The Complete Guitarist: The All-Visual Approach to Learning the Guitar

Richard Chapman

Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 1993 - Music - 192 pages

The all-visual approach to learning the guitar, now in paperback. Virtuoso tutor Richard Chapman offers guitar students the benefits of his master classes--in printed form, with more than 1,500 step-by-step, full-color illustrations that help the student perfect fingering, chords, notes, scales, modes, rhythm sequences, soloing, and improvising.

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User Review  - Ender2010 - Goodreads

Do you want to know everything there is to know about guitars? This book teaches the history of guitars, how to play, and the how amplifiers can effect guitar sounds. The book's strengths is it covers ...

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User Review  - Freda mans - Goodreads

This is a fantastic book on guitars! It hits every topic, from who makes them, to what you can do with them. There is not much untouched in the book. I am impressed that this book can be used for ...

About the author

Chapman is a respected guitartist, 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.

Paul is Vice President, Medical Policy & Programs, at Merck-Medco.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complete Guitarist: The All-Visual Approach to Learning the Guitar
• Author: Richard Chapman
• Contributor: Les Paul
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 1993
• ISBN: 1564587118, 9781564587114
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Music / General; Music / Instruction & Study / General; Music / Musical Instruments / Guitar