Product Description

This guitar tutor shows you how to learn more efficiently and includes guidance and comments from great guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, David Glimour, Brian May and John Williams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275987 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-01
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Customer Reviews

Good guitar learning book, not to complicated. Anyone could use it
I've read a few guitar how to books, this was a fairly good one. You don't need to know how to read music and beginners to moderate skilled players would benefit from it.

It is pretty straight forward, the meat and potatoes for me was the part where the author gets to the basic cord and scales that you "must know".

A good resource that you can go through fairly quickly and pick up some good skills. The CD has some tracks on it that are useful as well if you have a CD play handy.

Wonderful Book -- Short, Sweet, Practical
I bought my copy on the street, with the cover ripped off of it, for five bucks. By far the best guitar book I've ever seen. Invaluable as a reference tool, I would say.

Besides the writing itself, the book is designed, formatted, laid out really well. Even down to font and the line spacing, this book could not be easier to read or to use. At a total of 117 pages, it's the perfect size, too.

David Mead gives you very practical, immediately useful information about the guitar. He figures that the best way to impart this information to you is on a need-to-know basis, and he sticks to that policy pretty strictly. It's an excellent, very user-friendly approach, and you appreciate his brevity and conciseness.

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Beginner book
This is an excellent book, my only problem with it is nowhere in the name does it say beginner, this book will teach you your major and minor scales, and all your pentatonic, hammers, pulls, vibrato, slides, and bends, so if you don't know that stuff you need to. Great excercises, how to read tab, chords all that good stuff you already know if you can play. I would'nt call these things tips so much as necessity, I had the impression from the title that it would teach me all these neat tips, and secrets but that's not the case.