B.B. King and Eric Clapton - Riding with the King (Guitar Recorded Versions) Review

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(More customer reviews)When you've got Eric Clapton and B. B. King handing off songs to each other, you've got twice the value of most normal blues songs.And this book puts out double the value that way.Just flip this one open to DAYS OF OLD and watch these two six-string storytellers weave the tapestry tight on this shuffle.If you'd like to "see how it's done", then pick up this book.

To me, the only thing that could make this any better would for the album to have included my two favorite guitarists - Carlos Santana and Henry Garza of Los Lonely Boys - in a four way demonstration of skill; and, of course, for this book to then have the four-way view of the action on stage!

Pick up a copy - this is a good one.

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In this first-ever collaboration, Slowhand meets Lucille to jam on 12 tunes. Features note-for-note transcriptions of King classics, blues standards and new songs, including: Come Rain or Come Shine * Days of Old * Help the Poor * Hold On I'm Coming * I Wanna Be * Key to the Highway * Marry You * Riding with the King * Ten Long Years * Three O'Clock Blues * When My Heart Beats like a Hammer * Worried Life Blues.

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No Doubt / Tragic Kingdom (GTR & BASS TAB) (Guitar Recorded Version) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is wonderful.It contains all the notes and music needed to perform the songs of a great group still on the rise.With having vocal, guitar and piano, anyone along with myself can be able to perform the songs easily, and sound like a professional.Yes, it may seem that a five startrating is a bit over-the-top, but as the guidelines go for songbooks, thisone is made to sit at the top of the pile.Unfortunately, I have not foundany other songbooks for the group of No Doubt, but I'm sure, in due time,there will be more as this group takes it's place on the rock world.Thisis a good book for anyone into music.It gives wonderful pratice also toanyone who is learning how to sing or play an instrument.To sum it up, Isuggest anyone get this book, it's definately worth the paper it's printedon.

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Matching folio to their break-through album, including: Spiderwebs * Just a Girl * Happy Now? * Don't Speak * You Can Do It * and more.

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Finale 2010 Academic Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this product to help arrange music pieces for a small plucked string ensemble. Some in the group don't read notation. This software, with a couple of clicks, converts notation into Tab so quickly I had to do it twice just to see if it was real. Very happy.

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The best tools are designed by the people who use them. Introducing Finale 2010 - theworld standard in music notation software. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-qualitysheet music that plays back with world-class sounds. Finale continues to lead the way, helping you reach perfection faster. - Streamlined user interface is more efficient, intuitive, and consistent - Setup Wizard configures your score beautifully in seconds. - Enter your music into Finale using a MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, mouse, mic, or scanner. - Scan existing sheet music directly into Finale. From there you can change the key, edit, and save as a Finale file. - Linked Parts - intelligently links your score and parts to save you time. - More than 300 customizable and printable Music Education Worksheets. - Video Support - import video, plus send and display SMPTE time code. - TempoTap™ - conduct your own tempo changes. - Playback - here are just a few reasons why Finale's sound is unsurpassed: - Record or import an audio track for unprecedented realism. - More than 350 world-class Garritan instrument sounds - and more. - More than 100 sounds from the acclaimed Tapspace Virtual Drumline. - Human Playback® makes your music sound like live musicians are playing it - even if you entered your notes with a mouse! - Integrated Garritan Aria player. - Full support for VST/AU instruments AND effects. - Powerful Mixer (real-time control of volume, panning, patch, and more). - Save Audio Files (including .MP3) to create CDs or save to an iPod. - Document Styles let you instantly personalize the appearance of new documents. - Colored Noteheads and integrated Boomwhackers tuned percussion tube sounds.

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Guide to Standardized Drumset Notation Review

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(More customer reviews)WOW - I should have looked my own book up here much earlier. To make a few comments:

Insufficiently Authoritative?? - that hurt! I have a DMA in percussion performance from Indiana University. I am the Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Arizona. I have a number of works published: over a dozen musical compositions, three books, and over 400 published articles. This book was the result of over two years of research for my DMA document. The entire document and rationale of why certain recommendations were made, was over 900 pages long. I honestly feel that my background and research makes me an authoritative figure on this topic. I started writing music calligraphy back in 1973, and have worked with computer-based notation since Professional Composer came out on the Mac in 1984.

These recommendations were not decided by some arbitrary means. The claim that these recommendations are contrary to standard practice is simply wrong. This book was created by making a very thorough analysis of the notation used in over 200 drumset examples, both using precise notation - such as actual transcriptions and drumset method books, and improvisatory notation - such as big band and studio drum charts. In addition, over 25 books on contemporary notational standards were analyzed in respect to drumset notation. The final recommendations were nothing more than an acceptance of what is currently being done the most. HOWEVER, some recommendations were made in order to help drumset notation work for a small 5-piece kit, or a kit the size of Terry Bozzio's!

"Theta" claims that some of the instructions are "absurd", but please keep in mind that requirements change depending on what the composer is trying to do. For a short example, having one cross-stick rimshot on the snare is an easy notational example - Theta suggests using an "X" on the snare space. That's fine, but what if you want to use that same technique on a tom tom? Using the "X" for that technique now means that it can easily be confused with the cymbal. Not a big problem if you've only using two cymbals, but what if your kit includes 8 toms and 8 cymbals. Then the book's recommended notation makes much more sense.

Concerning the statement that the "standardization" has yet to be implemented - I put forward the FACT that the book has been adopted by: The Percussive Arts Society and the PAS Publishers Committee, Hal Leonard Publishing, Alfred Publishing, Studio 4 Publishers, Meredith Music Publications, Modern Drummer Magazine, Drum! Magazine; as well as the Finale and Sibelius notation programs - to name just a few influential organizations. Hell, I wrote the section in the Sibelius manual for drumset notation. I was also a beta tester for Finale for over two years, working exclusively on their drumset notation capabilities.

To make a comment to Max Parish's suggestion to use "my own Guide", is exactly the reason why this research was done in the first place! So that everyone didn't create their own notation from scratch. The book also goes so much further than simply recommending the proper line or space for a particular instrument. The main purpose was.... Here's something that works for every type of musical situation, let's just all adopt it and we'll be much better off.

If you're looking for a book that HAS been and CONTINUES to be a standard for drumset notation, then this is the book. Check it out and you'll agree.

Here's what Peter Erskine said about the book: "...I hope and recommend that ALL composers, arrangers, authors of pedagogical studies and drummers read, digest and use this long-awaited standard of drumset notation. Norm Weinberg has done contemporary music a great service with this book..."

Here's what Ron Spagnardi (founder of Modern Drummer) said about the book: "After much research, Norm Weinberg has carefully refined and clarified the current, most common methods of drumset notation. If everyone who writes for drumset adopts these guidelines, the ambiguities inherent in much current drumset notation can be alleviated."

Here's what Joe LaBarbera (one of Jazz' top composers and arrangers) said about the book: "This book is a must for all arrangers and orchestrators. I wish this text had been around years ago when I was trying to make sense of the collective, 'hand-me-down' drum notation of the day. Let's have a big drum roll for Norm Weinberg!"

Here's what George Gaber (percussion performer, educator, and PAS Hall of Fame recipient) said about the book: "Authors, publishers, composers and performers are now liberated to communicate in a common notational language. What a triumph to release us from the 'medieval' practice of slash marks with the term ad lib."

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One of the biggest challenges for anyone attempting to notate a drumset part is that there is no absolute "standard" in terms of what makes up a drumset. Through this book, the Percussive Arts Society provides guidelines to aid performers, teachers, students, composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music engravers in producing clear drumset parts for a variety of uses. These guidelines cover the majority of situations and provide basic principles to help people arrive at logical solutions to unique circumstances. Topics covered include: general notation, drums, cymbals, noteheads, voicing, improvisational notation, and more.

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Fingerpicking Praise (Guitar Solo) Review

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(More customer reviews)Many books marketed to guitarists - especially Christian music - claim to be "arranged for guitar" and turn out to be just lead sheets with chords, also known as a "fake book," not really arranged for any particular instrument.This book is a shining exception.The book is truly arranged for guitar.The arrangments are at once sonically tasteful and very playable.The notation is generously suplemented by realistic fingerings, and the tab is clearly written by a real guitarist and not computer-generated.The print and typography are also quite clear and easy to read.

For a student guitarist who is in limbo between the beginner and intermediate levels, these arrangements would make excellent learning pieces that could be confidently played in or out of church.For the advanced guitarist, these pieces could nearly be sight-read but sound good enough to be pleasing to an audience accustomed to advanced musicianship.

I'm a bivocational music leader and have been using this book in our worship services.I plan to purchase "Fingerpicking Hymns" in hopes that its quality will be similar to that of this book.

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These arrangements are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. 15 modern worship classics are included: Above All * Breathe * Draw Me Close * Give Thanks * He Is Exalted * Jesus, Name Above All Names * Open the Eyes of My Heart * Shout to the Lord * You Are My King (Amazing Love) * and more.

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