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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guitar Tab Notation - 9 great songs,
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This review is from: Jim Croce -- The Greatest Hits: Authentic Guitar TAB (Sheet music)
This book is in Guitar Tab (Tabulature) notation and does NOT read like a standard music book - be warned! I am NOT a tab reader, the title did not indicate that the book was in Tab, so take the layout comments with a grain of salt. There are 9 very popular Croce songs in this collection, and they are the ones you would expect to be there. In back of the front cover is a key to the more arcane Tab notations found later in the book. Some of the basic stuff wasn't covered, but seems to be pretty obvious to anyone who does chording and can sight read a melody line. The chord names are printed above the music, without chord boxes, as the fingering is covered by the Tab notation. Tab looks like the strings of a guitar streched horizontally under the lines of music. Numbers on the strings indicate which fret position you are supposed to cover (but not which finger to do it with.) There is a second G clef stanza with the chorded notes indicated on it. The melody line also includes the harmony parts, and notes on when to use them, such as 'second verse only', etc. The arrangements are very rich, and sometimes include alternate guitar parts for different verses. Any guitar solo spots are also detailed, making this an excellent book to learn songs from. Since there are so many lines of performance information with each line of melody, they only get 2-4 lines of music on a page. That means the book is much bigger than you would assume from the number of songs included. It also means there is a LOT of page turning going on. This book is geared at teaching you the songs, and is not suited to performing from. The lyrics for all verses are included under the musical notation, with none of those annoying blocks of text for extra verses at the ends of the music. I don't do Tab, but I would rate this book an 8.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Genius Tragically Cut Short But Great Transcriptions of His Classics Survive Here!,
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This review is from: Jim Croce -- The Greatest Hits: Authentic Guitar TAB (Sheet music)
I have bought and thrown away too many guitar tab books to remember but I have to say that this is one of the best ones that I've ever encountered. The book binding is done well enough so that the pages don't come apart easily despite frequent use. I know because I have committed tunes like "Photographs and Memories" and "These Dreams" to memory using this very well and accurately transcribed collection of songs with little trouble. Kudos to you, Yoichi Arakawa, for an excellent job of transcribing. Arakawa even indicates for you the tracks that are capoed and I like his manner of transcribing capoed pieces which makes it easy for me to understand unlike other versions where the transcriber inexplicably decides to tab as if the capo is already on. This confuses me and I much prefer the tab shown as if the capo is not on and then I can work my way up the fret myself once I put the capo on. In any case, mostly it's Guitar 2 that uses the capo on the tracks here with Guitar 1 only concerned for the track "I Got A Name" which is probably because Jim didn't write this one and so needed to adjust to his singing voice. The other tracks that he himself wrote only had Maury on Guitar 2 with the lead and harmony work using the capo.It is indeed rare to find such accuracy in tab books like this and so I have to give credit where credit is due. Playing the Guitar 1 part along with the cd for "Photographs and Memories" was a breeze because of this for example. For tracks like "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" the piano part is thoughtfully transcribed for guitar. All tracks come in both Tab and standard notation which is useful as I use the tab to know the fingering and I use the standard notation at the same time to learn the timing of the notes. Maury's guitar solos and harmonic playing along with Jim's is also very accurately transcribed. The tracks transcribed are: 1) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown 2) These Dreams 3) Time In A Bottle 4) Dreamin' Again (love those natural harmonics on the 12th fret) 5) I Got A Name 6) I'll Have To Say I Love You In a Song 7) It Doesn't Have To Be That Way 8) Operator 9) Photographs and Memories 10)You Don't Mess Around With Jim in that order. These represent a very good sampling of Jim's best ever work and so this authentic guitar-tab edition is a real treat for fans of folk music who want to expand their repertoire. Very highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For a Guitar Player - Excellent,
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This review is from: Jim Croce -- The Greatest Hits: Authentic Guitar TAB (Sheet music)
This book has every last note of the songs.. Usually you find Jim Croce Music with just one guitar transcriptions.... Having both guitar parts makes it poerfect... Now if a publisher would get around to doing the rest of his songs this way
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