"Beatles" Complete: Guitar |
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0860018970
Pub: Music Sales Ltd
Pub date: 1983-11-15
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174476
Reader Reviews:
Beatles Complete (2/2 people found this helpful)
A lot of the songs are in the wrong key (about 40% of them), which is no use if you want to play along with CDs. But if you can be bothered to work out the correct keys, and write the correct chords on the pages (as I have started doing), then this book will be a useful, quick reference to every Beatles song whenever you fancy a strum along.
Not really a true guitarists book (22/22 people found this helpful)
With nearly 400-pages, this book scores high on quantity but less so on quality.
For any budding guitarist, the books represents an ideal vocal guide to the great Beatles songs of John, Paul, George and Ringo, but if you try and play the chords in the suggested fingerings, frustration will soon set in (as well as finger cramp) given some of the suggested chord shapes.
As with most modern chord books, the words and music are transcribed and the chords are added at a later date. However, instead of a guitarist adding the chord shapes, another musician (probably a piano player) simply "cuts and pastes" a set of standard chord shapes from a simple data base.
Take the classic "If I fell". I agree it opens with a Ebm, but it is not played as an open chord (listen to a recording), it is played as a barre chord at the sixth fret followed by a barre chord D at the fifth, and so on.
So listen to a recording, work out the easiest chord positions and enjoy the book this way. This is how you'll get good value for money - and less finger cramp. After all, you never saw the Beatles in pain when on stage!
GUITAR?? (7/9 people found this helpful)
loads of chords for every song BUT the stave music is just the vocal line, not what the guitar(s) play
BRILLIANT!! (3/7 people found this helpful)
If you're a reasonably experienced novice (like me) you will, I have no doubt, never look at another beatles sheet music book.Highly recommended.
Excellent (3/7 people found this helpful)
Not quite for beginners, but any slightly experienced player will fall in love with this book within minutes.
Theres just so much here!
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