Willy's Books

Here is a collection of my books! Click on the Pic to purchase any of them!

Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning Vol. 2: English, Scottish and Irish Ballads
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $25.00

8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
182 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1507509838 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1507509839
BISAC: Music / Printed Music / Strings

Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning Is Back!!!

Learn how to play mandolin! This time author Willy Minnix focuses on ballads from England, Scotland and Ireland. With over 25 ballads included in this volume, you are sure to enjoy learning how to play songs that have stood the test of time! Some of the songs included are Black Jack Davey, Barbara Allen, the Bonny Ship the Diamond, Arthur McBride, King Arthur, Robin Hood and Little John, Mary Hamilton, and many, many more!
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Authored by Greg Kemp, Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $26.00

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
748 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1494365394 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1494365391
BISAC: Fiction / Thrillers

In the modern world, the factions of governments, religions, and military powers are scrambling to answer one question: Who controls the Fear that controls all people? Dr Karol Seguin has been hired by her publishing company to document the day to day decisions of the current president of the United States. He has uncanny intelligence and universal popular regard. And from his impending resume of distinction, his constituency has commissioned that his life be documented as in line with the great leaders of history. Karol and her acquaintances, Col. Thomas Graile and Justice Mel Sodeq, are bombarded with a flurry of new questions. Is there technology to boldly manipulate the many populations of the world by only one person? Are there secrets of antiquity that give hints and clues to a power greater than mortality? What is a legend? What is a conqueror? Ultimately, three questions exist: Is the world controlled by omnipotence or debilitation? Is it better to be omnipresent or to be continual in spirit? And the greatest of these questions is: Will the minds of conquerable people fall by the individual who is omniscient or the individual who can impose confusion? Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning Christmas Edition B&W: Christmas Edition Black and White
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $20.00

8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
134 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1505381665 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1505381665
BISAC: Music / Printed Music / Strings

Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning is back with a new Christmas Edition. This book is over twice the size of the original Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning book, and also in FULL COLOR! This book is destined to become a holiday favorite.

Learn how to play mandolin!

Learn over 30 Christmas songs, read lots of interesting trivia about the songs and enjoy the bright holiday photographs.

Like the original, this book includes both sheet music and tabs that allow anyone from beginner to advanced player to get something enjoyable out of this book. Included are beginning, intermediate and advanced arrangements for solo and duet mandolins, or if you're a violinist or fiddle player, DDAD tuning will also work for your instrument as well!

Also included are guitar or piano chords for many of the songs so you can play along with other musicians. And just like the original, there are many chords and picking advice included. And one final thing that every Christmas book needs, a discussion on modes is included to help you better understand some of the more obscure songs.

Merry Christmas from Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning and Willy Minnix!
  
Mandolin: Dead Man's Tuning Vol. 1
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $20.00

8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
64 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1470006969 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1470006960
BISAC: Music / Musical Instruments / Strings

Volume 1: Basics

Learn how to play the mandolin. How to play mandolin in open D tuning, also called Dead Man's Tuning or DDAD tuning.

This is the first book in a series that teaches how to play mandolin in alternate tunings. It is perfect for beginners or advanced players who want to learn a different style of playing.

Topics covered are picking patterns, chords and basic theory, finger style and string technique. Original artwork and diagrams are well done and make the topics easy to understand. Also included are photographs of hand made mandolin's by renowned mandolin builder Larry Hopkins.

The included tablature contains both the standard sheet music as well as tablature in DDAD tuning and ADAD tuning for several of the songs. Many of the songs are duets designed for teachers and students, original songs, folk tunes, Irish melodies and traditional blues, jazz and bluegrass tunes arranged for both Dead Man's Tuning and ADAD tuning. Several of the songs are recorded on Mr. Minnix's CD "Mandolin Studies," which is also available.

This is one of the only books available on the subject of alternate tunings for mandolin.

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Hard Rain: Common Questions about the End Times (2nd Edition)
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $19.99

5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on White paper
500 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1482039566 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1482039567
BISAC: Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology

Have a lot of questions about the End Times, but just get more confused as you listen to popular End Times preachers, teachers and writers? Pastor Willy Minnix gives clear easy to understand information about the End Times and what it all means for you.

The book is presented in a question and answer format making it easy to find questions that you might have had about the Rapture, the Tribulation, the Antichrist, the 2nd Coming and much, much more. Also included are step by step instructions for Bible study and how to logically make sense of prophecy and other difficult passages of the Bible.

Pastor Minnix has boiled down over 20 years of research on the End Times into a very thorough synopsis of what we can expect as Bible prophecy unfolds.

Jesus, Son of God (2nd Edition): A Collection of Sermons, Essays and Thoughts About the Most Important Person in History
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $10.00

5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on White paper
146 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1499601862 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1499601867
BISAC: Religion / Christian Theology / Christology

Jesus, Son of God is the 2nd Edition of the book by Willy Minnix. It includes topics concerning the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Topics covered include The humanity and divinity of Christ, the 2nd Coming, Sanctification, Healing and the Omnipotence of Christ.

Fairies: The Atrium: and other stories and selected poems
Authored by Willy Minnix

List Price: $8.00

5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Black & White on White paper
122 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1470185077 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1470185075
BISAC: Fiction / Fantasy / Short Stories

This book contains a couple short stories and poems that were first published in the Christian Sci-Fi Journal.

"I went down to the crossroads..." is a tale of someone retracing the steps of Robert Johnson, and what he actually found down at the crossroads!

The title story, "Fairies: The Atrium" is the tale of a genetic experiment gone wrong. The narrator details of what started out as a science fair project in middle school, but grew into his post graduate and ultimately life work. His genetic creation of diminutive creatures he dubs "fairies," grows from a couple little people into a whole society of creatures complete with all of the social problems that humans face. When he genetically develops the perfect creature to teach the rest of his "children" how to live, something goes terribly wrong, and his atrium will never be the same...

Included in this volume are several poems that were also published in the Christian Sci-Fi Journal.

Willy's Albums

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Holy Water

List Price: $15.00

56 minutes, 14 tracks
Water Moccasin

UPC: 889290173850

Willy Minnix's 2003 Album "Holy Water" is back with a new look and a few additional songs. This album gained airplay on college stations and gave us one of his most popular songs "Sloth." Other tracks include the title track, "I Am" and the lullaby "Fire Trucks Flying to the Moon."


Tribulation Songs Vol. 2

List Price: $15.00

42 minutes, 11 tracks
Water Moccasin

UPC: 889290174383

Willy Minnix brings you a second volume of old time gospel songs sure to help you get through any trial or tribulation you encounter. The words to these old hymns and songs will lift your spirits and help get you through the day!


Tribulation Songs Vol. 1

List Price: $12.00

72 minutes, 14 tracks
Water Moccasin

UPC: 887936649882

Willy Minnix is back again with a CD exploring the roots of gospel. Tribulation Songs is a tribute to the great gospel blues artists of the 20's, 30's and 40's, such as Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt and others.
This is the first in a series of stripped back bluesy acoustic slide gospel, and the companion CD to his book "Hard Rain: Common Questions About The End Times."



Mandolin Studies

List Price: $15.00

45 minutes, 13 tracks
Water Moccasin Records

UPC: 886470472703

This is a collection of songs mainly written for the mandolin, with a few written as mandolin duets.

This is the first companion CD to my book series: Mandolin Dead Man's Tuning.


Go Tell It On The Mountain -
The Christmas Album!

List Price: $12.00

70 minutes, 20 tracks
Water Moccasin

UPC: 886470937561

Willy Minnix's original 2009 Christmas album updated with several extra cuts that were given away during Christmas 2011.

Songs include several favorite Christmas carols, and a several originals including "Merry Christmas Girl," "Santa Didn't Give Me What I Wanted," and "It's Christmas."

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