This is an excellent book, my only problem with it is nowhere in the name does it say beginner, this book will teach you your major and minor scales, and all your pentatonic, hammers, pulls, vibrato, slides, and bends, so if you don't know that stuff you need to. Great excercises, how to read tab, chords all that good stuff you already know if you can play. I would'nt call these things tips so much as necessity, I had the impression from the title that it would teach me all these neat tips, and secrets but that's not the case.

If you are tired of memorizing chords and tab and want to learn how to take that foundation into making sounds you want to hear, this is the best book I've found. Mead talks about the essential skills of training your ear (with practical exercises), about becoming a good rhythm player (even lead players play rhythm 80 percent of the time), the pieces that make up a guitar player's voice, and playing and using the pentatonic scales.

This book won't introduce you to the guitar and it won't transform you into Joe Satriani, but it will help you find your own unique voice.