The Serious Guitarist -- Essential Book of Gear
A Comprehensive Guide to Guitars, Amps, and Effects for the Dedicated Guitarist
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SKU: AP.40650
A Comprehensive Guide to Guitars, Amps, and Effects for the Dedicated Guitarist. Composed by Tobias Hurwitz. Guitar Reference; Reference Textbooks. The Serious Guitarist. Book and CD. 128 pages. Alfred Music #00-40650. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40650).ISBN 9780739094440. UPC: 038081455471. English.
The Serious Guitarist: Essential Book of Gear is an invaluable source for everything you need to know about guitar equipment. With tons of photographs and illustrations, real-world explanations on how to achieve signature tones in a variety of genres, helpful tips on gear maintenance, and an in-depth overview of the landmark innovations in guitars and guitar-related technology from the 1930s to the present, this comprehensive book provides all the tools you need to gain a rich understanding of the evolution of electric guitar gear. Apply this knowledge to your own rig to unlock a signature sound that will set you apart from the crowd. The included companion CD features demonstrations of the equipment and setups covered in the book.
Song List (185)
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- Bradshaw Switching System
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- Rockman X-100
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- Floyd Rose Tremolo System
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- Midi
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- Tube Preamp
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- Tube Power Amp
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- Eventide H3000
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- Customizing Marshalls
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- Double and Quad Guitars
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- SansAmp
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- The 1990s
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- Pro Tools
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- Matchless
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- Digitech Whammy Pedal
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- Parker Fly
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- Grunge Pedal
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- Sovtek
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- Innovations in the Late 1990s
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- 2000 and Beyond
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- Amp Modeling
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- Guitar Apps
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- 8- and 9-String Guitars
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- Guitar-Based Video Games
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- Look, Ma, No Amp!
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- Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX II
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- Looking Ahead
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- Part 2: A Close Look at the Electric Guitar
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- Understanding the Electric Guitar
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- Strings
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- Gauge
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- Types of String Windings
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- Roundwound
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- Flatwound
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- Half Roundwound and Quarter Roundwound
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- Materials
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- Ball End
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- Coated Strings
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- Pickups
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- Single-Coil Pickups
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- Humbucking Pickups
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- Active Pickups
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- Handwound Pickups
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- Electronics
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- Fender Stratocaster Setup
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- Gibson Les Paul Setup
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- Series and Parallel Pickup Wiring
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- Coil Tapping and Splitting
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- In and Out of Phase
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- Kill Switches
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- Tone Woods
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- Plywood in Electric Guitars
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- Wood Setup for Gibson SG Standard
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- Wood Setup for Paul Reed Smith Custom 24
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- Wood Setup for Fender Stratocaster
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- Wood Setup for Carvin Custom 7-String
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- More About Guitar-Building Materials
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- The Truss Rod
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- Fretboard Radius
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- How Radius Affects Playability and Performance
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- Compound or Conical Fretboard Radius
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- Scale Length
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- Conventional Scale Lengths
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- Frets
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- Fret Maintenance
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- Fret Type and Size
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- Number of Frets
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- Neck Profile
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- Tuning Pegs (Machine Heads)
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- The Nut
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- The Locking Nut
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- The Compensated Nut
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- The Bridge
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- The Whammy Bar
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- How to Live in Peace with Your Double-Locking Trem
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- Locking Down a Trem (Blocking)
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- Part 3: The Technical Stuff
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- The Science of Sound
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- Vibrations
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- Amplitude and Types of Waves
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- Overtones (Harmonics)
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- Modulation
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- The Order of Effects
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- Understanding Guitar Amps
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- Tube Amps
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- Solid-State Amps
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- The Combo Amp
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- Amp Heads and Stacks
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- Basic Amp Features
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- Boutique Amps
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- Point-to-Point Wiring
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- How to Chain Amps Together
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- Understanding Speaker Cabinets
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- Cabinets
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- Speaker Cones
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- Open Back or Closed Back?
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- Ohmage and Impedance
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- Tubes
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- Inside a Vacuum Tube
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- Preamp Tubes
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- Power Amp Tubes
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- Biasing
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- Rectifiers and Rectifier Tubes
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- Signal Flow and Level
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- Flow
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- Guitar Gear Levels
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- More About Effects Loops
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- Noise
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- Noise Reduction
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- Noise Is Everywhere
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- Scrubbing the Noise
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- Other Ways to Reduce Noise in Your Rig
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- Physical and Virtual Effects
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- Cabling
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- Cable Test
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- Part 4: Real Rigs and What They Can Do
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- Real Rigs
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- Small Rig
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- Medium Rig
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- The "Real" Rig
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- Setups for Different Musical Styles
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- The Blues Sound
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- The Country Sound
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- The Jazz Sound
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- The 1970s Classic Rock Sound
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- The Funk Sound
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- The Heavy Metal Sound
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- The 1980s Hair Metal Sound
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- The Djent Sound
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- Over the Top Madness
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- Setups of Legendary Players
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- The Eddie Van Halen Sound
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- About the Author
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- Introduction
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- Part 1: The History of Guitar Gear
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- The1930s
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- The First Electric Guitars
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- The First Amplifiers
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- Early 7-String Guitar
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- Early Talk Box
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- The 1940s
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- The Log by Les Paul
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- The Myth of the First Electric Guitar
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- Leslie Rotating Speaker
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- Flanging
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- Leo Fender
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- The Transistor
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- The 1950s
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- Fender Broadcaster
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- Fender Precision Bass
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- Gibson Les Paul
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- Tremolo and Vibrato
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- The Origins of Fuzz
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- Tape Echo
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- Gibson Flying V
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- The 1960s
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- Fuzz Boxes
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- Ring Modulation
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- Marshall Amps
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- Marshall JTM 45: Beginning of the Marshall Stack
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- Compression
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- Fender in the 1960s
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- The Wah-Wah
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- Innovations in the Late 1960s
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- The 1970s
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- Mesa/Boogie
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- Talk Box
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- Phase Shifter
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- MXR Phase 90
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- Other Phasers
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- Morley
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- Replacement Guitar Pickups: DiMarzio
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- Roland
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- Compressors and Limiters
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- Ibanez
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- Innovations in the Late 1970s
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- The 1980s
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- Paul Reed Smith
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- The Jimi Hendrix Sound
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- The Tom Morello Sound
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- The Michael Angelo Batio Sound
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- The Joe Satriani Sound
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- The Randy Rhoads Sound
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- The Charlie Christian Sound
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- Conclusion
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- Additional Reading