The Beatles Complete

Rating:
Summary: Great for amateur guitarists
Review: This is a great book for fans of Beatles music. This book contains songs even a beginner can play, but also contains more challenging songs containing barre chords and other odd chords. All the chords are pictured, so you don't have to go hunting up how to play G modal. I spent hours with this book and greatly improved my playing skill. Music (melody only) is also included so you know exactly how many measures to play each chord. You could even have a piano accompany you. My complaints are that some songs needed to be transposed to be in my singing range, and a couple needed to be transposed to make them more playable (I hate playing the B chord). In addition - although the name is Bealtles Complete, there are a few songs that I found noticeably absent (e.g. Imagine, Here Comes the Sun).

Rating:
Summary: Better than faking it, less than perfect
Review: This is a really good Beatles book that works very well to let you play chord arrangements so that the Beatles songs sound about right. Great for playing for people who just want to sing some Beatles' songs. It won't actually give you much insight into how the Beatles played the songs, as some of the keys are clearly not the same as the album versions, and there is no information about multiple guitar parts. I also don't like music books in standard binding because you have to split the spine to get them to lay flat.

Overall I would really recommend it for the casual player who wants to add a few (or all) of the Beatles' songs to their repertoire, as long as you don't mind them not being 100% of the album version.