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Pink Floyd: The Wall, Guitar Tablature Edition

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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.

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.

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.

Roger Waters has done it again, one of the most amazing CDs in the history of Symphonic Rock, this book is very well designed illustrated and written, for all of you who play the electric guitar this book is a must. Includes all the songs from the double CD The Wall. and if you play the acoustic guitar, hey there are songs like "Hey You". I just got it and I it's amazing!
Comfortably numb matches the original version exactly, and nothing is more satisfying than being able to play pink Floyd solos. You got some things for Piano as well - like 'Nobody's home'. FUn to play, fun to sing, buy it you won't regret it.

The tab of The Wall, this was my first tab book, and at first I was blown away, it is advanced, and I was not. But after a while even a beginer can start to play a few songs. This book is very detailed and very good, although there are a few mistakes in the transposing this tab is for the most part very accurate and is a great place to start to understand the musical genius of Waters and the guitar stylings of Gilmore (or Gilmore-isms as I call them). That, to me, is the real purpose of tab,, and with Pink Floyd it is extremely important, this book captures that with both the tab, and the orriginal art work from the Wall. Waters and Gilmore are brillant,,--- buy this book.

Warning: The guitar tab notation is unreadable! While the ink quality was very sharp, the typesetting crams the guitar tab numbers together so they overlap each other wherever multiple strings are struck (chords, etc.). OK for the single note parts, but impractical to read otherwise. I am not even talking about print being too small or blurry...it is actually overlapping so each set of notes must be deciphered or guessed at in some cases!
Check out the page preview yourself at the bottom of page 26...it's like that throughout the book.
Too bad, because it's a great collection of songs...

I've seen many, many guitar tab books in my time and few come close to being as consistently accurate as this one. The only negative that I can see for this book is the binding which because it isn't of the spiral variety makes it difficult to play along to as the pages don't stay open unless you press down very hard on the page to try to make it stay which in turn leads to the pages coming off the spine which is beginning to happen to my copy at the "Comfortably Numb" page which I'm currently trying to commit to memory.

Otherwise, this is an excellent guitar tab book which is very accurate and the font is of a good size making it easier to read and play along with the cd. I also like the fact that even the non-guitar parts are frequently transcribed for guitar where relevant and in some parts even the symphonic parts are transcribed although without the tab which is normal and fine but the music notation and the chords are shown so that you can still play along if you want or if you play another instrument in addition to the guitar you can still follow along like in "Goodbye Cruel World", "Nobody Home", and "Bring The Boys Back Home"; very thoughtful indeed and it shows that the publisher actually understands his consumer with regards musicians using a book like this one. The first few pages of glossy, colour with photos of the band and the handwritten lyrics of the songs is also a nice touch.

Overall, if you overlook the difficulty with the binding this is a very good guitar tab book and one of my personal favourites.

My copy's print was so bad, it was not readable in areas. I sent mine back. I can't say anything about the accuracy of the tab.

Roger really out did himself with this album. Not the best from my point of view, but on the scale of things one of the best lyically in the world to date. Pink Floyd, with Dave Gilmours huge influence, has written the best 'story' album in history. The depth that Waters has gone into is just ....wow. The story of a boy called Pink Floyd along with the film is just a true image of what was waters and barret's life lead to. A wounderfull view into the world that is Pink Floyd. Listen to it, is the only thing I can say, and you will never turn your back from Pink Floyd

The appearance of the ad lead me to believe that this was the music CD set.
It was a paperback book. I tried to stop the purchase hours later after the
email confirmation revealed it was a book, but Amazon was no help. I refused
the delivery, and sent it back to the supplier unopened (at my expense), but
was still refunded only a less than half of the purchase price ("re-stocking";
nonsense). I appealed to the supplier, but no response. Will never do business
with "bookrackrh".

JF, New York