Fingerpicking Beatles and Expanded Edition. 30 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation and Tab

Customer Reviews

WEAK

2008-10-06
If you want to pay the book's price to get only one great fingerpicking transcription ( Blackbird ) amongst 30 songs, then you can but it.
The rest is non-sense.

Helps if you can read music...

2008-09-04
My old eyes like the large tablature,but my amateur talents have trouble with this...probably great for an educated user.

A great book for all level

2008-08-27
I've been playing guitar for a couple of years now, and am not very good. I bought this book because I wanted something more advanced than the simple beginner books, and less advanced than the real thing. This book fits the bill exactly. The songs are faithful to the originals and add a nice depth missing from the beginner books. Many of the songs are in standards tuning which is nice. While I can't play everything I'd say at least half are readily accessible to the advanced-beginner. I heartily recommend this book. Everyone should find something they can play, and there is enough variation to make this a good learning tool.

Just what I was looking for

2008-07-03
I'm learning how to play fingerstyle guitar and I've been looking for pieces beyond the basic to play. This book is for the intermedite and above - it's a little above my skill level, but I feel I'll grow into it. The nice feature in this book is they give you the simplified melody above the more complicated fingerstyle solo parts. There is a one page lesson at the beginning of the book on how to play fingerstyle guitar. The book is arranged in both tabulature and standard notation. I can read standard notation but it's nice to have the tabulature to be sure you got the notes right especially with the more complicated fingerstyle guitar playing. Finally, the book contains many of the popular Beatles songs like Let It Be, which is the song I'm currently working on.

Great for an intermediate player

2008-05-23
I've been playing songs out of this book for a couple months now and find the arrangements aren't too hard, but enough of a challenge to be fun to learn and satisfying to play. Experience wise, I've been playing bass and guitar for a few years now so I'd say I'm between a begninner to an intermediate player - still a lot to learn. It takes me about a week to learn to play one of these songs consistently, another 3 or 4 weeks to commit it to memory and (mostly) stop making mistakes. This has become my favorite source for new songs. One of the guys I play with is extremely talented, he's toyed around with several of these and was impressed with their arrangement as well. Favorites - Blackbird, Hey Jude, Yesterday. Hope this helps.

Good Arrangements for Intermediate Players (like me)

2008-04-26
16 original arrangements by Eric Schoenberg of songs for fingerstyle guitarists at all levels. Includes: All My Loving * Hey Jude * Blackbird * and others by the greatest songwriting team of modern times. In standard notation and tablature, with tips on learning each arrangement.

BEATLE-ING

2007-10-29
This book by Hal Leonard is OK...
but if you want some real kick-axe Fingerstyle Beatle Tabs along with the accompanying audio recordings then check out Steven King's Beatle-ing CDs.
He has recorded seven CDs of Beatle songs (aprox. 100 songs) for solo six-string guitar in standard tuning (except for one or two alt-tunings, eg. a dropped-tuning on "Within You Without You") and has a website where you can attain the Tabs in PDF by enrolling as a student. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced Fingerstyle player you can learn something straight from a solo fingerstyle Master.
I personally have all seven Beatle-ing CDs and in my opinion there is no one who has captured the Beatles in their essence for solo guitar as well as Mr. Steven King.
Do yourself a favor and check it out: http://www.guitarbystevenking.net/index.html

Great Fun

2007-08-13
Brilliant! Leonard has done it again, as "FINGERPICKING BEATLES" is another great compilation. The notation and tablature in the book are both of excellent quality, they are easy to read and are marked well. The difficulty level of the music is very consistent, any intermediate player will be able to play through the songs after a few tries if they are not able to site read them right off the bat. The sacrifice of difficulty in the music playing does not effect the sound however. Both bass lines and melody are included in every single song, which is a major plus. It should be mentioned that "Blackbird" is not a transcription of the lead melody, rather it is of the original guitar part.
For those who may be wondering, while the guitar "sings" for the player in every single song, there is certainly enough of a "Bass" sound to the songs to allow the player to sing along if they wish to. This is a must have for Beatles fans, I highly recommend it for every guitar player.

In short:
~ Clear Notation
~ Very consistent
~ Great Quality
~ Very pleasing to the ear
~ Sounds beyond its actual difficulty level
~ A must buy!

Decent Arrangements and A Lot Of Fun!

2007-05-29
The arrangements in this book are complex enough to be good sounding. They are also easy enough for an intermediate to play thru the songs without too much difficulty.

I taught myself how to fingerpick by using the Mark Hanson books (which are excellent). These tunes are not as complex as the arrangements in his books or Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. The tunes are challenging enough not to be boring but you won't have to work on them for days to get them sounding right.

Great Arrangements of Beatles Classics for FIngerstyle

2007-03-09
I love these books by Hal Leonard. They've provided really nice arrangements of these famous Beatles tunes, all with easy to follow TAB notation. This is an excellent resource for the intermediate guitarist looking to develop skills with fingerstyle arpeggios.