Product Description

This is the complete guide to playing, recording and performing every guitar style with over 1000 chords! Start from scratch and learn the basics, from holding the instrument to tuning. Then you'll move on to fingerpicking, timing, rhythm, and improvisation. This book contains a playing section, divided into 20 self-contained lessons, each introducing new ideas and techniques, covering a range of styles: rock, folk, country, jazz, blues, and classical. It includes an extensive chord dictionary with over 1,000 chord fingerings and a bonus section with biographical portraits of the pioneer greats like Les Paul, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Richards, as well as details of their equipment and a discography of their key recordings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2005742 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Library Journal
It isn't often that a book with "total" in its title delivers, but this is one of the exceptions. Burrows is a prolific writer on all things guitar (e.g., K.I.S.S. Guide to Playing Guitar), and his latest covers everything. Part 1, on playing, contains 20 lessons, each introducing new ideas and techniques and fully illustrated with color photos. Chords, scales, timing, and rhythm are a few of the topic covered. In Part 2, there is a complete chord dictionary with notation and fingering charts. Part 3 discusses amplifying the guitar (whether acoustic or electric) and, finally, recording and performing. Sprinkled throughout the text are brief biographical portraits of great players with details of their equipment and a discography of their key recordings. This is an absolutely first-rate production, with glossy paper stock, full-color photos and illustrations throughout, and a quality binding. In all, a lot of book for the price; highly recommended for public libraries.
Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence
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