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Congratulations, you have a new amazing hobby, guitar! You already memorized basic chords or played few favorite songs. Now you want to understand more about chords. What is actually behind C Major chord in a simple handy position on the first fret? Why the same chord is also located on the third fret? Where can I find more C Major chords on the neck, and how many these chords totally on the neck? Intervals, triads chord theory looks boring and complex?...
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A stunning visual guide to the history and development of all types of guitars, packed with detailed information and profiling everything from the legendary Martin flat-tops to Gibson's arch-tops guitars and Fender's twelve-string electrics. The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook is divided by type into nine chapters, each telling the full story of a major type of guitar. It is sub-divided geographically so the reader gets a global picture of guitar making...
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These beautiful instruments have long been a favorite with musicians. This book is a history, source book and owner's manual for players and fans which covers the facts and figures necessary for serious collectors. In addition to many black and white historical photos, there is also a color section highlighting models. The book covers the company's full history, specific styles and models of all instruments, Hawaiian, blues, and jazz artists who have...
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The PRS Guitar Book details every facet of the wonderful electric guitars made by PRS, the Maryland-based company founded in 1985 by musician and guitar builder Paul Reed Smith. The paperback edition is updated to include all the latest information on the acclaimed Singlecut models, as well as the intriguing story of the Santana SE - the company's first venture into overseas manufacture. An inviting narrative describes the evolution of this internationally...
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This monograph is for all you guitar players and for people who would like to play guitar. If you would just like to play guitar, it would be best for you to pay a professional teacher. This manual is, intended to help you study guitar and learn about scales, chords, and the structure of songs. Diagrams are included to help you along. This work is just a basic pedagogy. It provides variety so you can really enjoy swinging guitar with enthusiasm.
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Learn how to make eight of the most unique and imaginative instruments found anywhere - from a one-string guitar made from a soup can, to a hubcap banjo. Author Mike Orr takes you inside the growing trend of handmade music and shows you how with a little creativity and some salvaged parts, you can create your own arsenal of instruments that look good, sound great, and deliver some foot stompin' fun!
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The Easyway to Play Guitar is the only music book that teaches you how to read and play guitar at the same time. Many guitar books only instruct to the point that readers can imitate playing the guitar, without truly understanding what they're playing. Others are filled with confusing, poorly explained chord charts. Lastly, many avoid the task of teaching reading music. The Easyway to Play Guitar avoids these problems by laying a foundation for understanding...
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How to play Chord progressions without jumping across the fretboard? Where are second-degree chords in Em? Where is G chord first-degree bass note of the 5th string? And many similar questions when you begin learning the fretboard. This book is for the guitarists, songwriters, and instructors to help with the chord progressions visualization on the fretboard. Each table: Chord Shape->Progression Degree->Fretboard position.
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The Problem with Most Guitar Books Many guitar books today are still bogged down with technique and music theory… Stuff that, while useful, can now often be learned for free and very easily on the internet. But let's be honest… Many guitarists don't even have any interest in learning to read music. Because many of the greats never did. (Ever heard of The Beatles? Eric Clapton? Tommy Emmanuel?) After all, that's the great thing about learning guitar...
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El maestro Juan Mario Monroy propone el Estudio Integral de las escalas en la guitarra clásica en el que explora distintas posibilidades para un sistema de aprendizaje ordenado y estimulante para cualquier estudioso, con ejercicios técnicos. Inicia con una breve aproximación a la escala y una retrospectiva histórica que confirman su importancia estética y función didáctica. Luego, presenta de manera detallada la técnica de la escala considerando...
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First published in 2001 and now updated and expanded, History of the American Guitar begins in New York City in the 1830s with the arrival of Christian Martin, from Germany, to set up the Martin company. From that historic moment, the book takes readers on a fascinating and comprehensive visual tour of U.S. guitar history. Over 75 brand names are represented, with more than 300 guitars photographed in stunning detail, including Bigsby, Danelectro,...
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Introduced in 1954 as one of Gretsch's "Guitars of the Future" the White Falcon was an overwhelmingly impressive instrument. The influence of this spectacular new guitar spread to other models and guitar manufacturers. It was the dawn of a half-century of awe-inspiring guitars which are now favored by widely popular artists including Pete Townshend, Tom Petty, Alanis Morisette, Sheryl Crow, John Frusciante, Bo Diddley, and more. This book compiles...
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A Passion for Handmade Musical Greatness. In a modern revival of a great American tradition, sliders, pickers, strummers and makers are coming together in what they call the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution. Musicians and hobbyists are finding new creative freedom by making their own musical instruments out of unconventional materials. Their ingenious creations range from simple cardboard diddley bows to wooden box electric six-string guitars that are...
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Although rock 'n roll is America's all-time leading cultural export, half of the classic rock sound – hard-hitting, skintight, audacious, and vibrant – was born across the pond. Musician, journalist, and writer Dave Hunter's The British Amp Invasion: How Marshall, Hiwatt, Vox, and More Changed the Sound of Music charts the forty-plus year confluence of British industrial ingenuity and popular culture that grew a minor "also-ran" offshore industry...
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The electric guitar is an amazing instrument that is capable of facilitating the creation of many musical sounds and styles. This book contains a series of interviews that strives to dig deep into the various aspects of electric guitar tone and style.
What experiences and wisdom has guided some of the world's top guitar players in their pursuit for the ultimate tone and a signature sound?
What can we learn from the gear gurus that have invented...
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Everyone knows the legends - Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck, and all the other six-string giants - but the evolution of guitarcraft wasn't forged purely by über-famous players with large cultural footprints. Scores of lesser-known pioneers such as Tommy Bolin, Danny Cedrone, Tampa Red, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe contributed vast numbers of licks, riffs, solos, tones, compositions, techniques, and musical concepts that inspired generations of guitarists...
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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 that are truly beautiful. In addition, these chords are easy to play. Many are two-note and three-note fingered chords. These chords are not available anywhere...
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This is the ultimate hands-on, how-to manual devoted to the famous Gibson Les Paul, updated with the latest models and guitar tech advice. This book is a step-by-step, heavily illustrated guide to everything about Gibson Les Paul guitars! It shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying your guitar, how to use it, and how to keep it rocking once you have one. Let world-renowned guitar expert Terry Burrows be your guide to this awesome...
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Simple approach to play Christmas standards on the guitar. Easy melodies combined with guitar chords. Written in both TAB and music notation. In minutes you can be performing your favorite Christmas songs. Uncomplicated arrangements that still bare the melodies and aura of each Christmas song. Songs include: O Christmas Tree, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, What Child Is This, The First Noel, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark...
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Libre, sin rigor, colorido e irregular son algunas de las indicaciones expresivas que encontraremos en las Tripartitas cromáticas para guitarra, obras caracterizadas por acordes disminuidos y aumentados, por el uso de la escala cromática y de las series dodecafónicas como forma de organización. Exploración integrada orgánica y funcionalmente a la guitarra solista por su creador para desarrollar un discurso musical vital, fúnebre y con gracia,...
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