"The guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in the world, which is why it's so appealing to musicians. Guitar For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you everything a beginning or intermediate acoustic or electric guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it. Fully revised and updated, with online video and audio clips that help you learn and play along, you'll explore everything from simple chords and melodies...

This step-by-step book, which includes 2 audio CDs and a DVD, takes you from your first day of exercises to playing full songs with a backing track. Includes full-color photographs and video instruction, practical advice and tips, and the easel-back book enables the book to stand up on any flat surface.

Guitar beginners will learn how to use a pick and form all the most important chords, while those with some experience will learn fingerpicking and flatpicking styles, along with other essential techniques. More than two-dozen classic songs are taught. Includes tabs.

Learn to play bass guitar the easy way, following simple illustrated lessons from all styles of music. Lessons start with the basics - how to hold the bass, how to tune and start playing - and take the student to a playing level with sufficient skills to join a band. Each lesson is written in the standard TAB format with easy-to-read rhythm notations, and step by step pictures of the correct finger positions. Also includes a library of scales.

There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines, Guitar Lick Factory helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build their lick repertoires. In addition, it opens the door to jazz for blues and rock players of all levels, gives jazzers the key to authentic blues and rock, and shows the important connections among all three genres. It contains hundreds of ready-to-play...