Acoustic Guitar Tab White Pages (Guitar Collection) [Paperback]

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This awesome collection features note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 150 acoustic favorites from yesterday and today! Songs include: About a Girl * Across the Universe * Adia * Angie * At Seventeen * Barely Breathing * Behind Blue Eyes * Best of My Love * Bitch * The Boxer * Building a Mystery * Change the World * Come to My Window * Crazy on You * Drive * Dust in the Wind * Fast Car * Galileo * Here Comes the Sun * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * Iris * Jack and Diane * Layla * Learning to Fly * Leader of the Band * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Loser * Maggie May * Mr. Jones * More Than Words * Name * Not Fade Away * Patience * Pinball Wizard * Pink Houses * Signs * Silent Lucidity * Southern Cross * Suite: Judy Blue Eyes * Superman (It's Not Easy) * Sweet Home Chicago * 3 AM * Tears in Heaven * Time for Me to Fly * Time in a Bottle * Torn * Wonderwall * Yellow * Yesterday * You've Got a Friend * and many more unplugged gems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 063405712X
• ISBN-13: 978-0634057120
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #282,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots and lots of songs, April 7, 2004

By	John W. Crockett (Huntington Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Tab White Pages (Guitar Collection) (Paperback)

This book is jam packed with lots and lots of songs. Most of them are popular guitar standards from several generations and a variety of artists from several genres. Music is transcribed using tableture and standard notation. Songs are written using the real music (this is no "fake" book), you'll be learning the songs the way they're meant to be played. If you're an accomplished musician, this is a good book for you. If you're a novice, I'd stay way from this one for now...

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Value!!, March 12, 2008

By	Robert P. Donaldson (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Tab White Pages (Guitar Collection) (Paperback)

I'm amazed that people have negative things to say about this book. This is one of the best values out there by far. I have played music for 25 years, have perfect pitch, went to music college, and still struggle to hear exactly what is being played at times. It's not always easy to find accurate sheet music either. Most free websites where guitar tab is posted by the authors are usually incredibly inaccurate, even when they say they know for sure that it is correct. Trust me, it's not. I own two of these books now and like them as much today as when I got them. Simple information like finding out the artist is using a capo or an alternate tuning can save you countless hours of wasted time trying to figure out how something is played. Yes, it is like a phone book, hence the title, "White Pages." However I don't find the print to be too small or the pages to be too thin, as another reviewer has reported. And while it is very detailed, so what. Nobody's forcing anyone to play note for note if they don't want to. The chords and rhythms are listed. You can play as generally or as detailed as you want.

The bottom line is that people will gladly spend $30 or more on a half-hour lesson for a teacher to teach them 1 of these songs, but they have problems spending the equivalent or less for a book that has 150 detailed songs with accurate tabs. That's less than .20 a song! You still with me? I use these books for only a handful of songs I wanted to learn, and still, it cost less than that 1 guitar lesson. If you're still questioning yourself whether you should buy it or not, stop beating yourself up. Buy it already! It's worth every penny.

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars poorly done, April 20, 2008

By	j "jw212" (Cinci, OH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Tab White Pages (Guitar Collection) (Paperback)

This has to be the most poorly edited collection available.
There is ABSOLUTELY no doubt in my mind that the editor was neither a music fan nor an acoustic guitar player but rather some lackey assigned the project who just looked up some playlists on the internet and copied some Hal Leonard Tabs into this collection. Why do I make this assumption?
1) Many of these songs are not even acoustic guitar songs, the note-for-note transcriptions must be completely rearranged to be adapted as solo acoustic guitar arrangments (in the cases where the songs can even be rearranged for acoustic guitar).
Just a few examples to this point:
Yngwie Malmsteen's "Black Star"
Firehouse "Don't Treat Me Bad"
Peter Frampton "Show Me the Way"
Ozzy and Lita Ford "Close My Eyes Forever"
Triumph "Fight the Good Fight"
2) This book does not contain acoustic guitar standards that one might expect.
a) Not a single Led Zeppelin song.
b) No STP, Pink Floyd, REM, Bon Jovi,Hendrix,Phish, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Sting or Rush
c) Just 1 song each by popular acoustic artists such as Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eagles and the Grateful Dead. 2 by James Taylor.
d) very few Windham Hill players represented.
e) Zero classical guitar arrangements (unless "Dust in the Wind" is your idea of classical-style guitar)
Truth be told, there may be enough transcriptions of songs you will enjoy to make the book worth the $30 price tag; but certainly, this was a MISSED OPPORTUNITY for Hal Leonard to compile a definitive collection of the best acoustic songs.