Beatles Complete Chord Songbook

...covers ALL the songs The Beatles ever wrote and recorded themselves, with the exception of instrumentals and Lennon-McCartney songs recorded only by other artists. Every song is even dated so you can find out the year the song was first recorded. The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook presents The Beatles' songs in a format designed for a guitarist singing the songs unaccompanied, or with others. For this reason the chord shapes have been simplified ...
...the original recordings. However, The Beatles did occasionally detune their guitars when recording (for example "Lovely Rita Meter Maid" used guitars with strings tuned down a semitone). Also if you are playing along with the record you may need to tune slightly sharp or flat on some songs. This slight deviation from concert pitch occurs for a number of reasons, including the fact that The Beatles experimented with "vari-speeding" their tapes. (Meaning ...

gillenium1 29.02.2004 · Read full review
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This is a very good book, but contrary to its title, it is not complete. It only has songs composed by the Beatles, not the entire Beatles catalogue. Therefore the title is a little misleading. I would still buy it though, and I did, if only for the additional information it contains. The chords are accurate, the chord patterns and illustrations are very good too. The only other disadvantages besides it not being really complete, are the size and binding format. If one would be using this onstage, it would be difficult to read and impossible to keep open without clipping it to the note stand. A spiral binding would be the best for any songbook. ...

Joecald 23.07.2007 (21.07.2007)
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