Guitar category: 1577 books

Up until a few years ago, finding guitar players who could sight read melodic lines was about as rare as sighting a whooping crane. Today, because of widespread study and the use and popularity of the guitar, melodic sight reading has become an essential part of guitar playing. It is now important...

The most in-depth, revolutionary of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.

This comprehensive book combines three volumes by jazz guitar great Frank Vignola; 52 choruses of funky, bluesy and bop-oriented guitar solos played over blues changes in common key signatures. Vignola's solos will allow the reader to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo....

John Fahey was a pioneer in composing and arranging guitar solos in open tunings. In this lesson series for the intermediate guitarist, John teaches a wide variety of techniques, musical textures and styles. The book includes the notation and tablature for the lessons and access to online audio featuring...

Leo Fender's company changed the course of popular music in 1954 when they introduced the Stratocaster. Since then, the Strat has been played by countless guitarists, from Jimi Hendrix to Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck. In this book, interviews with important Strat players from every decade illustrate the...

In 1982, Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars. Millions of guitars later, and celebrating its 30th anniversary, Squier is almost as important to the company as the main Fender brand. Guitar pundit Tony Bacon reveals the stories behind the original...

The Freestyleguitar Method is a collection of golden chords that can only be found by using alternate tuning's on the guitar. There are many alternate tuning books, and all the one's I've bought were full of generic blah blah chords. However, this book contains lessor known, rich and thick chords...

Tengger Cavalry's guitar tab song book includes the guitar tabs of band's most popular songs such as War Horse, Horseman and Hymn of the Earth.

Easy classical arrangements of well-known carols transposed to keys suitable for solo guitar. Original harmonizations are retained if possible, but chords are sometimes structured to sound full and complete on the guitar.

This is a seven string acoustic project. I started with a damaged acoustic guitar as a base: Stripped the neck and top off and began my build on this basic skeleton. The work covered includes building a soundboard; gluing the soundboard to the body and all that entails. Building a custom rosewood...

With This Top-Rated Guide Learn About Guitar Lessons, Guitar Vibrato, Hammer On, Pull Offs, Playing Harmonics, String Bending and More!

The legendary flamenco guitarist and best-selling Mel Bay Publications author, Juan Serrano, is well-known for his sound recordings, transcriptions of his music, and technical methods for flamenco guitar. Now the music that formed his technical repertory and was the musical foundation given to his...

The Modern Fingerstyle Method gets the student up and playing within the first few pages, it was designed for the absolute beginner with absolutely no experience whatsoever. Students are directed toward reading lines, not notes. Steve Eckels introduces the tools necessary to construct fingerstyle...

This collection of 16 guitar duets offers professionals, teachers or students a wide variety of styles from the Baroque to the Post-Romantic periods. Some of this music is unique to the guitar repertoire. For example, the six Serenades introduce some of the most popular music of the late 19th century...