Acoustic Classics: Guitar Play-Along Volume 33 [Paperback]

Hal Leonard Corp. (Author)

Book Description

Series: Guitar Play Along | Publication Date: March 1, 2005

The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs: Across the Universe * Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Crazy on You * Heart of Gold * Hotel California * I'd Love to Change the World * Thick as a Brick * Wanted Dead or Alive.

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Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0634082612
• ISBN-13: 978-0634082610
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #558,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Take the little good with the mainly mediocre, August 10, 2007

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Ger L (So.CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Acoustic Classics: Guitar Play-Along Volume 33 (Paperback)

This volume, like the others in the series, is mainly chord strumming. There are a couple of pieces for which single notes, and embellished and partial chords are used. These arrangements are worthwhile, but the majority are pretty shallow and best for comping. When you play them, the song may be recognizable, but it won't be melodically complete.
One problem that is common to so many of this type of CD accompanied books, is that the guitar part in never offered in complete isolation. Percussion and other musical support sounds fine for listening, but to best learn the piece, a clean solo would be more helpful. I think the percussion, etc. is included to mask that weak arrangements of the strumming songs.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Close..., February 19, 2008

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snackman (Ricmond, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acoustic Classics: Guitar Play-Along Volume 33 (Paperback)

I have many of the HL Play along series and the other reviewer is dead on.
It would help to be able to ISOLATE the instrument you are trying to learn. This USED to be THE way publishers did play alongs back when there were cassettes and floppy albums included, for some reason they got away from it, maybe because many CD player/Boom boxes do not have the ability to pan left to right. I so miss this feature. I do like the "slow down" feature, but you need to have your computer handy.
Also the arrangements in these books are either TOO sparce (if you get the EASY playalong series or EASY POP series..they don't even tell you how to strum) or TOO complex(too much detail...take 5 pages to play a song show every little
note of each chord). I sure wish there was a intermediate version of these songs that gave you "some" of the important riffs and strum patterns without every minor detail, either that or they should give you BOTH the TAB version and the EASY play version in the SAME BOOK!~! So once you learn the details and you just need a little reminder of the chords you can play along with turning 5 pages and straining your eyes!