Basically because I was tired of writing out the same stuff year after year in my little handwritten scrawl for student after student. I've been teaching jazz guitar and improvisation at the college level (Mohawk College) for approximately 20 years now (I've lost count). I was finding that the vast majority of 1st year college level guitar students were all lacking in many of the same basic areas. Of course every student is different but the stuff in my book tries to address the things that are more or less universally required in my opinion by any aspiring guitarist in today's advanced competitive scene.

I may not ever actually formally publish this book. I wrote it mainly to use with my own private students. I had it posted on the Web here for free for several years so that my private students could easily download its contents, and also to help me to attract some new students. But most of my students have had a big hassle downloading it all and printing it all up by themselves. Plus, my web host is starting to ask me for money now because of all the bandwidth that some of you serial downloaders take up. So now the book is only available in a hard copy version for a modest price.

I don't recommend that novice players attempt to go through this book on their own, although lots of novice players have purchased the book and seem to be getting something out of it. I think that having an experienced teacher/player help you with this material is really the way to go.