Guitars Amps and Effects - General Guitar Books, Videos, and CD-ROMs

The eMedia Essential Acoustic Guitar DVD includes 46 easy-to-follow lessons range from basics such as stringing and tuning your guitar to playing chords and strumming techniques. Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you with video demonstrations of techniques. With these song-based lessons, learning to play acoustic guitar is fun and easy.

The eMedia Essential Rock Guitar DVD includes 45 easy-to-follow lessons range from basics such as stringing and tuning your electric guitar to playing power chords and lead licks. The lessons were developed by professional rock guitar instructor Charles McCrone, a graduate of the cutting edge Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), whose more than 25 years of teaching experience will get you rocking in no time.

This guitar neck paper is a great teaching aid for pros or hobbyists. It features 48 pages of 15-fret horizontal guitar necks printed in red for contrast to written notations. Write out chord progressions, intros, runs, endings, scales, exercises, and licks.

This guitar tablature paper is great for students or professional musicians. It features 48 full-size pages of 6-line guitar tablature, printed on first quality paper. There is plenty of space between tab staffs for chord symbols and the lower lines are heavier to emphasize wound strings.

The Fender "Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar" DVD brings technology right to your living room. The DVD was designed for beginners and covers all the steps to get you started from tuning & chords to soloing and practice tips. Instructed by Keith Wyatt.

The most comprehensive and complete scale book written especially for the guitar. Newly updated with even more scale detail.

A collection of 200 rock guitar classics. Includes lyrics, chords with music notation and tablature, all in appropriate guitar keys. Includes special guitar licks and solos made famous by Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Randy Rhoads, Jeff Beck, Ratt, Bon Jovi, U2, and many others.

Learn how you can use affordable effects pedals to duplicate the sounds of rock's greatest guitarists! Straight from the 'Sound F/X' columns in Guitar magazine are the effects settings and setups for great songs from artists such as AC/DC, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Jimi Hendrix, Korn, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Pink Floyd, Joe Satriani, Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many more! Each effects setting is accurately illustrated on the accompanying CD using DOD pedals.

This excellent and affordable video teaches beginners how to get started on guitar. Covers: parts of the guitar (acoustic and electric), how to tune, how to get good tone with an amplifier, holding the pick, left- and right-hand positioning, open chords, power chords, strumming patterns, getting started soloing, and more. Features rock, blues, and country rock styles, plus footage of a live band so viewers can jam along.

The world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method has taught millions of people to play. Now learning will be even easier, thanks to this great new method video! Designed for anyone just learning to play electric or acoustic guitar, it covers: tuning up and parts of the guitar, reading both standard notation and tablature, playing chords, strumming and picking, improvising basic rock solos and lots more, with helpful on-screen music, guitar diagrams, and hand-position close-ups.

The Essential Encyclopedia for Every Guitar Player! The Guitar Handbook is the complete guide to playing the guitar - from simple chords to advanced improvisations. Its uniquely devised learning program combines specially commissioned, step-by-step photographs with a chord dictionary containing over 800 easy-to-follow fingerings, and clear, concise text. It is also a comprehensive manual on guitar hardware and performance technology, sound equipment, special effects, and recording facilities. It examines every aspect of guitar maintenance, repair, and customizing, as well as highlighting over 20 world-famous guitarists. 43 pages with full-color photos and illustrations.

This expanded edition for beginners to experts is a step-by-step manual to maintaining and repairing electric and acoustic guitars and basses. Players learn how to set up a guitar and keep it in top form by mastering basic maintenance. 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 and wiring diagrams; and expanded coverage of acoustics.

iSong is the only teaching tool that actually syncs to the original recordings of legendary musicians and today's top stars! Each iSong pack includes arrangements ranging from very simple to note-accurate transcriptions, a performance video, and a virtual fretboard or keyboard, all in one wholly interactive environment. No matter what your skill level, or whether or not you read music, iSong is a great way for you to learn songs you've always wanted to play!

A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 213 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. Songs include: All You Need Is Love - And I Love Her - Baby You're a Rich Man - Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Ballad of John and Yoko - Blackbird - Can't Buy Me Love - Come Together - Drive My Car - Eleanor Rigby - From Me to You - Glass Onion - A Hard Day's Night - Help! - Hey Jude - I Saw Her Standing There - I Want to Hold Your Hand - Michelle - Penny Lane - She Loves You - Twist and Shout - Yesterday - and many more! Book is packaged in its own protective box. A must-own for any serious Beatles fan or collector! 7-2/8' x 10-7/8'.

This Steve Vai guitar book and CD comes from one of the world's truly great guitarists. Play along with the actual backing tracks from Passion and Warfare and Sex and Religion, especially modified by Steve Vai himself! Learn the secrets behind a guitar virtuoso then play along like the pro himself. 96 pages. Includes: Answers, For The Love Of God, Rescue Me Or Bury Me, Sex & Religion, Still My Bleeding Heart, The Animal, The Riddle and Touching Tongues.

Selected songs from the "Fire Garden" record, transcribed in standard notation with tablature.

Attention all Southpaws: it's time to turn your playing around! Hal Leonard is proud to announce that their groundbreaking guitar method solely devoted to lefties is now available with a CD! Complete with photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player, this book/CD pack teaches fundamentals such as: chords, scales, riffs, strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tuning and theory; reading standard notation and tablature; and much more!

At long last, the ultimate reference for left-handed guitarists! This amazing book features photos and diagrams for over 2600 chords specifically shown for the left-handed player. It includes easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see photos, basic chord theory, basic fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms.

Chord progressions are the backbone of any song. If you know how chord progressions work you can play any song in any key on the guitar. Here are the tools you need to master those mystifying chord progressions. With this book, you will learn to unlock the mystery and take control. You will learn to: simplify chord progressions, substitute chords, and transpose songs into any key.

A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and advanced players. Note names of each string are indicated on each chord diagram to let the player know what notes are being played in the chord.

This convenient and attractive kit includes the Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 book/CD pack, Easy Pop Melodies book/CD pack, the Incredible Chord Finder, and the Basic Guitar and String Set Up video.

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method Beginner's Pack is a value-priced package containing everything a beginning electric or acoustic guitarist needs to get started! It includes the Second Edition of the Level 1 book/CD pack in the world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method, as well as the method's correlating DVD.

The Play Guitar Today package features a book, cd and a dvd that demonstrate tips and techniques for the beginning guitarist.

Ibanez -- The Untold Story tells the fascinating story of how a 19th century Japanese bookstore owned by the Hoshino family of Nagoya, Japan eventually became the company that has made instruments for George Benson, Korn, Daron Malakian of System of a Down, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, and many other influential artists.

With this DVD package you'll learn the essentials you need to start playing songs right away, without learning complex theory or reading music! This DVD teaches you to play songs made famous by artists like Eric Clapton, The Beach Boys, Willie Nelson, Creedence Clearwater Revival and more!

The Modern Guitar Method Grade 1/Expanded Edition provides valuable enhancement to the world’s most popular guitar method. This comprehensive spiral bound volume doubles the amount of studies and solos presented.

This expanded edition of the acclaimed Modern Guitar Method Grade 3 contains outstanding solos, etudes, chord melody studies, scale studies and duets in the keys of A, F#m, G, D, Em, Bm, F, Dm, Bb, Gm, Eb, Cm, Ab and Fm!

A comprehensive text filled with solos, technique and scale studies, duets and chord etudes designed to develop familiarity and skill playing in the higher positions on the guitar fingerboard.

This is a very popular guitar method. Its success lies in the fact that is extremely easy to understand and very flexible. It moves at a slow, steady pace and enables you to play chord accompaniments in 7 primary guitar keys! In addition, you will learn to strum blues chords and you will also begin to play fingerstyle backgrounds.

A unique, yet simple, format makes the Mel Bay Easiest Guitar Chord Book the best book for any guitarist. The chords are shown in a tree-dimensional visual format and are classified as easy, standard, full-sounding, barre, jazz, and rock power forms. Chords are shown in each of these categories where applicable. In each key, major, minor, dominant 7th, minor 7th, major 7th, diminished, and augmented chord forms are presented.

Jamtrax book and CD packages: practices soloing and learn to improvise in your favorite style by jamming with the live back-up band on the CD. The books provide suggested scales, chords, licks, and progressions, based on actual tunes - in standard notation and tab.

Practice soloing and learn to improvise in your favorite style by jamming with the live backup band on the jam trax CD. Learn the techniques of the professionals! The jam trax books provide suggested scales, chords, riffs, and progressions - in standard notation and tablature. With jam trax the band is always ready to jam - it's like carrying your band in your back pocket!

Jamtrax book and CD packages: practices soloing and learn to improvise in your favorite style by jamming with the live back-up band on the CD. The books provide suggested scales, chords, licks, and progressions, based on actual tunes - in standard notation and tab.

Practice soloing and learn to improvise in your favorite style by jamming with the live backup band on the jam trax CD. Learn the techniques of the Professionals! The jam trax books provide suggested scales, chords, riffs, and progressions - in standard notation and tablature. With jam trax the band is always ready to jam - it's like carrying your band in your back pocket!

Practice soloing and learn to improvise in your favorite style by jamming with the live backup band on the Jam Trax CD. Learn the techniques of the Professionals! The Jam Trax books provide suggested scales, chords, riffs, and progressions - in standard notation and tablature. With jam trax the band is always ready to jam. It's like carrying your band in your back pocket!

The Rock Guitar Chord And Scale Decks together in one package! Quite simply the best way to learn Rock guitar Chords and Scales. The wonderful and original design allows you to display any sequence of chords and scales, and see exactly how to play them! Simply fan out the pages, there is no need for flipping or turning pages.

The Art of Spanish Guitar: A Method by Celino Romero Book and CD pack. This priceless text embodies more than two hundred years of guitar playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and through the many years of playing together.

The Amsco Blues Guitar Chord Deck makes learning a real 'hands-on' experience and features over 40 blues chords in a convenient deck format of cardboard guitar-neck illustrations that fan out and indicate exactly where to place your fingers.

The Blues Guitar Scale Deck features over 40 scales with arpeggios and covers only the scales you really need to know. Learn about the modes of the major, harmonic, and melodic minor scales, symmetrical scales (diminished and whole tone), and much more.

Music Sales Scale Cards 52 Full Color Cards: Scale Cards help you learn more guitar scales in a fun, flashcard style format. 50 plus essential scales for all guitarists, whether they play rock, pop, or jazz.

Music Sales Chord Cards 52 Full Color Cards: Chord Cards help you learn more guitar chords in a fun, flashcard style format. 52 essential chords for all guitarists, whether they play rock, pop, or jazz.

The MSI Complete 5-string Banjo Player DVD is the definitive guide to bluegrass banjo, from the basics through intermediate playing techniques. Familiar songs are used to learn each concept - from Buffalo Gals to Amazing Grace, Cripple Creek, Skip to My Lou, My Bonnie, Camptown Races, Arkansas Traveler, and many others - all also included in banjo tablature in the accompanying booklet.

This acoustic guitar lesson DVD is perfect for someone with little or no guitar experience. This program is a thorough trip through basic chords and rhythms, exercises, strum patterns, and song picking. You'll be pickin' and strummin' in no time!

This acoustic guitar lesson DVD is includes the complete acoustic essentials, including: finger picking, advanced strumming, major and minor scales, blues rhythms, plus full bass and drum backing tracks.

This guitar lesson DVD is designed for someone with little or no experience. It begins at the roots of rock with an easy-to-follow look at basic rock chords, scales, lead patterns and exercises.

This DVD guitar lesson guides you from beginner to advanced levels of play. It goes through rock and metal scales in depth. An entire exercise program designed to build hand strength and coordination.

This DVD guitar lesson will challenge you with the most advanced riffs and tricks for guitar. Advanced scales, pivoting, sweep arpeggios. Learn the styles and secrets of some of the best guitarists to ever play!

This DVD guitar lesson shows you everything you need to play the Blues! Scales, leads, bends, vibrato, turnarounds, entire blues rhythms including shuffle jazz, and classic.

This guitar lesson DVD displays the most advanced techniques that metal guitar has ever seen! Includes full neck runs, sweep-tap, rakes, harmonics, whammy bar tricks, classic metal speed runs, and much more.

This guitar DVD shows one-of-a-kind workout routines that are designed to develop hand strength, dexterity, and coordination needed for guitar players at all levels.

Rockhouse Learn Rock Guitar is a great combo program designed for students with little or no musical experience.

Rockhouse Learn Rock Guitar Intermediate program will take you from a beginner to an intermediate guitar player faster than you can say Rock and Roll! Students will learn rock and metal scales in depth.

The Hot Licks Guitar Lesson DVD George Benson The Art of Jazz Guitar features the 8-time Grammy-winner covering chord substitutions, turnarounds, the Wes Montgomery style, and more. George Benson demonstrates his signature scat-style singing on the groundbreaking This Masquerade and soloing over the famous On Broadway vamp.

Danny Gatton presents a comprehensive study on rhythm guitar styles and technique, covering everything from blues/jazz chord substitutions, rockabily and country power chords, R&B and Motown rhythm, and even some acoustic country/bluegrass guitar ideas! Gatton shows you the rhythm parts slowly at first, before demonstrating them in a band context with Arlen Roth on lead guitar.

Besides The Allman Brothers Band, Warren has recorded and performed with Blues Traveller, The Dockey Betts Band, Michael McDonald, The Memphis Horns and more. On his great DVD he covers a wide range of blues and slide skills and techniques, including phrasing, vibrato, string bending and soloing as well as mixing major and minor scales, using space, and looking for blue notes with intervals.

Jimmy Bruno has played guitar with some of the all time greats, including Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley. He makes even the most daunting techniques accessible to anyone who wants to learn. Jimmy covers II/V/I progressions, changing chord colours, training hands and ears to work together, natural picking techniques, adding bass lines to chords and much more!

Meet one of Nashville's true guitar stars as Johnny Hiland takes you through some key aspects of country playing. As well as chicken pickin', he covers double-stops, pedal steel licks, pick-and-finger hybrid picking, banjo rolls and lots more. He's also joined by Roth, Bill Holloman, and Shannon Ford for some truly memorable band segments.

Pink Floyd -- Learn the melodic styles of David Gilmore and Sid Barrett (by the way, which one's Pink). Songs include: Time, Money, Run Like Hell, Young Lust, Pigs, and more!

Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time - Part I -- Learn the greatest riffs ever recorded from the late 50's to the present day. Hendrix, Rush, Dick Dale, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Chuck Berry, and more!

Learning is made easy as Curt Mitchell teaches you the licks & riffs from your favorite 80's metal masters! Learn the riffs of Guns 'N Roses, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Great White, Ratt, Winger, Dio, Kingdom Come, and many more with extreme close ups played at normal and slow speeds!

Guitar Basics Vol. I -- Learn to play the guitar in the comfort of your own home with Professor Mike Christiansen, Director of Guitar Studies at Utah State University. Contents include: Fundamentals, holding position, tuning, strumming chords, finger picking, and much more!

Do you want to learn the licks and styles of one of the greatest rock guitarists? This video will show you how.

In Xtreme Electric Guitar, resident axe master Marshall guides you through a 10-lesson program that covers everything from strumming patterns and barre chords to mastering techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Xtreme Electric Guitar will arm your wannabe rock guitarists with all they will need to reel out those rocking riffs in no time.