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Review Summary: Nice selection but marred by wrong notes |
Date: 2008-12-24 |
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Details: Simple copy-edit errors throughout these transcriptions are frustrating, but these tunes are easy and fun to play. |
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Review Summary: George Winston's Greatest Hits |
Date: 2008-12-19 |
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Details: I've been a fan of George Winston since his vinyl days, so this collection was a thrill to discover. As others have mentioned, there are some errors here and there. However, if you're just playing along for your own enjoyment, you can easily fix the wrong notes! The transcriptions are definitely better than listening to the CDs and trying to pick out the notes by yourself. A lovely collection, fun and relaxing to play. |
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Review Summary: For $20, the best Piano Music you can buy |
Date: 2008-12-17 |
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Details: I LOVE George Winston and his December CD, and searched online for hours about 4 years ago for this music. I finally found a shady copy. Then, at the end of 2006, this sheet music was released. I received it as a gift for about $20, and absolutely love it. It is very calming to play. Yes, very difficult - I would suggest to purchase this for someone who has been playing piano for atleat 3 years. Otherwise, there are simpler versions to learn these songs, including some video walk throughs on YouTube. I'm home from college now, and brought this with me just for the few weeks I'm home - does that tell you something? :) |
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Review Summary: Love Winston but was somewhat disappointed with the transcriptions. |
Date: 2008-12-08 |
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Details: I have been a pianist for over 25 years and am currently a music educator. I was very excited to see Winston's work transcribed. Especially his work from the December album. Many of these are very accessible for the intermediate pianist with some more challenging sections in Carol of the Bells and Variations on Pachelbel's Canon. There were other great pieces included in this book but every song has it's fair share of errors, many of them just careless mistakes in the transcribing process. If you have a good ear these mistakes are quite obvious. If you don't mind the mistakes, enjoy. If you do, just be prepared to have a pencil ready to make corrections. The majority of the structure is there. I listened to the recordings with the music in front of me and made the corrections as I went along. Overall, I would recommend this book but I hope Winston is bit more discriminating in the future when choosing people to transcribe for him. |
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Review Summary: Lovely Collection Marred by Poor Editing |
Date: 2008-11-12 |
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Details: As an accomplished sight-reader, it's great to have this George Winston collection. However, I have to take off a star for the many errors and illogical settings. It seems apparent to me that the "someone else" who transcribed his performances was an electronic keyboard or computer and Hal Leonard didn't work very hard to improve the computer's setting of the music. Besides just plain wrong notes, we get impossible ottava markings and weird stuff like two-note arpeggios. Lovely music but I'd rather save my pencil for interpretive markings instead of endless corrections. |
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