Updates with new diagrams and links. This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft and performing live, and step-by-step guitar maintenance. The galleries of guitars and guitarists, the chord dictionary and scales have been comprehensively updated for this edition.

Learn to master rock's most tried-and-true sound: the power chord. With just a few different power chord shapes, you can rock through hundreds of songs - from death metal, to rockabilly, to grunge and beyond. This book/CD pack includes: famous progressions from popular songs, by artists from Alice in Chains to Weezer; clear photos and frames of all the essential power chords; riffs in all styles; alternate tunings; notes and tab.