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with Books, Blogs, Arrangements and Lessons.

I was seven the first time I touched a real guitar. I remember my father saying, “I bought you a present, go check in your room.” I walked into the room, looked at the small acoustic guitar, and ran my fingers across the strings. It felt like an entire orchestra had just played the opening chord.

My musical journey had begun…

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Brent C. Robitaille is a music educator and composer who has spent over 35 years bridging research and practice in music education.

As a researcher, Brent co-authored a peer-reviewed study on emotional expression in music composition published in Empirical Studies of the Arts (1992), which has since been cited 220 times in academic literature on music cognition and emotional communication.

As an educator, Brent has published over 60 instructional books, reaching more than 40,000 students internationally, and has YouTube tutorials viewed over 10 million times. His work focuses on making music accessible to self-taught learners through alternative instruments (cigar box guitar, open tunings, looper pedals) and teaching methods (tablature, video instruction) that are often overlooked in traditional music education.

Brent holds degrees from York University and attended McGill University, Humber College, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He is a member of SOCAN and has received funding from the Ontario Arts Council for original composition.

To make it easier to know what to practice next, Brent has been building structured Learning Paths that connect free lessons, books, printable resources, and step-by-step practice systems. Current examples include the Open Tunings Guitar Learning Path, the Cigar Box Guitar Learning Path, the Looper Guitar Learning Path, and the Ukulele Learning Path.

Official profiles

” As a teacher and writer my greatest joy is to bring people together to play music “

VISIT MY COMPOSER PAGE HERE

PRESS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

Education-Teaching

Composition, guitar, piano, violin and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Humber College, McGill University, and York University. Private lessons, group classes and codirector of the Midland Conservatory.

Musician-Composer

30 years of performing, composing, and recording experience heard on albums, singles, commercials, television and movies—recent performances in Italy, England, Las Vegas, Pheonix and New Jersey.

Books-Arrangements

Over 60 books and hundreds of arrangements are now in worldwide distribution. Cigar box guitar, the guitar looper pedal, and fiddle tab were among the first books ever published for these instruments.