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 Great resource... for the guitar. July 28, 2010
Philip Raino
The book is fine as a resource, but it has been assembled under the assumption that the songs will be played on a guitar; the transcriptions account for The Beatles' capo'ing their guitars during the songs' recordings, and so present the chords relative to the capo, rather than presenting the originally-recorded chords. For guitarists, this is certainly a useful shortcut, but if you play (as I do) on a ukulele, and want to play the originally-recorded chords, you're forced to re-transpose, noting the number of frets the guitar has been capo'd and transposing each chord down accordingly.
 The Beatles made simple July 17, 2010
Mod Wolf (Bronx, NY United States)
This book, though not quite complete, is indispensable for the rhythm guitarist trying to demystify the Beatles. Unfortunately you don't get the songs that they've covered, nor "Flying", for some reason. Songs that are driven by alternate instruments, like "Within You Without You" and finger-picking based songs like "Here Comes The Sun" are not fully represented, but again, this book is for the rhythm guitarist. However it does utilize different chord formations to economize on hand movement so that you're not running up and down the neck with chord changes. Its an added bonus that teaches you different forms of the same chords. The only caveat is the binding. Its a softbound binding where it really needs to be spiral-bound. I took it to a jam session last night and it took a bulldog clip AND my sister to keep it open.
Bottom line, is this book worth it? Definitely. For guitar players who can only read tabs and chords (as John and Paul were/are), it more than pays for itself before you get to the "B" section. There's never going to be a definitive book giving you note-for-note transcriptions of the Beatles recordings, but this book gives you a good, solid base for learning the songs.
Good but not perfect July 14, 2010
Paschoal
The book is very good, however there's something could be better. It doesn't have the Beatles's covers in it, like Please Mr.Postman and Twist and Shout.
GOOD BOOK. DIMENSIONS OF BOOK STINKS. June 14, 2010
S. E. Shapiro
You get the Beatles songs in words and chords. Wonderful. Beware that the books' format is a SMALL ONE. Slightly bigger than a a dime store novel, and thick. There is a slight drawback in keeping the book open, being so thick, that eventually you must break the spine of the book to keep it open. I'm waiting for the pages to start falling out. Book should have been issued with a spiral spine format.
great book! June 13, 2010
D. Schnitzlein
I've bought many guitar books over the years. This is my favorite. And it's great that most songs are on one or two pages so you don't have to turn pages while playing. This is the second one of these books I've bought, so that when we get together with friends, the singers will have their copy and the players will have a copy.
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