Electric Guitar Handbook

* Key guitar profiles * How the electric guitar works * Basic maintenance * Setting up * Electrics * Playing live If you need to know how to change a string, or which order to chain your effects pedals, this book has the answers. Richard Riley has been a freelance contributor to Total Guitar and Future Music magazines since 1992, including writing a regular questions and answers column dealing with readers enquires. This book contains everything that wouldn't fit in the magazine. Everything from the width of a Les Paul fingerboard to the origins of the mahogany in the body. Pickup configurations with wiring diagrams, tips on do it yourself repairs and maintenance in clear jargon-free style. There's information on effects pedals, recording and gigging. Everything a guitar player might come across is explained in detail by an experienced working musician and writer.