13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Taught myself to play guitar with this book, 24 Nov 2009
By Carole A. Shaw - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beatles Complete Easy Guitar (Paperback)
I love Beatles music and found this great book over 20 years ago and used it to help teach myself to play guitar. The book has easy to read chord fingerings and knowing how the song goes it made it easy to learn. I bought this for my brother so he hopefully can do the same thing. I have bought other music books that were much harder to read and understand. This one is perfect for me, hope it will be for you.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than faking it, less than perfect, 12 Feb 2004
By M. Tillman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Beatles Complete Easy Guitar (Paperback)
This is a really good Beatles book that works very well to let you play chord arrangements so that the Beatles songs sound about right. Great for playing for people who just want to sing some Beatles' songs. It won't actually give you much insight into how the Beatles played the songs, as some of the keys are clearly not the same as the album versions, and there is no information about multiple guitar parts. I also don't like music books in standard binding because you have to split the spine to get them to lay flat.
Overall I would really recommend it for the casual player who wants to add a few (or all) of the Beatles' songs to their repertoire, as long as you don't mind them not being 100% of the album version.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's for Beginners, Stupid, 21 Aug 2006
By Jurgen1919 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beatles Complete Easy Guitar (Paperback)
Other reviewers complain that the verions of songs do not sound like the originals. They sound close enough for me to get great pleasure, and I can actually play them. 85% of the music is reduced to the basis chords plus, 7th, minors, sharps. 15% is other stuff.
The only song I've noticed that's missing is I Want to Hold Your Hand. How did they let that slip though!