Best Guitar Books

Beatles Gear Book: for Hardcore Fans

2010-01-29T02:56:00.000-08:00

Excellent Beatles music equipment book which represents their history alongwith their usage of musical instruments, amps, recording devices, moog organs and all the music production technology of their times.

Eventhough the book sometimes becomes much technical, it provides excellent information to both Beatles fans and today's musicians. Who can forget John's Rickenbacker, Paul's Hofner violin bass, George's large Gretch and Ringo's Ludwig drum kit. The book starts with John Lennon's first guitar and goes on to 1969 recording sessions.

You will understand their personalities and individual musical tastes according to their choice of instruments and how the instruments evolved during the years. I don't want to give many details, I am sure that even the seasoned Beatles fans will learn something useful and interesting from this book. You can reach the other reader reviews at Amazon.

Hey! Do not forget to check special collection Beatles guitar straps as well :)

Best Blues Guitar Instruction Book for Beginners

2009-06-26T04:15:00.000-07:00

Here is the most selling and top rated Blues Instruction book at Amazon. Blues You Can Use !

If you are dreaming to play beautiful solos and rhythms but didn't progress much until now, this complete guitar method will enable you to learn chord progressions, many interesting riffs, scales on Blues/Rock, Texas, Delta, RandB, Gospel, Early Blues Rock&Roll. The book successfully shows how to join theory and practice in blues guitar styles.

The method ships with an accompanying cd which includes extra 21 complete solos and full back music.

Hal Leonard Excellent Bass Guitar Book Complete Edition

2009-04-09T02:44:00.000-07:00

Hal Leonard is one of the most highly qualified publisher of musical instruction books including guitar methods, bass guitar, keyboards, drums etc.

Hal Leonard Bass Method Complete Edition will enable you to progress your skills from the absolute zero to competitive level if studied in the suggested step by step plan. No prior knowledge on guitars and music required. The method set includes 3 books and 3 CDs. Bass playing is real fun and you will enjoy playing this beautiful and essential instrument with the unique melodies taught here from beginner to advanced sections. Everything is clear with diagrams, fingerings, notes and tabs. If you are considering to buy a bass guitar book, this is an excellent choice.

The Christopher Parkening Classical Guitar Methods

2009-02-19T11:07:00.000-08:00

Written by one of the well known guitar virtuosos of our time, Christopher Parkening (Highly talented student of legendary Andres Segovia), these 2 part classical guitar methods cover beautiful classical pieces, many exercises (arpeggios, chromatic scale, finger dexterity development) , duets while you progress your classical guitar technique and understanding of music skills (note reading, harmony etc.) to upper levels step by step.

The first method of the guitar learning series include 50 beginner level but very beautiful classical guitar pieces and how to play and practice them correctly.

Prior experience to guitar is not needed. The master explains everything from the very very beginning (parts of the guitar, placing your fingers etc.) clearly with a good blend of academic teaching approach.

Second method of Christopher Parkening continues with more advanced subjects like all notes in the upper position, clear tone production, guitar techniques such as tremolo, harmonics, vibrato, pizzicato and slurs etc.

The first part of the book is about technical development. Second part of this book has an excellent collection of classical guitar songs by famous composers (Dowland, Bach, Scarlatti, Carcassi, Sor, Tarrega etc. ) according to eras like Renaissance, Barouqe, Classical, Romantic and Modern etc.

Overall, these books are favorite choices of many guitar teachers for classical guitar education.

Fifty Easy Classical Guitar Solos Book and CD

2009-01-29T14:42:00.000-08:00

I just adore these cute classical guitar pieces. Honestly, eventhough I listen and try to play complex progressive rock and metal songs, classical guitar will always be my top musical pleasure. There is nothing better and beautiful and expressive than a beautiful romantic classical guitar tune if played with emotions and in tunes.

Fifty Easy Classical Guitar Solos book and cd cover all periods of classical guitar history. All songs have performances played by the author to play along or for guidance. Notation and tablature is available for each classical guitar song as well.

Eventhough, it is written that the all guitar solos are easy, there is increasing difficulty of the songs. It is a nice thing to make progress to intermediate level as well.

As I said before, classical guitar pieces in this book are beautiful to perform and listen eventhough they are for beginners.

Fifty Easy Classical Guitar Solos

Gain Excellent Guitar Fretboard Knowledge

2009-01-29T14:23:00.000-08:00

Let's be honest. Without a good knowledge of fretboard, our solos and improvisations will be just dull. Another difficulty most guitar players face is the memorizing or understanding the music theory behind a song.

After reading Guitar Fretboard Workbook, you will never look emptily to the guitar fretboard trying to figure out which notes to play and what scale to use. Chord positions in different places of the fretboard will reveal itself as well with some shape methods.

Understanding the scales and identifying them note by note without any old school memorization will be easier after you completed this book.

Guitar Fretboard Workbook

Hal Leonard Complete Guitar Method for Beginners

2009-01-29T14:07:00.000-08:00

Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for people who don't want to spend several hundreds dollars on private guitar lessons and learn to play the acoustic or electric guitar perfectly using a structured proven methodology. It is currently one of the most popular and highly recommended guitar methods in the market. The set consists of 3 books and 3 Cds full of tracks to play along using different slow and fast tempos.

To become an accomplished guitar player, you shouldn't restrict yourself to only a limited song styles like Rock or metal. This method has a good selection of songs in a variety ranging from rock songs, folk songs, christmas songs, african tunes, classical pieces etc.

Playing blindly using tabs is not a good way to learn music. This book teaches you not only playing guitar but also give a strong foundation of music theory and harmony. Recommended for beginner level guitarists.

Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Complete Edition: Books & CD's 1, 2 and 3