This richly illustrated history reveals the true colors of the Fender electric bass: as a powerful agent of change in popular music and popular culture. It tells the story of technological and artistic evolution, of basses and players - and of their profound influence on the world around them...

When Leo Fender added a bass to his growing family of instruments 50 years ago, he created a new world for musicians and revolutionized an industry in the process. Using hundreds of photographs, this exciting release chronicles the evolution of that instrument from 1951 to 2001, providing background, history and highly researched facts vital to understanding everything about this remarkable member of the Fender family...

Electric Guitars and Basses tells the story in full color of one of the most influential forces on American culture in the 20th century - the electric guitar. From the earliest "lap steels" that reshaped the sound of Hawaiian music, through the "Spanish-neck" models that created a new voice in the jazz world and powered the early rock and rollers, and on to the solidbody models that shattered conventional ideas of guitar design and guitar music, all of the classic and historically important models are displayed and discussed by guitar experts George Gruhn and Walter Carter...

Your comprehensive, hands-on guide to playing guitar Have you always wanted to play the guitar? You can start today with these 8 minibooks. Covering both acoustic and electric guitar, this hands-on resource gives you all the instruction you need to play across multiple genres, whether you're a beginner or an experienced guitarist...

Everything from the first steps of design to the final set-up of of solid-body, hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars is covered step by step in this book. It contains a section about winding your own pickups and another on active guitar electronics...

“Besides quality of production (it’s printed entirely on heavy paper stock and features full-color photos throughout), [the book] excels in the simplicity of its presentation: the instructions are logical and well detailed, and they promote use of common tools and easily acquired materials...

In this remarkable session, the late, legendary bassist for The Band detailed some of the exercises, picking techniques and musical ideas that formed his style through the years. He teaches scales, exercises and great bass lines to get you really rocking! You'll also see, up close, how Rick got the unique, percussive style that was one the backbone of The Band's trademark sound...

Your comprehensive, hands-on guide to playing guitar Have you always wanted to play the guitar? You can start today with these 8 minibooks. Covering both acoustic and electric guitar, this hands-on resource gives you all the instruction you need to play across multiple genres, whether you're a beginner or an experienced guitarist...

The bass guitar is an essential instrument in the "big three" styles of music: rock, jazz, and Latin. If you want to learn to play what's often called the heart of a band, you can do it with The Everything Bass Guitar Book with CD...

Book 1: The Method -- Contains many original exercises designed to strengthen the hands and give independent finger control.

Title: At Your Request II. Artist: Alfred Gockel. Image Size: 10.00in. x 10.00in. Paper Size: 10.00in. x 10.00in. FINEST BRAND CANVAS Print With Added Heavy BRUSHSTROKESThis is an unstretched canvas print which will be rolled and securely shipped in a sturdy tube...

Learning the Guitar is a desire/dream/goal of A LOT of people. People love instant gratification so being able to offer a quick jump start into their goal is a sure fire way to get their attention (and business!)...

Industry experts have long considered The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide to be the most accurate, authoritative and detailed publication to tackle the seemingly indomitable task of placing values on thousands of vintage and recent-model guitars, amps, basses, effects pedals, mandolins, lapsteels and other fretted instruments...

Tipbooks are handy, accessible, thorough and convenient reference guides giving musicians everything they want to know about their instruments - and nothing they don't! They are written in collaboration with and proofread by musicians, teachers, technicians and other experts, and are ideal for beginners, students and advanced players...