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Editorial Review
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 with your sensitive melodies, no other musical instrument allows you so much versatility.

Whatever rocks your world, Rock Guitar For Dummies can help you bring that message out through your fingers and onto that electric guitar that's slung over your shoulder. If you're a beginner, you'll discover what you need to know to start playing immediately, without drowning in complicated music theory. If you've been playing for a while, you can pick up some tips to help improve your playing and move to the next level.

Here's a sampling of the topics covered in Rock Guitar For Dummies:

How electric guitars and amplifiers work
Choosing the right guitar and amp for you, and how to care for them
Left-hand and right-hand guitar techniques
The different styles of rock guitar playing
Creating great riffs
The history of rock guitar
Buying accessories for your new toy
Top Ten lists of the guitarists you should listen to, the rock albums you must have, and the classic guitars you should know about

Rock Guitar For Dummies also comes with a CD that includes audio of every example shown in the book, plus play-along tracks with a band.

So, if you consider yourself an air guitar virtuoso and would like to try the real thing, Rock Guitar For Dummies can help you on your way to becoming an accomplished guitarist.
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Customer Reviews

Very eye opening!!!!! Revealing!!! And Entertaining!

2008-08-12
Package arrived as stated in good condition, cd missing but I can find similar music listed in back of the book/I am pleased with item. When I upgrade to electric I will be ready for this. Like I always say, the ladies are gonna be lining up to talk to PeNName cuz I look gorgeous reading my Rock Guitar for Dummies.

Not For Dummies

2008-02-27
I picked this up when I first started out with guitar, and that was a big mistake. This book is nothing more than a reference, and it doesn't do that very well.

Dummies turned professionals

2007-06-28
This author threw out of the window, the mystery of learning the guitar, and made playing once more fun! I always enjoy your line of thought when reading this material

DEFFINITLY not what i was looking for

2006-08-13
i bought this book expecting to further my knowledge of guitar, me having a pretty good sense of theory found this book to be lacking in many ways, this author obviously is writing this book under the influence that the reader already knows what he is talking about in terms of musical language, if i was a beginner, i would have no idea what he was talking about. He seems the have the idea that just being told to do something is better than telling someone to do something then telling them why. I have to say, i was asking myself why a lot in this book.

Good book, but not for beginners

2005-07-27
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

2005-03-13
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 with your sensitive melodies, no other musical instrument allows you so much versatility.

Here's a sampling of the topics covered in Rock Guitar For Dummies:

How electric guitars and amplifiers work
Choosing the right guitar and amp for you, and how to care for them
Left-hand and right-hand guitar techniques
The different styles of rock guitar playing
Creating great riffs
The history of rock guitar
Buying accessories for your new toy
Top Ten lists of the guitarists you should listen to, the rock albums you must have, and the classic guitars you should know about

Rock Guitar For Dummies also comes with a CD that includes audio of every example shown in the book, plus play-along tracks with a band.

So, if you consider yourself an air guitar virtuoso and would like to try the real thing, Rock Guitar For Dummies can help you on your way to becoming an accomplished guitarist.

"Rock Guitar For Dummies," a great book-the best 2005-03-13
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.

Not for beginners 2004-06-18
I am 13 but I thought I could still handle this book, considering I have beed playing for half a year now, but this book is very bad. All the info is piled together, rushed and confusing. I though for dummies meant for dummies. Do not buy this book. WASTE.

Just what it says, for the dummies! 2004-03-06
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.

Very misleading in my opinion. 2003-02-16
In my opinion, the title and description are very misleading. This book skips over subjects with very shallow explanations, and contrary to the "for dummies" this is not a book for beginners. It may help if you are already taking lessons, strictly as a reference, but this book will not teach you to play, since it leaves out some very vital explanations and details. They go on too much about some things that aren't important, and not enough about things that are. I give it a thumbs down.