100 of the Most Beautiful Fingerpicking Guitar Songs Ever Compiled

Rosiel Bartolomeu Mendes Pimentel: Gostei! Uso no meu aperfeiçoamento musical.

Brazil on Jul 14, 2023

Jodie: Another wonderful selection of songs to learn arpeggio playing. Wish there were more books like this with so many songs!!

Canada on May 10, 2023

K. D.: ... eigentlich Input für eine Erweiterung des eigenen Repertoires, aber
- das Buch ist ein so "Dicker Schinken", dass der Notenständer sich freiwillig verbeugt, zu schwer um es mitzunehmen und zu dick um es vernüftig und beschädigungsfrei kopieren zu können
und äußerst ärgerlich ist, dass
- a) ohne Angabe der Originaltonart diverse Stücke irgendwie transponiert wurden, d.h. im Zusammenspielen mit mehreren Gitarristen paßt das häufig nicht zusammen, ob es dann die eigene Stimmlage trifft, ist Zufall und nicht zu beeinflussen.
- b) dass alle Songs über 3 Seiten gehen, d.h. blättern, blättern, blättern
- c) auch wenn Stücke im Original mehrstimmig sind, ist immer nur eine Einzel-Gitarrenversion abgedruckt.
Ich hatte gehofft mir damit den Aufwand ersparen zu können, meine Songs ( gezielt und kostenlos aus Ultimate Guitar) zu holen und 2-seitig, umblätterfrei selbst zu setzen - all diese Hoffnungen haben sich nicht wirklich erfüllt. Wenigstens habe ich in Ultimate Guitar die Möglichkeit, mir die Stücke, die mich wirklich interessieren gezielt rauszusuchen und bei Bedarf durch Transponieren auf meine Stimmlage anzupassen.
Schade, da hätte man...

Germany on Feb 26, 2023

Rev. TRev. T: Great book. I normally pay £15 [ish] for guitar books so I didn't get this when it was £28. It was reduced to £22 & I thought 'sod it, it's got a lot of songs in I like".

Good layout, easy to use & the print isn't THAT small considering the amount of songs in it [otherwise it would be the size of a suitcase]. I've knocked off 1 star as it looks knackered. This is the 2nd book in 5 days, I've bought from Amazon, that looks second-hand. Which is disgraceful considering how Amazon started.

In short: book = fab ..... Amazon = hmmmm

United Kingdom on Jan 19, 2023

Mike: This songs book is amazing. Has beautiful songs with music sheets and guitar tab. It does require a little understanding of basic guitar playing to read the tab but to me, I am a beginner, and I could use this book guitar players out there sure can too.

United States on Oct 06, 2022

Runner123: I love the song selection. There are a lot of tasteful ballads , and a lot of all time greats. Just wish there are chord diagrams, since a lot of songs incur unusual chords. I will take my time to slowly learn most of the songs. Even if I manage to play and sing to half of them, it would have been great value. the prints are large enough and clear.

United States on Jul 12, 2021

Chris JChris J: In my capacity as a trainee Acoustic Guitar Lord and rock god (also classical guitar, that impresses people, do it) dearly beloved, here is my judgment upon this book. Upon breaking the Sacred Amazon Seal there did emerge a fat book of many pages. Hastily I opened it's pages to examine the hallowed writings within and to behold with mine own eyes whether it was one of those inferior quality guitar tablature offerings wherewith the publisher is a bit of a ratbag and writeth only single note tab that soundeth not good at all you know, when thou playeth it, and to my delight the publisher is not a ratbag and the student getteth full rich multi string tablature that soundeth good and full and splendid. I gaveth thanks with great joy to Amazon and the driver, for now the songs sound professional and of sublime beauty unlike the one note offerings of the simple tab Ratbags (get thee behind me). I recommend with great jubilation to the other Trainee Acoustic Guitar Lords this book, fat, many pages, full tabs not one note ratbaggery. In other words yes this is what you want if you want to play songs that sound right, not one note at a time versions which don't soud good.

United Kingdom on Feb 17, 2021

REYW: If you like to play one or 2 notes at a time, this is for you. These songs are not arragenents for guitar, they are just melodies with the chords on top. You can strum the chords.... and finger pick the melody, but the sound is not rich (although I do that some times...I do not feel real satisfaction). I suppose that with time and dedication you can come up with your own arrangenent, but I am not at that level... My point is that the songs are not arraged for the guitar. 90% of the books I see fit this type of scheme even when they describe it as arrangements. Due to that, I started to buy arragements from authors that wrote specifically songs for the guitar and that is what I recommend (like Andres Segovia, Agustin Mangore, Francisco Tarrega, etc). They are a lot more difficult but a lot more satisfying..you really learn the the guitar.. I have not found a book with that type of arragements for popular or midern music... one note: zif you by the authirs I am recommending, you need some playing base... not necessarilly formal (I like to just learn by my self as a form of therapy) but you need some knowledge reading and playing the guitar (this may shock you but tab is not...

United States on Feb 16, 2020

John Fredrickson: This is not a technique book so if you are unfamiliar with finger style technique, you'll need to find a primer somewhere else. However, once you have some technique, you need some repertoire. This book is chock full of great material. I've been learning solo finger style songs for a short while now. Much of the material I learn can be extremely easy to impossible. I would grade the arrangements in this book about intermediate. These songs are instantly recognizeable and the more intimately you know the song, the easier it is to learn. I'm at least familiar with over half the songs in this book, and the other half will provide good future study material.

One issue you may encounter is there are no "suggested" fingerings. For those who don't know, suggested fingerings are little notes written into the notation that help you figure out which finger to use to navigate tricky passages. These are very helpful especially if you are like me and try to finger a chord the way you learned them in chord books, then get your fingers all twistered up trying to keep the melody going. You'll often find the chords may be played in a more unorthodox fingering in order to facilitate the...

United States on Apr 20, 2019

Sarah Aquino: The media could not be loaded.  I've been self-teaching my guitar for a few years now. I initially started off with Fingerpicking songbooks from Hal Leonard. This thick volume is very similar to those books. If you are a beginner to fingerstyle guitar, this volume may be a useful practice tool. I was a big fan of these types of songbooks when I was new to guitar and especially fingerstyle solo guitar.

However, now that I'm a bit more skilled, the series is not challenging enough for me. The arrangements are mostly single notes arpeggios with an occasional thumb-picked baseline here and there. Arrangements are mostly limited to the first five frets with a focus on the first three frets. The songs are recognizable but very simplistic. For a beginner, it is great to be able to play more contemporary tunes. However, as you progress these arrangements quickly grow repetitive and tiresome. If you're a beginner interested in fingerpicking guitar and don't already have some of the Hal Leonard Fingerpicking song books (i.e  Fingerpicking Acoustic Rock - Guitar Solo , Fingerpicking Pop: 15 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tab ), this volume has...

United States on Mar 31, 2014