The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
by The Beatles
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Author: The BeatlesBrand: Hal Leonard
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-01
ISBN: 0634022296
Number of pages: 400
Model: 306349
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Product features:
- Includes -
- All Together Now
- Baby's In Black
- Doctor Robert
- From Me To You
Book Reviews of The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
Book Review: it's a Rikky Rooksby book
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought this in 2007 after years of having Beatles songbooks. The original golden Beatles songbooks used one page per song, so I never had to worry about turning pages. More recent album songbooks often had a new set of music for old hits in the back of the book. I loved trying to play "Eight Days a Week" and "She's a Woman" in keys that I had not tried before. After all these years, when I am given a new set of chords for the song, I still like having a melody line written out so I know what note to start singing on. All 194 songs do not have tunes that are familiar enough for me to remember where the melody is supposed to be in relation to the chords, but people who have learned to function musically with just words and chords from the internet should be pleased.
Books that offered me a complete piano part made "Her Majesty," a little ditty at the end of Abbey Road, special for me for having a bass line that seemed better than what I could hear on the record. Page 118 retains the descending notes in the first few lines by calling the chords:
D D/C# D/B D/A E7 A D
After "a lot to say," there should be a quick run back up from A to D before the pattern repeats to the line, "But she changes from day to day." I am so used to the bass line now as the foundation for the song that the attempt to produce a chord structure complicated enough after the opening to mimic everything that is going on in that song might be considered a train wreck at the Bsus2 chord, trying to end the line "I wanna tell her that I love her a lot," with too much discord not being resolved fast enough for those of us used to straight rhythm guitar concepts, but few things in life that are written down can approach the speed at which things happen in a good Beatles song.
"Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" even had some guitar notes for picking the distinctive tune of the accompaniment in an earlier version, the songbook for Sgt. Pepper. The chord fingerings shown for the introduction of `Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds' might make it possible for a person who remembers the notes well from hearing the recording to pick the strings shown at the right time to produce the melodic pattern I remember, but I am not talented enough musically to just make chords and pick something like that out on my own.
The back cover gives Rikky Rooksby credit for arranging the songs in this book, and the 400 pages contain a massive amount of information that is much easier to keep track of in book form than my own large stack of songbooks. The big shock for me on the back cover was a Hal Leonard price: U.S. $24.95, which could be what a music store would charge for it, but the price on the internet is much closer to what the price of a used copy would be, even though I bought it new.
Summary of The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by The Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography.Instruments & Performers Books
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