eTipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar

This must-have app includes a free 50 page preview of the 250+ page book, informative rich media brochures, and direct access to the full digital version of Tipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar. An entertaining guide for musicians at all levels, featuring numerous tips on auditioning and buying an instrument, choosing new strings, maintenance and tuning, and much more. Based on the combined knowledge and experience of thirty plus musicians, luthiers, teachers and other experts, this book even answers questions you didn’t think of asking. Great stuff for beginners, an inspiring resource for advanced players, and a handy reference for pros.

“Written with the absolute beginner in mind, it's comprehensive enough to appeal to pros too.” (Guitarist magazine)

YOUR FAVORITE INSTRUMENT
Tipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar helps you to make an informed purchase, explaining the effects of different types of wood on the sound of the instrument, neck profiles, cambers, fret shapes and sizes, different types of bridges, pickups, string materials and windings, and more. Gigbags, straps, and picks are discussed as well, and there are dedicated chapters on tuning, maintenance and guitar adjustment - and the unique Tipcodes allow you to hear what you're reading!

CHORD DIAGRAMS AND MORE
As a generous extra, the book offers brief sections on the instrument's family, history, and production, as well as an index, a glossary, a musical introduction to chords, and no less than 35 pages filled with chord diagrams, including barre chords, movable chords, and more. Enjoy!

PRESS QUOTES
• .. highly desirable, and highly pocketable items; Packed with plenty of concise, relevant information; Written with the absolute beginner in mind, it's comprehensive enough to appeal to pros too. (Guitarist magazine)
• A great gift, easy to read, convenient to carry, and priced right; Boiled down to the absolute basics…; No more than one needs to know or remember, but enough to provide essential information. These guides really hit the mark for efficiency. (Vintage Guitar Magazine)
• A wealth of information in a very compact form. (Guitar Digest)
• … an incredibly thorough tome that covers everything from the acoustic’s basic anatomy to the proper care and feeding of fingernails. (Frets)
• Each Tipbook is not only an excellent place for a beginner to start, it’s also an outstanding refresher course for musicians and songwriters at any level! (American Songwriter)
• Comprehensive approach; easy-to-follow layout makes these Tipbooks a joy to read. (Music Trades)

PRINT EDITION
eTipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar is the digital edition of the print book of the same name, available in seven languages. US print edition by Hal Leonard.


TOPICS explained:

Action
Active EQ
Active pickups
Adjustment
Archtop
Binding
Bookmatched
Bout
Bridge
Bridge pickup
Bridge saddles
Coil
Coil-tap
Cutaway
Double-locking tremolo
D-tuner
Dual-coil pickup
ƒ-Hole guitar
Fingerboard
Flat-wound strings
Floating
Four-conductor wiring
Fretboard
Frets
Hard-tail guitar
Hardware
Hollowbody
Humbucker
Intonation
Locking nut, lock-nut
Locking tuning machines
Machine heads
MIDI
Neck
Neck pickup
Nut
Open tuning
Passive instruments
Phase
Pickguard
Pickup
Pickup selector
Piezo pickup
Plain strings
Position markers
Pot, potentiometer
Radius
Reverse headstock
Round-wound strings
Saddles
Scale
Semi-hollow, semi-solid
Series
Single-coil pickup
Soundbox
Staggered pickups
Staggered tuning machines
Stop tailpiece, stopbar tailpiece
String height
String pull
String tree
String winder
Tailpiece
Thinline
Through-neck
Tilted headstock
Toggle switch
Tremolo system
Trim pot
Truss rod
Tuner
Tuning machines
Vibrato, vibrato unit
Waist
Whammy, whammy bar
Wound strings
Zero fret