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Summary: Excellent book.....very well done job!
Review: If you read the reviews below, most people will sufficiently let you know about the minor inaccuracies in the orchestrations, vocals, etc. From what I've seen, however, 99% of the songs are dead-on accurate for the guitars and bass. If you want to learn how to play guitar, here is a way to learn from the best! Same with bass....and even piano (though anything other than "Let It Be" will be challenging for a newcomer to the instrument). If your band wants to be the next "1964", here is their owner's manual! The only thing that this book is lacking is the type of guitar and amp you should be using when playing the song in question! Only two things that make my teeth grind: 1) They will show a C# barred at the 4th fret, go to another chord, then come back to the C#, but now its barred at the 2nd or 3rd fret (even though the handwritten chord letter is correect). This is probably not the author's fault, but rather some lackey forced to write this stuff down. 2)While the transcriptions are accurate, some are shown as played with a maximum amount of difficulty. Prime example is "Blackbird"...there is a much simpler way to play the same notes EXACTLY, without having to make comparatively difficult fingerings. I would definitely recommend spending some bucks to get this book...if even to see the transcription to "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"!
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Summary: it is the best music book for the beatles
Review: I am a begginner piano player and I learned from the book and i thought if you're a beatles fan and want to play their songs this book is for you, it has everysinge instrament they beatles ever layed a track down for in the whole career. It's awesome
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Summary: false advertising
Review: 1) SCORES do NOT include tablature. Musical illiterates do not read SCORES. 2) "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" are NOT Beatles songs: the Beatles's founder, the most intelligent, creative, and interesting Beatle, was not around to approve their release. This book DOES include some sort of transciption of EVERY song commercially released by the Beatles during the time the Beatles were extant. 3) The errors in this book ARE significant. You can almost choose any song at random. Take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", for instance: The bass line is accurate for the first verse only, not for the first refrain, not for subsequent verses, not for subsequents renderings of the refrain. Why is this significant? Because Paul McCartney's bass is not randomly deviating for the sake of variety: McCartney is much more of a musician than that; he is deliberately and methodically building up musical tension: a song needs to GO somewhere.
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Summary: This book taught me how to play the guitar!
Review: I was a novice guitar player until I picked up this book. I love Beatles music and I wanted to play like them. The first song I learned from the book was "Blackbird." I didn't know how to read tabs, but I kept at it until I got the song down perfect. When I take my guitar places (almost everywhere I go) people turn around and say,"Wow, I didn't know you played the guitar!" I also learned the tabs for "Julia" and "Mother Natures' Son" and many others. The music and being able to play it has brought me a lot of pleasure and relaxation...good therapy. Most of time, I just turn the pages from song to song and learn new chords, plus, I pick up on new ways to strengthen my guitar playing with riffs from "Hey Bulldog." It's true, there are some mistakes with the lyrics and composition, but those are minor, forgivable and not what I focus on when I open the book. Sure, there's room for revision, no author or publisher is perfect. True, the book could be completed ("Free As A Bird," "Real Love," etc., but overall, for a Beatle fan, there is nothing like it! My 18 year old son Louie and I read it and study it every day...the proof is in the progress of our guitar playing. The book challenges us to learn new Beatle songs with more precision. We love it!
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Summary: THIS BOOK NEEDS TO BE EDITED AND REVISED!
Review: This is a classic book. It's the most talked about rock sheet-music book in score format. But it has ALOT of mistakes (duh!)! Some of the songs are way off - especially the songs with more than 4 instruments! The transcriptions are sloppy. And being handwritten makes the pages look ugly. I think Barnes Music Engraving Ltd. should go through the entire Beatles catalogue and transcribe all of the albums! The "Off The Record" series are, for lack of a better word, perfect! The Beatles Complete Scores should at least be revised and edited. They need it! This book is far too important to be left alone! Please, guys, edit this book until it is perfect! How 'bout it Hal Leonard?
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Summary: The best book for people that love to play Beatles
Review: Great book. There are some mistakes in the scores, but a good Beatles fan will solve the problem. Extremely easy to manage
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Summary: Blasphemous. Not complete, but great value.
Review: When i saw Revolution 9 scored, it was worth buying it for a laugh. There are some dissapointing errors in lyrics. e.g the words i cant figure out in Helter Skelter and was hoping to fing in the transcriptions. As a guitarist trying to play along with the records it would be nice if they put in the tuning, e.g 420 or 440 tuning. The font is a bit small. Some of my favourite parts of fade outs, particularly McCartney's bass lines have been omitted. I am also wondering if the chord shapes shown are the correct ones. Where is Free as a Bird for example and quite a few other songs. I think it is blasphemous to call it the complete transcriptions when notes are missing. I could go on but i wont. ~~~~~~~~~~(kettle boiling) or plane landing in Back in the USSR LETS SEE A BEACHBOYS ONE NEXT...go the theremin go the vegetables crunching in B flat
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Summary: A good starting point
Review: There are some inconsistencies and mistakes in the rhythms and guitar fingerings. The lyrics are at times screwed up -- even the ones published with the albums. Despite all these issues, no one else has put together a volume that comes close to being as comprehensive as this one, and this a pretty good start in picking up the general feel of how the music should be played.
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Summary: The Incomplete Transcriptions
Review: Look, if this were called "The Complete Transcriptions" I wouldn't complain-even though it is complete only in that every Beatle recording is transcribed; the transcriptions themselves are not complete. I'd pay at least twice as much for it if its orchestral-instrument ensemble parts were detailed, specific, and accurate. "Paperback Writer" is a particular disappointment. Its refrain is missing essential vocal parts, and this book thinks John Lennon and George Harrison are singing on the verse the syllables "Ah,ah,ah,ah"; actually they're singing "Frere Jacques". If you perform it as "Ah, ah, ah, ah" some distinctive Beatle whimsy will be lost. (I too recommend PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.)
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Summary: I call this "The White Bible."
Review: No other recording artist could inspire this kind of labor of love for the authors. Where else could you find the sheet music for "Slow Down," let alone a transcription of all the instruments? Also, Chuck Berry doesn't let just anyone publish his tunes. As a drummer, transcriptions of any popular music's drums are a treat, but as a Beatles fan, these are indispensible. This doesn't mean; however, that these pages are wholly accurate. Many of the cool riffs we listen for on the coda are missing on the songs with a fade-out. A key drum fill on "I Am The Walrus" is transcribed as coming a measure after it does on the record. On "Drive My Car" the distinctive drum fills which occur on the last line of each verse are transcribed as the same combination each time, instead of each being unique. All in all, though, there is not another music book like this. I doubt there ever will be. Especially for Beatles fans, but really for anyone who enjoys classic rock 'n' roll.
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