Counting Crows: August and Everything After: Piano, Vocal, Guitar (Paperback)

~ Counting Crows (Author)

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Product Description

Matching folio to the album by the very popular group Counting Crows.

Product Details

Sample Music Notation [24kb PDF]

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (May 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793535239
• ISBN-13: 978-0793535231
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,000,727 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the purchase, but a few things leave me lacking, December 22, 2003

By	John Cruz (Clinton TWP, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book with high expectations. I'd never bought any Counting Crows sheet music before and I was pretty excited about it. I have delt with Hal Leonard before and haven't really had a problem with them. Everything seemed right in place, but there were two annoyances that stuck out to me.

The first is that the songs in the book do not follow the order of the CD, making it difficult to flip through the book when the tracks change, unless you want to program your CD player to follow the order in the book. This can be a big or moderate flaw, depening on how you want to look at it.

The other problem I encountered was when I was trying to play "A Murder of One". Now, I know my guitar and piano skills aren't great, but I was sure that I wasn't THIS bad. After I listened to the recording and followed along in the music, I realized that while the song is in the key of F#, it is written musically in the book as the key of F. That's fine to do, since F is a lot easier than F#, but they could at least include a note that says "Music transcribed from F# to F to make playing less difficult". They've done this for other artist's music (such as Sarah McLochlan) to make playing easier, especially when they're in wierd and generally unfamiliar keys (F#, Ab, C#, etc.). For those of you who are musicians, you'll understand this.

There's a limit as to how great a book of sheet music can be, but those few things are what keep it from getting 5/5. Regardless, still worth the buy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars kind of what i was expecting..., April 14, 2008

By	Torrance Kilcoyne "tkillcoin" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book lays out on paper one of my favorite albums of all time by one of my favorite bands of all time, "August and Everything After" by Counting Crows. I bought this particular version over the "Guitar Recorded..." version for one reason, it had piano. Here's what I'll never understand: I've bought Ben Folds books by Hal Leonard (same company that published this book), and those piano transcriptions are painstakingly accurate. This "piano", however, is just chords built around the melody line. It has nothing to do with what the piano player in the band would actually be playing. Chalk it up to a lack of effort, I guess. I'll hold on to the book to loan out to friends and such who I may want to learn certain songs, but other than that, this really wasn't worth it.