The Best of John Denver: 20 Easy Banjo Solos

I bought this book as a beginner to the banjo. I play a number of other instruments though. It is a good book for beginners. The arrangements are not in the original keys though. I know how to transpose to other keys, so it's no problem for me. being in a different key mayu put it out of your singing range. If that is a big deal to you, then you might not want to get this book. The songs originally did not have banjo in them anyway. This is a good book for a newbie banjo player that likes John Denver and doesn't mind playing the arrangements that are not in the original keys. I rate it high because I can live with those stipulations and I can transpose to the keys that fit my vocal range.

I am a beginner and this book has been fun for me. The melody is there in the rolls but you have to have some experience to accent the melody notes. The difficulty for a beginner is not that hard. For an intermediate or professional, I would skip this and look for better tab. There is no instruction for an absolute beginner, just the tab for the songs.

I've only been taking banjo for about 6 months so I was pleased to find a book that I could use right away. I'm not sure why one of the other posters indicated that there were not any melodies (just harmonies) because I can hear them. This is a great book and I like to use it as a distraction when I feel bogged down from what I should be practicing.

not what I expected, thought I would get more of the older songs, not a bad group of songs, but for the banjo, not so good, hard to find the melody in most of them. Really have to look for it, .and most of the time do it your self. Annie's song. very disappoiting

Fun to play.

Great works.

Nice book. Good selection of songs. Gave a four star rating because there is no Melody line. This would have made playing the songs a bit easier

Some of his better songs are in this book, and some I wasn't so familiar with. All in all, it's a good book that includes the chords as well as the tablature; that's a good thing so one can also do a little "ad-libbing".

Really good book, arrived quickly

I wanted easy but I obviously have not been playing long enough for this book of songs to be EASY

Good book but it takes some practice before you can actualy recognize the song as there's sometimes lots of double bassing and in-between notes. But if you go beyond the first difficulties and hang in there, it eventualy sounds nice and familiar.

Good value. Not the most sophisticated arrangements, but a good starting point.