The Guitar Picker's Fakebook

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Summary: Brody's "Guitar Picker's Fakebook"
Review: It is captious to complain about the "arbitrariness" of this or that form of tablature, or indeed of its "difficulty." ALL versions of tablature are arbitrary, and there is no real consensus as to which version is particularly preferable. SO: spend a little time getting familiar with the tablature being used in the present text, and then work your way through a few tunes using its tablature rather than wishing another tab was being used. After doing this, the Brody book becomes a pretty fair offering to the player with at least a little previous experience. It's not great, but taken for what it is, it has some great tunes, in relatively eassy to use arrangements for the early-intermediate player.

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Summary: Guitar Picker's Fakebook
Review: This has a wide selection of old time songs, but uses a scheme of tablature that I am not familiar with. Instead of the guitar strings being represented by six lines, and the notes falling on the lines to indicate the string that is to be fretted, this book uses six spaces separated by five lines, and the notes fall on the spaces. I found it somewhat confusing. It would have been helpful to see a sample page of the tablature to see what it was like before buying it.