JustinGuitar Vintage Songbook

The JustinGuitar series of books are excellent resources for learning to play the guitar. Whether you're a complete beginner, becoming an intermediate player, or you just want to learn some songs, JustinGuitar has a book to help.

With over 20 years of experience as a professional guitarist and educator, Justin Sandercoe has become one of the most popular and trusted guitar teachers online. Justin has built up an impressive learning resource on his website justinguitar.com and has amassed over 1,650,000 subscribers across his two YouTube channels, JustinGuitar and JustinGuitar Songs.

Here's What JustinGuitar Says About the Vintage Songbook

This awesome songbook features 50 classic guitar songs from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, including hits by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Simon & Garfunkel, Roy Orbison and James Taylor, all presented with playing tips and tutorials.

Designed to accompany the JustinGuitar Intermediate Method, this book gives you loads of songs which you’ll love to learn and play, and which will improve your playing as you work through them.

The book’s unique progressive structure divides the songs into four sections:

• 15 Beginner Songs which mainly use chords covered in the JustinGuitar Beginner’s Course; ideal for players who have been studying on the course or who want to consolidate their knowledge of open chords and strumming, e.g., ‘Take It Easy’ by The Eagles.
• 15 Intermediate Songs introducing barre chords and more complex strumming/picking, e.g., ‘In My Life’ by The Beatles. Perfect for the improving player.
• 15 Intermediate ‘Plus’ Songs which include more difficult chords, strumming, riffs and fingerpicking techniques, e.g., ‘Pinball Wizard’ by The Who. The next level!
• 5 fully tabbed out note-for-note transcriptions including Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ and ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers’ by Jeff Beck. Pro-level songs to work your way up to!

All the songs feature full lyrics and chords, with a written lesson and playing advice. Chord boxes, strumming/fingerpicking patterns and sections of TAB are used as necessary to show specific detail. There’s even a handy chord library to show basic open chords and barre chord grips.

Many songs in the book are supported by a free-to-access video tutorials on JustinGuitar.com, so there’s everything you need to learn the songs and develop your skills. This might just be the greatest pop songbook ever published!

Complete Song List:

Beginner Songs

• All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
• Band Of Gold - Freda Payne
• Be My Baby - The Ronettes
• Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
• Catch The Wind - Donovan
• Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
• Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond
• Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
• Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley
• Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
• Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
• Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
• Take It Easy - The Eagles
• The First Cut Is The Deepest - Cat Stevens
• You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles

Intermediate Songs

• All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers 
• Angie - The Rolling Stones 
• Crying - Roy Orbison 
• Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals
• I Feel Fine - The Beatles 
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
• I Shot The Sheriff - Bob Marley
• In My Life - The Beatles 
• It’s So Easy - Buddy Holly
• Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
• Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
• Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond 
• The Weight - The Band 
• Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding 
• Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers

Intermediate Plus Songs

• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
• Carol - The Rolling Stones 
• Everybody's Talkin’ - Nilsson 
• Green Onions - Booker T. & The M.G.s 
• Lola - The Kinks 
• Landslide - Fleetwood Mac 
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles 
• Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 
• Pinball Wizard - The Who 
• These Days - Jackson Brown 
• Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
• Wipe Out - The Surfaris 
• Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys 
• You Got A Friend - James Taylor 
• Your Song - Elton John

Full TAB Songs

• Apache - The Shadows 
• Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
• Classical Gas - Mason Williams 
• Hideaway - John Mayall (with Eric Clapton) 
• Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 

• The JustinGuitar Vintage Songbook by Justin Sandercoe
• Spiral Bound
• 208 Pages
• 248x170mm