First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on the Piano Kindle Edition

Great for a piano player but not the easiest to master. My wife plays, I don’t. She has found the music challenging but not impossible. Just takes an amateur a little more time to get it right.

Bought this book 4/17/19 and as of today...5/30/19...the pages are falling out and the binding is shot! You'd expect it to last longer than 5 weeks!

Over 40 years ago I started going from all old rock and blues chords to learning chords used by the Beatles in ways where Lenin and McCartney definitely stray from the all American sound of rock and country. The chord progressions and melodies can be sped up or slowed down and even have your own original beat or ORCHESTRATION into "elevator music." The piano music is there and even if you don't play piano from the music and learning the names of the notes on the piano it is easy to transpose the top clef- the treble clef- to get the melodies right on. Nobody plays like the Beatles but the music is classical Rock-open to all instruments and styles.

I understand this book is aimed to beginners but is quite annoying that songs as simple as eight days a week (original in D major) is written in F major. At least when I got this product I was expecting to find songs simplified but in the original key.I'd add that if you have 1+ years playing piano, try to find a different book.I feel like I wasted the money in this book, because every time I want to learn a song, I find it in wrong key and have to pay for musicsheets in other place.

Easy to play.Quite a few less known tunes.Tight binding so hard to display on the piano.

Easy versions that are perfect for conversion to fingerstyle guitar, but you may need to change the key and octaves to fit the guitar open strings

Great book for beginners looking to learn some Beatles.

Arrangements are easy to play even first time through. Unfortunately the key chosen for songs are not all original making singing songs difficult rather than straight out fun.

love this book. Ideal for someone who just wants to take it easy after a grade 5 exam, learn a new style of easy playing. It comes with chord names on top, so this can be used as reference to chose chords learnt in arpeggios and scales. There is plenty of opportunity to improvise the accompaniment and get more familiar with different rhythms suitable for this genre of music. And they are fun to play. The music is clearly printed with not so small notes, and notes perfectly aligned. Words are included so you can have your private sing along or have friends joining in. It is really good fun - but learn the music well first, of course.

This collection of songs is of about ABRSM Grade 1 standard -- there is some variation in difficulty between the pieces, but not a huge amount. If you can play one, you can probably play them all. Lyrics are included, which should make it easier to navigate the music, particularly if you're familiar with the songs. There are some fingering marks, but they are small and hard to read. The note typesetting, however, is clear and uncluttered.Nearly all the notes are within a three-octave span, although there is some doubling of the bass in octaves (the lower note could probably be omitted for those will smaller hands).I have two main quibbles, however.1. The songs that the editors have chosen are, I think, those that are most likely to be familiar, rather than those that lend themselves to a piano performance or accompaniment. Some of the song choices really don't work so well with piano.2. The arrangements are so simplistic that they aren't very interesting. I'm not saying they are incompetent -- the word I would use is 'workmanlike'. None of the harmonies are (so far as I can tell) 'wrong' with respect to the original recordings; they just don't inspire.I suppose the other slight concern I have is that I would expect material of this technical standard mostly to be interesting to younger musicians, but I'm not convinced that folks of this age will be very familiar with Beatles songs. I guess there are adult beginners who might prefer something to the usual menu of simple classics. And, of course, old fogies like me who are looking for extra sight-reading practice.In all, not a bad book, and good value, but don't expect it to blow your mind.

The arrangements are pretty easy but many sound dreadful. I can see they have changed many of the chords to cater for the simpler arrangements but the songs really suffer because of this. The Fool On The Hill is awful. This book only arrived today but after playing through them I closed the book and have ordered The Beatles Sheet Music Collection which I wish I had have just done in the first place. I wouldn't even use the pages of this book to wrap chips

Good for beginners - I am an adult returning to the piano after several decades and really like this. I had some right hand knowledge but learning left hand now and this is perfect level. Plus Beatles songs are great. Doesn't lie flat when open but I just use a bulldog clip on one edge of the book and it stays open.

AVOID if you play the piano or like the Beatles. If you cant play the songs and you don't know what they sound like, this might be the book for you. Joking aside, these are ridiculously simple and at least one chord is wrong in every song, some of them to the point where parts of or the whole song is unrecognisable other than the melody. Honestly unless you know these songs really well you'd probably not recognise some of them.