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The Beatles for Classical Guitar (Guitar Solo) |  | Author: The Beatles
Brand: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 24449
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 8.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0634015796
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 073999992373
EAN: 9780634015793
ASIN: 0634015796
Publication Date: June 1, 2000
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Product Description
Includes 20 solos from big Beatles hits arranged for classical guitar, complete with left-hand and right-hand fingering. Songs include: All My Loving · And I Love Her · Can't Buy Me Love · Fool on the Hill · From a Window · Hey Jude · If I Fell · Let It Be · Michelle · Norwegian Wood · Obla Di · Ticket to Ride · Yesterday · and more. Features arrangements and an introduction by Joe Washington, as well as his helpful hints on classical technique and detailed notes on how to play each song. The book also covers parts and specifications of the classical guitar, tuning, and Joe's 'Strata System' - an easy-reading system applied to chord diagrams.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 Guitar Player December 14, 2009
Raymond D. Osman (Ada, MI USA)
This product has given one of my adult sons many, many hours of guitar playing pleasure and has opened his love of music to expanding his ability in the classical area.
 Caution: Potential Incorrect Listing September 27, 2009
frankp93 (Danbury, Connecticut United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm not sure how many stars to give because I'm not sure which book the listing is for.
The blurb shows the tune list from volume one of Joe Washington's two-volume "Beatles for Classical Guitar" books that came out in either the late 70's or early 80's and deserve all the praise other reviewers have given them. Interesting, artful arrangements by someone who clearly understood the expressive potential of the nylon-string guitar.
The "Look Inside", however shows an edition of "Beatles for Classical Guitar" arranged by Larry Beekman. With all due respect to Mr. Beekman, while his choice of tunes rivals Joe Washington's, his arranging skill does not.
Beekman's book contains 30 tunes while the listing for Washington's looks like it only includes his volume one. If the listing is in fact for Washington's book, it's a shame they don't bundle the smaller volume two with it.
So which one comes if you order? That's the mystery question. All of these books are notation-only.
If steel-string is your thing, an even more troubling situation exists with "Fingerpicking Beatles", shown as a companion item. The original Amsco edition was by Eric Schoenberg, who was (and hopefully still is) a marvelous ragtime-style player whose Beatles arrangements were completely idiomatic yet rich enough to put the songs across. Unlike Juber, Schoenberg stuck closely to and around standard tuning.
The "revised edition" of "Fingerpicking Beatles" by Hal Leonard is a no-name disaster that appeares to have done by a keyboard player with limited understanding
of the guitar. If you can find a used copy of Schoenberg's original, go for it, otherwise steer clear.
good arrangements -- odd selections February 19, 2009
Chandriee Davis (Colorado)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I suppose there will always be selections we wish would have been arranged instead of others(after all this is the Beatles) but this seems far to heavy on the bubble-gum era. Those tunes just don't work very well as instrumentals. There are maybe a dozen or so really nice arrangements though. The Harrison songs are very easy and well done -- same for come together, across the Universe, and long and winding road. the 'In my life'
arrangements is horrible though - so if you mainly are after this song, look elsewhere. Nothing here challenging for an advanced classical guitarist -- and there is no tab. But for Christsakes, if you are a musician learn to read music -- it's not rocket science.
Best Than Could Be Done January 6, 2009
M. R. Sheffield (Herkimer, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like The Beatles, always have, but their music is not really suited to solo classical guitar. To my ears it seems simple and overly repetitive when played that way. It doesn't do the music justice. The same goes for most pop music by the way. Listen to any decent recorded version "Classical Gas" with orchestra, then learn and play the solo version. The magic is lost. Sorry to be negative. I bought this songbook with high hopes.
Great Music August 31, 2008
Music-wife (TX, United States)
My 12 year old son is learning these songs with his classical guitar teacher. She also bought a copy since she enjoyed it as well.
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