Guitar category: 1577 books

Grade 2 / Expanded version of the famed Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method adds new, carefully graded playing material for every concept taught. Solos are presented in various styles. A special feature is the addition of in-depth picking studies in the keys of C, Am, G, Em, F, Dm, D, and Bm. Additional...

Tune your top two strings up a semitone and simplify the guitar. Do you get lost on certain parts of the neck? Do you find yourself getting stuck into the same old patterns and licks? Sometimes it is really difficult to remember which notes are on which string on which frets. If you tune in perfect...

The Guitar Picker’s Fakebook gathers together in one volume the most-played, most-requested, most useful tunes from the full complement of regional and national styles. Included in the over 250 tunes are jigs, reels, and hornpipes from the British Isles and the US; Old-Time breakdowns and...

The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: Best Bands Ever! presents a huge collection of over 100 classics by the greatest rock and pop talent in the world, ever! From The Byrds' pioneering folk-rock of Eight Miles High and The Kinks' wry Dedicated Follower Of Fashion through to Radiohead's anthemic Creep and...

Another entry in the Fretmaster series, this book teaches you both the history and technique of slide guitar's masters, such as Brian Jones, Lowell George, Bonnie Raitt, and Robert Johnson. While exploring their musical lives and legacy, Slide Guitar provides lessons that give you the skills and encouragement...

Guitar Springboard is an innovative series of tuition guides, allowing you to boost your playing skills and knowledge by concentrating upon key musical areas. In this edition, discover an entire compendium of melodic ideas through an introductory exploration of harmony. By learning how to assemble...

The latest addition to Tony Bacon's acclaimed series of guitar books, 60 Years of Fender gives a year-by-year history of the most successful electric guitar maker. In 1950, Leo Fender introduced to the world the solidbody electric guitar – the instrument known as the Telecaster. He soon added two...

The Gibson Les Paul is possibly the electric guitar most associated with rock ’n’ roll. The result of a collaboration between Gibson’s Ted McCarty and jazz guitarist Les Paul in response to the success of Fender’s Telecaster, the Les Paul has gone on to become a prized instrument played by...

These handy, accessible books provides literally all the information you need to know to gain a new hobby or understand a difficult topic. "Guitar" makes learning how to play an acoustic or electric guitar easy and will serve as the perfect introduction to this popular instrument. This title...

When John Hurt was rediscovered in 1963, he was presented with a very rare opportunity to expand and re-write his musical legacy, late in life. And he did just that, recording over seventy songs previously unrecorded by him, adding to the repertoire of thirteen titles he had recorded in 1928. In The...

Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing & jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba,...

Bodybuilders lift weights to make the muscles stronger!What about a Guitarist?How does one become stronger thus more fluent in their Playing?Scales!Exploring the entire Fretboard ‘UP’ & ‘DOWN’!Aren’t Scales difficult to memorize?Not if you develop a ‘system’...

This book serves as a follow-up to Ben Monder Compositions, with an emphasis on the compositions found on the 2013 recording, Hydra, as well as some older pieces that didn't make it into the first book. They are scored for solo guitar, guitar trio, guitar and voice duo, and quartet with one or multiple...

The most complete and thorough reference book on rock guitar. Contains detailed teaching on licks, breaks, and fills, playing rhythm patterns and styles, lead scales for soloing, and tricks for building speed and adding color to improvisation. In notation and tablature. Comes with access to an online...