Steely Dan: Guitar Anthology Review

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(More customer reviews)This book contains transcriptions to:
Aja
Bad Sneakers
Black Friday
Bodhisattva
Chain Lightning
Deacon Blues
Don't Take Me Alive
Gaucho
Green Earrings
Hey Nineteen
Josie
Kid Charlemagne
My Old School
Night By Night
Parker's Band
Peg
Pretzel Logic
Reelin' In the Years
Rikki Don't LoseThat Number
Time Out of Mind
These are the exact same songs as the out-of-print Best of Steely Dan book, from Hal Leonard, with the teal background and album repros on the cover. So if that's the book you wanted, you'll get the same stuff here.
Is it good? Oh, yeah, it's good. The transcriptions are painstakingly well done. They're also complete, unlike the "Steely Dan Complete" book's piano/guitar/vocal style book, which leaves out many an interlude and instrumental section.
The only problem with this book is that it isn't a Steely Dan Complete. There are at least two other guitar tab books that include a few other songs (and are missing some of what's in here); I wish there were a single volume or less overlap among the multiple volumes. For example, "Greatest Songs" for guitar has, in addition to the majority (but not all) of what's here, these songs:
Greatest Songs has, in addition:
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Haitian Divorce
Sign In Stranger
Throw Back the Little Ones
Another book, "Best of Steely Dan" (white cover with black line drawing), also includes "Third World Man." (Another consumate Carlton solo. Oh, my, God.) It may contain others not in one or both of the previously mentioned books; I can't find a contents list for "Best Of."

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Titles are: Aja
* Bad Sneakers
* Black Friday
* Bodhisattva
* Chain Lightning
* Deacon Blues
* Don't Take Me Alive
* Gaucho
* Green Earrings
* Hey Nineteen
* Josie
* Kid Charlemagne
* My Old School
* Night By Night
* Parker's Band
* Peg
* Pretezel Logic
* Reelin' in the Years
* Rikki Don't Lose That Number
* Time Out of Mind.

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Hal Leonard Steely Dan Complete Piano, Vocal, Guitar Songbook Review

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(More customer reviews)Well, I *am* a piano player and Steely Dan fan who bought this to see what the heck they are doing on some of these songs.If you're an intermediate piano player who is looking for melodies and a reasonably decent sketch of how the song goes, this is the book for you.If you're an advanced player, or a jazz fan, or want to know *exactly* what kind of chord voicings are being used, you might be disappointed on some songs.(Not all songs; some transcriptions are better than others.)The guitar chord listings are the most accurate -- if you follow those rather than the staff, and are familiar with jazz voicings, you can pretty much figure it out.I knew that going in, and I've still found the book worthwhile because figuring out all the A7+(b9) chords by ear gets old quick.

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All the songs from Can't Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstacy, Pretzel Logic Katy, Lied The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho - 62 songs in all! Titles include: Reelin' In The Years * Rikki Don't Lose That Number * Aja * Deacon Blues * Peg * Hey Nineteen.

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Steely Dan's Greatest Songs (Play-It-Like-It-Is) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is sheet music transcription at its laziest. Weak chords subtitute the complex originals, and none of the rythmic nuance chords are in there either. You will be disappointed if you think you will sound like Steely Dan learning the songs from this book.

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Note-for-note transcriptions of 15 trademark tunes: Aja * Bodhisattva * Chain Lightning * Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More * Don't Take Me Alive * Everyone's Gone to the Movies * Gaucho * Haitian Divorce * Hey Nineteen * Josie * My Old School * Pretzel Logic * Reeling in the Years * Sign in Stranger * Throw Back the Little Ones. Includes excerpts of interviews with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.

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