Customer Reviews

Simon And Garfunkel Greatest Hits Ez Gtr (Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel)

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This is an excellent book for beginners, I just got it and I'm already enjoying it. If you play the Acoustic guitar and you're not an expert that you can play songs and write notes only by listening to them - this book is for you. Bridge Over Troubled Water and Mrs. Robinson are only 2 of the great hits you'll find in this book. Here is the list of songs: America, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Cecilia, El Condor Pass, For Emily, Whenever I Might Find Her, Homeward Bound, I Am A Rock, Kathy's Song, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair/Canticle, The Boxer
The 59th Street Bridge Street Song (Feelin' Groovy), The Sounds Of Silence. Enjoy!

Songs within are Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs. Robinson, the Sounds of Silence, The Boxer, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), Scarborough Fair - Canticle, I Am a Rock, Kathy's Song, Cecillia, America, Bookends, Homeward Bound, El Condor Pasa, For Emily Whenever I May Find Her.

There are words with each song. Songs match the CD with the same title and cover picture. Except I can't get the Boxer to match the one on the CD.

Doesn't have the usual note guide with it. I'm a beginner so this book is a stretch.

Very good note for note transcriptions of the songs.

To the person who couldn't get boxer to match : The book says no capo required. This is misleading. The recording is tuned one step lower than standard tuning. So you need a capo at the -2 fret :) If you want to match the recording, you will have to retune. The publisher assumed most people wouldnt want to do that, so they just said no capo required.

Don't waste your money on this guitar transcription book! When I ordered it I received an "Easy for Guitar" version which is not at all accurate. In fact many of the transcriptions are just completely wrong, and not even close. It was very frustrating because I have long wanted to learn a few of the more popular songs, Scarobourough Fair, Mrs. Robinson, etc...which really should have been fairly easy. This book only serves to mislead you with the wrong capo positions and transcription notes which are not even close. Very dissapointing!

I am new to guitar, so it would have been helpful to have the chord fingering positions shown on the page. I know that I will grow into this book once I am more familiar with chords, but for now I can't use it. If I had opened this in the store I would have left it on the shelf.

You have to read the fine print on this one- it is not the tab that Paul Simon plays which I had wanted, it is an easy cheat version that is often inaccurate. Even where to capo is wrong on some of the songs. I have a piano/guitar book that has the real music. When I started to use this, I was very disappointed to see if was not the real deal. Also, there is a book that looks the same in all ways (except easy guitar label of course) that is out there so it is easy to buy this in error. I had used the real deal at a friend's house, and then came home and bought this book which I thought was the same.
If it is an easy approximation you want, this is OK. If you want the real deal, beware. This is not it!

I found that the tablature is so tight that the numbers run together, making it very hard to read, and thus making this book useless.

There are not a lot of albums I would buy, but this is one that I did. As far as I'm concerned this album rates among the all-time classic (pop?)rock albums. It's rates to be there along with other classic albums, such as the Beatles White album, or Neil Diamond's Hot August Night. What else can I say?