A book full of tips and suggestions on how to make a good arrangement. "Arranging for the guitarist" shows in a comprehensible and practical way how to combine melody, bass, and chords, how to work on the accompaniment (reharmonization), how to write a rhythmic bass, how to put a bass or chord "on gap," how to write a folk picking arrangement, how to write an open tuning arrangement, how to follow the voice leading rules, using slash chords effectively, writing a homophonic set, writing a polyphonic set, making variations on a theme, open voicing - using chords correctly, using altered chords correctly, writing a jazz solo arrangement, writing modern sounds, noting drum rhythms stylistically correctly, and writing for the rhythm section.