The Beatles - Complete Scores | Full Band Sheet Music for Guitar Bass Drums Piano Vocals | 210 Songs in Standard Notation and Tablature | Deluxe Hardcover Collector Songbook for Musicians Teachers

Every song, every instrument, SO thankful someone was allowed to do this. I would like to know the back-story. It's downright amazing how well it's done with all of the instruments. I've moved around between instruments over the years and it's been interesting to get to try the guitar (TAB!), piano, and now drum parts. The accuracy is spot on. I've never seen any group documented with a meticulous score like this. It must have been a team with a slew of tools to slow down, filter, pull apart the music. MASSIVE undertaking no doubt. The only problem is how small the type/music is due to the size of the material. With every song having only 2 lines of music per page (due to so many instruments being scored) it made for a long book, with thin pages, and tiny type. But I can't complain as they did everything they could perfectly given the constraints of publishing. It's a 6-star piece of work!

This is one of the best books on Beatle music that I have ever seen. In fact, I've been using it for the past several months uninterrupted...and having a blast! While it's not a 100% accurate (I have never found any music transcription book free of error), it clearly is a most highly commendable book and worth every penny! Nothing short of fantastic! My only quibbles are as follows: 1. Claims to have all Beatle songs, but doesn't have Free as a Bird (one of my favs) and Real Love (I don't really miss this one anyways). 2. The type they used is too small (something like 8 pt or smaller) and often too difficult to read, especially for old duffers like me. A larger type would have been much nicer, but then it would turn this very heavy book into a massively heavy book. 3. Some of the notation was confusing to me, like the shorthand they used for repeating the notes from previous bar into the next bar rather than typing out the notes again. I was able to figure this out, but it would have been nicer to include a more complete musical notation legend at the beginning of the book. But these are minor complaints...I really have nothing but praise for the book. So, if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to my piano to play Lady Madonna.....

I got a hammered dulcimer for my birthday and wanted to play the music I listen to, Beatles, Who, Led Zeppelin, even Bee Gees, so it's suddenly put me in a position of checking for the good, bad, and mediocre of music books. This is one of the better ones. Put the complaints about the print size aside, if you aren't conducting a band chances are you're likely to transcribe just your instrument. Some of the phrasing is cut at an annoying place, Lucy in the Sky comes to mind, but get off your lazy duff. Forget chords, this book has staff music for every voice, guitar, bass, drums, sitar, and what not that made it to the recording. No Mellotron transcribed for guitar here. For example While My Guitar Gently Weeps, you get the piano lead in, George's acoustic, Eric Clapton's electric, and Macca's bass. Norwegian Wood has the sitar parts. I've been able to read music for 25 years and learned from this book that drums can be charted on a staff as well. It's not that hard and worth the effort, especially if like me you're on a solo instrument. Some bass bits, like the intro to Lucy in The Sky, need to be worked in and they're there. Having the drums, take Lucy again and that bit just before the chorus, is icing on the cake.

Pro's ------- 1) A robust work - is it complete, is it perfect? Dunno. 2) Contains Vocals notation and lyrics, Guitar(s) notation and tab, Bass notation and tab, and drums - makes a great way for your band to get all the beatles songs in one place. 3) Price is very reasonable for what you are getting. 4) Includes a nice discography of british single, british Albums, American singles, American Albums at the back. Cons ------ 1) Basically the form factor is the con - pages are 10" x 7", the book is 2" thick. Hard bound form factor and 1130+ pages means it won't lay flat on a music stand. More of a "desk reference" than a song book. 2) Font and notation is fairly small -- kind of hard to read! Maybe I'm getting old. 3) I saw some notation that looked non-standard, for instance references to string bends and so forth were not "typical" guitar notation. General comments ------------------ This is a great idea, and the authors are to be commended for completing this project and for making this available. I only just received it so I can't comment on the accuracy of the transcriptions so please rely on other reviews for that. Its a massive work and if you are a beatles fan, or have a band that wants to play beatles tunes - this seems like a must have. General improvements would be to increase the page size to that of a typical song book, improving the font size and notation size. Spiral bind it and put it in 3-4 volumes so it would lay flat on a music stand. You get a lot for your money here...a good value. Overall, I really like this because I play guitar, bass, and keyboards and it will be fun to work from these transcripts and lay down and combine tracks. I'd recommend this to any beatles fan that wants to take a shot at some of their songs.

I just received this, so I have only first impressions to give. I agree with other reviewers that the type is incredibly small and a bit difficult (but not impossible) to read. However, as it is a huge book that includes the scoring for all the instrumentation and vocals, I sort of expected this. Lets face it, this is not something you take to a gig and hoist up on a music stand in front of you! I see no problem with scanning and enlarging the print! Some of the other reviewers have pointed out that this does not include every single song recorded by the Beatles, just the ones that they wrote. I don't feel like going through every one of my old Beatles' LPs (I have the complete Beatles catalog on vinyl as well as copies in CD) But going through the table of contents, its clear this includes a huge number on non-Beatles penned songs. This includes Carl Perkins' numbers such as Matchbox, as well as some very old songs such as those included on the U.S. "Early Beatles" LP. E.g. "Anna", "Chains", "Bad Boy" etc. So it possibly is missing some very old non-Beatles penned tunes, but I don't think there are very many missing. If this book is missing some few songs, I suspect there were licensing issues that could not be resolved. So I see no reason to ding the product for this minor imperfection. I bought this for the Beatles songs, and in particular, for the Sitar and Indian instrumentation, which this has. I have been playing the main melody lines for Norwegian Woods and Within You Without You on Sitar, mostly by ear and memory. But some of the instrumental parts in WYWY that are played by the Dilruba (Indian Violin) have been illusive for me. Although they are labeled as "violin", this does appear to be the Dilruba parts, so I should be able to easily translate to Sitar. I will update this review if I feel I need to modify it, but right now this appears to be what I was looking for, and well worth the (rather large) expense, as there is no where else to get this information. I suspect that if you play in a Beatles cover band, this would be invaluable.

Let me begin by saying that this book has a large number of deficiencies and errors, many of which have been noted in the Amazon.com reviews. Despite this, I have given it five stars because I do not expect anything better to be produced in my lifetime. There is a huge quantity of accurate information here in a very accessible form at a very small price. You can get a very good idea of what the book is like by reading the reviews here on Amazon.com. Basically, most of the songs that the Beatles recorded through Help are transcribed quite accurately. As the songs became more complex (say Rubber Soul on) some of the transcriptions can be more fairly characterized as "sketches." However, the sketches are some of the best on the market. Someone wanting more completeness would do well to price school band music where the charts for a single jazz standard run about half the price of this book. If you have any knowledge of the music publishing industry, you should have a good idea of what it would cost Hal Leonard to make significant improvements or someone else to produce a competing text. Might as well buy this and make corrections in the margins.

all the flaws others mentioned. the print runs small. every instrument is scored, supposedly. it's not always 100% accurate. but it's damn close. this ain't for beginners either. you're not gonna find anything this comprehensive- anywhere. and the book is BIG, you'll need a gizmo to keep it open to the page you want. my only real knock might be that it just might be TOO comprehensive. I don't need every cover the Beatles recorded before they moved away from that because they were writing their own tunes. we're talking really obscure, fanataics only. the bass lines are helpful if you incorporate that in your piano or guitar playing. the drums are NOT, just a wasted bunch of space on every page of every song. we're talking 1200 plus pages, just eliminating the drum scoring would have made the book significantly lighter.

This is a well-executed comprehensive set of professional transcriptions in full score. It is not appropriate for either an amateur or someone who wishes to browse Beatles melodies, but is entirely appropriate for scholars, students of composition or other seriously interested persons with a skill set that matches the materials. The criticisms leveled about margins, small type and lack of running heads are levied by people who are clearly not familiar with this format. The sewn binding lies flat and all parts are legible and very much to my liking. People who wish to browse or who are not used to reading music in full-score will be happier with a "songbook" style, but if you want to see exactly what was performed, this is the ticket.

PROS: Una bella edición con la obra completa de The Beatles, incluyendo letras y la partitura de los principales instrumentos de cada canción: línea melódica de la voz, guitarras, bajo, bateria, teclados, otras voces (cuerdas, etc), dependiendo del arreglo en la versión de estudio. Acabo de recibir el libro, así que no he revisado exahustivamente, pero de ver las piezas que conozco creo que son transcripciones fieles. El precio que dá Amazon Mexico es más que razonable, comparado con el precio en US y en las tiendas de música en Mexico. El envío fue gratis y me llegó en menos de una semana. SIMPLEMENTE GENIAL. Este es un libro de todo fan de The Beatles, músico o no, debería tener. CONTRAS (SI HUBIERA): Un libro pesado, prácticamente imposible de montar en un atril, y aunque consiguieras hacerlo, el tamaño de la tipografía no te va permite leerlo desde una distancia razonable para intentar leer y tocar a la vez... pero ¿¡QUÉ DIABLOS!? ¿¡A quién le importa?! Tener tanta musica compilada, transcrita fielmente, en un solo tomo, a este precio, c'mon!! En mi humilde opinión, no creo que exista una mejor opción de compra para tener la música escrita de The Beatles, diferente a este libro.

Magnifique ouvrage qui a toute sa place dans une bibliothèque. 1136 pages dans un beau coffret carton très élégant. A l’intérieur du livre, sur un papier très agréable, les partitions reconstituées de toutes les chansons des Beatles (reprises comprises). Très bonne lisibilité des notes comme des paroles. On trouve le plus fréquemment une portée pour la voix, la (les) guitares en note et tablature, la basse, les percussions, l'orchestre...Un bonheur total, de la musique avant toute chose. Pour les histoires, les commentaires, le making of etc. on peut se reporter utilement à "Les beatles, la totale" de Guesdon et Margotin aux éditions du Chêne (remarquable!) et pour l'analyse musicale à "The Beatles, un guide pour les écouter" de Dominique Lawalree aux éditions Camion Blanc qui existe au format Kindle très pratique. Il existe une édition dans un format un peu plus grand que celle-ci mais franchement je n'en vois pas l'intérêt, celle-ci est très lisible.

I'm not sure the written music score can ever describe the emotions of a song. If you want to play it like the Beatles, you'll have to go back through time and be born in Liverpool. Failing that, there is enough here to take away for the pleasure in producing your own version of a momentary burst of creativity by these four universal and accidental collisions of nature.

Great resource for any musician that is interested in accurately recreating the Beatles magic. It really is all in this book. Fantastic.

Si te gustan los Beatles y deseas tocar sus temas en este libro tienes TODOS LOS ARREGLOS ORIGINALES de todos y cada uno de ellos. Originales, nada de ediciones cutres que circulan por la red con simplificaciones impagables. Todos los arreglos de Piano, Bajo, Bateria, Guitarras, Voz, Cuerdas y todo lo que cada tema tenga. IMPRESCINDIBLE. UN AUTENTICO TESORO, Podria pasar mi vida entera enfrente del piano con este libro tocando todos los temas <3