📚 Finished Books — the shelf

Every music book with a finished, rendered file. Click any cover card to read the real PDF.

🎯 Finish-Line Scorecard 📖 Books Board 🗺️ 10-Phase Plan
What "finished" means here: the book is written, source-checked, and rendered as a designed PDF you can read right now. The store step (Etsy + Gumroad upload) is a paid action held for Brandon to fire, tracked as queue item q-2026-06-25-777a6d.

Band & Album Books — 9 finished

NEW 07-02
Writing Like Failure
152 pages · 767 KB · modal weight + chromatic bass approach, 17-run analysis · voice-cleaned + rebuilt this pass
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BELIEVEYOUME (Shiner, 2025)
80 pages · 508 KB · 10 songs, chorus-as-arrival thesis
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Hooray for Earth — An Analysis of Racy
107 pages · 792 KB · 4.32 visuals/page, densest of the set
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Rush — A Farewell to Kings
78 pages · 284 KB · 91 figures
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Writing Like Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
165 pages · 1.2 MB · the biggest concept book
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Radiohead — In Rainbows
56 pages · 416 KB · 7-track appendix
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Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream
42 pages · 376 KB
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A Perfect Circle — Thirteenth Step
61 pages · 508 KB · 11 chart cards
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A Perfect Circle — Mer de Noms
50 pages · 428 KB
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Theory & Songwriting — 3 finished, 1 gated

THEORY
The Brilliant Use of Flat 6s
94 pages · 244 KB · FINAL build (EPUB + DOCX + MOBI also on disk)
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THEORY
Songwriting Theory Guide
32 pages · 56 KB · chord progressions + bass motion, 41 songs
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THEORY
Post-Hardcore Songwriting Theory (Vol. 1)
93 pages · 1.6 MB · companion volume
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RIGHTS-GATED
Outside the Key (ebook)
39 pages + EPUB, built and readable locally. Held off the public site until the Trevor Wong FACGCE permission and Shiner transcription license clear.
Local only, on purpose

📚 The finished books, explained simple

Brandon finished 11 real books about music. They are all here as files you can open and read.
Eight books explain famous albums, song by song. Three teach how songs are written.
One more book is finished too, and it waits for permission from another guitar player before it can go on the internet.
Tap any green button on the page to open a book.