Rock Guitar for Dummies [With CD-ROM]

by Jon Chappell

Book Overview

Face it, being a rock guitarist is just about the coolest thing you can be - next to a secret agent with a black belt in karate. But even if you were a butt-kicking international person of mystery, playing rock guitar would still be cooler because it involves art, passion, power, poetry, and the ability to move an audience of listeners. Whether "moving your listeners" means mowing down crowd surfers with your power chords or making the audience cry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764553569
• ISBN13: 9780764553561
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

rock guitar for dummies

I bought it for my son. He says it's got alot of information in it

Good book, but not for beginners

If you want to learn Rock guitar, without going to an instructor, here is what I think is the best way: 1) Buy MelBay's 'Modern Guitar Method', Grade 1. Work on it for 6 months. Everyday. It gonna get boring and frustrating sometimes, but stick with it. 2) Buy this book. The book is very fast paced, and without a foundation, you'll throw it in the trash. Use the musical notation in the book, not the tab notation. The book covers everything you'll want to know about rock guitar; different styles, chords, lead and rhythm guitar, etc. Very comprehensive, but extremely fast paced.

"Rock Guitar For Dummies," a great book-the best

This book is great for starters, beginners,intermediates and experts at the guitar. It has lots of information on how to play the guitar, techniques, information about famous rock guitarist, and much, much more. You should DEFINETLY buy this book.

Just what it says, for the dummies!

Well, not really dummies, but the very beginner. When you're putting your rig together to get a certain sound and want to know what's out there. The type of guitars, amps, all the pedals. It reviews the sounds that many great past and present players have and what they use to get it. It cuts down on a lot of guess work and the waste of money in buying pedals you don't need or gear you end up never using. It gives many short riff's to give you a taste of the many differnt styles and how to play them. Granted this is not a teach all or tell all book. The hard work is up to you. It's give a great illustration of the pentatonic scale, explaining how it links in the first 12 frets, and if you've been doing any work at all you know that the fret board basically starts over at the 12th fret only an octave higher. Anyway, if you already have your rig, and have knowledge of today's gear and bands, then this book isn't for your.