50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist

Most guitar books give you more to learn. This one gives you better ways to learn it.

This is a collection of 50 short, practical insights into every part of learning and playing the guitar: chords, scales, modes, improvising, technique, tone and practice. Each hack is a shortcut, a reframe or a mistake to avoid. Most take five minutes to read, and they'll change how you practice for a lot longer than that.

This is the tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded throughout. Every hack has been rewritten and the weak ones replaced. Every diagram has been redrawn with interval labels, so you can see what each note is doing and not just where it is. And every hack ends with a short exercise to try.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Learn more chords without learning more shapes
• Get the sound of the modes into your ears before you learn the patterns
• Make your solos sound better overnight, and build a solo that goes somewhere
• Play outside the key and still sound like you meant it
• Design a practice routine that actually works
• Get a better tone from the gear you already have
• Hack the CAGED system, or avoid it altogether

What you get: a 122-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.

This is the first book in the Guitar Hacks series.