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The Guitar Style of Stevie Ray Vaughan (Tab Book & CD)

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Wolf Marshall does'nt do the most accurate transcriptions. Some songs in this book like Voodoo Chile were really lacking (the cd track sounded like a real amature playing the intro). I bought this book to learn all those little things that really make up SRV's playing style. You won't learn this stuff in this book. About all you will get out of this book is some decent transcriptions and some info on how to play them. Please do yourself a favor and check out anything written by Andy Aledort. He seems to really get into the stuff he writes about and teaches. I bought his book which breaks down some good Hendrix stuff. Money very well spent.

I purchased this book when I was starting out on guitar and was pretty much new to instructional books. I thought that any instructional book would be exceptional in showing me how to be like Stevie or any other guitarist for that matter. Fast forward 4 years later and I got a pretty firm grasp on playing as well as theory and ear training. With that being said this instructional book of the great guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is very poor in transcription as well as in audio quality of the CD. I'm sure the author is pretty well versed in his profession but his work on this particular project falls way short. When I play some of the transcriptions they just don't match up with what Stevie plays on record. The tone, the attack and the energy are not convincing at all. If any other SRV fan wants to really get a really accurate transcription as well as style analysis please check out Andy Aledort. He is the best in the business and is one of the editors for Guitar World where you can check out his work. And I have to tell you he is spot on with every note and nuances of all the artist he transcribes.