Private Investigations - Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler (Private Investigations Tab) (Paperback)

~ Dire Straits (Author), Mark Knopfler (Author)

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Product Description

A great retrospective featuring 22 transcriptions, including: Brothers in Arms * Calling Elvis * Going Home * Money for Nothing * Private Investigations * Romeo and Juliet * Sailing to Philadelphia * So Far Away * Sultans of Swing * Tunnel of Love * Walk of Life * What It Is * and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1846094380
• ISBN-13: 978-1846094385
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #277,148 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but not perfect, March 6, 2009

By	J. Dollak (Charlottesville, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To be honest, I haven't picked my way through too much of this book. I just sat down and played through Walk of Life, and that was correct and informative. I started to play Darling Pretty, and found two errors during the intro. These were unusual mistakes. In both of them, the standard notation was correct, but either the chord or the tab was in error. In one case, the chord was supposed to be A/C#, and the # was left off. The other one had an F# played on the high E string during an A chord.
It's rare that I find obvious errors in tab books, so this stands out.
However, there are some benefits to this book - the spacing is great. They've picked a very enjoyable and easy-to-read font for printing the book, so it's very easy to learn it by sight. This is a huge, huge benefit over older transcriptions of Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing.