Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) [Paperback]

Wolf Marshall (Author), The Beatles (Author)

Book Description

Series: Guitar Signature Licks | Publication Date: November 1, 2001

Learn the trademark acoustic guitar elements of rock's most influential band! This book/CD pack by guitar dean Wolf Marshall provides in-depth analysis of 21 songs, including: Across the Universe * And I Love Her * Blackbird * Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Will * I've Just Seen a Face * Julia * Norwegian Wood * Rocky Raccoon * Til There Was You * Yesterday * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away * and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 063401417X
• ISBN-13: 978-0634014178
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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108 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the funnest Beatles songs to play, December 31, 2003

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This review is from: Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) (Paperback)

I have other guitar instruction books by Wolf Marshall but I have to say this one is the best. Unfortuanely Amazon does not list the songs included so I will: Across The Universe*And I Love Her*Blackbird*Girl*Her Majesty*Here Comes The Sun*Hey Jude*I Will*I'm Looking Through You*I've Just Seen A Face*Julia*Long Long Long*Lovely Rita*Mother Nature's Son*Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)*Revolution 1*Rocky Raccoon*Till There Was You*
Two Of Us*Yesterday*You've Got To Hide Your Love Away*
I love most of these songs and I learned to play "You've Got To Hide..." perfectly and that song alone was worth the price of the book. What I like about the Wolf Marshall books is that he plays the guitar part of the song at regular tempo and then at a slow tempo for practicing (on the CD). I find this is very helpful for someone (like me) who does not pick up a song easily. Another little nice tidbit that he provides is the paragraph or 2 at the begining of each song which gives some interesting insight or background on the song along with a description of what guitars/amps were used and who played what part (John, George etc.). All in all I found it to be a very fun and helpful book.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For all Beatles Fans, March 25, 2004

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Christopher "Maverick" (Carmel, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) (Paperback)

This is the book to get if your looking for everything about how to play 21 songs made by the most influential rock band ever. This book includes the right chords for all the songs and tells you how to strum them, gives you the notes for whether you want to play lead guitar(george) or acoustic guitar(john) with tablatures, and comes with a CD which plays and explains each of the songs for you. On the CD, Wolf Marshall plays the songs normally for you and then plays it slowy for you to make sure your playing the songs right. This book gives you the authentic notes of which the beatles created and preformed with.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spot-on Beatles Guitar parts, September 22, 2006

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Charles A. Cooper (Jacksonville, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks) (Paperback)

This book is not meant to be a collection of solo acoustic guitar arrangments. Instead, this book provides complete and accurate transcriptions of all the guitar parts for each of the beatles original acoustic recordings. Since the beatles used a rhythm (John) and a lead (George) guitar there are two guitar transcriptions for most of the tunes. One exception is Blackbird, which is all Paul. In most cases you will need to merge the two to come up with your own solo arrangement, Wolf provides you with very accurate transciptions making this fairly easy to do.

I got this book because it is the only one which provides a guitar transcription for the Beatles cover of Til There Was You. The transcription of this tune is perfect. I play Johns part to accompany a singer and then take George's break as an interlude. Note, on the original recording on With the Beatles they play in F, which is the key Wolf transcriped to. On the Ed Sullivan show their instruments are tuned down to Eb so they play this tune in E on that peformance, even though they use the same chords.