Electric Guitar Handbook - Softcover

Riley, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870775473 ISBN 13: 9781870775472

Publisher: PC Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

* Key guitar profiles
* How the electric guitar works
* Basic maintenance
* Setting up
* Electrics
* Playing live

If you need to know how to change a string, or which order to chain your effects pedals, this book has the answers. Richard Riley has been a freelance contributor to Total Guitar and Future Music magazines since 1992, including writing a regular questions and answers column dealing with readers enquires.

This book contains everything that wouldn't fit in the magazine. Everything from the width of a Les Paul fingerboard to the origins of the mahogany in the body. Pickup configurations with wiring diagrams, tips on do it yourself repairs and maintenance in clear jargon-free style. There's information on effects pedals, recording and gigging. Everything a guitar player might come across is explained in detail by an experienced working musician and writer.

About this title

Review

'Filled with useful tips. Lovingly researched and well written.' -- Total Guitar, August 1998

Synopsis

Richard Riley has been a contributor to The Guitar Magazine, Total Guitar and Future Music since 1992. I n this book, he offers a comprehensive handbook for guitar f ans, including technical information and a history of famous guitar names. '

Edition details

• Publisher: PC Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870775473
• ISBN 13: 9781870775472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192