HOW TO PLAY GUITAR BOOK

from Matt Baldwin

Book/Magazine + Digital Album

This little book began as I started to jot down my thoughts about the strange and rhizomatic path I have been on since I started playing guitar 29 years ago. Eventually it became clear that I had intuitively developed something like my own philosophy around how to live and think as a guitar player. I wrote it as if I was speaking to myself about my own values and process and it should not be seen as a prescription for other guitar players, although hopefully some of the ideas will be useful. It is philosophy in the Classic sense, in that it is not overly theoretical but rather meant to practically inform how one lives. It’s a kind of catalog of how I think about creativity in general and is part of an intellectual lineage that includes The Stoics, De Sade, Nietzsche, Freud, William James, Camille Paglia and Nassim Taleb. Simply put, the message is:

We do not know who we are and we are much more than we will ever know.

- Matt Baldwin, 2022

Includes unlimited streaming of Paths of Ignition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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