These popular pieces bring Ryan’s unique style of writing to intermediate guitar students. Ryan has placed ‘useful technical and musical ideas into each one to help create a particular image or mood’. Golden Days, Joie de Vivre and Memories of Summer are recorded by Gary Ryan on his best-selling album, Patterns in Time, all eight pieces being excellent concert items in their own right. In this publication Ryan introduces every piece with a fascinating paragraph explaining the inspiration behind each one and gives helpful technical tips to play them too.