The Complete Guitar Player Cat Stevens Songbook (The Complete Guitar Player Series)

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Summary: Mutha71
Review: A good collection of basic chords for some of the best songs by Cat Stevens. Intros are missing in songs like "Moonshadow" and "The First Cut Is The Deepest". It is hard to believe that "The Wind" is not included in this collection of songs. Guitar melody in "If I Laugh" is not included either, just the basic chords. This book is by no means perfect, but it is a good buy for the money.

Rating:
Summary: Mutha71
Review: A good collection of basic chords for some of the best songs by Cat Stevens. Intros are missing in songs like "Moonshadow" and "The First Cut Is The Deepest". It is hard to believe that "The Wind" is not included in this collection of songs. Guitar melody in "If I Laugh" is not included either, just the basic chords. This book is by no means perfect, but it is a good buy for the money.

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Summary: Incredible number of songs for the price!
Review: There are a whopping 28 songs in this little book, which was many more than I expected for the price asked. There are very few pop songs that the Cat did that aren't in this book. Unfortunately they got away with this by using VERY small print fonts, dropping the piano scores from the music, and only putting one line of lyrics with the music. What you do get are all the words (though the second verses on are printed as blocks of text on the bottoms of the pages), the melody lines, and the chord box notation above the lines (Circles with teeny-tiny finger numbers inside.) There is also a nifty strumming chart at the top of each song to give you a feel for the rythms involved. Nice touch. They squeeze 7 lines of music with up to 10 measures per line on each page, which is tough on the eyeballs. The advantage of this is that a whole song fits on one or two facing pages, with no page turns. If you can read the chords without the finger notation detail, and don't get lost moving from music to lyric sections this is a great book for performing from. From a content point a view, a definate 10. From a printing point of view, a 6. Overall a 9.