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The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook (Guitar Chord Songbook) |  | Author: The Beatles
Brand: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 4208
Media: Paperback
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.8 x 1
MPN: 306349
Model: 306349
ISBN: 0634022296
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 073999063493
EAN: 9780634022296
ASIN: 0634022296
Publication Date: February 1, 2000
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Product Description
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.
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 The only Beatles Song Book you need. August 31, 2010
Michael B. Tanner
Awesome book. Very accurate. I couldn't ask for a more informative song book. Get it!
 Complete, but not user friendly August 31, 2010
captainthreshold (Metro Detroit)
This book IS complete, all the songs are here. The only problem is the binding of this book. It is almost impossible for anyone who is actually USING the book to play songs on the piano or guitar or any other musical instrument that requires two hands in the production of music. A spiral binding on this book would make it MUCH more user friendly. Then the book would stay open and not fall off of a music stand. I bought the book and a friend in the book binding business carefully removed the original binding and put it into a spiral binding. TA-DA, it is now actually a usable book of chords for musicians. If you are just gonna sit on your sofa and look at the chord/words and maybe sing the tunes, then I would give it 5 stars.
Strumming away with the Beatles August 24, 2010
Johannes Enroth (Helsinki Finland)
A long-time Beatles fan and an amateur guitar strummer, I've never really tried to play these great songs. The chords for most of the songs are available in the net of course, but more often than not they are different from the ones in this book (which I trust are the original and thus "correct" ones). For example, I found the chords for Girl in the net but they just didn't feel quite right, close but not quite.
This is a great book indeed. The configuration of each chord that appears in a given song is provided right below the song's name, so you don't have to leaf through the book to find the configurations you don't know. What surprised me though is how difficult some of the chord changes are in songs that sound fairly simple, such as Yesterday or Blackbird. But that's a challenge any Beatles fan should be happy to cope with!
 Great resource... for the guitar. July 28, 2010
Philip Raino
The book is fine as a resource, but it has been assembled under the assumption that the songs will be played on a guitar; the transcriptions account for The Beatles' capo'ing their guitars during the songs' recordings, and so present the chords relative to the capo, rather than presenting the originally-recorded chords. For guitarists, this is certainly a useful shortcut, but if you play (as I do) on a ukulele, and want to play the originally-recorded chords, you're forced to re-transpose, noting the number of frets the guitar has been capo'd and transposing each chord down accordingly.
The Beatles made simple July 17, 2010
Mod Wolf (Bronx, NY United States)
This book, though not quite complete, is indispensable for the rhythm guitarist trying to demystify the Beatles. Unfortunately you don't get the songs that they've covered, nor "Flying", for some reason. Songs that are driven by alternate instruments, like "Within You Without You" and finger-picking based songs like "Here Comes The Sun" are not fully represented, but again, this book is for the rhythm guitarist. However it does utilize different chord formations to economize on hand movement so that you're not running up and down the neck with chord changes. Its an added bonus that teaches you different forms of the same chords. The only caveat is the binding. Its a softbound binding where it really needs to be spiral-bound. I took it to a jam session last night and it took a bulldog clip AND my sister to keep it open.
Bottom line, is this book worth it? Definitely. For guitar players who can only read tabs and chords (as John and Paul were/are), it more than pays for itself before you get to the "B" section. There's never going to be a definitive book giving you note-for-note transcriptions of the Beatles recordings, but this book gives you a good, solid base for learning the songs.
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