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It certainly was quite a common practice to change keys, leave out solos or instrumental sections and to create the instrumental part by duplicating the vocal line with some chord tones rather than trying to re-create the actual playing. All are surprisingly different in what or how they transcribe something. I have four different arrangements of 'Astronomy Domine' published over the decades, two for piano, two for guitar. One of these days I'll be able to play the bass part for Way of Life at the proper tempo. Here's a great collection of Gentle Giant tabs, major respect for the people that took on the job of transcribing them.

The Relayer songbook is really frustrating, it's one step above chord charts.

I have a Yes book with all of TFTO and some other pieces, but again, none of the instrumental bits are included and the transcriptions are very simplified. Now, not so much! :) BTW, I finally cancelled that check after a year, it never got cashed, I think Keith could have used the money at that point! They're very accurate and I used to be able to play the bass and guitar parts for the whole suite. They're very well done but have some odd touches like having a bunch of key changes in the guitar solo section at the end of First Impression Part One which are unnecessary because it's all in Ab anyway (I think it was done to avoid having a lot of accidentals). I'm at work and don't have them at hand, but back in the late 80's I sent a check to an address in Santa Monica as payment for some transcriptions of KE9 done by a guy whose name I can't recall. Again, it's fairly accurate but it doesn't have any of the solos or bass lines and at points is close to a 'let's take the vocal line and build the keyboard part out of that instead of what the actual part is' piano reduction.

Jammit for guitar series#

Both those and From The Beginning have shown up in guitar tab magazines over the years, I have all 3 and they're very accurate (love playing the guitar solo from From the Beginning).ĮLP also released a Tarkus songbook, it was supposed to be the first of a series of the albums up to and including Love Beach, but that never happened.

are pretty worthless as they don't transcribe the guitar parts at all. The problem is that they are what I call 'piano reductions', even most of the stuff with no 6-string guitar is simplified. One is called Antholgy, it's from the early 80's. But the crazy thing with those is that the KE music is fully transcribed and detailed while the Greg Lake songs make no sense whatsoever. That said, I do have a few ELP books that are awesome. I'm sure they lured some grad student from Berklee or somewhere and just threw albums at them and said 'We need these transcribed by Wednesday!' :lolīut whoever thought it would be great creating transcriptions for bands like Yes that have their songs stripped of all the instrumental parts and anything not featuring vocals should be water-boarded. Yup, I've got two PF books that cover the Syd era and there are songs in completely different keys in them. riff wasn't quite accurate, and the thing I thought was hilarious was that they notated the intro to the Ummagumma version of Astronomy Domine, identifying it as 'synth arranged for guitar' (uh, that's not a synth). I think at least one of the songs was in the wrong key, I know the Set The Controls. They leave all the instrumental stuff in Echoes, basically just notating the vocal sections. I've also got a Pink Floyd tab book that, leaves out all the guitar solos. The gave you enough information that you could work up your own arrangement that may not be true to the original, but at least you could make the song recognizable someone who maybe knew the record. I can read music just well enough to figure out the Aqualung riff from that book, too. None of the unreleased songs are in it, and Thick As A Brick is just the first 3 and a half minutes or whatever, but I did at least give me the chords for stuff like One White Duck and Moths. I've got a piano/guitar/vocal arrangement book for the 'edited highlights' CD that was put out at the same time as 20 Years Of Jethro Tull. Also have a '70's Deep Purple Machine Head/Fireball book.same thing.arranged for piano and not worth the paper they were printed on. For a guitarist, learning anything from THAT book was a lesson in frustration. ha.I still have a 1970's publication of a Fragile/TYA songbook arranged for piano.