It's a bit frustrating poring through mountains of sheet music looking for something that takes your fancy, so I thought I'd let you know about a Beatles anthology called Fingerpicking Beatles. This book is a collection of thirty Beatles songs arranged as solos for classical guitar-style playing.
The tunes in Fingerpicking Beatles are made up of the vocal line of each song used as the guitar solo, and appropriate chords and bass parts added as the arranger felt they were called for. To give that extra little bit of help, the words are also included.
The songs are written out in guitar tablature and standard musical notation with photographs and text showing you how to play each song. For the novice guitarist there is fingerstyle guitar tutor to give you the basic techniques to start playing the guitar solos.
Here are the songs included in this collection:
A Day In The Life
Across The Universe
All You Need Is Love
And I Love Her
Blackbird
Can't Buy Me Love
Dear Prudence
Eleanor Rigby
Free As A Bird
Here, There And Everywhere
Hey Jude
In My Life
Lady Madonna
Let It Be
Love Me Do
Michelle
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Nowhere Man
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Octopus's Garden
Penny Lane
Please Please Me
Something
The Long And Winding Road
Ticket To Ride
We Can Work It Out
When I'm Sixty-Four
Yellow Submarine
Yesterday
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
If you are not familiar with acoustic guitar solo playing, there are a number of fingerpicking styles based on chord shapes and right hand picking patterns. These Beatles songs are arranged as classical guitar pieces so that once you have learnt to play the song through, you will be able to add your own individual interpretation by emphasizing parts of the melody, bass or chords.
Fingerpicking Beatles gives you the opportunity to impress your audience with you guitar technique and musical expression without the need for several years' classical guitar study. If you are already an experienced fingerstyle guitar player you will probably be able to pick your way through the arrangements without too much trouble. If you are a novice, you will be presented with a few challenges that will make you a better guitarist.
