The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar

Book Overview

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 25 of The Beatles' best songs transcribed for acoustic guitar with tablature. Includes: Across the Universe * And I Love Her * Blackbird * Girl * Help * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Should Have Known Better * If I Fell * Michelle * Norwegian Wood * Nowhere Man * Rocky Raccoon * Things We Said Today * We Can Work It Out * Yesterday * and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0793515416
• ISBN13: 9780793515417
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Acoustic as it gets.

As the title of the book says, "The Beatles For Acoustic Guitar", provides guitar transcriptions of songs in which the Beatles used acoustic guitar(s). In some cases, they also include electric parts, such as the solo for "Nowhere Man" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". This book is billed as having authentic transcriptions with notes and tab, and for the most part, it does. It's also important to point out, that this is the "Revised" edition, so be sure this is the copy you get as there apparently are some differences between this and the original edition put out in 1993(otherwise, why revise it). The book also includes the vocal(w/ lyrics), plus harmony parts. The book can be divided into primarily 3 parts:1.) Songs in which the acoustic guitar is used merely as an accompaniment or a strummed part to a song that also includes electric guitars, bass and drums and/or keyboards,and whatever else e.g.. "Nowhere Man", "Can't Buy Me Love", "While My Guitar...etc. 2.) Specific acoustic guitar parts,e.g. "Norwegian Wood".. that also exist as part of a larger ensemble, and 3.) solo accompaniment to a song, e.g. "Blackbird" and "Julia". In some cases their are more than one acoustic guitar part and the book does try to give you all the relevant parts,e.g. "And I Love Her". I'm also going to make some comparisons here, to Wolf Marshall's book, "The Best Of the Beatles For Acoustic Guitar", also a Hal Leonard publication, with a lot of the same songs transcribed and some that aren't. Ok, we can cover 7 or 8 of these songs fairly quickly, in that they fall into the first category as songs with primarily "strummed" acoustic guitar parts. These songs include, "Can't Buy Me Love"(with elec. solo and elec. accomp.), "Bungalow Bill"( this one includes the flamenco guitar part heard at the beginning of the song)"Help!"(w/ descending elec. guitar part of the intro included and descending elec. parts in the chorus, but, they leave out one of the vcl. parts in the intro to 'Help!'; too bad),"Hey Jude", "I Should Have Known Better",(w/ elec. guit. accomp. and solo given with acoust. strumming pattern above), "Nowhere Man", with the strummed part(played by John) written out in music notation and tab as well as the elec. guitar fills and solo played by George,"Things We Said Today"(stummed and elec. accomp.) and "While My Guitar...", which includes the guitar solo played by Eric Clapton. As far as the acoustic guitar parts go in these songs, the rhythmic notation is usually given above the vcl. line with the chord changes, and chord diagrams sometimes given at the top of the page below the title. Why the editors do not put chord diagrams for every song I don't know. Perhaps once given they assume you can refer to a previous song, but that's inconvenient. They need to include them for every song. You can check the legend at the end of the book to understand how certain notational symbols are utilized for notation and tab e.g. note bending, grace notes etc. It is defi

Accurate tab and chords

I'm a beginning guitar player, and I got this book after having played for maybe 6 months. I've seen other books with Beatles songs where the chords don't really sound like the song when you play them. In this book however, they give you what actually sounds like what the fab four are playing. Very useful, and good for an advanced beginner. Includes tab, for finger picking parts such as in "Blackbird", chords, chord diagrams, and lyrics.