Ramon Amira -> RE: Anyone seen this PDL book? (Aug. 10 2010 15:19:43)
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quote: But for anyone interested in tabs for Paco, this looks pretty good. http://www.samash.com/p/Paco%20de%20Lucia%20Guitar_-49962808 this book is completely and utterly terrible, most of the "transcriptions" bear no relation to the original pieces and those that do are in the wrong key. When I said that book "looks pretty good," all I had seen was a picture of the cover, and I had no idea what the contents were, merely that it had Paco solos with tabs. Now that you have described the contents, it's exactly as I have seen in many other cases, where whoever did the transcribing didn't know flamenco. Also I have several books of sheet music transcriptions of Sabicas solos, and the imbecile who transcribed them did exactly the same thing you mention – transcribed it from music that had been played with a cejilla on the third or fourth fret, and so instead of the proper key, you get something like five sharps, etc., and I can think of things I'd rather do than sight read and transpose. The book I found in Sam Ash has the following – I'll give it by palo and also by title in case anyone is looking for something in particular that they know by name. Incidentally, it turns out that the book does have tabs along with sheet music. The book is "La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucia – Partituras - Mel Bay Publications – Publication #MB20983 Barrio la Vina – Alegrias De Madrugo – Siguiriyas Farruca – no title Impetu – Mario Escudero's famous Bulerias Jerezana – Bulerias Llanto a Cadiz – Tientos Punta del Faro – Bulerias Punta Umbra – Fandango de Huelva I was in between lessons, and barely had time to copy this down, so I didn't get a chance to play through any of this, and so I can't comment on the contents, but all of them are fairly long, so there's a lot of music there. Whenever I can find the time I'll go back and play through the book and give a report. Ramon
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