The Beatles: Paperback Songs Series

If you want the music to a large number of Beatle songs and want to be able to fit it in your back pocket of your dungarees this is the deal!

For someone who wants to jam through some Beatles songs this book is great. Its got the chords, melody, and lyrics, which is all you need for a left-to-the-imagination solo acoustic rendition by your average silent rock star. The ONLY problem with it is that it is pocket paperback sized, which is fine if you're reading it, but if you are playing a guitar you'll need to get one of your groupies to hold it open for you.

For the money this is a really nice book of Beatles songs. The arrangements are good and accurate. I don't know about whether they are in the 'right key' or not. It is easy enough to transpose for the somewhat experienced player. I use a capo for some of them just to adjust for my vocal range (female-mezzo-soprano). I really like the simple, yet beautiful arrangement for "Rain". The lyrics are a teeny bit off. It is 'when the rain comes' not, 'if the rain comes', etc. This is not for a beginner. There are somewhat difficult bar chords and not all the chords in the arrangements are referenced in the back. Any comprehensive chord book will fix this. Or some figuring out. I have been playing for a year (compulsively) and I have a music background. I wasn't able to use most of the songs in this book when I first got it last year. The biggest beef I have with this book is the size and the fact you need to weight the pages down. But what do you want for the price? I am planning on scanning the pages and enlarging them. I'm now going to look for some others in the series. Keep practicing!

Exciting. And fab for all beatles fans

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