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Alternative
Blues
Christian
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Easy
Electronic
Gospel
Hip Hop
Jazz

Latin
Metal
Pop & Rock
R&B
World

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Excellent but. .
Submitted on: 2008-02-11

This series of books by Marshall are a worthy addition if you are an experienced player who is already familiar with the songs and know the lyrics. The lyrics are NOT available with this book. Once you have figured out the method to the transcriptions,it opens up a wonderful insight on the Beatles. What would it have cost to have worked in the lyrics? Do not start your Beatles tour with this. You need to have a little experience.

Pick Up & Pick Out the Beatles!
Submitted on: 2007-02-01

This book, together with "The Beatles' Hits" is ideal for guitarists to learn the tricky guitar embellishments that were part of the Beatles' songs.

As an inveterate Beatle fan who loves learning to play Beatle songs, this book is ideal. The transcriptions in this book are on target and you get treated to a CD Rom for further "Help!"

Clearly this author took research beyond where most others have left off. He used the same instruments the Beatles played; he was able to sound like a good Beatle cover artist. Again, the word "cover" is being emphasized because the Beatles were such a stand out band for their distinguished music and the individual stamp each Beatle put into and onto each song.

Kudos to Wolf for including music, tablature and the CD so that people can count on covering a lot of good material. I like the way he breaks the songs down so that those less sure on the guitar can work alongside of the CD.

This would be the ideal gift for me and I can't wait to get other books by this very talented author.

It's a great book!
Submitted on: 2005-08-23

If you're a beatles fan, you are going to love this book. The book is easy to read and understand. The book comes with a CD so you can play along with it,and it also comes with tabs for those of you who don't read notes. Therefore, I strongly recommend you buy the book.

Best Pair of Beatles Books for Guitar Accuracy
Submitted on: 2003-03-16

I would elaborate on the previous reviewer's remarks by clarifying that the purpose of this book - and its wonderful companion volume 'The Beatles' Hits'- is not to cover every note of the songs that it contains. Rather, the purpose of the books is to help guitarists to learn the 'fiddly bits' in The Beatles' songs - lead breaks, tricky guitar figures, riffs, and interplay between several guitars.

Being both a Beatles' obsessive, and a guitar player interested in pinpoint accuracy, I have sought out tabs from many sources, online and in bookstores. I have never found anything as accurate as Wolf Marshall's transcriptions. And some of the other books are plain wrong. However, I find it somewhat curious that - having gone to the lengths that he did, of acquiring the same intruments used by the Fab Four in order to make the sound of the accompanying CD Rom's more accurate - Marshall doesn't actually seem capable of copying the style of playing 100% accurately, although he seems to be trying to do so. I find it reassuring that a session musician couldn't cop the feel that The Beatles put into their playing.

The idea of providing music, tablature, and CD versions of the songs is a great one, because it covers all modes of learning. And the way that the CD's are recorded is inspired: Marshall provides versions of portions of the tracks at regular and slow speeds, and within each of these contexts records the instruments on different tracks which can be isolated or combined using the balance control. In practice, this means that one can turn the balance in order to provide backing (drums and bass), eliminating the guitar part(s), thereby allowing one to play along with the backing tracks; conversely, one could eliminate the backing, and just play along with the guitar parts - a brilliant idea.

Marshall also provides fine written and verbal commentaries about each track, and about The Beatles' musical and cultural importance - a very welcome bonus.

I can't wait to get Marshall's 'The Best of the Beatles for Acoustic Guitar'.

Congratulations, Wolf. It's nice to find someone who cares enough to do such a thorough job.

Geert

Great group, great songs, good lessons
Submitted on: 2000-02-23

I was very pleased with this book of guitar instruction. The book covers 21 Beatle songs. and provides the songs in note and Tab format. There is an enclosed CD where the author plays the portions of the songs covered in regular speed and in a slower tempo. Not every note of every song is covered but enough to give one the general idea.

I recommend it highly to guitarist and lovers of the Beatles.

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