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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN num: 9780634011313
ISBN number: 0634011316
Label: Hal Leonard Corporation
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 72
Printing Date: September 01, 2001
Publishing house: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Studio: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Learn and explore the music of one of the most respected and pioneering jazz guitar players of our time. This book/CD pack provides a hands-on analysis of 13 great performances: Affirmation * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Body Talk * The Borgia Stick * Breezin' * C-Smooth * Clockwise * The Cooker * Easy Living * So What * Stormy Weather * Take Five * This Masquerade. The CD includes full-band examples of all the exercises.
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Hello Folks....Unfortunately you will never find perfect transcriptions on Jazz Guitarists especially this one on George Benson. The transcritpions are somewhat inaccurate. For instance, for the Affirmation Intro there are mistakes on the tablature for the beginning 1st measure. The notes are not at the location specified in the F# Phyrgian Mode. I hope I'm not the only one that notices this. This is my observation so far and the chords for Bm7 are not accurate either. Guitar transcritpions are only used as an study aid and not for copying the artist style note for note.
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I am writing this review, because the review of the guy who's gotten a broken CD is misleading in my opinion. now the book has fewer stars than it deserves and this is unfair to Wolf Marshall who did a great job.
I received the book a few days ago and i am already into it.
Wolf Marshall's transcription books really diserve praise. The book features a nice selection of songs, the transcriptions are extremely accurate and it comes with a CD of Marshall playing the transcriptions. The solos are in both standard and TAB notation.
If you want to take your jazz guitar soloing to the subsequent level, transcriptions and not scales are the way to go in my opinion, and this book really offers you an arsenal of new devices that you can incorporate into your own soloing. you have to understand basic jazz theory of course.
Fazit: Highly accurate useable transcriptions AND a CD that really helps to speed up the learning process for in my opinion few money considering the amount of work that went into this.
Recommended.
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This is a fairly accurate transcription of good George Benson guitar work. He is one of the best guitar players, playing with a flat pick, that's ever lived and his solos are tough and nearly impossible to figure out note for note. (They are probably easier for George to play than the rest of us because he made them up.) But this book does a good job of bringing us much closer to accurate perfection in reproducing what the guy actually is playing. As I am a Benson afficiando myself, have listened to this stuff (and tried to play) since the 1970's and have the CD/mp3 slow downer software one could debate a few notes here and there. To be fair, George does have quite a few "ghost" notes that are really soft or don't sound out all the way. After all, he does play very fast and he is after all improvising (making it up on the spot). SO you can't always copy that exactly to the "T". I would like to see a book done on George Benson's most outstanding work (from a jazz improv view) "White Rabbit". I may even do it myself sometime but it is quite time consuming to transcribe live music. But all in all this is a great book to have in your collection to show you how George Benson likely does the things he does. I've seen a few people (myself included when I was a teen-ager) who can sort of "fake" George Benson solos and his style. But this book gives you a clue of how to sound like him and gives you a reference that allows you to endeavor to play his solos with some certain degree of accuracy without having to "fake" it.
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Wolf Marshall has been industriously turning out transcriptions and re-recordings of major jazz guitarists' soli for about three years now. "Best of George Benson" is one of his early efforts in this vein, and has since been joined by works on Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Grant Green and Joe Pass.
The book is balanced roughly equally between Benson's early recordings and his later CTI and commercial career. The early studies include the "Easy Living" chord solo from "The New Boss Guitar of...," "Clockwise" and "Stormy Weather" from "It's Uptown," "The Cooker" and "The Borgia Stick" theme from "The George Benson Cookbook," and "Billie's Bounce" from "Giblet Gravy." The CTI phase of his career represented in this book and recording includes "So What" from "Beyond the Blue Horizon," "Body Talk" from the album of the same title, and "Take Five" from "Bad Benson." "Breezin'," "This Masquerade," and "Affirmation" are all from 1976's "Breezin'." The book closes (somewhat incongruously) with "C-Smooth" from 1998's "Standing Together."
The transcriptions are clearly printed, meticulously detailed, and annotated by Wolf Marshall, who draws upon years of transcription and guitar performance experience to discuss departures from conventional chord changes, unusual passages, and linkages to past and contemporary jazz musicians. The transcriptions typically include the introductions and heads of the tunes as well as Benson's solos. Marshall's choices of material scruple to adhere mostly to Benson's more important work while giving a chronological overview of Benson's evolution. In this light it's easy to see why there's such a focus on "Breezin'"- arguably Benson's most important album in terms of his own career, and also possibly the single most influential album of the Benson oeuvre - even though most guitar nuts might prefer Benson's exciting explorations of the early 70s (even those from other leaders' albums - it's a shame licensing for transcriptions doesn't apparently extend to albums by Freddie Hubbard). The inclusion of "C-Smooth" from 22 years after "Breezin'" seems almost an afterthought. One can almost hear Marshall saying "...and now he's doing this..." but without much evolutionary context, it's not as appreciable, perhaps. Still, there are limits to what both media and market will accept, and I am very grateful to have acess to as much insight as has been granted here.
The recording is beautifully (and very clearly) done by a small group led by Marshall, who does an admirable job of replicating the early frenetic Benson of "...Cookbook" as well as the comparatively mellow Benson of "Breezin'." The audio has been mixed with the guitar to one side so that the CD may be used as a play-along as well as an audio reference.
All in all, this is really wonderful work, documenting as it does the uniquely American art form of jazz guitar, and helping its legacy inform the future. I look forward to other and forthcoming volumes in Wolf Marshall's series.
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The book is great the CD was damaged So be careful I didn't use the book until it was too late for a refund or exchange (30) days
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