- ISBN13: 9781423407768
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This book provides a fun and easy way to learn to play your favorite songs today! It includes music notation, guitar tablature and performance notes for 35 rock 'n' roll hits, including: All Right Now * Born to Be Wild * Brown Eyed Girl * Hey Joe * Money for Nothing * Proud Mary * Rock and Roll All Nite * Rock This Town * Shattered * Smoke on the Water * Summer of '69 * Tush * Walk This Way * What I Like About You * Wild Thing * and more.... More >>
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This book is really great. It is exactly what you would hope for. It has tab and standard notation with an explanation of all the guitar tab notations and a list of all the chords in the back. It also has some extra tips on how to play parts of each of the songs. These songs are a little harder than you would think. If you are brand new to playing, this is not the book for you. If you know how to play and you like these songs, then you should definitely get this book!
This book is larger than I had expected. It is about an inch larger length and width than a sheet of printer paper, but this is good because it shows more music on each page.
I really wanted to see this before I bought this book, so here it is for you. I got this list off of another website, but a few of the songs on the list were incorrect, so i fixed the list
Songlist:
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love [Van Halen]
All Right Now [Free]
Aqualung [Jethro Tull]
Born To Be Wild [Steppenwolf]
Brown Eyed Girl [Morrison, Van]
Drive My Car [Beatles, The]
Fun, Fun, Fun [The Beach Boys]
Hey Joe [Hendrix, Jimi]
Hit Me With Your Best Shot [Benatar, Pat]
Message In A Bottle [The Police]
Mississippi Queen [Mountain]
Money For Nothing [Dire Straits]
Oh, Pretty Woman [Orbison, Roy]
Proud Mary [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60′s Rock) [Mellencamp, John]
Rebel, Rebel [Bowie, David]
Reeling In The Years [Steely Dan]
Refugee [Petty, Tom And The Heartbreakers]
Rock And Roll All Nite [Kiss]
Rock This Town [Stray Cats]
Rock’n Me [Steve Miller Band]
Rocky Mountain Way [Walsh, Joe]
Shattered [The Rolling Stones]
Smoke on the Water [Deep Purple]
Summer Of ’69 [Adams, Bryan]
Sunshine Of Your Love [Cream]
Sweet Home Alabama [Lynyrd Skynryd]
Takin’ Care Of Business [Bachman-turner Overdrive]
The Boys Are Back In Town [Thin Lizzy]
Tush [Zz Top]
Walk This Way [Aerosmith]
What I LIke About You [The Romantics]
Wild Thing [The Troggs]
Won’t Get Fooled Again [Who, The]
You Give Love A Bad Name [Bon Jovi]
Rating: 5 / 5
When I saw the title “Rock Guitar Songs for Dummies” I thought this would be a good book for a beginner. Unfortunately most of the songs in this book are far beyond my skill level as a beginner and the rest are at the upper edge. This book assumes you already know how to play some advanced techniques. It does have a lot of pointers and advice on how to play these techniques, but doesn’t have any instruction if they’re unfamiliar to you. I’m definitely keeping this book as it has many songs I’d eventually like to learn how to play as my skill level increases, but I’ll need to find something else to get me to that point.
Rating: 3 / 5
Herriges gives you detailed descriptions on how to play 35 rock classics, from Cheap Trick to Van Halen. Symbols, technical help, notation definitions, a guitar notation legend, a chord chart, and TAB for every song! “Proud Mary,” “Smoke on the Water,” “Brown Eyed Girl,” and “Hey, Joe.” A previous knowledge of music notation and tab is helpful, but the references in the back will clear up any confusion.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you are looking for a great collection of classic rock songs, this is it. It includes both tab and music and great performance notes to get many of the nuances from the original performers. Many of the songs are very easy to play and you can ramp up the complexity as your playing improves. We used this book to round a out a playlist for a garage band and loved the song selection and format. Just get it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great book, even for non-dummies. It would be great if it included a CD, but perhaps that would have been cost prohibitive. If you can collect the albums that these songs are on, you will have a great and diverse rock album collection.
It might not have a CD, but what it does include is sheet music and tablature for 35 classic rock songs. You can learn a few basic chords and strum along, or get deeper into the licks, riffs, and solos. It also includes notes and tips for each song.
For instance, several songs require tuning down a half-step. Kiss, Van Halen, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, and even Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys favored this “rock tuning.” To have this simple technique explained saved me from endless frustration, trying to pick up the songs by ear. Palm muting is another technique this helpful manual explains. And there are ample examples of “5″ chords, that have a very big “rock” sound because they lack the third, and all notes are either roots or 5ths. If the theory and explanations go over the heads of any “dummies” they can just play it, and feel the rock and roll!!!!!
Wild Thing, by The Troggs, is a classic but simple song, and one of the easier ones to play–but there are just a few simple tricks, and this book clues you in on the secrets. Sweet Home Alabama and David Bowie’s Rebel, Rebel from the Diamond Dogs album are other simple, yet brilliant, songs that are easy to play, once you unlock the secrets. All Right Now, by Free, from Fire and Water, is yet another example of a riff that sounds so cool, but is so easy to play once you see how.
Smoke on the Water, from Machine Head by Deep Purple? Yes, it’s here. Brown Eyed Girl, by Van Morrison, from the groovily titled Blowin’ Your Mind!? It’s here, too. Walk This Way? Ditto. You got your Cream, your Z.Z. Top, your Police, your Rolling Stones, your Stray Cats, your Steppenwolf–you got your Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, too. So, Who’s Next? With all the helpful tips, you Won’t Get Fooled Again.
Rating: 5 / 5