The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook PDF
Preview The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
T h e B e a t l e s C o m p l e t e C h o r d S o n g b o o k Introduction Welcome to one of the world’s greatest collections of popular music – the songs of The Beatles. Thirty years and more have elapsed since many of these remarkable songs were written and recorded, but their magic is undimmed. This book covers all the songs The Beatles wrote and recorded themselves, with the exception of instrumentals and Lennon-McCartney songs recorded only by other artists. To assist your enjoyment of playing these songs here are some tips: Shapes This book presents The Beatles’ songs in a format designed for a guitarist singing the songs unaccompanied, or with others. For this reason chord shapes have been simplified where possible. The Beatles made frequent use of barre chords up and down the neck, as on songs like ‘She’s A Woman’ or ‘I Feel Fine’. These can get tiring, especially on an acoustic guitar, so easier shapes have sometimes been substituted. Capo Some of these songs require a capo. Numbers like ‘Norwegian Wood’ used a capo on the original recordings, while in other instances (such as ‘our Mother Should Know’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ a capo has been used to make playing in difficult keys easier. Tuning All the songs in this book have been transcribed in the same keys as used on the original recordings. However, The Beatles did occasionally detune their guitars when recording (for example ‘Lovely Rita Meter Maid’ used guitars with strings tuned down a semitone, and ‘Yesterday’ used guitars tuned a tone below concert pitch). Also note that if you are playing along with the record you may need to tune slightly sharp or flat on some songs. This slight deviation from concert tune slightly sharp or flat on some songs. This slight deviation from concert pitch occurs for a number of reasons, including the fact that The Beatles experimented with ‘vari-speeding’ their tapes. Sometimes this resulted in a song whose key is pitched between two notes. Muting and finger – picking Players who wish to learn the correct finger-picking for songs such as ‘Blackbird’, ‘Julia’ and ‘Here Comes The Sun’ should seek out fully tabbed versions. The versions in this book are designed for strumming. George Harrison’s Indian-influenced songs present a special problem since they do not have chords in the conventional Western sense. An attempt has been made to give a flavour of the melody. Therefore in songs like ‘Within You Without You’ and ‘Love You To’ try playing the suggested chords with a thumb and two fingers to avoid having to mute the other strings. This book © Copyright 1999 by Wise Publications Unauthorised reproduction of any part of this publication by any means including photocopying is an infringement of copyright. Cover designed by Studio Twenty Music arranged by Rikky Rooksby Music edited by Arthur Dick Music engraved by The Pitts Cover from a photograph by Richard Mitchell/Rex Features Back cover photograph by Redferns 9781476840512 Visit Hal Leonard Online at www.halleonard.com T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s A Day In The Life A Hard Day’s Night Across The Universe All I’ve Got To Do All My Loving All Together Now All You Need Is Love And I Love Her And Your Bird Can Sing Another Girl Any Time At All Ask Me Why Baby You’re A Rich Man Baby’s In Black Back In The Ussr Because Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite Birthday Blackbird Blue Jay Way Can’t Buy Me Love Carry That Weight Christmas Time (Is Here Again) Come Together Cry Baby Cry Dear Prudence Day Tripper Dig A Pony Dig It Golden Slumbers Do You Want To Know A Secret? Doctor Robert Don’t Bother Me Don’t Let Me Down Don’t Pass Me By Drive My Car Eight Days A Week Eleanor Rigby Every Little Thing Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey Fixing A Hole For No One For You Blue From Me To You Get Back Getting Better Girl Glass Onion Good Day Sunshine Good Morning, Good Morning Goodnight Got To Get You Into My Life Happiness Is A Warm Gun Hello Goodbye Hello Little Girl Help! Helter Skelter Her Majesty I Am The Walrus Here Comes The Sun Here, There And Everywhere Hey Bulldog Hey Jude Hold Me Tight Honey Pie I Call Your Name I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party I Feel Fine I Me Mine I Need You I Saw Her Standing There I Should Have Known Better I Wanna Be Your Man I Want To Hold Your Hand I Want To Tell You I Want You (She’s So Heavy) I’ve Got A Feeling I Will I’ll Be Back I’ll Cry Instead I’ll Follow The Sun I’ll Get You I’m A Loser I’m Down I’m Happy Just To Dance With You I’m Looking Through You I’m Only Sleeping I’m So Tired I’ve Just Seen A Face If I Fell If I Needed Someone If You’ve Got Trouble In My Life In Spite Of All The Danger It Won’t Be Long It’s All Too Much Long Long Long It’s Only Love Julia Lady Madonna Let It Be Like Dreamers Do Little Child Love Me Do Love You To Lovely Rita Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Magical Mystery Tour Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Martha My Dear Mean Mr Mustard Old Brown Shoe Michelle Misery Mother Nature’s Son No Reply Norwegian Wood Not A Second Time Not Guilty Nowhere Man Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Octopus’s Garden Oh! Darling One After 909 Only A Northern Song P.s. I Love You Paperback Writer Penny Lane Piggies Please Please Me Rain Polythene Pam Revolution 1 Revolution Rocky Raccoon Run For Your Life Savoy Truffle Sexy Sadie Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) Sun King She Came In Through The Bathroom Window She Loves You She Said She Said She’s A Woman She’s Leaving Home Something Strawberry Fields Forever Taxman Tell Me What You See Tell Me Why Thank You Girl That Means A Lot The Ballad Of John And Yoko The End The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill The Fool On The Hill The Inner Light The Long And Winding Road The Night Before
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