Product Description

A collection of over 60 songs for acoustic guitarists. Each song is presented with full lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord shapes. The songs are by artists including The Beatles, Boyzone, Oasis, Sting, The Beautiful South, the Lighthouse Family, Bob Marley, The Who, The Corrs and Pulp.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4004 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 191 pages

Synopsis
A collection of over 60 songs for acoustic guitarists. Each song is presented with full lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord shapes. The songs are by artists including The Beatles, Boyzone, Oasis, Sting, The Beautiful South, the Lighthouse Family, Bob Marley, The Who, The Corrs and Pulp.

Customer Reviews

Does exactly what it sais on the tin.
Loads of great songs that all work really well as acoustic renditions, suitable for a beginner with patience. It is as entitled- a guitar 'Chord' songbook, so you need to have an idea of how the song goes to play it because the melody, tempo/speed etc. Are not written.
Has all the lyrics as well so you can whistle while you work/play..

Is this the right book for you?
Use Amazon's 'Search Inside' feature to check the content; quite a good selection of classic pop numbers, 80's pop and reggae here. Some other books in the Big Acoustic series repeat these numbers, but my view is that you can't please everybody; if you wanted exactly the content to suit you, you'd need to buy your music one-by-one, and that would cost a great deal more than these books.
Then use the same 'Search Inside' feature to check out a music page; look - no score. Also, the suggested chords are very basic. For example, Paul Simon's "The Boxer" starts with an intricate bit of guitar picking over several bars; these bars are represented in the book by one basic, simple C chord. This could be good, or it could be bad, depending upon what you want to do.
If you just want to sing and strum along to the radio, then the absence of the staves makes things clearer. If you want to do your own interpretation of a number, the bare bones information given here is also good.
But if you don't know the number very well, or want to reproduce it note for note, then you need the score. Sorry folks, there isn't one.
Some spelling errors are annoying, but I can live with that. My conclusion; good value for money, but you need to already know and have an ear for the piece you're trying to play.
p.s. This may seem a nit-picking point but it may matter to you; because of the way the book is bound, you need a music stand to hold it open.

Very good!
I have used this book it has a lot of really good songs in it, such as songs by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Robbie Williams, The Who and Eric Clapton to name a few. Some of the chords in songs such as Pinball Wizard are really hard but just practise them over and over until you get it perfect. This is must for all acoustic/electric guitar players because both soung awsome espically John Lennon's Imagine, that is quite easy to play.