★★★★★ The Best Guide to Your Instrument!

It's a buyer's guide. It's an owner's guide. And it's even more than that. In no less than 289 pages, eTipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar tells you everything you need to know to buy the instrument that suits your style and your budget, and to get the most out of it. The book brings you the combined knowledge and experience of 30+ luthiers, guitar and bass techs, teachers and musicians, in a very readable format. Great stuff for beginners, an inspiring resource for advanced players, and a handy reference for pros.

Your favorite instrument
eTipbook Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar helps you 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. The unique Tipcodes provide direct access to short movies and sound tracks.

Chord diagrams and more
As a generous extra, the book offers brief sections on the instrument's family, history, and production, as well as a glossary, a musical introduction to chords, and numerous chord diagrams, including power chords, movable chords, and more.

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

'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

'Very useful background information; [...] of benefit to all guitarists.' Classical Guitar Society Western Australia

'Comprehensive approach; easy-to-follow layout makes these Tipbooks a joy to read.' Music Trades



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