BOOK: Masters of the Plectrum Guitar - ERRORS!
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 2:29PM After spending a bit more time with the book "Masters of the Plectrum Guitar" (Mel Bay), I've come to realize that it's full, and I mean full, of errors. Wrong notes are sprinkled through out. I thought it had just been the transcription to "Sutton Mutton", but they're on other songs too.
One possible explanation is that the music in the book is taken from the original sheet music produced back in the 20's-40's and that the originals had mistakes, which is plausible. However, it doesn't take much time working through one of the pieces to hear the wrong notes as compared to the recordings of the songs.
Granted, the original sheet music was never an exact transcription, but if you take a look at the transcription of "Pickin' My Way", a Lang/Kress duet number, the first 8 bars after the intro are filled with musical typos.
So, I'm working on re-copying "Pickin' My Way" but fixed. I'll post it when I get done with it (although, bear in mind, that might be a while).
Reader Comments (6)
Having learned how to play guitar almost exclusively from transcriptions in magazines and elsewhere, I've slowly come to the conclusion that deliberate errors are often introduced into a transcription so that any plagiarism is obvious. The errors are generally so blatant that anybody with half a brain can listen to the record and pick out the right note. They're like little traps. I've seen tablature written out in Internet archives that are obviously copies of Guitar Player magazine transcriptions, right down to the errors.
Having said that, I've never seen more than one or two notes wrong, so I'm guessing you encountered some genuinely crappy work.
I've heard that some of the transcriptions may have been based, at least in part, on a later tribute album that came out, maybe in the 1970s and maybe by Bucky Pizzarelli. The versions in that book are their own thing. It still is pretty good, just not exactly the same as the recorded versions. I look forward to your "Pickin' my Way"
You can find some similar transcriptions on this site: http://leyoy.free.fr/index.html
The site has been around awhile. It is French but there are sort-of English translation pages. You can find eight song transcriptions of Carl Kress, Eddie Lang and the like. I can't vouch for the accuracy of these; I only just discovered them while Googling some of the song titles from the book.
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Always make your own transcriptions. Once again 'the records are the textbooks.'
It's equally as quick to do it by ear, I think, when you get used to it - I took about two hours to get the notes down for Christian's solo on Rose Room and I certainly don't think I'm the best transcriber in the world! Modern software like Transcribe! makes life a lot easier than back in the old phonogram days, and there's little more enjoyable than spending an hour or two puzzling out the notes on your favourite records.
Jazz music is an oral tradition. Learn the way the masters did - ignore the jazz education industry.
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