Publisher's Synopsis
The title Musical Scales and Guitar Chords as Guitar Tablature is a colorful visual reference of scales and chords shown as guitar tablature. The book has common tuning E-A-D-G-B-E for six-string guitars. Enjoy your colorful visual reference of scales and chords made for you.
To make a long story short, Matthew was born two-and-a-half years before his sister Paula in Pittsburgh, the home of steel mills, the Monongahela, the Allegheny, rivers which come together to form the Ohio River. Matthew grew up where musicians Donnie Iris, Joe Grushecky, Christina Aguilera, Jackie Evancho, and Rusted Root also grew up. Where famous persons like Gene Kelly, Fred Rogers, Michael Keaton, Dan Marino, Honus Wagner, Mario Lemieux via Montreal, and Sidney Crosby via Nova Scotia were raised. Matthew began to take guitar lessons at age eleven on a classical acoustic three-quarter size nylon-string guitar that his late father, Frank (died while he was age six), played. Nineteen years later, while he lived and worked as an insurance company commercial underwriter in Southern California, Matthew was diagnosed at age thirty with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). In 2013, he finished creating the book in several months that you are reading, but for himself because his guitar teacher drew guitar tablature for him to reference scales and chords. Those helped him tremendously to learn to play. Plus, Matthew fully expects to be healed anytime by the Lord Jesus Christ and play guitar again. Never did he consider he would sell the book until recently.
Matthew truly believes God, and to make his mother (Barbara) and father (Frank) proud, gave him the idea to sell this book to music stores and guitar manufacturers when he was in the hospital the summer of 2018 so that his loving wife, Carmen, would have some money if he passed away. Matthew made this music guitar tablature almost six years ago. "I don't think God would give me a bad idea. It's a labor of love to go through the publishing process if it provides income for Carmen, the love of my life, who has done everything for me. I really enjoy thinking maybe Carmen will have extra money because I love her and want her to go back to school as she desires."
