Music Books for Guitar

The Gibson 335 Guitar Book tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models, as played by B. B. King, Alvin Lee, and Eric Clapton, among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars, cool players,...

Finally, the long-awaited English edition of this historic Japanese book is here! The Beauty of the 'Burst pays tribute to Gibson's magnificent Sunburst Les Pauls made between 1958 and 1960, the most...

This book compiles a selection of the author's lessons originally published in Guitar Player magazine, ca. 1992-2000. Each lesson is self-contained and designed to provide the reader with a stylistic...

Music historian Dave Rubin surveys the gear, tones, licks, and lives of 100 top guitarists in this exclusive book/CD pack. Includes rare photos, bios, tablature, and an audio CD featuring every lick i...

Alles Wichtige über die Gitarre im Bildersachbuch. Für Leserinnen und Leser ab acht Jahren. Junge Schüler wollen mehr über ihr Instrument wissen als das, was in den gängigen Schulwerken steht: Wie sie...

Boris Perott, a Russian physician, came to England after the Revolution. His lifelong association with the guitar and in particular his creation of the Philharmonic Society of Guitarists in London, in...

Das handliche Nachschlagewerk für Rockgitarristen im DIN A5 Format. Alle wichtigen Fachbegriffe und Persönlichkeiten aus dem Bereich Rockgitarre ausführlich und leicht verständlich erklärt. Zusammen g...

Welcome to The Fender Archives - part history, part archive, part scrapbook, and part treasure chest. You are invited along on a research expedition, a sort of archeological dig through several sites:...

PRS guitars today appeal to a growing number of musicians, from Carlos Santana to Al Di Meola, from Zach Myers to Mark Tremonti. This book examines every part of PRS history, with an in-depth story, b...

Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own - a glitzy, wacky, retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular music, from timeless stars to unknown teens. The Beat...

To many vintage guitar fans, it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and, during the following year, introduced a completely new design, the one that we know now as the...

Wayne Charvel started Charvel Manufacturing in San Dimas, California and has been designing and building guitars for 49 years, working for B. C. Rich and Gibson, and for Fender in the 1970s. Wayne has...

Teach guitar for profit! This book will show you how to set up and develop a profitable guitar studio. Besides the ability to teach guitar, running a profitable studio needs effective systems for attr...

Armed with a macro lens, an incredible eye for detail, and a truly groundbreaking vision, Lisa Johnson's guitar art is taking the world of fine art photography on a rock-and-roll ride. A compilation o...

The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their a...

Chord Master is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes - which are all there in the Chord Matrix - a large portion of the book explains how to use chords, with inform...

Make every dollar count with the new 15th Edition Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars. This edition boasts 900 pages of content, including a color Photo Grading System and guitar reference information and v...

Tom Wheeler, author of the landmark Stratocaster Chronicles (9780634056789), a book that covered the first 50 years of the Strat, now has delivered the perfect companion book to any guitar player's bo...

The slang burst has been used to describe a specific Gibson Les Paul, manufactured from 1958 to 1960. The impact of this guitar has and continues to shake the music world. From the dozens of guitar id...

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 O...

Certainly no name resonates across the spruce and maple boundaries of the classic American guitar like that of John D'Angelico, master guitar builder. Here in personal and cooperative histories, anecd...

Introduced in 1922, the Gibson L5 is the precursor of the modern archtop guitar. It was the first archtop to feature f-holes, which allowed it to project through the horn-dominated bands of the day. I...

Back in the good old days, all of America was infatuated with the singing cowboys of movies and radio. This huge interest led to the production of cowboy guitars. These were guitars manufactured with...