Hello-

My son is home from University & we're going to try to learn a song together.

He bought me

The Beatles Guitar

book (black cover) for my birthday this year & since we are both fans, that seems ideal.

I want a reasonably simple song with both lead & rhythm parts.

Hello, Goodbye looks good, but I have a few questions about the notation.


(page 168, if you are reading along at home)

Each measure has two levels, on top is single note music notation and on the bottom is rhythm notation & tab for arpeggios n' such. Above all of this are chords in the standard frets, strings, & dots for fingering notation.

Here are my questions

1) In measure one's rhythm part, there is the up and downstroke notation, & below that the rhythm quarter note slashes, & underneath each of these is either a T or a B

so it goes

v n v n (up, down, up, down)
|_|_|_| ( with the / on top of each rhythm quarter note)
T B T B

What the frig does the T and B mean?!?

2) The single notes give no hints as to what register to play them in.
To make things easier, we're going to play the melody in first postion, but
what did the Beatles do? What would you do? What is the chart suggesting I do?

Thanks!

-Goobye