Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (Transcribed Scores) Review

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(More customer reviews)I expected much more from Hal Leonard. This book is terrible. It does have guitar, bass, and drum parts, but don't be fooled. Instead of using the tab notation that all guitar players know and understand, they completely reinvent it. They use various letters of the alphabet to represent different techniques. It wouldn't be so bad if they at least used the letters that the name of the technique actually starts with (eg. "b" for bend). Well, that would make too much sense. Instead they use "c" for a bend, "qc" is a slight bend, "u" for pre-bend and "d" for release...you get the picture. Does that make any sense? Maybe I'm missing something, as I cannot for the life of me understand why. I know this sounds knitpicky, but when I try to read through a piece, it's pretty confusing and annoying; and I am a professional musician that's played for 20 years. I guess I could get used to it after a while, but I don't want to, nor to I plan to. Why fix what is not broken...they should have just used standard tab notation. In addition, I was working through "Cliffs of Dover" and the fingerings they use in the tab are almost completely worthless. My guess is that a skilled guitar player did not come up with the fingerings. The notes are right, but there are much easier ways to play some of this...and I didn't want to arrange the piece to make it playable, but I guess if I'm using this book I'll have to. On the next cold winter night, this book is kindling.

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Note-for-note transcriptions for every instrument used on every song. Includes: Ah Via Musicom * Cliffs of Dover * Desert Rose * East Wes * Forty Mile Town * High Landrons * Nothing Can Keep Me from You * Righteous * Song for George * Steve's Boogie * and Trademark. Includes tab.

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