you want to start studying.” Making Music – I
“If you can’t attend, check out his instruction books and CDs such as ‘Easy Fingerstyle Songs’ and ‘Fingerstyle Blues Collection’. They are full of great ideas and tunes guaranteed to galvanise your playing.” Acoustic Guitar Workshop – UK
A jazz guitar method that includes 20 patterns and 10 complete pieces with content presented in progressive order of difficulty.
Automatically downloadable audio files are available, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“Lasciatevi coinvolgere dallo studio di questo libro, non ne rimarrete delusi!”
Giovanni Palombo – Chitarre – I
“Franco Morone is, without doubt, a genius of the acoustic guitar and hands down one of our favourite players. His playing is always a miracle of solid grooves, great melodies and tone to die for. His repertoire is versatile, full of interest and delicious surprises”
Acoustic Music Workshop – UK
“When Franco Morone is playing you can feel a deep intensity. Mostly his eyes are closed, and the artist is 100% within his music. He is a master at work, here it is, where the magic happens. Each note he plays is important, in each note, there is an Italian feeling with Mediterranean lightness and poetry garnished with rich ornaments. Franco is a wanderer between musical styles – Celtic sounds, jazz, blues & much more – which he masters entirely and perfectly”
Stephen Rekas – USA
Jazz Standards for Fingerstyle Guitar (NEW RELEASE!)
STANDARD TUNING
Music notation and tablature
Advanced level
Thirteen arrangements of Jazz Standards for intermediate to advanced didactic use. Automatically downloadable audio files are available and allow you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“If you can’t attend, then check out books such as ‘Jazz Standards for Fingerstyle Guitar’ and ‘Fingerstye Blues Collection’. They are full of great ideas and tunes that are guaranteed to galvanise your playing.”
Acoustic Guitar Workshop – UK
“When Franco Morone is playing you can feel a deep intensity. Mostly his eyes closed, the artist is 100% within his music. He is a master at work, here it is, where magic happens. Each note he plays is important, in each note there is an Italianità and mediterranean lightness and poetry garnished with rich ornaments. Franco is a wanderer between musical styles – Blues , Jazz Celtic and much more – which he masters entirely and perfectly.”
Stephen Rekas – USA
A collection of 14 traditional Irish tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar. From wonderful O’Carolan tunes to dances arranged with the typical sounds of traditional instruments.
Automatically downloadable audio files are available, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“A revised and corrected edition that now presents an improved and more readable layout. A must-have for all guitar fans!” Folkblog – I
“Celtic Fingerstyle Collection (The South Wind) is important and meaningful as a whole, and represents the best collection of Irish music for the guitar to be issued in many years.” Concerto – A
“Celtic Fingerstyle Collection (The South Wind) is the most impressive book with consistently excellent arrangements.” Irish Music – IE
This new book offers the guitarist a repertoire of 13 original pieces of extraordinary emotional impact performed with various fingerstyle techniques.
The “Strings of Heart” CD includes a booklet with images related to the pieces and notes by the author. Automatically downloadable audio files are available as an alternative to the Cd.
“It is a mature and technically flawless work, homogeneous and varied at the same time, as elegant in playing style as in arrangements.” Axe Guitar Magazine – I
“Strings of Heart, a true masterpiece by the man who to date is considered among the best acoustic guitarists in the world.” Montelagocelticfestival.it/blogs/notizie – I
“Franco Morone’s Strings of Heart is fluid and powerful, rhythmic, melodic, with great harmonics and clarity. A touch of beauty as light as a feather.” NewFolkSounds – NL
“Each track communicates emotions on first listen, instrumental songs so beautiful they take your breath away! The sound is fluid, powerful, rhythmic, and melodic. Every single note comes out on listening incredibly round, clear and sweet.” Akustik Gitarre – D
[(*)= except to The Water is Wide e Morrison Jig arranged by the author]
A selection with 15 newly recorded original songs among the author’s most representative.
CD and automatically downloadable audio files are available.
“Back To My Best is a hit album performed by a sensational musician endowed with incomparably luminous tenderness and magical power. A Mediterranean morning, a Celtic evening breeze, a show with meaningful performances and perfectly relaxed rhythms that make thousands of sounds blossom into flowers.” Akustik Gitarre – D
” Franco re-presented his historic tunes enriched and embellished by much road travel and many break-ins on stages around the world, reconfirming himself as an indispensable fingerstyle reference.” Chitarra Acustica – I
“Here are a few pearls from one of the finest acoustic guitar players around for his diamond-like technique and his ability to make the most diverse melodies his own, playing them in a way that is anything but calligraphic. A rare gift.” Folk Bulletin – I
“Morone’s instrumental pieces have the rare merit of engaging even the layman-listener, who cannot help but be enchanted by little gems like Followers of Dulcamara, Breath of Old Forest or Flowers from Ayako.” Blogfolk – I
It is a collection of 16 songs of folk songs and traditional dances, with arrangements for fingerstyle guitar solos, offered in all their authenticity and beauty.
The recordings are available in both CD and automatically downloadable audio files, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“Italian Fingerstyle Guitar is an impressive calling card for our tradition. Through admirable arrangements, Franco Morone revives the folk theme of a second youth.” Folk Bulletin – I
“I consider Italian Fingerstyle Guitar one the most important of the recently released new recordings.” Radio Voce Spazio– I
“The first time we attended a Franco Morone concert, we felt the thrill of being in front of an epiphany of beauty.” L’isola che non c’era – I
“Un ouvrage qui vous ouvrira une facette très peu connue de la guitare fingerstyle et qui vous demandera un gros travail d’interprétation (surtout sur les airs lyriques). A savourer d’urgence!” Acoustic Guitarist– F
“Franco is a fingerstyle guitarist of extraordinary talent. His Italian Folk Songs have been creatively arranged and played tenderly. These were songs which I grew up hearing my father and mother hum or whistle, so you can imagine my great surprise when I heard them rendered as fingerstyle gems. It is not hard to see or rather hear why Franco is considered Italy’s best fingerstyle guitarist.” Anthony Tirolese– Usa
Christmas Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar
STANDARD TUNING
Music notation and tablature
Basic-Intermediate level
A collection of 13 of the most beautiful Christmas songs arranged in fingerstyle and written in music notation and tablature with progressive order of difficulty.
Automatically downloadable audio files are available, allowing you to compare your performance with that proposed by the author.
“I have long wanted to write a collection of Christmas songs for fingerstyle guitar. This year I finally got a chance to publish it. I hope your guitar can convey feelings of peace and serenity.” Franco
