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The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years / Guitar Tab Edition

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I've been playing guitar for 16 years, and to my ear the transcriptions in this book are very accurate and superior to tablature you'll find posted on the web that are transcribed by amature guitarists. If this book is properly studied, and you use other teaching sources to really understand the alternate tunings and chord shapes used in these songs you can really open up the fret board in a special way with the use of this book. I also recommend the Hal Leonard Chuck Berry Tab book as a good primer for the songs in this book. With the two together you can have an advance understanding Keith Richards approach to the guitar.

This collection of Rolling Stones numbers is far more detailed than I will probably ever be able to use (unfortunately!), but the few songs I have picked up on were all in the correct key to play along with original tracks. So, it would appear to me to be an accurate rendition and a very good reference. I am certainly not sorry I bought it, but I will be looking for a simpler songbook to compliment the material presented. A couple of my all-time favourites are missing (e.g. "Cry to Me" and "Under the Boardwalk"). Maybe the Rolling Stones Fakebook is the answer?

This is an excellent book with chords and complete musical notation for Rolling Stones singles until the eraly 1970s. The guitar parts also have complete and accurate tablatures. Together the the CD edition of the same title, it makes an invaluable study item for anyone interested in learning this music. Outstanding!

One review of this book stated there was no tab included, while others said there was tab. Just to set the record straight--there is tab. I've only looked at Brown Sugar in detail so far but all the guitar parts are included and the tab appears accurate. On some of the rhythm guitar parts there is simply a rhythm figure shown with chords and tuning rather than tabbing each note of the chord, but when the guitars are doing more than playing rhythm, the parts are tabbed.

A lot of the songs are going to have at least one guitar part in open G or open E tunings. I was delighted to find the well-known guitar intro to Brown Sugar was played in an open G tuning IN THE KEY OF C! I had never thought of using open G in that way before, it really gave me some new insights into the tuning and Keith Richard's guitar playing.

Has a great song collection not easy to find. Tabs are spot on. Easy to follow and sounds great playing along with the album.

Great collection, just like the 3-CD collection. As I practice songs in this collection, I keep wondering about all the alternate tunings. I'm sure that the Stones used alternate tunings on some of their songs, but this collection seems to use way too many. The resulting sound is accurate, but I sometimes wind up transposing the tab so that I can play it in the standard EADGBE tuning.

Great piece of music, if you're a Stone's fun this collection is a MUST own it. Enjoy.

Well put together edition of all of the stones earlier songs. Easy to read and follow.

The title is guitar tab editon there are no tabs in the book it is all chords I wasted [...] bucks on something that was titled tabs complete ripoff.