A rockin' goblin has Ellie the guitar fairy's instrument, and he won't give it up without a fight! Can Rachel, Kirsty, and Ellie outsmart this guitar star?

This step-by-step book, which includes 2 audio CDs and a DVD, takes you from your first day of exercises to playing full songs with a backing track. Includes full-color photographs and video instruction, practical advice and tips, and the easel-back book enables the book to stand up on any flat surface.

"A picture book biography of American inventor Leo Fender. Leo loved to tinker and take things apart and put them back together again. His inventions--which included the Telecaster and the Stratocaster electric guitars--would inspire the rock-n-roll generation and go on to amplify the talents of many legendary guitarists." --

A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. "In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock 'n' roll--and these louder styles...

A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar music--the effects pedal--featuring interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett. As soon as the first effects pedals were introduced in the 1960s, the diminutive devices were adopted by many of the world's most celebrated musicians to craft their iconic sounds. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine speaks for countless sonic innovators...

Groovy Joe is a guitar-playing dog who loves to sing and dance, and when many other dogs come and join him his home gets a little crowded, but the party is fun, and Joe is definitely a guitar hero.