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Covering every aspect of learning how to play the guitar, from choosing an instrument and using a pick for the first time to starting a band and writing your own music, The Complete Guitar Manual is a complete course of professional lessons that works both as a personal tutor and a comprehensive textbook. The Complete Guitar Manual is the ultimate self improvement guide for all aspiring guitar players great for aspiring guitarists and professionals alike, the book includes techniques and step by step photographic instructions that help you build new skills or hone existing ones. Includes a DVD with video sequences showing how to play and how it should sound.

From early morning till late at night, Arthel Watson was surrounded by sounds. He heard the whistle of the train as it passed through the hills near his home in North Carolina. He heard chickens clucking and cows mooing. He heard his pappy playing banjo and voices raised in song. It was all music to him and he drank it in like cool water from the well. But he couldn't just keep it inside. He had to make music too.

Contains interviews with musicians--such as Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, and Frank Zappa--columns, playing tips, and short pieces on significant moments in guitar history which were all originally featured in "Guitar Player" magazine.

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King?s Lucille, Eric Clapton?s Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan?s First Wife, Billy F Gibbons? Pearly Gates, Neil Young?s Old Black, and many more. Here?s the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music.

Seventeen-year-old Cade, a fierce survivor, feels alone in the universe until she learns that she was created in a lab in 3112 and entangled at a quantum level with a boy named Xan, sending her on a galaxy-spanning journey toward a real connection.

Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their high school.

Presents step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for playing acoustic and electric guitar; discusses guitar history, several genres, and how to practice, play with friends, and select a teacher to continue one's learning; includes information on software amplifiers, USB guitars, and online guitar instruction sites; and provides examples and interactive exercises on an audio CD.

The author describes how a perfect acoustic guitar is made as he tells the story of Wayne Henderson, master artist, who has crafted guitars for performer Eric Clapton.