
ALFANOTE A songbook for those born in the 1960s! Acoustic Guitar Songbook: 100 memorable songs brought back to life with videos of all the songs
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Description
Description
A selection of songs that will be irresistible to all retro fans. You might even discover the roots music of your favorite musician!
Amazing! All 100 songs come with video demonstrations and tips! No need to give up if you don't know how to play a song just because it's a sheet music book!
Target age: Anyone born between 1960 and 1969 (Showa 35-44) or who likes Showa retro pop music
The cover illustration is an original work by popular Korean illustrator tree13!
*This book uses a layout in which one song is completed on each spread, so chords are mainly listed for parts with vocals and lyrics, and for space reasons, the chord progressions for the interludes of some songs have been omitted.
【table of contents】
index 4
Learn how to read music 6
How to Read Chord Diagrams 8
How to watch videos 9
Blue Light Yokohama / Ishida Ayumi 10
White is the color of lovers / Betsy & Chris 12
Letter / Yuki Saori 13
Love is Vulnerable / Hide and Rosanna 14
Hope / Yoko Kishi 16
What would you do? / Ishida Ayumi 18
Run Kotaro / Salty Sugar 19
Shiretoko Travel / Tokiko Kato 20
Until We Meet Again / Kiyohiko Ozaki 21
As long as there is a sun in the sky / Akira Nishikino 22
Gathering the Wind / Happy End 23
17 years old / Minami Saori 24
My Castle Town / Rumiko Koyanagi 25
The Devil is Gruesome / Takao Hirata and Cellstars 26
Travel Inn / Takuro Yoshida 27
Bride of Seto / Rumiko Koyanagi 28
Let's Get Married / Takuro Yoshida 29
The Season Given by the Sun / Blue Triangle Ruler 30
Student Town Cafe / Garo 31
Applause / Naomi Chiaki 32
Two People Who Can't Go Home / Yosui Inoue 34
Kanda River / Princess Kaguya 35
Journey of the Heart / Tulip 36
Summer Days of Love / Amachi Mari 37
Into a Dream / Yosui Inoue 38
Contrail / Yumi Arai 39
Your Birthday / Garo 40
You / Akiko Kosaka 41
Bon Festival / Grape 42
Cape Tour / Yamamoto Kotaro and Weekend 44
Graduation Photo / Yumi Arai 45
The scent of cyclamen / Akira Fuse 46
As time passes / Kenji Sawada 47
Farewell at 22 / Kaze 48
My Good Friend / Hiroshi Kamayatsu 49
DOWN TOWN / SUGAR BABE 50
I'm getting bored / Tadashi Kosaka 52
"Strawberry White Paper" Again / Bang Bang 53
Cactus flower / Tulip 54
Cotton Handkerchief / Hiromi Ota 56
Lingering Snow / Iruka 57
Listening to the whistle in the distance / Alice 58
Please understand / Akira Inaba 59
Central Freeway / Yumi Arai 60
Youth / Koichi Morita and Top Galant 62
Before Winter Comes / Kamifuusen 63
You are the Wind / Yukio Sasaki 64
Do as you please / Kenji Sawada 66
Shelter from the Rain / Masashi Sada 68
Signs of Autumn / Off Course 70
Azusa No. 2 / Hunter 72
Imitation Gold / Momoe Yamaguchi 74
UFO / Pink Lady 76
Silver Rain / Chiharu Matsuyama 78
Winter Lightning / Alice 79
A Good Day to Leave / Momoe Yamaguchi 80
Love Song / Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi 81
Katte ni Sindbad / Southern All Stars 82
Time Travel / Shinji Harada 84
Light Blue Rain / Junko Yagami 86
Listening to Olivia / Anri 88
In the Seasons / Chiharu Matsuyama 89
Gandhara / Godiego 90
Your Morning / Kishida Satoshi 91
Kanpaku Declaration / Masashi Sada 92
Enchanted (Aegean Sea Theme) / Judy Ongg 94
Burning Woman / Masanori Sera & Twist 95
My Dear Ellie / Southern All Stars 96
Just like back then / Bread & Butter 98
Foreigner / Saki Kubota 100
Love Is Over / Ouyang Fei Fei 102
Words of Gift / Kaientai 104
Cheers / Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi 105
Dancing All Night / Monta & Brothers 106
Silent play / THE ALFEE 107
After the Rain / RC Succession 108
RIDE ON TIME / Tatsuro Yamashita 110
Michinoku Solo Trip / Yamamoto Joji 112
Lover / Mayumi Itsuwa 114
If I Could Play the Piano / Toshiyuki Nishida 115
Ruby Ring / Akira Terao 116
Sadness is like snow / Shogo Hamada 118
SOMEDAY / Motoharu Sano 120
Wedding Bells / Sugar 122
Red Sweet Pea / Seiko Matsuda 124
In the middle of a dream / Takao Kisugi 125
Lullaby of the Virgin Mary / Hiromi Iwasaki 126
SWEET MEMORIES / Seiko Matsuda 128
Galando / Hideki Saijo 129
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / Harada Tomoyo 130
Full of Memories / H2O 131
Wine Red Heart / Anzenchitai 132
Pink Breath / Takahashi Mariko 134
Plastic Love / Mariya Takeuchi 136
Tears are not just for decoration / Akina Nakamori 138
Fall in love / Akiko Kobayashi 140
Friends / Rebecca 142
SKIPPED BEAT / KUWATA BAND 144
My Revolution / Misato Watanabe 146
Portrait of Prussian Blue / Anzenchitai 148
Chord Diagram Table 150
Useful Code Conversion Table 152
Know the names and functions of each part of the guitar 154
Correct guitar position 156
Pick and how to hold it 157
Remember the left hand form 157
[Errata]
The following errors were found in the first printing published on December 13, 2023.
Page 121, "SOMEDAY" [D]: There is a mistake in the lyrics of the fourth measure. Correction: It's close. Incorrect: It's wrong. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to our readers and all those involved, and we have made the correction here.
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