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This review is for Taylor Swift Guitar Recorded Versions. This book consists of actual transcriptions of the recordings on her 1st album. It has all of the guitar parts including full intros, outros, and solos, written out in tab and notation, with rhythm slashes that indicate the exact strumming used, and the singer's part (the melody) in notation but not tab. If you want to see exactly how the guitars were played on the recordings then the transcriptions are the ticket. However transcriptions can be quite complex to understand and I would only recommend them for the advancing intermediate player, not for beginners at all. Amazon sells songbooks in various formats (but not all of the books are available in all formats) and it is important to understand the differences between them to get the right book for your purpose. Guitar Chord Songbook. This is the most basic and is just words and chords, similar to what you can download from the internet, except that the chords are usually correct and in the right places. It is the least confusing format but also has the least amount of information. This can be a great choice for an absolute beginner. Piano/Vocal/Guitar. This format gives the chords and words, and a piano (sheet music) arrangement. Can be used by a guitar player but not recommended because the piano arrangements add unnecessary pages. This format is the obvious choice for a piano player. Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab. This format has the words and chords, and the singer's part (the melody) written out in both guitar tab and in standard notation. Some of the guitar parts are also written out in tab and notation. These are mainly the intro's with some snippets of other parts that have been slightly simplified to make them easier to play. In the back of the books is a page of basic guitar strums. Each song suggests which strum pattern is suitable to use with the song, but the suggested strum patterns rarely match the exact strumming on the actual recordings. These books have many more pages than the basic chord books so there is a lot of page turning involved. The songs in "Speak Now" are each about 6 pages long. I don't think the average guitar player wants to have the singer's part completely written out as they are in this format, but these books can be a good choice for the advancing beginning guitarist who wants to learn some basic solo parts or who is learning to read standard notation. Guitar Recorded Versions. This format includes chords and words, and all guitar parts written out in guitar tab and notation. The singer's part (melody) is only in notation, not tab. This format gives the most information but is hardest to understand because of the density of the information. For example in "Taylor Swift Guitar Recorded Versions" the song Tim McGraw is 11 pages long and contains 3 different guitar parts. This is the only format that shows the strumming parts as they are actually played, in the form of strumming slashes, but it lacks accents marks which would have been helpful. Definitely not for the beginner but this format can be a good choice for the advancing intermediate guitarist. All of these books fall short in showing how to strum Taylor's songs. Her songs are great material to learn guitar on because of her simple chord progressions, but she often uses complicated 16th note rhythms that are hard for beginners to understand because beginners first learn simpler 8th note strumming. Even the Guitar Recorded Versions is not completely helpful because it fails to show how she accents her strumming. Some transcription books do show accenting, but the lack of it here is not big enough to warrant deducting a star from my rating.

All the notes matchup with the words and the tab matches with the notes. The chords that are used are shown at the beginning of each song in case you don't know them. The strum patterns are fairly easy to follow except sometime at the beginning of the songs the strum pattern is confusing because sometimes there are two and you don't know which one to use.

My youngest daughter loves Taylor Swift and her songs, and this book has renewed her interest in practicing the piano. What more could a mother hope for? Not only does it have the complete piano arrangement, but it also has all the guitar cords, too.

As an adult parent who began learning guitar almost a year ago, I have been looking for more song books to expand my playing. I selected this one also hoping to give my daughter some motivation to pick up the guitar also. While I've found this book to be complete and accurate, including song intros and the correct key to play along with Taylor's CD if you want, most of the material is beyond my intermediate skills. It is definitely not for an actual beginner. Don't get me wrong: I still give the book 4 stars. I will keep it and one day I will be able to play the songs effectively, and maybe my daughter will also. I just wanted to point out that this is not a good book for a beginner or maybe even intermediate guitarist. Based on the other reviews, maybe I'll break out my electronic keyboard and see if I can re-learn the piano, as well as guitar.

Bought this for my daughter who just started playing about three months ago. The book is easy to follow and she was playing parts of songs in just an hour or so. This isn't a replacement for leasons with a teacher but it does bring some fun into learning for young players. She spends hours playing these songs after doing her regular leason. It has really helped keep her interest up.

I bought this for my 10 year old after reading the reviews saying it was really easy. She is brand new to the guitar but this seems really hard for a beginner... we will see how long it takes her to learn the songs.

Very well pleased with this purchase it was a gift and the recipient was very happy to get this, thanks for the fast shipping and very good price on this item, I will purchase on line again next year during Christmas if I am around !

The piano perfectly matches up with the tune, the vocals are 100% accurate. I don't know about the guitar part, but I can imagine that is correct as well. If your looking to play the TUNE of the song, this is a great book, The piano is can be a little tricky with timing at times, but once you get the main beat of the song, it's a real fun book to play!