Private Investigations – Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler (Private Investigations Tab) Reviews
Private Investigations – Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler (Private Investigations Tab)
- Published by Hal Leonard 192 Pages
- Guitar Recorded Versions
- Artist: Mark Knopfler
A great retrospective featuring 22 transcriptions, including: Brothers in Arms * Calling Elvis * Going Home * Money for Nothing * Private Investigations * Romeo and Juliet * Sailing to Philadelphia * So Far Away * Sultans of Swing * Tunnel of Love * Walk of Life * What It Is * and more.
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Very good, but not perfect,
To be honest, I haven’t picked my way through too much of this book. I just sat down and played through Walk of Life, and that was correct and informative. I started to play Darling Pretty, and found two errors during the intro. These were unusual mistakes. In both of them, the standard notation was correct, but either the chord or the tab was in error. In one case, the chord was supposed to be A/C#, and the # was left off. The other one had an F# played on the high E string during an A chord.
It’s rare that I find obvious errors in tab books, so this stands out.
However, there are some benefits to this book – the spacing is great. They’ve picked a very enjoyable and easy-to-read font for printing the book, so it’s very easy to learn it by sight. This is a huge, huge benefit over older transcriptions of Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing.
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|Another lousy book from HAL LEONARD!,
I really don’t think I will buy HAL LEONARD music books any longer. I’ve seen poorly written books, but this one is bad. The other two reviews liked the books. Don’t know Dire Straights do you?!! For example, Sultan’s of Swing is missing a good chunk of the tabs. Not lost pages, words but no music. The first row of words has tabs associated, but not the second row. Where is the Freakin’ music?!?
I would not have purchased this if I knew how bad it was. For what it’s worth, it would appear what is there is 90% close, but just download Powertab of Purchase a tab reader and download the tabs. They will be more accurate and complete.
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|Private Investigation – Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopler,
I’ve had a good look at the way the music is laid out. The tabulature looks fine to me. I can play along with the recorded music so that makes the book work. All I need is an automatic page turner.
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