guitar

A guide for acoustic, electric, and bass guitars with step-by-step instructions and familiar tunes as well as tips on how to successfully pursue a career as a professional musician.

A step-by-step guide to playing the guitar for beginners. Includes tuning, reading music, and playing.

Provides over fifty graded tunes for guitar players. Musical and technical skills are explained, with photographs showing hand and finger positions.

A guide to playing the guitar that provides information on reading music, the basic techniques and cords, famous guitar styles, creating a home recording studio, and other related topics.

Includes discographies and index. Chronicles the music and lives of the most influential guitar players in jazz, blues, country music, and rock. Each essay is accompanied by a discography.

Companion volume to: Acoustic guitars and other fretted instruments. Traces the electric guitar from the mid-1930s to the present.

Contains seventeen lessons designed to teach beginners to play guitar by ear, and includes a CD with audio demonstrations, as well as chords and lyrics for nineteen songs.

Designed for self-instruction in basic folk guitar techniques. Includes music for applying each lesson.

A photograhic history of American fretted instruments, tracing the evolution of the mandolin, banjo, and guitar from the 1800s through the 1990s.