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The Beatles, 1967-1970 (Bass Recorded Versions)

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I had mistakenly ordered this book, thinking I was buying the guitar tab book. The image/title for this page was updated after I had ordered. I decided to pull out the bass and give the book a try.
It's great stuff.

It is accurate, but more importantly, the material is interesting enough to keep you busy and thinking about the cleverness of most of McCartney's basslines.

A far cry from the earlier Beatles bass parts, which are all very rhythmically straightforward, these parts experiment a little.

The bass part for With A Little Help From My Friends has a lot of nice notes swung at the end of measures. Strawberry Fields is a bit more normal than expected. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da will challenge your endurance.

These were a pleasant learning experience for someone who has been playing primarily guitar for about 10 years.

I have transcribed many of the songs in this book before this book was available. I'm sorry to say there are quite a few problems with the transcription accuracy in this book on the songs I have looked at - wrong key changes, wrong time changes, and wrong notes. A Day in the Life is just one example. If you are a beginner, the inaccuracies will not bother you, but for advanced players it is frustrating to get a book labeled "Recorded Versions". I have bought many Hal Leonard books in the past and have not had the issues as with this one. If you are going to transcribe masterpieces - Do it right! I would recommend the yellow Beatles bass book as alternative to this one.

Simply a great tool for nailing Beatle tunes on the bass. Book includes both standard notation and tab, as well as chord symbols for your six-stringer friends.

Great book - you will not be disappointed!

Seems good to me. Love these recorded version Beatle books. Been playing guitar for 40 years so I decided to expand a little and bought a bass (for me and my son to play). I have no problems following the tab and it seems 99.5% accurate to my ear. Wish they offered these books for all the Beatle albums.

This is one more of the fine books of bass transcriptions available from Hal Leonard (we own most of them). While this material is too difficult for the beginner, it is GREAT for the more experienced bassist. AND if you're a marginal reader in the upper positions (like me), using these TAB annotated arrangements can help you develop proficiency reading all over the fretboard---which is not a bad thing at all. NOTE the TAB is written for traditional 4-string basses only.

I bought this book to prove to a band mate that he was playing revolution wrong and I was right. Since we figured it out by ear it was the only way he would listen. I was right he was out of key! And this book gave me little fills I didn't hear. I highly recommend it.

If you are an advance bass player and you like serious stuff, you can start learning some tunes of one of the most important bass man on earth, Paul McCartney. But if you are a beginner and you are practicing the bass, be carefull. The bass lines in some of the beatles tunes are really very though to learn and follow. The book in fact is like any other book with the same chords for guitar and sheet music for piano. I recommend if you like good music, to practice and learn from Pink floyd's album The Wall (easy to follow). But returning to this book, is good if you are advance. Not good for beginners.