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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. Also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar. 14 songs: Angie * Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Band on the Run * Bridge over Troubled Water * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * I'd Love to Change the World * Knockin' on Heaven's Door * Landslide * Layla * More Than Words * Norwegian Wood * Seven Bridges Road * Suite: Judy Blue Eyes * Wanted Dead or Alive. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Hal Leonard Corp. | | Paperback: | 64 pages | | Publisher: | Hal Leonard Corporation | | Publication Date: | December 01, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1423407288 | | Product Length: | 12.02 inches | | Product Width: | 8.92 inches | | Product Height: | 0.18 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.53 pounds | | Package Length: | 11.73 inches | | Package Width: | 8.66 inches | | Package Height: | 0.39 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.53 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Some nice arrangements Feb 13, 2009
By Slo-Hand
I bought this collection for 'More Than Words' & I'd Love To Save The World' but got a nice surprise with 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. The 2nd song I mentioned is the Albert Lee song not the Eric Clapton cover I thought it was. All of the above arrangements are in standard tuning. Clapton's slow acoustic version of 'Layla' is in here as well and it is also in standard tuning. There are 10 other tunes in here and a few of them have open tunings 'Norweigen Wood' for one which I have not gotten too yet. This is about all I can tell you for now. I'm satisfied with the arrangements, especially 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' which is probably the best arrangement here. There's no CD so you'll need to be able to read rhythms and arrangements or have a recording for reference. The tab seems to be accurate on the songs I've gone over so far.Not too easy and not unsurmountably difficult. I recommend it !
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing Jan 24, 2010
By J. Weiland
"galacticat4"
This review is from the perspective of a novice-to-intermediate fingerpicker. I bought this collection because I wanted a good version of Landslide, and I figured if I liked a few of the other songs, they would be frosting on the cake. I already was prepared for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be interested in at least half of them. Well, I was immediately disappointed with Landslide, it just doesn't sound right. Most versions I'm familiar with use a capo on the third fret. This one uses no capo, and suffers for it. The pitch is off and there are too many inefficient hand positions.
Every Rose Has Its Thorn just doesn't sound very good, you'd be way better off just strumming chords in my opinion. Speaking of strumming, please note that a few of these songs incorporate some strumming into them, so these arrangements are not necessarily for the pure fingerpicker.
Wanted Dead or Alive would probably sound pretty good, but my acoustic guitar affords difficult access to the 12-14th frets that parts of this song calls for. Might be better on an electric of if your acoustic is a little more suited than mine.
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is pretty straightforward and decent, but I have to play the strumming parts with a pick and can really only do it by holding a couple in my mouth, awkwardly grabbing for one when it's time to strum, and then discarding it when it's time to resume fingerpicking.
5 songs in the book do not use standard tuning.
I'm donating this to the library, hopefully someone can make better use of it than I can.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 way above part fake book Apr 11, 2010
By Kenneth M. Young
"market maven"
I have a stack of fake books that have songs in them that don't come near the composers intention. This arrangment of Steven Stills "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" has made me a very happy person for the last two weeks. You know when you are finally able to play a song you have loved for , I guess 42 years...The muse is in d'house! Alvin Lee's "I'd love to save the world" was the most popular Ten Years After recording (Good morning lil schooo girrrl's better) but this as instrumental is beautiful. I want to tell the world: Travis picking is Mississippi Delta Traditional Style Picking !
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
good arrangements for fingerstyle beginners Aug 20, 2009
By Jose Luis Gomez Andreu
Good arrangements for beginners who are new in fingerstyle and want to improve. good classic and tab notation, as well as lyrics.
I bought this book just to have the 'angie' arrangement, but there are 13 more interesting songs just to keep you playing and having fun, so I think it's worth to get this book.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Good Collection, But Not For Me Feb 12, 2010
By Steve West
Some of the arrangements are in other Hal Leonard books I previously purchased, and there wasn't any particular song that I was interested, so I returned this book. That really isn't anyone's fault, really, it is an excellent selection of songs and the arrangements are playable and enjoyable.
However, Fingerstyle and Fingerpicking are not the same thing in my book. Maybe I'm just nit-picking here, but Fingerstyle is an arrangment of a song in a quasi-classical format, and that is what this book is. Fingerpicking is more like what the great folk, country, bluegrass and yes, sometimes rock musicians do. So, when you name a book "Fingerpicking Acoustic Rock" I first assume that the songs are originally played on the acoustic guitar and that they embody some style of finger picking. Nit-picking is choosing possibly arbitrary definitions of terms and expecting everyone else to conform to them. That may very well be what I am doing, but this book was not what I expected, and not what I wanted.
Part of it is just me. I am not interested in solo fingerstyle guitar. I like it, and I'll probably do it again, but what I really want is to play the guitar and sing along with it, preferably with some style of finger picking accompaniment. Examples of this are the really nice Paul Simon Transcribed (by Mark Hanson) and The Jim Croce Songbook (Alfred Publications). Certainly there are other performers in the 50 plus year history of rock that play acoustic rock with various styles of finger picking. Such music could be gathered in an anthology, and called something else, because Fingerpicking Acoustic Rock is already used up by a book that is neither fingerpicking or acoustic.
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