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  <default_description>Instruction, technique, sound, and style -- the ultimate guide to playing the guitar. The Complete Guitarist is the easiest--to--follow playing manual yet devised. It takes you from the simplest cords and picking out your first tunes to more complex styles and advanced improvisation. It breaks new ground with its all--visual approach to learning fingering, chords, notes, scales, modes, rhythm sequences, soloing , and improvising. More than 100 guitar makes and models. Over 1,000 computer--generated chord diagrams.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hands down the best guitar book I have ever read.<br/><br/>From the history of the instrument itself, its birth and transformation into the uber popular status of present day, the individual guitar making companies and of course how to play.<br/><br/>A great read for any guitarist but especially...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26781051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book covers every aspect of guitar. From History to Instruction (multiple styles in fact.) Theory to Concepts. Classical, Jazz, Rock. It's great. Pretty pictures and all!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great all around reference book for the guitar. Lots of illustrations and diagrams. It's not something you read cover to cover but it's nice to have when you need it.]]></body>
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