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Fingerpicking Standards: 17 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tablature

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I own a number of these Hal Leonard fingerpicking books, and this is one of my favorites. While I'm not a big fan of many of these songs (Yesterday is the exception) they are arranged beautifully. As the other reviewers have noted this book falls into the advanced beginner-intermediate skill level, but vary from song to song, so even if you are new there is something you can play. The nice thing about this book is that many of the songs are also piano standards, so I can play along with my wife.

My only complaint is with this series in general, they repeat many of the same songs, "Yesterday" I estimate appears in 97% of the Hal Leonard books (ok maybe that's a slight exaggeration ;))

If you are looking for another excellent fingerpicking book to go along with this one, "Fingerpicking Beatles and Expanded Edition: 30 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation and Tab" is great as well.

I own this book and Fingerpicking Pop and these are currently my favorite books to practice out of. I'm a beginning guitarist and have gone through a lot of songbooks for "beginners" and they just sound horrible because they are so simple. The songs are arranged so that they easy enough for me work with but complex enough that I'm not bored. Great learning tool!

I also recommend The Very Best of Fingerstyle Guitar (Hal Leonard) which is sort of the same thing (has some of the same songs) but a little more difficult.

Seventeen popular pieces of music ranging from great classics like "Georgia on my mind" to "What a wonderful world" and "Yesterday".

The music is given to you in standard music score and in TAB (for non-music readers). The level of difficulty is easy-to-intermediate. Many of the songs are good for fingerpicking-guitar beginners. The arrangements are well done and sound good.

This is one of my favorite books to practice with. I like the songs and the tab arrangements. They're difficult enough to challenge an advanced beginner/intermediate guitarist, but the songs are arranged easy enough to learn fairly quickly if you practice regularly. I wish the book had a CD or DVD version to be able to hear the tone used.

I liked the selection of songs and the arrangements are pleasant, but in no way is this anything but a beginner's book. All the songs are in open position and seldom stray above the fifth fret. For me, an intermediate guitarist, they'll be useful only as sight-reading exercises or as jumping-off points for devising my own more complex arrangements.

I'm a beginning guitarist and a fan of the beginning-intermediate Fingerpicking series by Hal Leonard. I own several of their titles and have used them regularly for fun and practice.

The Fingerpicking standards book is probably my second favorite to the Fingerpicking Pop edition. The songs are nicely arranged even though simplistic. At times the arrangements can be redundant because it re-uses the same arpeggio for nearly all the songs but it is a great way to get practice in while learning a few songs.

I highly recommend this book and the series to beginning guitarists or perhaps more advanced guitarists looking to use their creativity to tweak the arrangements themselves. Advanced guitarists looking for fingerstyle masterpieces will have to look elsewhere.

Bought this book because of my new found love of finger picking. My teacher has liked it and we have used it for several classes. Great purchase!

I recommend this songbook for any beginner/intermediate guitar player! The arrangements are challenging enough to help build your skills, but not so difficult that you would get discouraged. It's fun learning songs that are familiar to you. It makes you want to work harder to be able to play them proficiently.