Steven King, USA National Guitar Champion, and Joy-us (vocal and instrumental duo), CDs, sheet music, tab, DVDs

"And I thought Joe Pass had chops. I still remember hearing Pass's Virtuoso album for the first time, wondering how one guy with two hands could play so many parts at once. Now, along comes King, transforming his lone guitar into an even fuller ensemble capable of playing more complicated arrangements…He has no apparent peers..." - Dirk Sutro, former jazz critic for the Los Angeles Times; author of Jazz for Dummies; and host of "The Lounge" on KPBS-FM San Diego.

"It is amazing, the things he plays on the guitar! Steven has demonstrated a mastery of the individual approach to guitar playing. The guitar/bass voicings he uses are unique and entertaining. Steven King is a very musical guitar player and a joy to listen to." - Al Hendrickson, master Hollywood session guitarist, the most recorded guitarist in the world from 1947-1980. Al played the famous guitar introduction on the MASH television series.

"Steven King is the only other solo guitarist that knows more songs than I who can perform them fully arranged on the fly with precise execution. If we ever got on stage together we would NOT be stumped!"
- Edgar Cruz, nationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist, competed in the 1994 USA Fingerstyle Championship

"Steven King has taken the acoustic guitar to places many guitar players never even thought of. From Jazz to Pop songs new and old, Steven lays out personal renditions with an elegance and flair that is totally 'Steven King' . And the latter part is the best compliment I could give any player. I'm also glad to be called his friend."
-Doyle Dykes, world-acclaimed guitar virtuoso

Reminiscing (CD) finds Steven King in fine form, working his sleight-of-hand... 19-song collection... he has selected songs with timeless tunefulness, employing his dizzying arsenal of techniques to... bring out the nuances of familiar tunes that in previous versions might have been buried in a wash of heavy instrumentation... If music is magic, King is one of the world's great magicians, able to move musical mountains without a single thumbpick. And this album proves that he's not proud - if it's a good melody he'll play it, regardless of genre, era, or artist. Be forewarned: no fine melody is safe from this man; he'll take a good thing and make it better. Reminiscing is a smorgasbord of songs and styles united by King's protean talent and devotion to melody. It's an extraordinary album..."-Anthony Adams, independent motion picture producer

Meandering (CD) Steven King has a knack for making his intricate solo guitar arrangements of jazz, pop, and bossa nova pieces sound right at home on the fretboard, as though tunes like Charlie Parker's "Anthropology" were written for the guitar. This piece and others on Meandering get the deft, simultaneous bass-harmony-melody treatment for which King is known. He makes it all sound so effortless that it's easy to get lost in the music. Highlights include his treatment of "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" and a beautiful version of Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed." —Ron Forbes-Roberts, Acoustic Guitar Magazine (web review)

"I've never heard anyone play bass lines, chords and melodies simultaneously, with such precision, as Steven King. Being the guitarist for the Manhattan Transfer, I'm particularly fond of his MT and other similar jazz repertoire. He's got it all covered..."
-Wayne Johnson, guitarist for the Manhattan Transfer

"...I wrote 33 articles for ‘Guitar Player.’ I have more than 8,800 jazz guitar recordings and nearly 2000 jazz guitar videos...I feel qualified in saying Steven King is the greatest solo guitarist I’ve ever seen or heard!!"... -Robert Yelin, music professor and Guitar Player Magazine columnist (note from Steven King - while I am honored and thankful to have received this enthusiastic review from professor Yelen, I am, like all of us, constantly inspired and humbled by new advancing artists who are achieving amazing new levels of musicianship, as it should be. My only claim is that I know very little, but I do that pretty well.)

How good do Beatle songs sound arranged and played by on solo acoustic guitar? How about with the orchestral riffs and counterpoint included in the guitar arrangements?

Steven King's "Beatle-ng!" series of 7 CDs

Read published press reviews on King's "Beatle-ing" CDs
Listen to sound samples from the CDs

Classical Swing (CD) - This may indeed be a first, a unique concept in guitar music CDs - a solo guitar exploration of some of the greatest music ever written from two points of view, CLASSICAL and JAZZ. Steven performs many true-to-the-original arrangements of classical standards on nylon string classical, each followed by his jazz treatment of the same titles performed on his Chasson steel string acoustic with "bass expansion ". Titles include Faure's 'Sicilienne', Rachmaninoff's 'Vocalise", Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze' 'Air on a G String' 'Brandenburg #3' and 'Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring', Pictures at an Exhibition, Delibes' 'Flower Duet' from 'Lakme', Bizet's 'Intermezzo' from 'Carmen', Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy', and Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet'. HOW TO ORDER

Steven King's Fingerstyle Guitar College Online

gives you computer-playable lessons and great song arrangementst -legal access to all King's acclaimed song tabs arrangements! YOUR COMPUTER CAN PLAY THE LESSONS AND SONG ARRANGEMENTS (as well as print them) as you view the music, tab, treble clef, and lit up guitar fingerboard hits - using the"Tefview" player, a free software download at www.tabledit.com (or you may choose PDF files if you prefer). Enrollment in the college gives you legal access (under Fair Use Law) to Steven's 300+ solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements of pop, jazz, show and TV themes, songs arranged for solo guitar including Beatles, Beach Boys, Mancini, Glenn Miller, Charlie Parker, Steely Dan...each with both tab and treble clef, as well as King's lessons on strong RH and LH techniques, improvisation riffs, and how to perform songs for solo guitar with bass lines and counterpoint. With the knowledge Steven delivers you can be playing solo gigs with skills that will literally turn heads to see where the other guitarists are hiding! Enrollment includes the entire digital version of the Big Book of Riffs. details

"...If you want to literally hear John and Paul's voices in the guitar strings and again, exquisitely well-played guitar music, put on any one of the Steven King CDs. You will not be disappointed by any of these CD's" .-published article "Four Fabulous guitarists play the FAB FOUR!" By James R. Webb