Van Halen-The Ultimate Song Pages (Guitar Tablature) [Paperback]

Van Halen (Author), Aaron Stang (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2007 | Series: Ultimate Song Pages

Arranged For Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords, Lyrics & Chord Frames. Includes songs recorded with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. 115 songs by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group. Contents: 1984, 316, 5150, A.F.U. (Naturally Wired), Aftershock, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love, Amsterdam, And The Cradle Will Rock.., Apolitical Blues, Atomic Punk, Ballot Or The Bullett, Baluchitherium, Beautiful Girls, Best Of Both Worlds, Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now), Big Fat Money, Black And Blue, Bottoms Up!, Cabo Wabo, Can't Get This Stuff No More, Can't Stop Lovin' You, Cathedral, Could This Be Magic?, D.O.A., Dance The Night Away, Dancing In The Street, Dirty Movies, Dirty Water Dog, Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do), The Dream Is Over, Dreams, Drop Dead Legs, Eruption, Everybody Wants Some, Feel Your Love Tonight, Feelin', Feels So Good, Finish What Ya Started, Fire In The Hole, Fools, From Afar, The Full Bug, Get Up, Girl Gone Bad, Good Enough, Hang 'Em High, Hear About It Later, Hot For Teacher, House Of Pain, How Many Say I, Humans Being, Ice Cream Man, I'll Wait, I'm The One, In A Simple Rhyme, In 'N' Out, Inside, Intruder, It's About Time, Jamie's Cryin', Josephina, Judgement Day, Jump, Learning To See, Light Up The Sky, Little Dreamer, Little Guitars (Intro), Little Guitars , Loss Of Control, Love Walks In, Man On A Mission, Me Wise Magic, Mean Streets, Mine All Mine, Neworld, Not Enough, On Fire, Once, One Foot Out The Door, One I Want, Outta Love Again, Panama, Pleasure Dome, Poundcake, Pretty Woman (Oh), Primary, Push Comes To Shove, Respect The Wind, Right Now, Romeo Delight, Runaround, Runnin' With The Devil, Secrets, The Seventh Seal, Sinner's Swing! So This Is Love?, Somebody Get Me A Doctor, Source Of Infection, Spanish Fly, Spanked, Sucker In A 3 Piece, Summer Nights, Sunday Afternoon In The Park, Take Me Back (Deja Vu), Take Your Whiskey Home, Top Jimmy, Top Of The World, Tora! Tora!, Unchained, Up For Breakfast, When It's Love, Where Have All

Product Details

• Paperback: 1192 pages
• Publisher: Alfred Publishing (March 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739044931
• ISBN-13: 978-0739044933
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Van Halen Phones Home, February 27, 2008

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Silver Bullet (COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Van Halen-The Ultimate Song Pages (Guitar Tablature) (Paperback)

When you hear or read that this book is a lot like a phone book, believe it. It is about the same size and thickness as my phone book. Van Halen's "Ultimate Song Pages" are far from the ultimate, at least as I would picture it. The tab is printed on the same paper that your friendly white pages are printed on, and with the same kind of visual resolution. That being said, it is often difficult to make out the difference between a 6, an 8, a 3, or a 0. This can make reading and interpreting this tablature an exercise in supreme patience, as one goes through the various possible interpretations of poorly resolved numbers to find the correct fingerings by ear. A book of this magnitude, an all-inclusive tome of Van Halen's original songs, could have been much better. Compared with the Beatles Scores -- which are entire scores and not just guitar tab; which are presented in an even smaller volume than "Van Halen"; which are far easier to read due to the higher quality of paper used to print upon; which includes more songs than "Van Halen A - Z" in a single, more compact volume -- "The Ultimate Song Pages" falls far short of the mark. To its credit, "Van Halen" does have guitar tablature for all of VH's original songs and the diligent guitarist could use this book to work out all the guitar parts for all the songs. The transcriptions seem to be fairly accurate as far as I can tell. For most guitarists, working out these parts and playing them fluently is a bit of work anyway, so the challenge in figuring out just what is printed on the pages of this volume is probably a good learning exercise in and of itself. I have serious concerns as to how well this book will stand up to the rigorous use it will take for most of us mere mortals to play like Edward. The book is just made cheaply and it looks chintzy to boot. Buy it if you love Van Halen and can't afford to buy tab books for each of their record releases. If you can afford to do that, stay away from this book. If you can't, or if you have plenty of money like I do and you are simply curious, then by all means, buy this book. I would give it 5 stars for content, 1 star for presentation, and the average of those two scores places it a solid 3 stars. Better paper, printing, binding would make this a solid 5 all the way 'round. But that's just my opinion...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Every single VH song !!!, October 24, 2007

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R. Diaz (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This amazing book features the complete guitar TAB for every single Van Halen album (1186 pages). This thing is huge. I don't have the skills to play most songs yet but maybe at some point i'll be able to. This is a must-have for every true Van Halen fan. The only reason i didn't give 5 stars is the size, let me explain. Imagine yourself flippping through a phone book, that's what it feels like, the pages are a little bit smaller (8x11)than your regular guitar tab book (9x12).
It should have been split in two books. Also the song You're No Good is not included due to copyright restrictions. It is a great buy, you will not be dissapointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's all here, June 9, 2009

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M. J. Piercewright "Caduta.Massi" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a huge book, several inches thick and it's all in here. The print is a little small but how else would they fit it all in. Several years worth of learning in one volume. I'm glad i have it.