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How much would you pay for a 3 string songbook?

Hi Folks

Any music shop you go into has rows and rows of books full of arrangements for guitar, piano etc of Beatles songs, Stones, Zep, you name it but there's nothing for 3 string guitars. There are countless youtube videos, most of which are pretty basic, but there is still no substantial resource of material for our instrument.

I'm looking at remedying this situation with a series of quality arrangements such as this one.

The thing is that I'm not prepared to rip off the copyright owners and so there's a considerable up front cost in licensing the original works. Hence my question.

Would you pay $20 to $30 for a book of 10 arrangements? Given the licensing costs I can't do them for much cheaper/

If so what would you prefer? Classic Rock, Blues, Country? Which artists?

Thanks in advance.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Alibone on October 17, 2014 at 10:17am

Hi Patrick, I could go 25 dollars for 10 blues or country songs. To save postage you could send in an attachment in an e-mail. 'fingers'

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on November 2, 2014 at 9:53am

Hi Patrick.

Great idea, especially for us newbies. A well tabbed songbook for open-tuned three-strings would be a great help for us. I think you could test out your idea with"Volume 1" which could be ten blues classics (Stormy Monday, Death Letter Blues, Mean Old World, etc). Classic blues tunes such as that will always find an audience. You might be able to find ten classic tunes that are past copyright and now public domain. It's worth a look see. If you get good support for volume 1, the maybe some copyrighted material could be in Volume 2. You may become a Brand.........

Good Luck

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Permalink Reply by Smokin elFish on November 3, 2014 at 10:31am

I would to suggest to do a bit of everything ? So almost everyone will have their favorit :)

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