A while back, actually quite a while back. I posted about Patrick Costello’s Creative Commons licensed banjo and guitar instruction books.

You can buy Patrick’s books but he also makes them freely available on his web site. He does this in part because he feels it’s the right thing to do. Everything he knows was taught to him freely by other musicians but it works for him commercially as well. The downloaded books have become his best advertisement and they generate more sales than he got before he started giving them away.

Patrick wrote recently to let me know that he’s still at it. He’s added two instruction videos, one for banjo and one for guitar. Like his books they’re licensed under creative commons and can be downloaded for free.

You can find the complete folk guitar video at…
http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=folk.guitar

The frailing banjo video is at.. http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=frailing.banjo

All four of the guitar lessons and some of the banjo lessons have also been uploaded to YouTube.

Patrick’s web site is howandtao.com