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Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) |  | Authors: Wolf Marshall, The Beatles
Brand: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 41948
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.6 x 0.3
MPN: 695453
Model: 695453
ISBN: 063401417X
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999249569
EAN: 9780634014178
ASIN: 063401417X
Publication Date: November 1, 2001
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Product Description
Learn the trademark acoustic guitar elements of rock's most influential band! This book/CD pack by guitar dean Wolf Marshall provides in-depth analysis of 21 songs, including: Across the Universe · And I Love Her · Blackbird · Girl · Here Comes the Sun · Hey Jude · I Will · I've Just Seen a Face · Julia · Norwegian Wood · Rocky Raccoon · Til There Was You · Yesterday · You've Got to Hide Your Love Away · and more.
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 Hits the right notes December 15, 2009
Robert (Delmar, NY United States)
Good book with extra information for playing and tips and insights as to how the song was recorded.
Good, but could be better. October 19, 2009
Everett C. Bennett (Jackson, TN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewer who mentioned the fact that "Norwegian Wood" is oddly tabbed in the key of E instead of D. Must have been transcribed by a piano player. A guitarist would never do that. It just needlessly confuses the issue. That being said, I like the book and find it to be useful in learning the tunes. I don't care to learn some of the songs in the book and wish it had others more to my liking but still worth the money.
Capo PLease!! April 14, 2009
Beatle Ed (Nashville,TN)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ok, Wolf Marshall put a lot into this book. However, The Beatles Acoustic Guitar(recorded series) also from Hal Leonard(and Wolf Marshall?) is nearly identical and contains complete transcriptions. In the "Best of" book, we get rhythmic figures that we must link up with the recordings. It is very helpful to have the cd that comes with this book to do slowed down as well as actual tempo play alongs. But, my main criticism of this book, and this is not specific to this book, is the refusal to acknowledge the function of the capo in musical notation and the tab.
For those of you who hate the capo and don't use it, tough luck. The Beatles used it and it is essential to getting the right sound out of their instruments. My point is this: On a song such as "Norwegian Wood", it is more useful, I believe, to show the tab and music in the actual GUITAR key that it is played in, rather than actual music notation. The capo is used primarily as a way of preserving the open position sound(i.e. percussive) of the guitar so that it can be matched to the best key for the singer. In "Norwegian Wood", the guitar part is played out of a "D" position. Yet the resultant tab and musical notation is written as if you we're actually playing in "E". The actual key but not the guitar key. That's because the capo is placed on the second fret so that the singer can execute a guitar part invented in the key of "D" but better sung in the key of E".
When you use a capo, you are essentially shortening the neck to create a new open position., thus the the notation and tab would be clearer if it reflected the actual chord formations you would use. For example. The song "Norwegian Wood" starts out on a "D" chord, there fore the tab should show this as 0(5) 0(4) 2(3) 3(2) 2(1): thus showing what the open strings are(5 & 4) and allowing the player to see what the actual chord formation is. Then just say, capo on the second fret. I stongly believe this would be clearer and I encourage Hal Leonard and all music publishers to consider changing their notation and tab formats to embrace the actual "played key" of a song rather than the "pitch"key of the song. To emphasize what I'm talking about,"Julia" is done exactly the way I'm talking about, as is "Here Comes The Sun". For "Julia",the tab and music are shown in the key of C, which is how it is played, but, you must capo on the 2nd fret to get the same sound('actual key of D major) as John Lennon does when you try and play along. For "Here Comes The Sun", the transcription is in D, where it is played, but capoed on the 7th fret to get the same sound as when George plays it. Why do it for these and not the others? Other than this, it is a great book.
 Review of Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) April 1, 2009
Older Than I Look - The White/Thinning Hair Gives Me Away (I work in Chatsworth, CA (San Fernando Valley area of LA), USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a gift for my 14-year-old son, who plays guitar. It may take him some time to work through it. I'll reaspond again once he tells me his impressions (or I hear they through his playing.)
Top Drawer August 26, 2008
Michael Hazel (Spokane, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a professor and have been playing for two years (inexpensive mid-life crisis.) This book is fantastic in terms of accurate breakdown and analysis of the songs. Its best attribute is the CD instruction which provides slow and up to tempo versions of the songs. Some of the songs are not for solo guitar, but others (e.g. Blackbird, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away) are. Learning just one very well is worth the price of the book. Keep pickin' readers!
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