The Everything Rock and Blues Guitar Book

I've got the book and have used it. It covers a lot of ground, generally at beginner level, working toward intermediate. I bought mine from one of those discount book shops, for a couple of quid, as I remember.

Hey Greybeard thanks for the reply. I am still in the beginner stages of playing so I think I'll drop some change on the table and give the book a try. I had another person off site tell me it was a good book for a beginner so I wanted some opinion from those here. Thanks again.

Like I said, I picked mine up (along with a couple of other guitar books) in a discount book shop (in England). If you have any such shops, where you live, go along and see if, by chance, they have it in stock.

It is not a method book with lessons or a reference book with 5 billion chords, but has good explanations of all the basic stuff and lots more. It was the first book I bought (and I looked at tons of them) and I still look things up in it. Good choice to start with.
(It has the authors email in the book and one day when I was flipping through it at my computer I dropped the author a note saying I thought he wrote a good book and he replied within 20 minutes thanking me for my comments and said if I didn't understand anything to feel free to email him with a question. Now where short of Guitarnoise will you find that kind of attitude??) :wink: 8)

I have the book, too. Bought it shortly after I started playing a year and a half ago. I find it to be a good reference manual. I still refer to it from time to time. Has some good exercises in it for learning different techniques. I'd recommend it as a reference work but it's not really an instructional book. If you are using sonething different for lessons, then this is a good suppliment.