Download PDF Selections from Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Guitar Classics Volume 2 Classic Rock to Modern Rock Easy Guitar TAB Rolling Stones Classic Guitar Alfred Music Books

Product details Paperback 344 pages Publisher Alfred Music; 37189th edition (August 1, 2008) Language English ISBN-10 0739052217

Selections from Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Guitar Classics Volume 2 Classic Rock to Modern Rock Easy Guitar TAB Rolling Stones Classic Guitar Alfred Music Books Reviews

• I'm a music teacher, and I'm appalled at the omissions and inaccuracies of this book. Glaringly obvious inaccuracies. Sections are omitted. Instead of showing the solo in "Sweet Child O'Mine" it literally says "ad lib with E minor pentatonic scale". If I wanted to ad lib, I wouldn't have bought a BOOK. Make no mistake, these are hastily put together transcriptions . I bought this book in the hope that I could find more accurate versions of popular songs, and you can literally find more accurate and complete tabs for FREE on tab & sheet music websites across the internet.
• What wild audacity the authors had to have scores that just says "ad lib. lead guitar based on the E. minor pentatonic scale" which betrays the whole idea of exchanging money for actual music scores. It's like buying a pizza and getting a box that says "freely imagine that you're now gastronomically satiated" or buying a fiction with pages that says "ad lib. fill in ideas that there is a plot for a sci-fi story in these blank pages".
• Horrible and basically useless. The cover says “Easy guitar tab edition”; however, it is not really a tab edition. Instead, it is a sheet music edition, with selected tab sections in some songs. Many of the songs contain absolutely zero tab notation! Worst of all, the songs are missing whole sections, some times it tells you to ad lib, and sometimes it tells you nothing. Also, make sure you notice the cover reads in bold print “500 greatest songs of all time”; however the fine print above says “67 selections from”. Lastly, they make very poor use of space, making songs take way too many pages. I would send it back, but only paid $3, so not worth the shipping.
• There's a lot to like in terms of the wide variety of songs presented and the fact that you get both regular music notation and guitar tabs. But the way that the publisher crammed so much into this traditionally bound paperback format makes for a very poor user experience. The book is rather thick and has to be held open on a music stand using large binder clips, which makes flipping pages cumbersome at best. A spiral bound format would have worked much better. The work around is to photocopy the pages of the song you're interested in.
  
  More aggravating is the absolutely tiny print. It takes more concentration to to decipher what's written on the page than to learn the song.
• Covers great songs, but pretty challenging to follow. If you're used to looking up chords online, this might not be the best fit. It is written more as a traditional sheet music book. If you can follow sheet music well, this is ideal. If not, not ideal.
• I did NOT notice that this was “some” of 500 songs. My fault. But the songs that ARE there are poorly done and some are missing all chord info. I’m very dissatisfied with this book.
• For my grandson. He is autistic and taught himself to play the guitar in 6 mo with YouTube. He is amazing. I'm hoping he will like it.
• I purchased this for my friend. She is very satisfied. The sheets are easy to remove from the book so she doesn't have to fold the book open. She is a cancer survivor and told me she wanted to take up guitar again. I am glad this music is what she wanted.