Guitar Player Book 40 Years - 243 pages
You know how great Guitar Player magazine is.
As you go about learning and playing guitar, a subscription to a guitar magazine is always a welcome thing. It always puts a smile on my face and brightens my whole
day to open the mail, and there's this month's guitar magazine waiting for me. Full of adventure, excitement, new information I hadn't known before about the guitar and how to play it. Sometimes your enthusiasm for playing guitar can wane a little, and then that fresh copy of the latest guitar magazine arrives, it re-energizes your playing and your enthusiasm for the instrument.
What's in the book, exactly? Well, the book is divided up into 4 main sections of content. The first section is classic artist interviews. With the nature of magazines, sometimes you miss your chance to get a certain issue for one reason or another Maybe you're too young to have been around when some Rock guitar history was being made, maybe your subscription was stopped for a while when some special issues came out. And if that particular issue you missed had something very valuable to you, you miss it and you feel bad because you tend to think it's gone for good. But this book can change that, and kind of give you a time machine. You now have a chance to read some historic guitar artist interviews that you thought were gone forever.
Every article tells you the month and year of the original magazine issue the article came out in. If you have the back issue at home you could look up the original. A pull quote at the top of the page sets the tone for the article you're about to read.
The interviews are listed in an index at the front of the book so it's easy to find what you want. The artists are in alphabetical order. Strange but because of the concise layout of the book,
even if the original issue the interview came out in is at home in the stack, you'll like the book better because what you want is so easy to find this way.
There's a large section of guitar lessons in this book. These are lessons from the original magazine issues that have been reprinted. The original issue date is printed with the lesson. Also an indication of the skill level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) of the guitar lesson is shown. A lot of the lessons are of the "How to play like": (insert famous guitar player name here.) variety. You can learn to play like Jeff Beck, or Duane Allman, or Chuck Berry, etc. Other lessons are more focused on learning some particular skill like arpeggios, chords, or soloing. All famous, well know star teachers tell you the tricks that made them a household name.
The section called Must Know Guitar Lore has some interesting and kind of earth shattering major articles like great moments in guitar history, 50 greatest tones, 50 ways to record great guitar tracks. These are long, in depth pieces that give you a huge amount of useful information if you happened to miss them the first time around. Imagine having the best parts of 40 years of the best guitar magazine all in your hands at one time. This really is quite a book.
