The most complete and comprehensive guide to the acoustic guitar to date. This huge volume with 2 CDs featuring 158 audio examples covers absolutely everything you will need to know to approach master and enjoy the acoustic guitar to its full potential...How to care for your instrumentDifferent approaches to tuningEffective practicing and getting the best from your handsTons of full pieces in a great variety of stylesA guide to musical theory and composing specifically written for the guitaristExtended chords harmony modal soloing and unusual improvisationSelf-accompaniment and building exciting rhythm partsLoads of advancedtechniques and effects such as raked harmonics and tappingA guide to the use of different pickups and their propertiesCaring for your instrument in transit and all aspects of gigging - from equipment behaviour to etiquette.Seriously detailed and fully comprehensive - if this book doesn't cover it it simply isn't worth knowing!
