Publisher : Music Sales
Foreword by Tommy Emmanuel

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!

• The Acoustic Guitar Bible
• Ballads For Classical Guitar
• The Acoustic Guitar Method - Book 1 (libro/CD)
• The Acoustic Guitar Method - Book 2 (libro/CD)
• The Acoustic Guitar Method - Book 3 (libro/CD)