50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist

Fifty more ways past the problems every guitarist runs into.

The second book in the Guitar Hacks series picks up where the first left off. More short, practical hacks for the things that hold players back: solos that don't land, sloppy noise between notes, barre chords that won't ring, a tone that isn't quite there, and the nerves that turn up when you play in front of people.

This is the tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded throughout. Every hack has been rewritten, several have been replaced, and a few things I got wrong the first time are now corrected in the text. Every diagram has been redrawn with interval labels, and every hack ends with a short exercise to try.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Always land on the right notes in a blues
• Mute what you're not playing, and clean up your sound
• Master barre chords four different ways
• Play over dominant chords from the pentatonic box you already know
• Change chords smoothly, and write your first riffs
• Learn solos by ear, and use the finger roll
• Deal with mistakes on stage

What you get: a 115-page PDF, 8 x 10 inches, with clickable contents and print-quality diagrams. Read it on any screen or print the pages you're working on.

You don't need the first book to use this one, but it refers to it now and then.