Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced Review

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(More customer reviews)This book from the Hendrix family company, "Experience Hendrix," and distributed by sheet music specialist Hal Leonard, contains signature notation for the treble and bass clefs, and, most importantly, tablature notation for the bass clef.Signature notation uses the standard notes and symbols one see on most written music.The advantage is that it conveys rhythm as well as notes; the disadvantage is that it takes a while to learn, especially on fairly complex songs.Tablature (or "Tab"), on the other hand, explicitly shows you what frets to play on each string to get the desired notes-but it tells you little or nothing about rhythm and loses some other nuances of signature.

My own opinion is that tablature is a great invention for those who don't want to wait until they learn to read signature before they play the songs they really love.Furthermore, you can get a technical description of the rhythm from the bass signature notation written right above the bass tab notation.I was playing notes from "The Wind Cries Mary" very soon after reading the tab.

There are some problems, however, because tab simply can't convey as much as signature. I suspect also that those who have studied the more traditional signature notation are musicians more likely to have received music lessons and other more formal and more intense personal instruction.A simple tab book is not a substitute for these.

Still, this is a great addition to more formal aspects of learning an instrument.I'll play scales for an hour, and then try my hand at the bass lines of some of my favorite Hendrix songs.It helps if you know the music already, or have a CD nearby (a CD is NOT included with the book).Also, the book would be much better if it included more than one page on how to read tab!Several pages with additional tab conventions and simple examples are needed here.On an absolute scale, this book deserves a 4; however, because of the paucity of tab books for bass guitar, and because this contains such sublime, historic music, the book merits a 5. As you might imagine, the beginning bassist will have more luck with the slower songs, those that are more familiar, and those with bass lines that can be matched with the lyrics-it's more difficult to keep track of your bass line when you're playing underneath a Hendrix solo. Highly recommended as a supplementary book, especially for the beginning player.

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This matching drum folio to the legendary album includes 17 transcriptions: Are You Experienced? * Fire * Foxey Lady * Hey Joe * Highway Chile * Love or Confusion * Manic Depression * May This Be Love * Purple Haze * Red House * Remember * Stone Free * Third Stone from the Sun * The Wind Cries Mary * more.

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