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The Masters of Rock Guitar Fake Book (Fake Books)

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The variety and number of different rock hits in this book are sure to please a various tastes and skills. I selected this book to help with my personal and instructor-led guitar instruction, and am pleased that it will be a good accompaniment to my learning. If you are unexperienced at reading guitar tab, the book could be somewhat challenging since instructions on how to read the guitar tablature are not included. For the price, you can't go wrong.

Do you want a fake book containing dozens of hits by classic rockers like the Beatles, Clapton, and Aerosmith? While a bit dated due to its 1990s publishing date (look for way too many Def Leppard and Bon Jovi songs), this is an extremely useful fake book to have in your collection - it contains many classic rock staples, along with a nice selection of more obscure tunes. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to be able to play a large variety of rock songs without having to work their way through note-by-note transcriptions.

For anyone looking to find a song book, this is not it. From the table of contents this would appear to be a good book with plenty of variety. But the songs in the book are incomplete. For example, one of the songs listed in the book is Dust in the Wind by Kansas. This book gives you the tab for about 5 measures of the intro and that is about it. I guess you could "fake" it as long as you only wanted someone to see you play the intro. Disappointing.

This is one of the few books that gives guitar tablature in numbers for the actual song vocal melody. Great for learning to play melodically and to learn the chords of many songs!

I bought this book used. It was in excellent condition.I just wish it would have had tabs in it like a previous one I had bought at a music store.I will get some use from it. I'm happy that I bought it used not to have paid the new version price.It would not have been worth it.