Customer Reviews for The Best Of Nirvana - Easy Guitar
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GeoffGoss
Location: from Lewistown, PA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 4, 2011
Not true
I have to agree with the guy from london on the first page of reviews. The people that make these books claim that they're straight from the guitarist themselves but that is not true. I got 3 books...Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Alice In Chains....The RHCP is the worst but the Nirvana one is almost just as bad and the Alice in Chains is even worse. I have watched Kurt Cobain and John Frusciante(RHCP) and Jerry Cantrell(Alice In Chains) play all of the songs on the books I have and the way they REALLY play A LOT of the songs are nothing like the book says.
23 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Devin O'dell
Location: from Norris TN.
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
September 7, 2007
good..well..not if you have a band
The tabs are i'd say are 95% accurate but its just mimicing the chorus so it sounds sorta weird if you plan on singing the lyrics but if your looking for easy solos I recomend this book
20 of 37 people found this review helpful.
MEEP
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
March 3, 2007
Why did i waste 15 bucks on this??
I bought this book at some little music store a while ago when i was still pretty much a beginner, and as i looked through Smells Like Teen Spirit, to find the solo, i noticed how different the chorus was from what my guitar teacher taught me, half of the notes in this book are wrong! I mean i at first thought the songs sounded bad just cuz i was a beginner but now im skimming through it and realizing how inaccurate parts of it are, and not just a little inaccurate, i mean like really REALLY inacurrate. But just to be fair, a couple of the songs like Heart Shaped Box and All Appologies are pretty good as far as accuracy goes.
22 of 41 people found this review helpful.
Matthew Messner
Location: from Phoenix,Arizona
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
March 24, 2005
[...]It's A Great Book
This book taught me some things I was lost about. I have bought all of the Nirvana Books. Now i can play every single Nirvana Song Perfectly thanks to the books.[...]
21 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from St. Louis, MO
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
October 16, 2004
This Book Will Do Nothing But Confuse
I bought this book when I was a beginner and I mistakenly put my trust in it and tried to learn my beloved Nirvana songs using it. When I played from the page and it didn't sound ANYTHING like the song, I blamed myself because I was such a new player. It was a while before I realized that my own ear was right and the book was an absolute piece of crap. Nirvana songs aren't that hard to play accurately by ear, so I don't know why the hell this guy did such a horrible job of writing it down. Whatever you do, don't buy this.
21 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from London
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
April 3, 2004
Joka
This tab book is by far the worst i have ever seen. Most of the tabs are wrong or are right but in the wrong place. Looks like a 5 year old wrote it. I learnt the songs by ear correctly. You should do the same.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Pablo Degas
Location: from Moreno Valley, CA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 9, 2003
Worst Tab Book Ever!!!
Like an idiot I bought this book thinking it would be accurate. Gimme a break, Im a beginner, but this is way too simple and innaccurate for me. When I opened it the lyrics aren't even right, so I figured the tabs gotta be wrong. And it is!
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.
Mavrick
Location: from Seattle, WA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
May 18, 2003
Good Nirvana beginner guitar book
I dont know what these people are saying. This guitar book is great. The tabs are fine, people, just stop being stupid with the "shame to nirvana" stuff. I mean what did u expect, kurt writing the tabs himself (RIP Kurt if you read this); so give the author a break. I give it 5 stars. If you are just beginning the guitar, get this book. The only downside is that it doesn't have guitar solo's for some songs. But it is still a great book.
5 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Mike
Location: from Norfolk, VA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
February 24, 2003
This is ok....
I really enjoyed this book, and would recommend it for anyone that wants to play Nirvana with minimal experience. However, that's what Nirvana was...it was mostly power chords and chords with a few small riffs...not much more. In short, this book is definately worth getting, and is a big help in trying to decipher between the bogus tabs as found on different tab sites...
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Slash
Location: from Limerick,Ireland
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
February 14, 2003
Exellent
If you like Nirvana get this book.It is a bit hard to figure it out at first but if you give it some time it will pay off!!!!!
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
David
Location: from Lutz, FL
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
January 20, 2003
Aww!
I bought this disregarding the bad reviews from other people because I'm curious and stupid. This book sucks and the tabs are way off. Buy the other tab books for Nirvana, but not this one. BEWARE AT ALL COSTS!
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Edward Pangestu
Location: from Chino Hills, CA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 23, 2002
Uncomplete & uncorrect tabs For beginers
This book was the biggest disapointment in all my years of playing the guitar and playing the Nirvana Tabs. Trust me and the rest writing these reviews on this. It will save you a few bucks and get something better. This book is incomplete, uncorrect, and for beginers. Well I guess that's good for beginers. But come on. If Kurt Cobain used these tabs for Nirvana they wouldn't be popular, they wouldn't have changed the face of rock and music in the early 90's, and Kurt, God bless his talented soul, wouldn't have been so popular and shoot himself in the head, with all-do respect.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.
brandon mabrey
Location: from roanoke rapids ,north carolina
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 11, 2002
kurt would stand up in his grave!!!!!
when i purchased this book i bought it from another site and they do not have customer ratings on that site. two days passed and i found the same book on this site and when i read the reviews it was already to late for me to cancel my order. im an advanced guitar player i bought the book to double check my work on nirvana because im a very picky guitarist i have to be 200% perfect on my playing please take my advice and dont make the same mistake i did, DONT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!
5 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Tylenol
Location: from San Ramon
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
October 31, 2002
Horrible Book
This is the worst tab book I've ever seen. Half of the tabs are made up. They are not even in half of the songs.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from CA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
October 28, 2002
DUDE, THIS BOOK SUX
I THINK EVERY 1 ON HERE THAT HAS POST A REVIEW KNOWS THAT THIS TAB BOOK SUCKS, AND NE1 WHO WANTS CORECT TABS SHOULDNT GET THIS BOOK.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Josh
Location: from Miami
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
October 15, 2002
Shameful
I first bought this when I just started to learn guitar, because I wanted to play Nirvana songs. As I played through the tabs, I couldnt understand why it was so off. The tabs suck, although since they tell you the chords above it, those are sometimes right but as a tab book it sucks. I wasted my 15 bucks, dont waste yours.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
this sucks
Location: from nowhere
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
October 11, 2002
i got it free
i got this free with my subscription to a magazine. now i see why it was free - cos its rubbish. all the tabs are wrong, the smells like teen spirit one is laughable. they seem to think "easy guitar" means you cant play anything above the 5th fret and use open notes where ever possible. the tab just plays what kurt it singing which sounds really awful.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Jeff
Location: from Bridgewater, NJ
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 12, 2001
Beginner Tabs
It seems to me the problem isn't the Hal Leonard tabbing, but simply a confusion. If you read the description this is the easy guitar version with simplified notations. I you want good tab, check out the Hal Leonard Nirvana In Utero ratings. Same songs, but all 15 or so raters claim they are 100% perfect.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Josh Hamilton
Location: from Raleigh, NC
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 2, 2001
Will Hal Leonard stop publishing crap?
It seems to me that almost all so called "accurate" transcriptions that come from Hal Leonard are way off. It's as if they don't really care if they even come close. Who the hell transcribes these things anyway? Sounds like a bunch of trained chimps.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
brandon sampson
Location: from west vrginia
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
June 3, 2001
pitiful puts kurt and co. to shame
this is the worst tab book i've ever seen in my life. the beginning for "rape me" sounds fair, but all the other parts are absolutely horrible!!! this book isn't even worth a second glance. trash this piece of junk.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.
Tucker Nelson
Location: from Spanaway, WA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 27, 2000
This Book is BAD!!
Do not buy this book. It has bad transcriptions of the guitar part that they show. On every song they show the intro for the guitar, but when Kurt starts singing, it transcribes what he is singing, instead of the guitar part. Please do not waste your money on it!!
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Joel Crisco
Location: from Seattle, WA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
July 31, 2000
Nirvana can do much beter!!!
It's so frustrating that the tabs sound nothing like the real songs. It sounds like a good deal, but fails to deliever the goods.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Curmudgeon
Location: from Australia
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
July 4, 2000
Crap Tab Book The Tabs Are Wrong
it not a good tab book all the songs are wrong.The other tab books are better.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.