[LAU] Recommendations for good song books: Was: Sorry: Chord finder - Re: Take III

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 13:39 +0200, immanuel litzroth wrote:
> > Most of the beatles transcriptions I've seen out there are close to
> > worthless with the notable exceptions of
> 
> All notations and tabulations and chord notations usually are
> worthless :p ...
> 
> > 1) The Complete Scores --- white book by Hal Leonard which has most
> > everything
> > and is at least good enough for a basis for e.g. playing in a group
> > and tries to get 
> > capo's and retunings correct
> > 2) The Beatles to a Tee: http://www.to-a-tee.tv/
> > well researched, concerned with the guitar parts on about 1/3 of the
> > beatle catalogue.
> > Goes into questions of tunings, variable speed recording etc..
> > 3) This guy is doing a fantastic job at transcribing mostly the vocal
> > harmonies of the 
> > beatles but some other stuff too:
> > http://www.youtube.com/user/imcarrying
> 
> ... however, I suspect you know what you're writing and I'll take a look
> at your recommendations ASAP :).
> 
> > All the rest is useless... Yellow submarine in Gb -- really?
> > i
> 
> I don't care about the "basic", it should fit to my limited vocal
> abilities (and I'm able to transpose myself, not that hard when playing
> guitar ;) and perhaps books were transposed to the "needs" of the author
> or the averaged abilities to untrained vocalists. There's still the
> question why do they transpose instrumental songs? A broken turn table?
> I once listened to an EP from the Ruhrgebiet (I won't name them, they
> are a "members" of two well known Metal Band and they are assholes ...
> yes, I personally know one or the other, but I've nothing to do with
> them and I'm not involved in their legal battles, I just lost a
> girlfriend, since I wasn't willing to play guitar in one of the bands,
> just to get money, instead I prefer to have nothing to eat. Hahaha, it
> was some time before they switched from musical instruments to books
> about the law.
> 
> IIRC I already recommended this book: 
> 
> ISBN 0-7119-0015-9
> Original Hendrix by Steve Tarshis.
> 
> IIRC the only weakness of this book is, that it doesn't take care about
> the pitch, IIRC we need to pitch all strings down one step (for playing
> with open strings this isn't simply transposing), OTOH I've seen
> "Soundgarden" tabs in the Internet, that were nearly correct, they
> simply missed to inform about the fact, that just one string needs to be
> dropped down ;) and this IMO is a serious issue.

I lost the thread regarding to this/those Ruhrgebiet Metal Band(s). I
played the EP with wrong speed, 33 instead of 45 and the music does
sound much better (ok, still idiotic).