Whether learning the simplest cords and choosing the first songs you want to play to learning more complex styles and advanced improvisation, The New Complete Guitarist is the easiest-to-follow reference for people just picking up a guitar. Including the most up to date fingering, chords, notes, scales, modes, and sequences, this is the only all-visual approach to learning all styles of guitar.
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A coffee table book and a through instruction manual in between the covers. -- Discoveries
An appealing book in the style of the Eyewitness series, this should be both popular with and useful to students. -- School Library Journal
Highly recommended for guitarists of all levels. -- The Guitar Magazine
An appealing book in the style of the Eyewitness series, this should be both popular with and useful to students. -- School Library Journal
Highly recommended for guitarists of all levels. -- The Guitar Magazine
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Richard Chapman is a respected guitarist, journalist, and media personality. He has taught many leading performers and acts as a consultant to the auction house Christie's in London as an authority on the history of the guitar.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Clear, concise, and straight to the point,
By Ben Up the Tree "benupthetree" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New Complete Guitarist (Paperback)
I never got to read the original Complete Guitarist, which was out of print when I got around to buying this book, but let me say this book is very good. The original, from what I have heard, was more richly illustrated than this book is, but The New Complete Guitarist still keeps the meat and bones of the original. It starts from a complete beginners standpoint (how to hold the guitar), through to advanced scale and chord structures, all the way to how to maintain your guitar. I have had other books on guitar playing, but this one cuts straight to the nitty-gritty. It's basic chords are indispensable for a beginner and the sprinkling of music theory really lets you understand the chords you are playing, instead of tedious memorization. I would recommend this book to anybody who owns a guitar and would like to push themselves further. This book will grow with you.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The New Complete Guitarist (Paperback)
The presentation of this book is phenomenal which is why I bought it. I glanced through it and found its presentation, photos and text to be appealing. However, once you actually start to read the thing, it's extremely difficult to follow from chapter to chapter. They try to cram too much info into each page which makes it counter-productive to the learning process. I have benefited much more from the Fretboard Logic series and even those Hal-Leonard introductory books. I only recommend this book to those with an intermediate level of knowledge about the guitar and to those that won't get frustrated spending several days/weeks on just a few pages of this book.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat disappointing,
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I've been playing guitar for about fifteen years now, and just recently decided it might be a good thing to get a book that could help me fill in the spaces of technique and theory that had undoubtedly accumulated in my playing since I began.
I chose this book among all of the beginner/intermediate how-to's at the bookstore because it looked like it would be comprehensive and also easy and fun to use. On a once-over at the music section, the text seemed clear and easy to follow and the book was filled with helpful illustrations and sidebars. I bought the book and took it home and at first was very happy with it, but the further I read, the more disenchanted I became. The main problem I had with this book is that it doesn't build on its own concepts at a sensible rate. The authors frequently make frustrating leaps, introducing a concept in one chapter and then over-immersing the reader in it in the next. This book was almost helpful in many ways, but ultimately more frustrating than it was worth. I think it could be improved, however, and made into a more useful guide, if the authors were to streamline the presentation of information and not using advanced concepts when the reader has not been adequately prepared for them.
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The contemporary guitar can be separated into four main types: the nylon-string classical, the steel-string acoustic, the archtop, and the solid-body electric. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lowest keynote, asymmetric headstock, stretch fingering, primary major chords, major scale ascends, rosewood body, different chord types, speaker simulator, root voicings, fret repeats, ist string, rosewood fingerboard, chord links, tremolo unit, octave root, major scale starts, fretted positions, modal chords, mahogany neck, interval between the root, fixed melodic, tremolo arm, maple body, humbucking pickups, arpeggio notes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster, Eric Clapton, Abbey Road, Floyd Rose, Paul Reed Smith, Jeff Beck, Lloyd Loar, Brigg Fair, Jimmy Page, Minor Pentatonic Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- 2006 Note-a-Day Calendar for Guitar: 365 Lessons for Guitar by David Franklin on page 79
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