eTipbook Electric Guitar

The must have app for all guitarists: the best guide to your instrument! ★★★★★

This must have app for all guitarists includes a free 50 page preview of the 250+ page book, direct access to the full digital version of Tipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar (only €0,99!) and informative rich media brochures. A highly informative 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 useful reference for pros.

Designed for tablets and smartphones!

“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