The Complete Scores

Truly the Beatles wrote the best collection of songs that has ever been made, and that still stands today in this current world of less music and more skin/beat. Basically, for the first few days after recieving this book guitarists and even keyboard players can take it easy and just play their favorite Beatles songs in chords. Then you can simply move on to the specifics. You can play every individual part of the song and get them right. I have yet to find an inaccuracy in the book, but apparently other reviews state there are so I'll keep my ears and eyes open for them. This book has been great for my band. We've only had it for about a month, but already The Beatle music has made practice more fun and a lot more colorful. So I highly recommend this book to anybody out there who wants to play great music and doesn't have the time to write it out on their own. As a bonus, it's also a great book for learning other instruments.

The Best We are Ever Likely to Get

Let me begin by saying that this book has a large number of deficiencies and errors, many of which have been noted in the Amazon.com reviews. Despite this, I have given it five stars because I do not expect anything better to be produced in my lifetime. There is a huge quantity of accurate information here in a very accessible form at a very small price. You can get a very good idea of what the book is like by reading the reviews here on Amazon.com. Basically, most of the songs that the Beatles recorded through Help are transcribed quite accurately. As the songs became more complex (say Rubber Soul on) some of the transcriptions can be more fairly characterized as "sketches." However, the sketches are some of the best on the market. Someone wanting more completeness would do well to price school band music where the charts for a single jazz standard run about half the price of this book. If you have any knowledge of the music publishing industry, you should have a good idea of what it would cost Hal Leonard to make significant improvements or someone else to produce a competing text. Might as well buy this and make corrections in the margins.

The Greatest Rock and Roll Transcription Out There!

The massive undertaking of this project makes it a gift from Rock and Roll Heaven! Every major instrument on Beatles records written out for the needy to learn and the curious to discover!

Of course, it's impossible to take what was never written down in the first place and write it all down perfectly, (not to mention, infusion of character!) but this book will get the average musician at least 90 percent of the way there. That's something I could never do on my own! And why not add a little originality along the way to make up for the remaining 10 percent? While it's not exactly the same string, fret, etc, it'll get you to where you can find the rest on your own. It'll also send your fingers in new musical directions they've never gone before!

Although I'd like to keep this book as my own little secret, might as well reward the guys who labored so hard on it! This book can do so many things for you! It is a lifetime's worth of jamming, practice, reference and study. Yes, it's a Beatles Bible!