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Summary: Hal Leonard deceived customers
Review: On its website, Hal Leonard shows that this book contains piano notes as well as those for guitar and vocal, with a picture showing what its content should be like. Yet in reality, there is no piano notes at all! They simply decievied customers into buying their books, and they are unwilling to apologize! Until now, that mistake still exists in their website. They argued that this book is a "fake" book that can be used for piano. What an incredible excuse! Shameless enough. I wonder why such a lousy company can exist till now.
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Summary: Save reams of paper and downloading efforts - great deal!
Review: Thanks to the two previous reviewers, I bought 2 copies of this book for my husband and brother-in-law. They had bought 3 ring binders and wanted to download music from the internet. I found this book here and they are both THRILLED with how many songs are in it and the format. Great price too![...] Thanks.
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Summary: Great book -- but why are several songs out of order?
Review: This book advanced my piano and guitar playing more than several years of lessons; it essentially taught me how to play by chords vs. sight reading. I do, however, recommend a few improvements:1) Eleven songs appear out-of-order [check out the Amazon pages above]. Here's a list:
Dear Prudence (off by 4 pages)
Golden Slumbers (off by a whopping 36 pages)
I Am the Walrus (off by 14 pages)
I've Got a Feeling (off by 24 pages)
Long, Long, Long (off by 12 pages)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer (off by 4 pages)
Old Brown Shoe (off by 24 pages)
Rain (off by 3 pages)
Sun King (off by 14 pages)
The End (off by 2 pages)
You'll Be Mine (off by 8 pages) [Perhaps the songs should have been listed in order by album/recording date?] 2) The binding is poor, and cannot be used on a music stand. 3) The key transposition (on songs where the capo is recommended) is a bummer... to play the songs without a capo requires a re-transposition [not too easy to do on-the-fly].
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Summary: Great book -- but why are several songs out of order?
Review: This book advanced my piano and guitar playing more than several years of lessons; it essentially taught me how to play by chords vs. sight reading. I do, however, recommend a few improvements: 1) Eleven songs appear out-of-order [check out the Amazon pages above]. Here's a list:
Dear Prudence (off by 4 pages)
Golden Slumbers (off by a whopping 36 pages)
I Am the Walrus (off by 14 pages)
I've Got a Feeling (off by 24 pages)
Long, Long, Long (off by 12 pages)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer (off by 4 pages)
Old Brown Shoe (off by 24 pages)
Rain (off by 3 pages)
Sun King (off by 14 pages)
The End (off by 2 pages)
You'll Be Mine (off by 8 pages) [Perhaps the songs should have been listed in order by album/recording date?] 2) The binding is poor, and cannot be used on a music stand. 3) The key transposition (on songs where the capo is recommended) is a bummer... to play the songs without a capo requires a re-transposition [not too easy to do on-the-fly].
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Summary: The book will not stay open due to heavy binding.
Review: This book contains complete lyrics and chords to all of the Beatles original compositions, it is very accurate.
Unfortunately due to the number of pages and style of binding the book will not stay open. This great book is rendered USELESS by the bulky binding.
I suggest, instead buying the "Beatles Fake Book" by Hal-Leonard publishing ISBN: 0881887579. The Fake Book also contains the songs by other artists that the Beatles covered and it uses a comb binding that allows the book to stay open.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: This book is a bare-bones chord structure guide to the songs written and performed by the Beatles in the 1950s and 1960s. It gives no real illustrations as to the exact fingerings used by the Beatles on their records. Titles include official discography rejects like That Means A Lot, You Know What To Do, and You'll Be Mine (all of which made appearances on the Anthology), but, inexplicably, do not include the 1970s Lennon demos-made-Beatles-singles Real Love and Free As A Bird. Seeing as the latter two songs were released as singles and thus should count more as Beatles canon than early-era testbed dross like In Spite Of All The Danger (recorded and released purely by incident), this book is, in my book, somewhat less than complete.
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Summary: Two pages shy of being truly complete.
Review: This book is a bare-bones chord structure guide to the songs written and performed by the Beatles in the 1950s and 1960s. It gives no real illustrations as to the exact fingerings used by the Beatles on their records. Titles include official discography rejects like That Means A Lot, You Know What To Do, and You'll Be Mine (all of which made appearances on the Anthology), but, inexplicably, do not include the 1970s Lennon demos-made-Beatles-singles Real Love and Free As A Bird. Seeing as the latter two songs were released as singles and thus should count more as Beatles canon than early-era testbed dross like In Spite Of All The Danger (recorded and released purely by incident), this book is, in my book, somewhat less than complete.
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