Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Book & Audio CD)
Guitar For DummiesŪ
One of my students brought this into lessons and I was floored with how good it actually was.
The Jazz Language
This is what I use as a theory textbook for my students. This is the only text that my students are required to buy.
The "First Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How to Play Guitar Easily & Quickly!
Mel Bays Modern Guitar Method : Grade 1
Mel Bay's Guitar Class Method
This is a text that my favorite guitar instructor used and I have found it to be more interesting than the standard Modern Guitar Method by Mel Bay.
Mel Bay's Complete Book of Guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios
The Guitar Handbook - This book, by Ralph Denyer & Andy Summers, is more of a reference rather than a straight ahead method book. The scope is very wide.
Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords
HOW TO PLAY GUITAR IN 10 EASY LESSONS
The "Pre-Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How To Get A Grip On Your First Guitar! - Learn How To Play Guitar!
Country & Blues Guitar for the Musically Hopeless
Composing Music : A New Approach
Of the composition texts that I have listed here this is probably the most appropriate for a beginner.
Jazz Composition and Orchestration
Musical Composition
This tome explores serial composition and it is not recommended for the faint of heart.
Twentieth-Century Music : A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Part autobiography and part rant. Zappa 'talks dirty' so beware if you are fragile!
Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music
Building a Jazz Vocabulary
The New Music : The Avant-Garde Since 1945
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A collection of essays of which "The Seven Deadly Sins of CCM" is a must read.