It’s almost impossible for me to believe that The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar comes out Tuesday, on October 5. It truly seems like yesterday when I was looking at a desk piled high with scraps of music, books of Public Domain songs, scribbles on which keys would best suite a lesson idea and lots of bits and pieces of chapters and ideas. It might actually have been yesterday!
In case you didn’t know, Guitar Noise is having an ongoing contest to give away two autographed copies of my latest book each month between now and December 2011.  Â
If you’d like to enter this giveaway, just get yourself a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar and simply take a picture of yourself, with the book, someplace relatively picturesque. You don’t have to have the Eiffel Tower or Mount Rushmore in the background, but try to be creative. As the saying goes, and as Paul literally did, you don’t have to go any further than your own back yard! Paul Hackett and I will be selecting two photos a month and will send an autographed copy of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar†to those whose pictures are chosen.
Just send your photos to me at dhodgeguitar@aol.com and be sure to include an email address where you can be reached, as well as a mailing address. And please put “Picture Book†in the subject line of the email.
Our first winner for October is Glen, who hails from Ontario, Canada:
We’ll be sending an autographed copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar later this week. Hopefully it will get there before it starts snowing in Canada (at least where he lives!).
Our next winner will be announced right here on October 15! And, as always, we wish the best of luck to everyone who enters!
Peace