Easy Pop Melodies: Book ) Author: Hal Leonard Corp. | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FJ6BTQO | Format: PDF
Easy Pop Melodies: Book ) Description
(Guitar Method). Play your favorite hits from the Beatles, Elton John, Elvis Presley, the Police, Nirvana and more! The 20 guitar arrangements in this book are presented in order of difficulty: All My Loving * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Dust in the Wind * Every Breath You Take * I Get Around * I Shot the Sheriff * I Walk the Line * Imagine * Let It Be * Love Me Tender * Maggie May * My Cherie Amour * My Girl * My Heart Will Go On * Nowhere Man * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stand by Me * Walk Don't Run * We Will Rock You * Your Cheatin' Heart.
- File Size: 3541 KB
- Print Length: 32 pages
- Publisher: Hal Leonard; 2 edition (March 1, 1997)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FJ6BTQO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,513 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Music > Songbooks - #78
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Music > Theory, Composition & Performance > Instruction & Study
If you're learning guitar from the (very effective) Hal Leonard method books, you're probably a little embarrassed by the old-timey tunes that you're playing. This book is a supplement with some more contemporary popular songs in the form of lyrics + melody + chords. It would be nice if they would just incorporate some of these kinds of songs in the method book in place of say "down in the valley" and "patsy-ory-ory-aye", but given what we're stuck with this supplement is worthwhile for the beginner.
By Papa Legba
I purchased this book+cd combo from my local music store in the hopes that it would introduce me to lead guitar playing at a beginner level and I was not disappointed. Although for the price you could get a much larger book stuffed with more than 20 songs, the "Easy Pop Melodies" simplifies recognizeable melodies into their most basic rhythms, making them incredibly easy and unintimidating for novice guitarists learning their first few songs. However, anyone with more than a very basic knowledge of guitar playing and reading music will find this book too easy
Pros: Things I like
- the CD: very useful to keep tempo and also provides the backup chords. What made this book worth the price to me
- has a varied selection of songs
- simplifies songs to make them accessible to beginners
Cons: Things that detract from the functionality of the product
- Lyrics not complete for all of the songs
Things that I noticed about the book and wished were different:
- tempos printed in the song book. (I have been playing various instruments for 10 years and knowing the speed the song should be played at is pretty important. there is the CD, but sometimes I just want to use a metronome and would like to know what to set it to)
- the songs are not ordered by difficulty: when just beginning guitar I found myself skipping around the book to find songs that I could play
Something for beginners to keep in mind: This book contains only songs and does not demonstrate how to read music or teach you how to play the guitar. It is meant to be a companion to a method book or some other form of instruction in playing the guitar
By R.T.
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