The Complete Guitar Player Songbook: Omnibus Edition

I have no complains about the quality of the song book,however, too much time elapsed between ordering and receiving the merchandise.

The combined printing (chord diagrams, staff and tab) is very useful for finger picking. The pages are smaller than typewriter size and the lines are close together so careful marking is required. There is some bleed through from page front to page back which is annoying.If they had used bigger, better paper, I would rate it higher.

I should preface this by saying that before buying this book I tried to get the song list from the publisher without success. I'd only seen the previous edition which is ~70 pages shorter. But the organization of the previous edition was a joke. It was a compilation of 4 books slapped together so it was hard to find what you were looking for. So I bought this. It is indeed longer but near as I can tell has only ~2/3 the songs as the previous edition. It is especially frustrating because the songs I was learning from the previous edition aren't in the new "omnibus".The organization also remains ridiculous. For example, on page 202 you will find "Book 3 Page 4" and on the facing page 203 is "Book 2 Pages 12-14". Personally, I don't care what came from what original books, I just wanted a songbook and reference to the original means nothing to me.The songs I've tried, I've liked and I like a lot of the songs in the book. But everyone's tastes are different so I'd check the list of what songs are in the book before you buy it. That is if you can find the list.

I'm taking guitar lessons and we are using a number of songs from this book. It is well organized and each song includes the music notations, chords and strumming patterns or finger picking patterns. An excellent addition to any guitar instruction.

Excellent learning tool. I"m half way through. A great way to learn chords and to read music. The book keeps introducing new chords so that I can practice over and over to master.