Guitar category: 1577 books

Learning to play Rock Guitar is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast. Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine...

The Essential Rory Gallagher: Volume 1 contains fourteen songs from The Essential album arranged for Guitar tab (including standard notation) complete with full lyrics. In addition to these careful and faithful transcriptions is a foreword by Michael Molenda, editor of Guitar Player Magazine,...

(Guitar Method). Here's your complete guide to getting your guitars to play and sound their best! Step-by-step instructions and photos teach how to adjust the action, truss rod, bridge saddles, nut, intonation and more on electric guitars and steel string acoustic guitars. Basic electronic repairs are...

The Best of The Doors (Guitar TAB) includes seventeen classics from one of the greatest, most influential bands of the psychedelic era. Ray Manzarek's organ, Robbie Krieger's guitar and especially Jim Morrison's voice and poeticism combined to create a highly individual sound which captured the darker...

Learning to play Bass Guitar is a great experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you familiarise yourself with the instrument and then gets you playing - fast! Full-colour pictures, clear diagrams and really practical advice combine to make Start-Up:...

Grade 2 explores more complex rhythms in carefully graded solo and duet settings with parallel lessons in music theory- just enough to keep students up to speed in terms of what they are expected to play. The book begins with a review of playing in the key of C major but soon goes to F major/D minor...

If you have a guitar and want to start playing immediately, this is your book. A best- seller for decades, Mel Bay's Fun with the Guitar will teach you 9 basic chords and will show you how to strum guitar rhythm to 23 songs in the keys of C, G and D. Includes access to online audio and video.

This is a superb collection of 8 original flamenco concert guitar solos and two exciting guitar quartets. The selections feature Juan Serrano's usual technical brilliance and capture the vitality, fire and haunting Moorish moods characteristic of flamenco music. All solos are in notation and tablature....

This book will usher you through the music maze and answer all those troublesome frequently asked questions such as how do I get a record deal, what sort of guitar is right for me...? What does a stage manager actually do at a gig...? - everything from buying a plectrum to cutting your first CD! Includes...

One of the easiest and most practical approaches to jazz guitar on the market today, this method thoroughly covers the basics for jazz guitar solo performance, including: theory, scales, chords, phrasing, passing tones, and much more. This highly acclaimed study of jazz rhythm chords and their application...

The Chord Songbook: Starter Book for Guitar is the easy way to learn. This is a brand new tutor method to accompany the ever-popular Chord Songbook series, a song-led way to learn the guitar which uses just the words and simple chord boxes, with photos and diagrams to help you as you learn. Sing...

Written for both beginners and more experienced players, Essential Skills for the Guitarist presents a set of core techniques every guitarist needs to know to play in almost any musical situation. Instead of focusing on a particular style of music, the focus is on learning a set of fundamental...

Understanding DADGAD is a complete introduction to using the DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle acoustic guitar. The book systematically explores the tuning, starting with simple chords and scale patterns, ultimately showing how DADGAD can be used to play in nearly any key and in many different musical...

Written by a master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar, this text teaches the history, tunings, and other techniques found in slack-key guitar music. Because of the altered tunings in slack-key guitar music, all of the examples and exercises in this text have been written in tab only. Topics discussed are:...