David has books published worldwide with Hal Leonard, Cherry Lane, and Centerstream Publications.
Click on the cover of any of his books and link to Amazon.com where you can learn more about David's instructional books and where you can place an order.
Jimmy Brown from Guitar World Magazine gives David's books a "thumbs up".
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Publication Date: August 1, 2003
An essential manual for getting the best sounds from electric guitars, amplifiers, effect pedals and digital processors! This book/CD pack features easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 75 photos, to teach the basics of guitar tones and effects. The accompanying CD provides audio examples. Readers will learn: anatomy of the electric guitar; controlling the electric guitar; getting a good clean tone; overdrive, distortion and fuzz; using equalizers; compressors and limiters; noise reduction; modulation effects; reverb and delay; special effects; multi-effect processors; getting a good tone through your PC; famous effected guitarists; and much more!
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"Tone freaks should check out Introduction to Guitar Tone and Effects, new from Hal Leonard. This introductory guide to shaping your sound includes more than 75 detailed photos and diagrams, as well as a CD of audio samples. A gig-bag staple"
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Publication Date: June 1, 2002
This in-depth look at guitar harmonics teaches the techniques of masters such as Lenny Breau, Eddie Van Halen, Billy Gibbons, Andres Segovia and others! This book/CD pack covers: natural harmonics; tapped, plucked and pinch-style artificial harmonics; chordal and melodic applications for harmonics; and more. Includes a natural harmonic fretboard map and tuning tips. The CD contains demos of every example in the book.
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"And just when you think there's already a book for every facet of guitar playing, Hal Leonard offers Harmonics for Guitar, a quick guide to those bell-like overtones above each fret. In addition to the obvious tuning-friendly natural harmonics, the book also touches on artificial harmonics: tapped, plucked or harp, and pinch. Once you can sound each type, check out their chordal and melodic applications."
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Publication Date: October 1, 2010
Explore the various styles of heavy metal guitar through instruction and music examples with tab. Covering the late 1960s through the bands of today, you'll learn all about these metal subgenres: British, hardcore, speed, neo-classical, death, progressive, industrial, alternative, nu, metalcore and more. The CD includes recorded demos of all the music examples.
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Publication Date: April 1, 2004
Teach Yourself to Play Guitar has been created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books. It also: covers power chords, barre chords, open position scales and chords (major and minor), and single-note patterns and fills; includes lesson examples and song excerpts in a variety of musical styles - rock, folk, classical, country and more; familiarizes the student with fretboard organization, chord patterns, hand and finger positions, and guitar anatomy by way of easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos and illustrations; provides complete, concise explanations while keeping text to a minimum; and prepares the student for the option of further guitar instruction.
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Publication Date: April 1, 2010
String bending and vibrato are two of the most popular guitar techniques used in all musical styles, yet for most beginning and intermediate players, gaining control of them might seem overwhelming. This book outlines some of the most common bending and vibrato techniques and licks, teaching them in an easy-to-digest manner to help you see and hear how to use them with confidence in a musical context. Contains more than 150 helpful examples!
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Publication Date: January 29, 2010
This book will help beginning guitarists "find" the strings of the guitar through a series of basic (yet melodic) picking exercises. As you become more comfortable striking the strings of the guitar with a pick using the exercises and examples here, you should eventually create your own variations and picking exercises.
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Publication Date: August 1, 2009
This book/CD pack teaches guitarists how to effectively mute anything! Author David Brewster covers three types of muting in detail: frethand, pickhand, and both hands. He provides 65 examples in the book, and 70 tracks on the accompanying CD.
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