Beatles Sheet Music: Blind Blake (Book & CD) (Stefan Grossmans Early Masters of American Blues Guitar) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very good book/CD set, but beware that most of the songs transcribed in this set are incomplete transcriptions.Often you get only transcriptions of the breaks but nothing for the accompaniment for verses, intros, or outros.You will need to learn these yourself from listening to the CD with the origianl recordings, some of which are very scratchy.The quality of the transcriptions is quite good and the music is very accessible for a guitarist who can already fingerpick.The music is primarily in first position and the key of C although there are pieces in E and even in an open tuning.The transcriptions are given in both standard notation and tab; however, the tab is not quite standard.Rather than six lines for six strings, there is seven lines to form six spaces.Each space represents a string and the numeral indicating fret position is place on the space.This makes since from the point that the numbers are not obscured by the lines, but I found it hard to read simply because I am used to looking for the line and not the space.For me it was easier to read the standard notation.This may be a case like the qwerty keyboard, where an improvement is unwelcome even if it truly is an improvement.

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Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords & Lyrics. Blind Blake was the greatest ragtime blues guitarist to record during the 1920s. His guitar styles and techniques were unique, capturing the pulsating rhythms of the blues, ragtime, and jazz music of the period. Book includes a CD containing the original recordings of Blind Blake so you can hear the music as he performed it. Contents: Georgia Bound, Hey, Hey Daddy Blues, West Cost Blues, Diddie Wa Diddie, Chump Man Blues, Early Morning Blues, Come On Boys, Let's Do That Messin' Around, That Will Never Happen No More, Policy Blues, He's In The Jailhouse Now, Wabash Rag, Guitar Chimes, Blind Arthur's Breakdown, Sweet Jivin' Mama, Down In The Country, Police Dog Blues

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