The Best of James Taylor
Filed in Acoustic Guitars 4 Sale on Mar.20, 2010
- Includes -
- Can’t Stand Losing You
- Canary in a Coal Mine
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me
Product Description
11 of his best, including: Carolina on My Mind * Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight * Fire and Rain * Long Ago and Far Away * Steamroller * You Can Close Your Eyes * and more.
March 20th, 2010 at 10:39 am
The songs are by JT, the transcribing is by Colgan Bryan, and the book is a Hal Leonard. Can’t find Kr Schonberg anywhere in the book. Anyway, whether these songs are JT’s best is debateable, but they are good ones. Chords used in each song are diagrammed clearly, the tablature is found beneath the standard music notation, and each song is several pages. I am unable to read standard music notation. Unfortunately, there is nothing in the tablature to indicate beat/timing/rhythm of the songs: just numbers on lines. There’s no CD with this book. The standard music notation probably shows how this song is supposed to be played, but again, unfortunately, I cannot read standard music notation.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 20th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
If you buy this book for the song “You’ve got a friend”, don’t buy it. The song is not in this book which they called the best of James Taylor. This title is incorrect because his greatest hit “You’ve got a friend” is not in it. I was very disappointed when I finally received this book.
The songs are ok but don’t call a book the best of when the greatest hit is not in it.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 20th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The book is fine, but many of the reviews on this site refer to guitar tab. There is no tab in this book. Look closely at the cover. It says piano/vocal. It is strictly piano/vocal performance. Despite the reviews, if you are looking for tab, this book is not for you.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 20th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
If you play fingerstyle steel acoustic and fancy JT – this is the best tab book out there. I have owned this fine book for almost a year and have worn out such greats as “Long ago and Far Away”. If you really practice and don’t quit you will sound just like JT. (Singing is another matter) It’s just magic! Tab is correctly “Capo-relative”.
(Warning!!! Those other JT song books tab actual frets as if the capo were invisible and are not worth the trouble! Imagine having to play hundreds of notes tabbed “3″ for example. But like most of JT’s compositions, he uses the capo. So if a particular song requires the Capo 3rd fret, every time you see a tab “3″, you will have to make the mental subtraction (3 minus 3 = 0) It’s only natural to want to play an open string when you see the “0″. But when you see “3″, you instinctively want to finger the 3rd fret. Very confusing. I have no idea why they would make such a huge error in such a large music publishing company. I have dozens and dozens of tab books, Beatles to Led Zep and trust me, they are all done correctly in Capo-Relative.)
Again, this book is absolutely correct and a joy to play. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 20th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
This book is helpful because it has excellent guitar tabulation. Often I find tabulation coming across too complicated or too simplistic. This one gave the right amount of information to play the songs correctly and not over-burden me with too much technical stuff. Also, a very nice group of James Taylor songs!
Rating: 4 / 5