Build your technique. Deepen your understanding. Make more music.

Learn with The Stick Book™ by Greg Howard — one of the Stick's most respected teachers and recording artists — packs a complete method into one book: technique, theory, exercises, and arrangements of standards plus his own compositions, including "Shapes" and "Charmed Life."

Turn practice into music

• 9 full song arrangements
• Dozens of etudes and melodic/rhythmic exercises
• Hand-position photos
• Tab for common chord shapes

Connect the fretboard to the music

It's written in StaffTab™, the notation system Greg co-created with Emmett Chapman — tab and traditional staff notation fused into a single double staff.

Choose the edition for your tuning

• 10-string Baritone Melody™ (also great for 12-string Classic™)
• 10- and 12-string Matched Reciprocal™
• 10-/12-string Classic™

See the exercises in action — preview them in the video below.