Led Zeppelin: Mothership - Authentic Guitar, Tab Edition
by Led Zeppelin
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Author: Led ZeppelinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 0739053175
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
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Book Review: Fantastic Book, But Missing A Few Songs In My Opinion
Summary: 5 Stars
As a collector of guitar tablature books, more for their accuracy than me being limited to tab only reading, I decided to purchase this book from a local Guitar Center tonight. What's great is they will price match to Amazon, so you get the benefit of retail store convenience at Internet discount pricing. Make no mistake, this is an expensive book, and Amazon's discount is significant, so I was happy Guitar Center would honor Amazon's price. Even without the price match the book is probably worth the retail price, as it does include lots of songs and the transcriptions are very well done.
It should be every professional transcriber's duty to study intimately the artist they are transcribing. This way they can learn the various techniques that might not have been obvious upon a first listen. Unfortunately all too often transcribers don't go that extra step, and you wind up with books that are clearly not accurate, and certainly not representative of the techniques employed by the artist. A couple of months ago I picked up the Steve Vai Real Illusions tab book, and was disappointed to see the ridiculous looking tab to Building The Church. If you've ever seen Vai play it live, you can see he uses the unorthodox technique of bringing his left hand over the neck and tapping with his right hand, as one would a keyboard. This is done out of necessity, not for show, as there really is no other way to play the intro and solo. At least that's what I thought until I saw the Real Illusions tab book. It was evident the transcriber did not study Vai's play style, and thus completely botched the finger tapping sections of Building The Church, instead employing some weird combo of hammer ons, pull offs, wide stretches, and string skipping, it was a mess to read through. Mistakes like that kill all confidence the rest of the book is any better. It would be best if the artists were involved in the transcription process, but they usually are not, which strikes me as odd. Were someone taking the time to transcribe my music I would do everything I could to ensure it was accurate.
Now, transcribing Jimmy Page is not going to be as demanding as Steve Vai, but there are nuances that the novice transcriber will miss. For example, on the Song No Quarter, it states the following at the beginning of the song, "Recording sounds a half step lower than written. No Quarter was performed in D minor and the tape speed manipulation produced a recording that sounds C# minor." Brilliant, that is the kind of thing I want to see in a guitar transcription book. It means the author clearly did his homework on the artist, and therefore my confidence on the accuracy of the songs goes way up. There are notes on other songs in the book where warranted. The tab itself is clear and easy to read, with logical suggested fingerings. I have seen a few Zep books written in a very strange, confusing, and difficult to read tablature style, and I'm not sure why they were transcribed that way. This book clearly takes a different approach for the better.
The song selection is great, but I was disappointed there were a few classics missing from the collection. The following are songs I would have liked to see included: Celebration Day, Gallows Pole, That's The Way, The Rain Song, In The Light, Ten Years Gone, Fool In The Rain, and the acoustic guitar solo Bron-Yr-Aur would have been nice as well. Otherwise it's a stellar collection of songs, and is pretty much what you expect from a best of style book. Any song written in an alternate tuning is labeled as such, and performance notes are also provided like the one mentioned in the previous paragraph. Chord charts are provided for parts that repeat, as well as multiple graphs for those sections in the song where more than one guitar is used. Anyone who is a fan of Zep knows Page often layered his guitar parts, employing up to seven multi-tracked guitar parts in some songs.
If you're a Zeppelin fan and find yourself struggling to learn their songs on guitar, I can't recommend this book enough. It's very well done. My only criticism besides the omission of some songs, is that the book does not lay flat unless you're learning a song out of the middle section of the book. Really, guitar book publishers need to get a handle on this major faux pau that I see repeated in so many of these types of guitar tab books. It's just a pain in the butt, and the solution of a flat binder is really easy, but rarely employed. Otherwise the quality of the book is also high, and I don't think anyone will have a problem with it falling apart after multiple uses. This is as good as it gets for Led Zeppelin guitar tab books!
Summary of Led Zeppelin: Mothership - Authentic Guitar, Tab Edition
Page, Plant and Jones hand selected this unprecedented, career spanning collection to best represent the entire body of work of Led Zeppelin. Alfred Publishing is proud to present this massive 300-page collection of note-for-note guitar TAB. Featuring all new transcriptions based on years of compiled documentation, videos, and interviews, this is the must-have book for all fans of Led Zeppelin and the immortal guitar work of the legendary Jimmy Page. The 24 songs: Good Times Bad Times* Communication Breakdown
* Dazed and Confused
* Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
* Whole Lotta Love
* Ramble On
* Heartbreaker
* Immigrant Song
* Since I've Been Loving You
* Rock and Roll
* Black Dog
* When the Levee Breaks
* Stairway to Heaven
* The Song Remains the Same
* Over the Hills and Far Away
* D'yer Mak'er
* No Quarter
* Trampled Under Foot
* Houses of the Holy
* Kashmir
* Nobody's Fault but Mine
* Achilles Last Stand
* In the Evening
* All My Love.
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