Classical Guitar TAB: 50 Iconic Solos from the Renaissance to Romantic Era Paperback – 11 Feb. 2019

This book has given me more hours of pleasure than any other guitar publication. As a non music notation reader the TAB has been a wonderful way into classical guitar. After playing from this book for 3 months on my steel string, I bought a classical guitar. So many thanks Werner, it’s such fun.

If i had to write a book with the top 50 iconic peices I would proabbly have choose 45 out of the ones chosen here. Great selection. Works fantastic with his website so you get video lessons on early single peice in this book. The book basically starts from grade 1 through to RDLA which is listed as grade 9. So has something for everyone or has an approach so you can work your way through the grades.This guy is in the realms of virtuso - if he says you should be using these fingers - then those are the ones you should be using. I have a lot of books and regular watch his lessons. Maybe one thing that is slightly annoying with this book i show its bound and soemtimes you lose a note or two in the spine.

I like this book and some of the performance notes are useful although it would have been nice for these to be more frequent in the book. The actual quality of the book isn't great, paper feels cheap and it's hard to get the pages fully open, even on a music stand. Still, some good quality transcriptions. Would benefit from better links to the associated website to hear performances and, although these are mainly etudes, dinner indication of speed would be helpful.

This is a good collection for beginner and advanced guitarists. I already knew most of the music, but I wanted to own it in paper format as well. BUT!!! This is not a cheap booklet and a big disappointment for me in the quality of manufacture! The cover is very weak and fragile and when I got it it was wavy all over. I'm sorry, but I was expecting more for that money!

Especially with guitar music, because it covers such a wide range, the extremes can be difficult to read in music (I’m not the best at reading music). Having classical pieces transcribed into tab is much easier. Tab is also really helpful where a different position is better for a particular musical passage.

Dieses Buch bietet für den Preis wenig Neues! Enthält fast nur alltägliche Stücke die schon in sehr vielen Büchern ebenfalls erschienen sind. Noch dazu ohne CD (ist aber nicht wichtig). Das kommt davon, wenn man den "Blick ins Buch" nicht nutzt. Trozudem ist es zu teuer.

Another reviewer wrote that this book should've been spiral-bound... to which I enthusiastically-replied: "I'm so interested in the content, I don't really care about the binding, as long as it's legible. If I don't like it, I'll just rip it off!" (or something to that effect). And I still somewhat feel that way. But now that I've actually received my own copy, I have to agree with that other guy. The book is barely usable the way that it's bound.But I've decided not to deduct any stars for that. Perhaps I would've, had I not seen the earlier review, and bought this book anyway after knowing about the binding issue. The content is legible, and print quality very good.So I was left to make good on my overly-zealous mutilation threat.Being a 'book purist'... I must admit that was a challenge. I never even mark/highlight/violate a book (unless I find an error... which sadly happens with amazing frequency btw!?!). It's sort of like sacrilege to me. So prying-off the cover... of a brand new (fairly expensive) book... was a bit of a challenge for me. But I managed to do it.This is hardly the first/only/last music book to be bound this way. And I'm sure minimizing production cost motivated the choice. But in this instance, it clearly was the wrong choice. This author worked so hard to get things right, and in general pays so much attention to detail, that I'm more disappointed than I otherwise would've been had the book been flawed in other ways. I personally would've preferred more Romantic or Baroque stuff and less Renaissance (well, it's not fair to call those lute-y-ly-depressing dungeon dirges... 'crap', as they're just not my preference). And I'm already familiar with many of the other pieces. But again, that's not the author's fault. He did disclose the T.O.C. So no detraction there either.But it comes down to this:Trying to learn a rock or folk song is one thing. But for anything ~nearly~ this studious... (all the included works aren't, but a few like Asturias are) THE MUSIC HAS TO LAY FLAT! Being distracted by curvy-shadows, page-distortions, and required neck-contortions... you really can't expect to get very far (before wanting to hurt somebody!). As an instructor... I'm sure the author knows that. So allowing a detail like that to detract so much, is undoubtedly a fail. It would've been a far better choice to use cheaper paper, or a less attractive cover (which I now can frame, since I had to rip it off) in exchange for better utility... or at least offer a spiral (or better yet, unbound) version. That would've been a much better idea.That being said, I intended to take the cover-less guts to a print shop to have the pages sheared loose. But once I removed the cover, it was much easier to get the pages to lie flatter.I'm surethey'll eventually slow-ly come apart on their ownso I'll save myself the tripand let them do so.But overall,the book is very good though!(And ~almost~<unless you need the tab>worth the fair chunk of dough!)~KinniK~

La impresión y digitaciones están muy cuidadas. Hay partituras muy interesantes, y el apoyo web resulta muy importante.

Ottima scelta di brani , i tab sono un plus

The book starts out with easier pieces, then graduates into intermediate, then harder pieces.