50 Guitar Hacks: for the Thinking Man's Guitarist

By: Tippett, Graham

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

50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist is a collection of 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. The weak ones have been 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 now ends with a short exercise to try, because an idea you don't play doesn't stick.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Learn more chords without learning more shapesGet the sound of the modes into your ears before you learn the patternsMake your solos sound better overnight, and build a solo that goes somewherePlay outside the key and still sound like you meant itDesign a practice routine that actually worksGet a better tone from the gear you already haveHack the CAGED system, or avoid it altogether

There's no set order and no set level. If you've been playing for a while and want to think more clearly about the instrument, start wherever looks useful.

This is the first book in the Guitar Hacks series, followed by 50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist and 50 Guitar Hacks for the Advancing Guitarist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLLCTXKN
• ISBN13: 9798178077658
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"