100 Most Popular Songs for Fingerpicking Guitar | Solo Guitar Songbook with Tablature and Standard Notation | Fingerstyle Sheet Music Book for Acoustic Guitarists | For Beginner Student and Teacher

I’m an intermediate guitar student more interested in playing guitar solos for my own enjoyment than accompaniment for vocals. This book is a goldmine of appealing selections and arrangements that are faithful to the originals ( not simplified, but not outrageously challenging ) and are really helping me grow in my technical development as a competent guitarist. My guitar teacher, a very talented professional guitarist, loves this book. I like that it includes tablature as well as chord identification and some fingering suggestions. My only idea for improvement would be that it would be easier to handle the book if it were spiral bound. I’ve already broken the binding from propping it open to play the pieces.

Nice book, great tunes, notation and tab. I didn’t realize it would be so thick, I guess I was under estimating … a spiral binding would have been a good option.

I got the spiral-bound version of this book, which although is more expensive, makes it MUCH easier to use when learning a song. So I highly recommend that version. I bought this because it includes the guitar tabs, but often the songs have full tabs for the intro part of the song but often only one or two notes at a time during the song verses. So that makes the songs sound 'thinner'. I noticed this in songs such as 'Hey There Deliliah' which I already knew. The intro is fine, but it becomes too simplified (for me) during the song verses. Where two strings are usually plucked, it only shows one. Maybe this is targeted more for beginners, but I got it because I wanted to improve my finger-picking skills. When you're only playing one note at a time, you might as well use a pick. Overall I like the selection of songs and the quality of the printing and the book. And some songs have the complete tabs and are fine to play. I'm just not sure why they have simplified the other ones.

Great selection of popular songs from the past few decades. The difficulty level varies a bit, but most songs I would rate as intermediate level of playing. For me, it’s enjoyable because I can flip through, find a song, and start whittling away at learning to play it, as opposed to spending time learning theory, instruction, etc. I especially enjoy the tabs feature.

This book was a leap in the right direction on my guitar playing journey. Prior to buying this book, I had gotten a few of the more advanced barre chords under my fingers and would just strum my way through popular songs and hymns. I was was struggling to find ways to practice and improve with discipline and rigor. Moreover, just printing and playing random lyrics and chords off the internet would sometimes lead to getting confused about rhythms and timing. At my level of experience there is very little here that I would call basic or humdrum. Most of the picking will follow the chord shape but there is plenty of variety between repeated verses and there are some very challenging and delicate passages. I also disagree with several individuals who have mentioned not having proper cues about left hand finger placement. There are clues on the staff above the tab with small numbers next to the notes to give suggestions for left hand finger placement with notes that stray from the chord shape. A small 4 would indicate the fret to be pushed down with the pinkie finger. Most of the songs span across four or even six pages and this can be cumbersome especially when you consider you are skipping around with codas and repeats. It will take some creativity to play through. One option would be making copies of pages to span across a couple of music stands. Its a little annoying but I think its the downside of having the lead part printed along with the TAB and I think its worth it to have that part available. Being able to read sheet music or at least understand how to read rhythms would be very helpful before picking up this book. That being said, most of it looks to be somewhat simplified from original scoring in a way that I think anyone could pick it up with daily practice, hard work, and dedication. In conclusion, I highly recommend this book for someone at the beginner to intermediate level who wants to get more serious about their solo guitar playing.

It's a good book of songs, but I wasn't able to learn anything from this. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.

Developed dexterity and fretboard knowledge in days after months of floundering. A valuable purchase

Great selection of songs. Regular notation, shows the chords, picking patterns and lyrics AND with the spiral binding it stays open on my music stand with no extra effort to whatever page you select.

Je recommande ce livre, les partitions sont d’un niveau abordable pour les intermédiaires (pas les grands débutants) et bien arrangées. Je suis très contente de mon achat !

Un buen libro, bien editado.

Too widely spaced and unwieldy for starters and the arrangements are terrible. Okay if you just want to play the melody on a recorder or a tin whistle. Total waste of money for me.

The best of the book is the variety of musical styles. Certainly many will find some that they like.

Lots of familiar tunes arranged as fairly straightforward solo pieces for guitar. Although you could use these as accompaniment to singing, they are self contained pieces (I could see this being a useful resource for a teacher). Most arrangements have a fairly traditional alternating bass with the melody line on top 3 strings with just enough additional notes to show the harmony. Most pieces are mainly in the first position with left hand fingering written in the musical stave. The songs are from the last 60 years with only a few from the last decade. I got this book yesterday and have tried out about 10 of the pieces. These are really nice arrangements for the most part, simple enough to get into quickly but cleverly arranged to let the melody sing out and give a sense of the original recording. This style works best for songs with a strong memory and harmonic structure and I can vouch for The Pink Panther, Crazy, Yesterday, Skyfall, City of Dreams, Creep, and Goodbye Porkpie Hat. There is some variation in difficulty level: some of the arrangements of familiar songs (such as the SImon and Garfunkel ones) are perhaps over simplified, and Recuerdos de l'Alhambra looks like it should be in a much more advanced book! Excellent value and I know this will give me lots of pleasure, and (hopefully) give me insights into improving my own arrangements.