Mr. Brent C Robitaille

Brent Robitaille is a music educator, composer, and instructional author with over 35 years of experience in music education, composition, and practical musicianship. He has published more than 60 instructional music books, reaching over 40,000 students internationally, and his educational content has been viewed over 10 million times online. He has also worked as a session musician and composer on hundreds of recorded projects, including television work.

His books focus primarily on guitar, cigar box guitar, open tunings, ukulele, mandolin, and fiddle tab, with additional titles for related instruments such as mandola and resonator guitar, as well as practical tools like a musician’s practice planner. The material is written for players of all abilities and connects theory directly to practical playing.

Earlier in his career, he co-authored a peer-reviewed study on emotional expression in music composition published in Empirical Studies of the Arts, which has been cited over 220 times in academic research.