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| | The Beatles Guitar | | | | | Author : | | The Beatles | | Publisher : | | Hal Leonard Corporation | | Pub. Date : | | 1987-06-01 | | Edition : | | Paperback, 210 Pages | | ISBN # : | | 079350581X | | Inventory : | | 23 Available | | Store Price : | | $19.95 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.57 | | |
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| | | | Customer Reviews of This Item | |  Limited Usefulness But A Few Bright Spots In An Overall Mediocre Product!
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 | | If you prefer quantity over quality then this book's for you as there are 52 tracks "transcribed" here. If accuracy is also not your cup of tea this book's for you. Overall the majority of the tracks here are playable although not if you want to play along with the cd. There are many tracks here that have better transcriptions elsewhere. For example if you want the best versions of "I Feel Fine", "All My Loving", "Day Tripper", "Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine", and "Paperback Writer" see The Beatles rock score: Twelve famous Beatles songs scored for small groups : complete with lyrics (Rock score). The rest are either downright inaccurate or missing the solo or some other fill.
There are however a few bright spots that I found useful by gleaning from the few accurate bits and then listening to the cd and these made this purchase a little worthwhile for me. For example, "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds", "Michelle", "Dear Prudence", and especially "Julia" where you have to completely ignore the tabs but use the good chord shapes and your ear to decipher the correct way to play. If you are looking for a good "Blackbird" transcription though you are gonna be disappointed here as they not only have trouble transcribing Travis picking but have inaccurately tabbed most of it. Fortunately I have already committed this to memory using another Beatles tab book which I've since lost years ago. If I knew at the time just how good that book that I got while on vacation in Perth Australia was, I'd probably have taken better care of it.
If you are willing to put in the effort to make some sense and hence use of this book then this purchase would not be a total loss but I'm assuming the reason you want to get a tab book in the first place is to reduce the time and effort of learning the tracks the hard way and by ear and if so this book is highly NOT recommended. It will surely frustrate beginners trying to sound like the cd and involves a lot of salvage work from experienced guitarists. | | | |  music book
Submitted on: 2008-10-20 | | | The book was here in good time and it's what my friend had asked for. The cover had some scratches on it, but other than that it was what I ordered. Thank you, Aurel | | | |
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