Joni Mitchell -- Complete So Far: Guitar TAB: Guitar Songbook Edition

This is a wonderful book. It's well laid-out LP by LP (but with an excellent index of songs) and represents some of Joni's best work ever. There are good transcriptions from piano to guitar when required, but disappointingly there is only partial tablature offered in all songs, regardless of the instrument used in the recordings. The reason for this is explained by Joni herself on the very first printed page, but this would hinder guitarists who do not yet have a great ability at playing the instrument. Joni uses a multitude of open tunings, and these are all given, clearly and precisely. However, the chord windows given for each tuning and song are clear enough and, for myself at least, are enough to enable me to play each piece with little difficulty. Perhaps surprisingly, Joni's picking style is easy to learn.The overall quality of the book is very good, excellent in fact. I know someone else has already picked up on the light weight of the paper used for the pages, and this is an issue. However, if the paper was any thicker/heavier then the book would have had to run into two volumes so as not to put excessive strain on the bindings used.For any Joni Mitchell fan - especially if you play (or want to play) her music on guitar - this book is a must-have item.

Great work, my book arrived damaged and misprinted pages, not to be expected in an expensive book.Content is great however.

This is much better for guitar than I'd hoped. I still play about 5 songs only, but plan to study Joni's chord and tuning methods to expand my own playing. To me Joni is an amazing artist that somehow is able to push the boundaries of composition with tweaking the guitar strings to her will. I have already used her tuning ideas to arrange a Bob Dylan song which I wouldn't have been able to do if I hadn't been giving the insight this book gives me. What I really enjoy is reading some of the lyrics that I didn't pay attention to much, but now that I have them it is fun to enjoy Joni's poetry, which come straight from the heart and feels so present and real. It is my pleasurable time to use this book and it seems to bring a faint inner smile as I play her lovely tunes.

All Joani Mitchell’s songs album by album. With special tunings for most of them. About 200 different tunings.Some pages had not been cut at the top, which was a bit annoying.Great book.

For Joni (guitar playing) fans this has all the info you need.

Even though many of the tabs are great and it allows me to have all of joni's catalogue in one place far too many of the chord shapes are wrong. Having spent years collecting all of joni's tabs created by joniphiles on Jonimitchell.com I was able to check and make the corrections myself. If the errors were not so plentiful i would have overlooked a few typos and been happy with the purchase but with so many peppered across the whole book I'm a little bit miffed and suggest purchasing with caution and be prepared to cross check with the transcriptions over at jonimitchell.com.

All these tabs are available online, mainly as part of the JMDL (Joni Mitchell Discussion List) website, but it's great to have them all in one place. I thought she'd written a lot more than 167 songs then I realised that a lot of the piano based songs are not included - unless she has performed a live version on guitar - hence there are only two songs included here from the Mingus album. The paper quality isn't great but I suppose when cramming all those songs into one book they had to compromise somewhere.

An Amazing compendium of all Joni's penned songs to date. Worth for the listing of all her unique guitar tunings alone.Very minor gripe it is not fully complete as only two songs from Mingus *none of the Mingus penned tunes* present.