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 instrument
Different approaches to tuning
Effective practicing and getting the best from your hands
Tons of full pieces in a great variety of styles
A guide to musical theory and composing, specifically written for the guitarist
Extended chords, harmony, modal soloing and unusual improvisation
Self-accompaniment and building exciting rhythm parts
Loads of advanced techniques and effects such as raked harmonics and tapping
A guide to the use of different pickups and their properties
Caring 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!

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