These songs (and the karaoke versions) appear in the novel Guitar Notes by Mary Amato. See www.thrumsociety.com for more information about the book, to download <a href="http://thrumsociety.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/gn-songbook.pdf">lyrics and chords</a> , and to watch how-to videos. You can download these tracks, add your own harmonies, instrumentation, make your own covers, use them to make music videos, or more. Do whatever you want as long as you use these tracks for non-commercial purposes (in other words, you can’t sell the songs or try make money from these songs or use them without my permission in any money-making venture). Please share what you create with me and other readers by making sure to add the tag “Mary Amato” and to send me the link through my contact info. Have fun. Just play. Just sing. Just thrum!

Songs from the Novel Guitar Notes

A song from the novel Guitar Notes by Mary Amato. See thrumsociety.com for more info.

Lucky Me

Getaway

Waiting in a Tree

Pomegranate Waltz

Tell-Tale Heart & Guilty Mashup

Guilty

Tell-Tale Heart

Mr. Odd

A Little Room To Play

This is the second in a series called Creativity Letters: Advice from the Heart of a Teaching Artist by Mary Amato. All rights reserved. These open letters are my thoughts about how to deal with things like perfectionism, criticism, performance anxiety, and more. I’m releasing them in audio format whenever I can. They’ll range from two minutes to ten minutes in length. They won’t be packages of perfection; they will be honest and passionate. May they reach my students as well as new colleagues who are on the art-making journey. Please pass them on.

After I’m done recording all of these, if there’s interest, I’ll collect them and published them all in both audio and print format. For more, see https://www.thrumsociety.com/the-creativity-letters/

Stay tuned, stay in touch, and keep creating.

My Letter on Being Comfortable with Discomfort

A poem by Mary Amato in celebration of libraries based on an experience I had teaching a workshop. To see a video version, https://youtu.be/RWrN6HMMoj8. maryamato.com

And The Moon Glow Like This At The Library

Consequences

In this essay, Mary Amato relates the story of how and why she decided to talk with students openly about the death of her mother. First published by The Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University; Fall 2023. Copyright Mary Amato. All rights reserved. 

A print version of this is available on https://www.maryamato.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Fiction-Writer-Tells-the-Truth_CSE_2023.pdf

A Fiction Writer Tells The Truth

This is the third in a series called Creativity Letters: Advice from the Heart of a Teaching Artist by Mary Amato. All rights reserved. These open letters are my thoughts about how to deal with things like perfectionism, criticism, performance anxiety, and more. I’m releasing them in audio format whenever I can. They’ll range from two minutes to ten minutes in length. They won’t be packages of perfection; they will be honest and passionate. May they reach my students as well as new colleagues who are on the art-making journey. Please pass them on.

After I’m done recording all of these, if there’s interest, I’ll collect them and published them all in both audio and print format. For more, see www.thrumsociety.com/the-creativity-letters/

Stay tuned, stay in touch, and keep creating.

My Letter On How And Why To Say Yes

This is the fourth in a series called Creativity Letters: Advice from the Heart of a Teaching Artist by Mary Amato. All rights reserved. These open letters are my thoughts about how to deal with things like perfectionism, criticism, performance anxiety, and more. I’m releasing them in audio format whenever I can. They’ll range from two minutes to ten minutes in length. They won’t be packages of perfection; they will be honest and passionate. May they reach my students as well as new colleagues who are on the art-making journey. Please pass them on.

After I’m done recording all of these, if there’s interest, I’ll collect them and published them all in both audio and print format. For more, see www.thrumsociety.com/the-creativity-letters/

Stay tuned, stay in touch, and keep creating.

My Letter On Turning To Art For Comfort

This is the fifth in a series called Creativity Letters: Advice from the Heart of a Teaching Artist by Mary Amato. All rights reserved. These open letters are my thoughts about how to deal with things like perfectionism, criticism, performance anxiety, and more. I’m releasing them in audio format whenever I can. They’ll range from two minutes to ten minutes in length. They won’t be packages of perfection; they will be honest and passionate. May they reach my students as well as new colleagues who are on the art-making journey. Please pass them on.

After I’m done recording all of these, if there’s interest, I’ll collect them and published them all in both audio and print format. For more, see www.thrumsociety.com/the-creativity-letters/

Stay tuned, stay in touch, and keep creating.

My Letter On How To Improve

This is the sixth in a series called Creativity Letters: Advice from the Heart of a Teaching Artist by Mary Amato. All rights reserved. These open letters are my thoughts about how to deal with things like perfectionism, criticism, performance anxiety, and more. I’m releasing them in audio format whenever I can. They’ll range from two minutes to ten minutes in length. They won’t be packages of perfection; they will be honest and passionate. May they reach my students as well as new colleagues who are on the art-making journey. Please pass them on.

After I’m done recording all of these, if there’s interest, I’ll collect them and published them all in both audio and print format. For more, see www.thrumsociety.com/the-creativity-letters/

Stay tuned, stay in touch, and keep creating.

My Letter on Receiving Feedback

Harmony heavy, meditative and spiritual song by Mary Amato created in response to a prompt in my Meditative Art & Writing Workout class. www.maryamato.com

Wash It Away

Song by first graders in my songwriting residency at Potomac Elementary School with a focus on science. www.maryamato.com

Magnet Magnet

Ruler Power is a song written by first graders at Potomac Elementary School during my songwriting residency. The focus was on math. www.maryamato.com

Ruler Power - 3:7:18, 4.13 PM

You Need Me is a song about soil (dirt!) written by first graders at Potomac Elementary School during my songwriting residency. www.maryamato.com

You Need Me

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of spring 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved. 

The Good Crooks is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending. 

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much!

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Two

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter One

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of spring 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved. 

The Good Crooks is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending. 

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much! www.maryamato.com

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Four

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved.

The Good Crooks is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending.

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much! www.maryamato.com

Good Crooks Book Four Opening

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Three

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of spring 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved.

The Good Crooks is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending.

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much! www.maryamato.com

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Five

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Six

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Seven

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Nine

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Eight

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of spring 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved.

The Good Crooks is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending.

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much! www.maryamato.com

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Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Eleven

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Ten

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Twelve

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Thirteen

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter Fourteen

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter 15

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter 17

Good Crooks is a book series written by Mary Amato; illustrated by Ward Jenkins. The first three books are available in paperback and on kindle from your favorite online or book-and-mortar bookstore. The fourth book, Quackily Ever After, is the grand finale and is being currently offered exclusively as a free audio book from the author in response to the school closures of 2020. Amato is releasing several chapters each week, starting April 1st, 2020, on Soundcloud. Book Four is written by Mary Amato; cover illustration by Ward Jenkins, music by Ivan Amato; edited by Andrea Caspari. All rights reserved.

The Good Crooks series is about twins named Billy and Jillian, whose parents Ron and Tanya Crook want them to be criminals like them. But the twins have a secret: they don’t want to be criminals, they want to be good. Suspicious that Ron and Tanya might have stolen them from their real parents when they were babies, they set out in this fourth and final book to try and find their happy ending.

I'm trying to keep up with the demand to release these weekly. If you notice any errors, please leave me a comment so I can correct in a future edit! Thanks so much! www.maryamato.com

Good Crooks Book Four Chapter 18

Note: Mary Amato is an award-winning author and singer-songwriter. Several of her novels include original songs, such as Guitar Notes, Get Happy, and The Naked Mole-Rat Letters.

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