The Illustrated Complete Guitar Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Making Music on the Guitar

Do you want to explore new styles? Change your sound? Master that lick? Know your slurs from your string bends? Or simply learn a few new songs? This book shows you how to do all this and more. "The Complete Guitar Handbook" is a comprehensive practical guide and reference source to the guitar, targeted at guitarists of all styles. With its compact and highly portable format, it enables the reader to explore the world of guitars in the home, the studio or at college. Opening with a Start Here section, the book provides clear starting points for different levels of skill and interest. The reader is then led through easy-to-follow explanations of learning the basics, and on to exploring a wide range of different playing styles and effects.