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Reddit mentions of The Guitar Handbook: A Unique Source Book for the Guitar Player - Amateur or Professional, Acoustic or Electrice, Rock, Blues, Jazz, or Folk
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Alfred Publishing Co. Model#00330105
Specs:
Color | Multicolor |
Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 8.5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | October 1992 |
Weight | 2.05 Pounds |
Width | 0.7 Inches |
the guitar handbook
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The best book on the subject I've ever read is called The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer. It contains everything from the history of the instrument all the way through to diagrams on rewiring your own pickups. My favourite section, though, is on theory where everything from modes to modulation gets covered in quite some depth.
I've had that book for about ten years now. It's worn out and in pieces, but I still read from it everyday and I'm still learning new stuff.
Edit: Found it!
Edit 2: Read a monthly magazine called Guitar Techniques. It's a british guitar mag with lessons by pros like Guthrie Govan, Geoff Whitehorn, etc. Unlike rags like Guitar World which are 90% ads and 10% interviews with celebrity guitarists who can't play worth a damn, GT focuses on improving your playing. Obviously it has a healthy dose of theory for all skill levels covered in every issue.
Everything this guy said is gold. I would add a couple things.
http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269624397&sr=8-1
You can get a lot of this info on line, but the book is a classic.
Ralph Denyer's 'The Guitar Handbook'
I had a copy of this book back in the late '80s that I'd lost at some point. Bought a newer edition a few years back when I found it. Takes you through all aspects of the instrument, and the basics of playing it.
The Guitar Book, by Tom Wheeler is one of my favorites:
https://www.amazon.com/guitar-book-handbook-electric-guitarists/dp/0060145595
I suspect there must be an updated edition from this century.
I also like The Guitar Handbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Professional-Acoustic-Electrice/dp/0679742751
I'm sure there are others, but those are the books that first came to my mind.
I've had this book for years and use it all the time.
I'm very interested in this one as recommended by grampageoff up there.
Even cheap guitars can be real players if they are set up properly.
So, either get it set up properly (much cheaper than a new guitar) or learn to do it yourself (even cheaper and not terribly difficult). There are lots of books that can tell you how to do it. I learned from Ralph Denyer's Guitar Handbook
The Guitar Handbook is one of my favorites.
The FAQ recommends this book, which is an excellent guide for beginners. As for books of music, what style of music do you want to learn?
The Guitar Handbook should be handed out with every first guitar.
Yep, this book recommended to me by my teacher 17 years ago is my bible. But I guess these days you could probably youtube anything.
Book 1 and Book 2
Like the other guy said, talk to your mates.
I also highly recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
Even if you're not a guitar player there are chapters covering amps, pa equipment, live sound, effects, etc.
The guitarist handbook - Ralph Denyer
http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
I started out with this book a few years back, and because of its lack of pictures and illustrations, I thought it wasn't all that complete.
After buying several other books, I found myself using this one more and more because of how thorough and complete job it does covering all topics. If something is not mentioned in this book, it lets you know where to find it.
Here's a great site that explains the CAGED system, which in turn explains the fundamental layout of the fretboard very well.
http://www.cagedguitarsystem.net/
A great all-around book is "The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer. It has everything from Theory to construction to influential players and the history of the guitar in one handy resource.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
get this, seems just what you're looking for
http://www.amazon.com/The-Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Perhaps it's this popular book that I have and like The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer
I took a one-semester guitar class in college, which had The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer as a required textbook. Now, we could've gotten away without the book for the content of the class. The only time we referenced it for class purposes was to use the chord chart.
But man, I'm glad they made us buy that book. It's got everything: music theory, history, terminology, setting up electronics... everything. Except songs. There are no songs in it.
Pick up The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer. This will teach you literally EVERYTHING about the guitar. This is an incredible resource of information if you want to learn the guitar from different views. It will teach you tricks for tuning (including alternate tunings, theory, tableture, and so on.
Glad to see that you're on the road to guitar independence. It's great because nobody can know better how you want your guitar to play than you! This book has everything, it is indispensable. The Guitar Handbook
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this book is pretty good for all around knowledge. there's a bunch of theory basics, amp discussion, guitar setup, etc. probably not the greatest detail about guitar setup, but it explains most of the theory and has nice drawings.
I am avoiding playing songs by ear, right now. I'm learning to walk before I run by simplifying it and focusing on the sounds of scales. I'm working on my music theory knowledge alongside my ear. I'll play the scale from a book I'm working in, and listen to the sound of the scale, notes, and chords.
This book.
If you want a recommendation, this book is widely regarded as being a must-have for all aspects of guitar, it has a pretty good section on maintenance and setup. I learned that little tidbit from it.
What is a book equivalent to this, but for bass guitars?
https://www.amazon.ca/Guitar-Handbook-Professional-Acoustic-Electrice/dp/0679742751
There is a Guitar Handbook written by Ralph Denyer. Buy him a copy and it will be a perfect place to learn about chords, intervals and scales. Buy a real book please, not ebook.
https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Professional-Acoustic-Electrice/dp/0679742751
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This book is one of the most useful tools for any guitar player/musician I have ever read.
https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Professional-Acoustic-Electrice/dp/0679742751/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1522698934&sr=8-11&keywords=Guitar+book
It really breaks down a lot of concepts really well, can help make you a more refined guitar player almost no matter what your skill level, and will give lots of insights into basic music theory. I highly recommend it.
Like cap said, any book with information you don't know will help regardless. With that said, I'll still share the book that helped me immensely when I was beginning to learn: "The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer
I could not stress enough how much this book taught me. When I was in 8th grade only 2 years into playing, I would take this book out from the school library over and over until I moved on to high school in 10th grade. I read the thing front to back twice, taking pages of notes and practicing at home. There is so much information in this book that it's hard to believe how I've never seen someone recommend it before. It taught me more than any website has, including Ultimate Guitar which I also visited at the time (not to discredit the place). It teaches you technique, music theory (very, very extensively), repairs, performance technique/technology, etc...
Alright I'm done fapping over it haha, but case-in-point: I highly recommend this book. For $4.50USD used, it's a steal.
I started in the late 90's when I did not have internet access at home so these were my resources....
The Guitar Handbook - https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
Constructing a Solidbody Guitar Roger Siminhoff - https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Solid-Body-Guitar-Complete-Technical/dp/0881884510
And I saw how Leo did it in "The Fender book" - https://www.amazon.com/Fender-Book-Complete-History-Electric/dp/0879302593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473794173&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Fender+Book
That and watching a lot of episodes of "The New Yankee Workshop" and seeing how I could apply that knowledge to building a guitar.
/u/LeSel's comment should clear up this particular problem, but as general advice: don't try to learn this stuff off random web pages. Get a book that explains things logically. You can get Denyer's Guitar Handbook for less than a buck on Amazon plus shipping and it will save you many, many hours of frustration.
Read this book cover to cover
The book I learned with