Hal Leonard 100 Most Popular Songs For Fingerpicking Guitar: Solo Guitar Arrangements In Standard Notation And Tab

I am a guitar teacher and I love guys like Tommy Emmanuel/Doyle Dykes/Joe Robinson. The problem is that learning their songs takes weeks and months and I am happy doing that. This book offers much more achievable versions of popular songs that most audiences will recognise so I reckon is a quick and easy repertoire builder.Could these versions be more complex or sophisticated? For sure yes but wit would take ages to learn them. I teach people who work full time and they haven't got time to learn the super complex arrangements so this book is a winner for me.I think that guitar players of any style including rock should have a small repertoire of solo songs to be able to perform just with the guitar instead of always relying on backing tracks or having to rely on other band members.

A wonderful book. Great varied song choices. Nobody is going to love 100% of the songs here, I myself will give maybe half of the books content a good go. Quite a big heavy book, but let's face it, it contains 100 transcribed songs in tab and standard notation. Easy to use, stays open on selected songs no problems. I prefer ring binding but no problems with this excellent book staying open at any page in book. So don't agree with those saying the book doesn't stay open, mine does. I own many guitar tab books (100 plus) and this is set to be one of my most used. I wish all music books had this high standard. Perfect perfect perfect.

I have to say I didn't expect it to be so thick. It is a good book with many good old guitar classics everyone know and some new hits too like Edd Sheran or Lala Land.I look forward to playing them all. There is a regular music notes part where you have the lyrics and chords and below you have a tab for fingerpicking. I was there were strumming patterns too for your chords, but hey, you can't have everything. Very good book. Money well spent.

I'm disappointed with this book. The fingerpicking arrangements are very basic, many just a bass note on the first beat while the fingers play a single line melody. Its a shame because there have been some great, and not too difficult, arrangements for fingerstyle guitar for many of these tunes that although being accessible to an upper beginner/intermediate guitarist sound full and complete (and more challenging than they really are), eg Tommy Emmanuel did a good arrangement of House of the Rising Sun that is not too challenging.The book is titled Fingerpicking but it is very basic fingerpicking and not what I expected. Good I suppose for a beginner just getting to know the guitar but If you are looking for something that will stretch you and progress your ability, buy another book or find music/tabs online (hint: many good guitarists on YouTube provide transcriptions of their arrangements for a nominal fee).

A varied mixture of songs, some classics and some newer. I might need to look up the latter as they're not familiar to me. You get the chords, std notation and TAB basically for the tune (as far as I can tell) but unfortunately you do not get the chord shapes at the top of the page. This would have been helpful as there are quite a few unfamiliar chords in these arrangements. Maybe that's because I'm not very experienced but I don't think a beginner could strum the chords to most of the songs. Still, its a good value book and there are plenty of songs to learn for the non readers of std notation.