Pink Floyd: The Wall, Guitar Tablature Edition [Paperback]

Roger Waters (Author), Pink Floyd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1992

25 songs from this legendary album: Another Brick in the Wall * Another Brick in the Wall, Part II * Another Brick in Wall Part III * Bring the Boys Back Home * Comfortably Numb * Don't Leave Me Now * Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do * Goodbye Blue Sky * Goodbye Cruel World * The Happiest Days of Our Lives * Hey You * In the Flesh? * Is There Anybody Out There? * Mother * Nobody Home * One of My Turns * Outside the Wall * Run like Hell * The Show Must Go On * Stop * The Thin Ice * The Trial * Vera * Waiting for the Worms * Young Lust.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Pink Floyd Music Publishers; Guitar Tablature edition (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825612675
• ISBN-13: 978-0825612671
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very accurate - at times too accurate, December 30, 2001

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Itamar Katz (Ramat-Gan, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pink Floyd: The Wall, Guitar Tablature Edition (Paperback)

All in all, a great tab book to a fantastic album; David Gilmour is really a fascinating player with a very unique style, and this book is a great way of learning about Gilmour's technique, and thus understand Pink Floyd as musicians as well as the guitar as an instrument much better. Some songs here are very easy to play, even for beginners, and others are more complicated, so it's better to start with the easier ones like 'Hey You', then build up to the more sophisticated riffs and solos.

The book is very accurate, and has few errors; but in that accuracy lies its biggest failing. Many times the transcriber made too much of an effort to put down every single sound on the album, and thus take small, almost unnoticable ticks and scratches and write them down as 'unpitched percussive notes'(i.e blocked notes). Those are very confusing and many times completely unnecessary. I played the Wall CD in full volume and still wasn't able to hear many of these notes (I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were gleeches in the recording which were removed during the CD remastering). Of the ones I did hear, I'm sure at least some were not intentional.

Bottom line: excellent book, but more for studying of Gilmour's playing than for actually playing the songs.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ++++++, October 13, 2005

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Ben Swofford (Oxford, OH USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pink Floyd: The Wall, Guitar Tablature Edition (Paperback)

This book is great to learning a different techinique of guitar playing - namely Gilmour style - but isn't the best if you're looking to play the licks just like in the album. This is in part because their isn't only one guitar part, despite the fact that there is but one guitarist (there is more than one track of guitar). And, as in any tablature book I have studied, the authors put in every detail that was played in a single song. I imagine they sit down and listen over and over to a song and find every little thing played. I wish that they wouldn't do this, because I think it's better for players to just know the basic things that are played, and then just jam.
But, I deffinetly recomend this for any aspiring guitarists, and those who are Floyd fans, obviously.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very accurate - at times too accurate, December 30, 2001

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Itamar Katz (Ramat-Gan, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pink Floyd: The Wall, Guitar Tablature Edition (Paperback)

All in all, a great tab book to a fantastic album; David Gilmour is really a fascinating player with a very unique style, and this book is a great way of learning about Gilmour's technique, and thus understand Pink Floyd as musicians as well as the guitar as an instrument much better. Some songs here are very easy to play, even for beginners, and others are more complicated, so it's better to start with the easier ones like 'Hey You', then build up to the more sophisticated riffs and solos.

The book is very accurate, and has few errors; but in that accuracy lies its biggest failing. Many times the transcriber made too much of an effort to put down every single sound on the album, and thus take small, almost unnoticable ticks and scratches and write them down as 'unpitched percussive notes'(i.e blocked notes). Those are very confusing and many times completely unnecessary. I played the Wall CD in full volume and still wasn't able to hear many of these notes (I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were glitches in the recording which were removed during the CD remastering). Of the ones I did hear, I'm sure at least some were not intentional.

Bottom line: excellent book, but more for studying of Gilmour's playing than for actually playing the songs.