The Total Guitar: The Complete Guide to Playing, Recording and Performing Every Guitar Style with Over 1000 Chords

Terry Burrows

ISBN 10: 1586637010 / ISBN 13: 9781586637019

Published by Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, 2002

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256 pages. 10.90x8.50x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 1586637010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Total Guitar: The Complete Guide to Playing, Recording and Performing Every Guitar Style with Over 1000 Chords
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586637010
• ISBN 13: 9781586637019
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.8 kilograms

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Synopsis

Add one guitar and this ultimate course to become an accomplished musician in no time at all! Whether you're dreaming of being a professional, or just want to have fun singing and strumming, you can trade air guitar for a real one with this guide full of instruction and inspiration. The heart of the book: a playing section, divided into 20 self-contained lessons, each introducing new ideas and techniques. And, they cover a range of styles: rock, folk, country, jazz, blues, and classical. You'll start right at the beginning, with how to stand and sit properly while holding the instrument, and find out how to tune it, do fingerpicking, master timing and rhythm, and improvise. An extensive chord dictionary contains over 1,000 chord fingerings. Bonus: biographical portraits of the pioneer greats, like Les Paul, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Richards, with details of their equipment and a discography of their key recordings.

Reviews

It isn't often that a book with "total" in its title delivers, but this is one of the exceptions. Burrows is a prolific writer on all things guitar (e.g., K.I.S.S. Guide to Playing Guitar), and his latest covers everything. Part 1, on playing, contains 20 lessons, each introducing new ideas and techniques and fully illustrated with color photos. Chords, scales, timing, and rhythm are a few of the topic covered. In Part 2, there is a complete chord dictionary with notation and fingering charts. Part 3 discusses amplifying the guitar (whether acoustic or electric) and, finally, recording and performing. Sprinkled throughout the text are brief biographical portraits of great players with details of their equipment and a discography of their key recordings. This is an absolutely first-rate production, with glossy paper stock, full-color photos and illustrations throughout, and a quality binding. In all, a lot of book for the price; highly recommended for public libraries.
Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence
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