Eddie Van Halen's long-time personal guitar tech answers readers' questions on a broad range of gear subjects. Matt serves up the "411" on everything from Elvis Presley's guitar to computer interfaces for hard-disk recording. Amply illustrated with...
John Carruthers, legendary guitar builder and repair guru to the stars, has teamed up with Alfred to produce this ultimate beginner's guide to guitar repair and maintenance. Comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and close-up shots clarify how to...
John Carruthers, legendary guitar builder and repair guru to the stars, has teamed up with Alfred to produce this ultimate beginner's guide to guitar repair and maintenance. Comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and close-up shots clarify how to...
John Carruthers, legendary guitar builder and repair guru to the stars, has teamed up with Alfred to produce this ultimate beginner's guide to guitar repair and maintenance. Comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and close-up shots clarify how to...
The new 12th Edition of the Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars is now available! This book is completely reformatted, revised, and updated including a bound-in CD-ROM that includes thousands of color images! Pricing for vintage and new guitars is...
The new 12th Edition of the Blue Book of Electric Guitars is now available! This book is completely reformatted, revised, and updated including a bound-in CD-ROM that includes thousands of color images! Pricing for vintage and new guitars is...
You walk into a local vintage guitar shop. You see what you think is the exact vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar you've been looking for the past seven years. Is it really true? Have you actually found it? How can you know for sure? You don't have your...
This handy chart helps you set practice goals and track your daily practice time for chord studies, scales, arpeggios, songs, licks, riffs and more. More than a year's worth of weekly practice charts! Includes blank staves for standard and tablature...
Learn what every guitarist needs to know about caring for his or her instrument. This 48-page book covers the proper way of changing a string, setting the action, reslotting the nut, proper tuning techniques, maintaining the finish, adjusting the...
Make your guitar scream like an elephant, meow like a cat, or sound like a seagull. Imitate a sitar, a cello or a racecar. This book includes a wide variety of special guitar tricks described in detail with exact effects settings and photographs....
Feast your eyes on more than 300 of today’s most creative, imaginative, and gorgeous hand-made guitars—all illustrated in full color and featuring information about the innovative artisans who created them. Meet guitar-making legends, such as C.F....
Today's top guitar players present the fundamentals of speed and accuracy. This unusual collection of pyrotechnical guitar instruction is dedicated to the unabashed quest for speed - not just playing better, but faster! Whatever style you favor and...
Norman's Rare Guitars features some of the guitars from one man's collection -- a look at the last 30 years of buying, selling, and collecting guitars. It includes 276 pages of breathtaking full-color images of the finest collection of vintage...
A completely updated edition of the best single-volume approach to playing rock guitar today – including tips, techniques and transcriptions from Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads, Duane Allman, Muddy Waters, and others....