The Complete Guitar Manual

by D.K. Publishing

From Jimi Hendrix to Ed Sheeran, every guitar hero started somewhere - so stop dreaming and start playing!

Covering acoustic and electric, this book includes everything you need to know, from choosing your instrument and reading guitar tab, to using amplifiers and effects. Easy-to-follow lessons take you through all the steps to becoming a great guitar from tuning for beginners to advanced techniques for experienced players such as fingerpicking and two-handed tapping.

Pick up guitar theory along the way, including rhythm, chords, and scales, and how to fine-tune your playing for blues, pop, rock, and more. The Complete Guitar Manual also helps you take your music to the next level with practical tips on forming a band, recording, and playing gigs.

Whether you want to play along with your favorite songs at home or rock out onstage, this is the ultimate step-by-step guide to guitar greatness. With superb photography, easy-to-understand tips and tricks, and free online technique videos accompanying each session, you will learn how to play the guitar like a pro and hit all the right notes.

352 pages, Hardcover

Published August 11, 2020

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Karrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brief intro to basics. How to read tabs. Every scale imaginable.

[Yycdaisy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a fan of this type of book as it tries to do too much. It might be sort of a reference book if used with a good method book. You would need a method book as this one has very few pieces to learn, mostly the things to try are just short examples. There are two things I really dislike: 1) the chords are all shown in a nonstandard way. Some people may like the chords this way, they have photos of a guitarist with most of them, but if you've learned them the standard way it's disorientating. 2) the music notation is really small. In the end this book comes across as a coffee table book, something to look at and maybe read about guitars, guitarists, and music related things.