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John Denver Anthology for Easy Guitar

Description

This superb collection of 42 great Denver songs made easy for guitar includes: AnnieÕs Song ¥ Leaving on a Jet Plane ¥ Take Me Home, Country Roads ¥ plus performance notes, a biography, and DenverÕs thoughts on the songs.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-12
Summary: "Worked well for me"

I enjoyed playing through this book as I am learning the basics of playing the guitar. I have already bought and used about a dozen books and I have found many of them don't sound right to me or don't include useful notations for people that are still learning chords and patterns. I was able to play many of the songs early, and still have others to master. The book comes with chord charts so each time you have to play a new chord it shows where your fingers need to be on the frets. This is helpful for me, and is helping me learn and master new chords. If you like John Denver and are within your first year of playing guitar - I would strongly recommend it.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-23
Summary: "Good music book for John Denver songs"

This book contains many of John Denvers wonderful songs and is purported to be for a Easy guitar. It is a basic music book and unless you have someone with experience to teach you more than what the book has to offer, it is just another music book. I bought it because of others stating that "It features simplified arrangements with notes, tab, chord charts, and strum and pick patterns." Cord charts are there and basic melody sheet type music but that is all. No performance notes, tabs (as I learned them) or strum, simplified arrangement notes or pick patterns. I am disappointed with this purchase. I feel the write ups were misleading.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-12
Summary: "good music but arranging...."

This is a good book to own, and I enjoy playing the songs in it. I can't say much about the chords since I use the melody lines on my mandolin, but my sister plays them on her guitar and they are well matched with the song. :D One correction for the book, using the melody line, the notes are not what the cds sound like. This is because its an 'easy guitar' book, so the publishers did not want it arranged with too difficult of notes. The tones are the same, but the note value is not like the song John Denver played. Once you've heard the cds, its nothing to just play the notes the way they are supposed to sound using their straight quarter notes on the page. It is a very good book, and to use two instruments in it is really nice. I reccomend the book for easy to memorize campfire songs.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-05-19
Summary: "Original high hopes were quickly disapointed"

As a two month beginner, the "easy guitar" book was not as helpful as I expected it to be. It did not include tablature along with the notes nor effective strum patterns. In the current format, it would have helped if a CD were included. A useful example for me is the "100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll" by Hal Leonard.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-04-08
Summary: "John Denver Anthology Easy Guitar"

Overall this is a good book, but doesn't exactly match the recorded versions of some of the songs, probably because this book is labeled easy guitar, the chords used in this version are easier to form. I think from a book I had years ago and now with all the moving can't locate, that Rocky Mountain High was originally played with a capo on the first fret. Some of the other songs were different also. I recommend this book if you are beginning guitar or maybe in between beginning and intermediate or if you just like John Denver's songs.