Providing the "What," "How," and "Why," master guitarist and teacher Shawn Persinger shows you how to get the most out of the best guitar books. You'll find insightful commentaries and more than 100 individually tailored guitar lessons - in all styles - that will provide beginner, intermediate, and advanced players with a lifetime of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.Unlike any other guitar method, The 50 Greatest Guitar Books is part guitar instruction, part music appreciation, and part literary criticism. Persinger delivers as much practical musical content as he does analysis and educated insight.Includes contribution from legendary educators and players: Rik Emmett, Henry Kaiser, Steve Kaufman, Wolf Marshall, Tim Sparks, and many more.More than 100 stylized guitar lessons: Chord Voicings, Arpeggios, Two-Handed Tapping, Fingerpicking, Slide Guitar, Walking Bass Lines, Improvisation, and much more.Featuring all styles: Blues, Classical, Funk, Metal, Rock, Jazz, World, Ragtime, Flamenco, Bluegrass, Gypsy Jazz, Pop, Latin, Fingerpicking, Country, Fusion, and more.

(Guitar Collection). This comprehensive collection for all guitarists includes 100 songs in genres from jazz standards, to pop/rock favorites, Motown masterpieces and movie music, to traditional tunes, country numbers and classical pieces. Notation styles include: note-for-note transcriptions (Blue on Black * Give Me One Reason * Sweet Child O' Mine * Wild Thing); Easy Guitar with Notes & TAB (Building a Mystery * Circle of Life * Day Tripper * Fur Elise * Misty * Torn * Walk This Way); Easy Guitar (Boot Scootin' Boogie * I Shot the Sheriff * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody); Chord Melody Guitar (Alman * Bourree * Estudio); Fingerstyle Guitar (Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * My Heart Will Go On); and Guitar Riffs (Angie * Brown Eyed Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Layla * My Girl); and more!

(Guitar Collection). Guitar World picked 'em, and now you can play 'em thanks to this collection of 100 must-know guitar leads transcribed note for note! This unique book also includes insightful background and performance notes for more than 40 of the best solos. Songs include: Alive * All Along the Watchtower * Aqualung * Bohemian Rhapsody * Cliffs of Dover * Crazy Train * Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) * Eruption * Get the Funk Out * Hotel California * Layla * Little Red Corvette * Money * November Rain * One * Pride and Joy * Sharp Dressed Man * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stairway to Heaven * Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental) * Sultans of Swing * Sweet Child O' Mine * Sympathy for the Devil * Walk This Way * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Won't Get Fooled Again * Working Man * You Shook Me All Night Long * and more.

(Fake Book). This is the ultimate rock guitar collection! It features 200 classic and contemporary hits with melody, lyrics and chord frames, plus authentically transcribed guitar parts in notes and tablature! Songs include: All Day and All of the Night * American Woman * Angie * Another One Bites the Dust * Ballroom Blitz * Bang a Gong (Get It On) * Black Hole Sun * Blue on Black * Carry On Wayward Son * Centerfold * Change the World * Come Out and Play * Crazy Train * Cult of Personality * Don't Fear the Reaper * Double Vision * Dream On * Dust in the Wind * Every Breath You Take * The Freshmen * Give Me One Reason * Gloria * Heartache Tonight * Hey Joe * The House Is Rockin' * I Feel Fine * Iris * Iron Man * Layla * Learning to Fly * Little Sister * Money * My Generation * Nights in White Satin * Owner of a Lonely Heart * Paranoid * Patience * Piece of My Heart * Pride and Joy * Push * Revolution * Rhiannon * Roxanne * Semi-Charmed Life * Smoke on the Water * Something to Talk About * Suffragette City * Sultans of Swing * Susie Q * These Eyes * Twist and Shout * Two Princes * Welcome to the Jungle * Woman from Tokyo * Wonderwall * You Got It * more!

In 1952 the first Gibson Les Paul solidbody electric guitar was made and 2002 will be the 50th anniversary of its creation. This book is a chronicle of the entire range of Gibson Les Paul guitars, the stories surrounding their creation and the artists (such as Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton) who played them. Made by the Gibson company, the Les Paul was the result of a collaboration with brilliant guitarist Les Paul, one half of the famous Les Paul and Mary Ford Duo. Every model is described and its different specifications unravelled, with colour photographs that reveal the complexity and beauty of these important guitars over the last 50 years.

(Guitar Collection). A great collection of 50 "standards" that you really need to know if you want to call yourself a guitarist! Includes: All Along the Watchtower * Beat It * Born to Be Wild * Brown Eyed Girl * Cocaine * Communication Breakdown * Detroit Rock City * Hallelujah * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction * Iron Man * Oh, Pretty Woman * Peter Gunn * Pride and Joy * Seven Nation Army * Should I Stay or Should I Go * Smells like Teen Spirit * Smoke on the Water * Sunshine of Your Love * When I Come Around * Wild Thing * You Really Got Me * and more.

Featuring standard notation and tablature, this new book & audio package introduces basic accompaniment patterns, how to use the thumb and fingers, Travis" picking, and much more. Readers learn the applications of folk, blues, ragtime and new age styles to solo guitar while learning beautiful new chord voicings."

(Guitar Collection). 50 songs essential to any guitarist's repertoire, including: Against the Wind * Barely Breathing * Boulevard of Broken Dreams * Champagne Supernova * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Fast Car * Free Fallin' * Hey There Delilah * Ho Hey * I Won't Give Up * Layla * Let Her Go * Mean * One * Ring of Fire * Signs * Stairway to Heaven * Trouble * Wagon Wheel * Wish You Were Here * Yellow * Yesterday * and more.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). The name says it all: the 50 best as decided by the experts at Guitar World magazine transcribed for guitar note-for-note. Includes: All Along the Watchtower * All Day and All of the Night * Barracuda * Bohemian Rhapsody * Carry on Wayward Son * Crazy Train * Detroit Rock City * Enter Sandman * Free Bird * Highway to Hell * Hotel California * Iron Man * Layla * Misirlou * Pride and Joy * School's Out * Smells like Teen Spirit * Smoke on the Water * Sweet Child O' Mine * Tush * Welcome to the Jungle * You Really Got Me * and more.

(Book). The world's most famous guitar had a golden anniversary in 2004, and this official, authorized book/CD package offers the best photos, quotes, facts and sounds to properly celebrate this achievement. From Buddy Holly to Jimi Hendrix to today's hottest players, the Fender Stratocaster defines rock'n'roll for generations of fans and players. Special features include exclusive photos from the world's greatest guitar collection, as well as a CD with musical examples of famous Strat sounds and styles hilariously performed by Greg Koch even spoken excerpts from the author's interviews with the Strat's beloved inventor, Leo Fender. This book also recognizes that the Stratocaster's deeper significance lies in the music that guitarists have created with it. You'll hear what Strat players have to say about their instrument, their music and each other. The Fender Stratocaster both reflects and influences popular culture worldwide. The Stratocaster Chronicles focuses on the people who brought it into the world, the designers and builders who refined it, and the players who have taken it from there.