Mel Bay Chet Atkins: Off the Record

Notation and tablature are spot on. Has songs like yellow bird, yakety axe, Yankee doodle Dixie, windy and warm, wheels, and a few more I can't think of at the moment. Definitely a book I would recommend.

The Transcriptions are a little hard to read but the chord diagrams are helpful. This is certainly not a good book for beginners and being able to read music is a plus. I was able to find a demonstration of at least one of the songs ("Wheels") on YouTube which was very helpful. My main reason for picking this up was the transcription of "Walk Don't Run" which I think Chet does a masterful job in his version which is as close, if not better, than the original Johnny Smith tune.

I found all of these on Youtube and they are accurate to a T. The traditional notation is very good and the tabs are accurate but written in non-standard style which makes them hard to read. Some of the songs, e.g. John Henry, are just fragments taken out of a larger piece. Mr. Bojangles, Windy and Warm, etc. are accessible to the advanced intermediate player and stand on their own, other pieces, e.g. Wimoweh, don't makes much sense as solo pieces. That said, I highly recommend this book if you are looking to play some original Chet Atkins arrangements. A nice addition to your finger-style guitar library.

This book contains a nice song selection and the transcriptions seem OK, but the engraving is hard to look at and the TAB is horrendous.

I bought this item following my purchase of 2 volumes of Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions.This only contains transcriptions of recordings made by Chet Atkins -- there is no other narrative about Chet. In this respect, this book was disappointing for me. Not being a guitar player I have no real use for the transcriptions although I do find it useful to be able to listen to the recordings and follow the transcriptions in print.

初版は昔に発売されたかもしれませんが、これはタブ譜も付いていてチェットファンには良い教則本。ただ、CDが付いていないのが残念だが現在はどこでも手に入る音源なのでファン必須アイテム！

普通の楽譜のサイズよりも、小さく、タブだけど、とても、数字が見にくい、そして、曲数はあるが、なんか、テーマだけの、ところがあって、なにしろ、見ずらい、普通の値段なのに、もっと、大きくしろ、なにしろ、ストレスたまる、チェットの楽譜は殆どもっているが、重なってる曲が少ないのが、唯一の取り柄です、