- ISBN13: 9781569220801
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
50 pieces from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras arranged, edited and fingered by Joseph Harris. Includes notes about the composers and each period, and performance suggestions. All pieces are in standard notation and tablature. ... More >>
50 Classical Guitar Pieces - In Tablature and Standard Notation
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SINCE ORDERING THE PLAY GUITAR BY EAR BOOK,FOUR MONTHS AGO, I CAN PLAY AS GOOD AS ANY OF THE BOYS!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Conventional musical notation is actually a pretty effective BARRIER to understanding music; any technique, such as tabulature, which communicates the steps necessary to make music is a good thing. However, traditional musicologists and musicians are becoming increasingly defensive as their turf gets eroded by technology and uncoventional techniques. They are feeling left behind as things like MIDI sequencers and digital composing push music theory into new ground and leave traditionalists in the dust. Don’t listen to them! (at least, listen only to their music, not their protests). A song that sounds good when learned from tabulature is a song that sounds good.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t think this book “sux “, at least I tried to see if it did, and it did not. That was not an advertised feature so I won’t consider this a bad thing.
Yes there is tablature. Does this make the music any less useful? I think not. If you can read music notation well enough to play the music presented, then do so. I can’t do it well enough or fast enough to suite me. Some day I will. In the meantime I use tablature and progress in my guitar playing technique. Granted, my sight reading and music writing does not improve when I use tablature, but that is my choice.
I learn to love music, all kinds, using tablature, then as I progress music theory and music notation make more sense to me. Now I’ve decided that I want to learn to read standard music notation. No harm at all in that course.
Not all who play the guitar play in orchestras or bands that require notation. I play for personal enjoyment, not for the edification of people who judge music by the format it is published in.
A similar concept can be seen in the medieval catholic church, where latin (not even the original language the bible was written in!) was the only language that the bible was available in. Most people could not read, and those that could, could not read latin (for the most part). Does that make the bible appropriate for priests only (personally I think so, but my point meant to say NO)?
I liked the pieces presented in this book. They were easy to play (for the most part) and stimulated my interest in classical guitar playing (I think that was the point of the book no?).
One of the disadvantages of not reading music notation (well enough or not at all) is that I cannot accurately reproduce the music without having heard it before. I can approximate and I sometimes luck out and it sounds as it should. Here is my only suggestion for this book–Notation and a CD should be packaged together. This way you can learn to play the music properly. The alternative of course is to learn to read the music notation which would give you most of what you need to play it without the CD. The tablature would then only be used then for finger positioning suggestions from Mr Harris.
Rating: 5 / 5
first off about 80% of the songs are one page, thats right one page, which means you get the skeleton version of 80% of the songs, plus most of the songs are lame and boring, i wanted to find some great stuff that i would hear on Pepe Romero’s Guitar Solos, but no it’s just a bunch of generic guitar songs with no depth. I know my classical guitar music from pepe romero to segovia, so i’m not just ranting and raving here. Does anyone know where i can get tab for songs like: mallorca, op. 202 (barcarola)??
Rating: 2 / 5
My brother loves this gift. Good to find a guitar book that has standard and tablature!
Rating: 4 / 5