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Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia - Friday Night in San Francisco: Artist Transcriptions (Piano-Guitar Series)

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If you are looking for a good musical transcription of Friday night in San Francisco concert played by Al di Meola, Paco de Lucia and John Mclaughlin this is the book for you. In general I think that it is a great book, specially for those who are really into that music. Although most of the guitarist might be disapointed because there are not any guitar tablatures written, so it is sometimes really hard to read the notes, specialy those 32'nd ones. The transcription is very thorough, has a three seperate parts for every player and also contains chord progressions (rythem accompinent). In the book you will find everything you need to play all the five songs as long you are able to.

This book gives you a very pricise transcription of the famous "Friday Night in San Francisco" live show. It's incredible for almost any guitarist to have this book by hand, because, in my opinion, it is the most excellent acoustic session I've ever heard. One practical drawback is that there's no tabulature, but I think that it doesn't make any sense for a true professional. It's really great.

This recording is one of the most impressive acoustic guitar albums ever. If your a fan of any one of these virtuosos, you probably have it in your collection. I bought this because I've been playing guitar for 25+ years, and I wanted to see how certain pieces were played. The transcriptions are in sheet music, NOT tab, so keep that in mind if you're thinking about buying this book. The music transcriptions are correct, and its fun just to "read" along as the music is playing. There are transcriptions for all three guitarists in separate staves. Truly a challenge for any guitarist to learn these songs, and this book will show you what to do...the rest is up to the individual...

What's the point? No one is good enough to play the ridiculous songs in this book!