Whether you're playing blues rock classical or folk-all the chords you'll need are here Even Eric Clapton started with a few basic chords. & Guitar Chords For Dummies offers guitarists of every ambition skill level & musical genre a key to the simplest & most complex guitar chords-over 600 in all. Illustrated with a grid showing the position of the fingers on a string a photograph of the chord being played & a brief comment on the chord & how to play it this handy portable reference offers musicians whether experimenting at home or playing in a coffee house instant access to the full range of chords that can be played on a guitar. Covers the theory & techniques of guitar chords Features a handy portable design which can fit into a guitar case

Includes:: a convenient lay-flat (wire bound) format allowing users to easily try out new chords An ideal resource for broadening musical technique & getting new ideas Guitar Chords For Dummies will help you whether you're just picking up the guitar or a seasoned musician add sparkle & range to your musical repertoire.

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Guitar Exercises For Dummies

Includes:: over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities.

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Guitar Family Trees is a striking visual account of the most prominent guitars in the instruments illustrious history from the earliest Renaissance acoustics right up to state-of-the-art 21st century models. This comprehensive book charts the history of the most respected manufacturers & the evolution of their guitars in more detail than ever before. Specially designed photographic guitar family trees including four special fold-outs provide at-a-glance overviews of the development of every make & model decade by decade. Terry Burrows then takes a close-up look at 200 iconic models to create an invaluable catalog of guitars. A stunning full-color photograph of each model is accompanied by informative text tracing its development with key design & sound features highlighted & an exhaustive

Specification list. Burrows also reveals the guitarists who love to play each model & the tracks on which you can hear it played.

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This title

Includes:: simplified arrangements of over 60 guitar tunes from around the world. It contains simple

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The bestselling music guide
- now updated & with a FREE DVD! Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think
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Since the dawn of the electric guitar hip players & manufacturers have been aware of the degree to which the design & specs of the magnetic pickups used on any given instrument will affect its sound & performance. Never before however have there been so many options available for so many different types of guitars. Players today have access to accurate reproductions of the most revered of vintage pickup designs from 50 years ago & more along with any conceivable hotrod modification or upgrade of the form plus countless original & adventurous designs that bring something entirely new to the table. & all of these are available from both large replacement-unit manufacturers & small independent craftsmen alike as well as the major guitar manufacturers themselves. Its a revolution of tone to be sure & that means theres a dizzying amount of information to take on board if you hope to nail down the pickups & therefore the sound that are right for you & your instrument. The magical tonal properties of certain pickups have become almost a religion with many players & an industry has been born out of guitarists desires to alter their tone by swapping this critical link in the signal chain. Changing pickups can result in one of the most dramatic & immediate sonic alterations achievable from any single-component swap that can be made on your entire guitar. Its also one of the simplest modifications to achieve & often relatively affordable too. Swapping pickups can yield dramatic changes in gain dynamics frequency range & overall voice
- all the elements that combine to create your tone. It can also bring about extremely subtle sonic adjustments that are arguably significant only to the player themselves but are nevertheless worth achieving. Dive in blind however & this alteration in tone whether subtle or dramatic is entirely random & potentially counterproductive. Understanding precisely how any pickup swap will alter your sound rather than taking a stab in the dark
- & then either stabbing again or just deciding to live with it if the results arent what you hoped for
- requires a lot of study & thought. The better you understand what makes different pickups sound the way they do & how different elements of their design & construction contribute to variations in tone & response the better youll be able to assess how a given set of pickups might work toward your own sonic goals. This is where Guitar Pickups: A Guide for the Player" comes in & myth hype & snake oil go out. Get the knowledge & its a whole lot easier to bring the tone onboard."


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This expanded edition for beginners to experts is a step-by-step manual to maintaining & repairing electric & acoustic guitars & basses. Players learn how to set up a guitar & keep it in top form by mastering basic maintenance. It features an essential DVD that makes guitar maintenance easier than ever. New features include set-up specs of leading players; stronger coverage of guitar electronics including pickups & wiring diagrams; & expanded coverage of acoustics. ...

This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag" is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs & writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia & the West. Using these as well as her own original research in NKVD archives & interviews with survivors Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror its zenith in the late 1940s & eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation synthesis & moral reckoning." ...

Jonathan Swifts classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726 seven years after Defoes Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame & breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands & societies whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput the giants of Brobdingnag & the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit & its attack on political & financial corruption as well as abuses in science continue to resonate in our own times. ...

Thus gentle Reader I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years & above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth. In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive & whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gullivers Travels purports to be a travel book & describes Gullivers encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput Brobdingnag Laputa & the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consummately skilful blend of fantasy & realism makes Gullivers Travels by turns hilarious frightening & profound. Swift plays tricks on us & delivers one of the worlds most disturbing satires of the human condition. This new edition

Includes:: the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.

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