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All the songs from Can’t Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstacy, Pretzel Logic Katy, Lied The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho – 62 songs in all! Titles include: Reelin’ In The Years * Rikki Don’t Lose That Number * Aja * Deacon Blues * Peg * Hey Nineteen.
BUY: Hal Leonard Steely Dan Piano, Vocal, Guitar Tab Book
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Steely dan guitar tabs - like Steely Dan: Guitar Play-Along Volume 84, Hal Leonard Steely Dan Complete (Songbook), Hal Leonard Steely Dan Piano, Vocal, Guitar Tab Book, HAL LEONARD
Reply by Smarter — September 8th, 2010 @ 0:16 am
Amazon.com: Steely Dan - Anthology (Piano/Vocal/Guitar of-print Best of Steely Dan book, from Hal Leonard isn't a Steely Dan Complete. There are at least two other guitar tab
Reply by Amazon — September 8th, 2010 @ 11:17 am
5 Comments
Well, I *am* a piano player and Steely Dan fan who bought this to see what the heck they are doing on some of these songs. If you’re an intermediate piano player who is looking for melodies and a reasonably decent sketch of how the song goes, this is the book for you. If you’re an advanced player, or a jazz fan, or want to know *exactly* what kind of chord voicings are being used, you might be disappointed on some songs. (Not all songs; some transcriptions are better than others.) The guitar chord listings are the most accurate — if you follow those rather than the staff, and are familiar with jazz voicings, you can pretty much figure it out. I knew that going in, and I’ve still found the book worthwhile because figuring out all the A7+(b9) chords by ear gets old quick.
Reply by Eric Petrusic — July 18, 2010 @ 3:56 am
So I got the Steely Dan songbook from MCA, but a lot of the chords seem to be “rounded off”, and some of the songs are in the wrong key! Maybe my Mobile Fidelity CD copy of Aja runs a bit slow, but I transcribed “Aja” (the song) in B, and this book has it in C. Ditto with “Peg”, Db instead of C. Bummer. Also, this book shows the first chord of “Aja” in the right hand as E-G-B with C in the bass. I figured out the first chord as F#-A#-C#-D# with B in the bass. After that, it’s not even close. There are a bunch of things like that. The intro of “Sign in Stranger” doesn’t resolve up like the book says, it stays on the C and there is a trill they missed. I was hoping this book would be a step above the average piano book, like the transcriptions in Keyboard or Guitar Player, but it’s not. Oh well, at least it’s fun to jam to the changes. -jl
Reply by J. Laity — July 18, 2010 @ 5:51 am
I bought this book because I love Steely Dan’s music and wanted to learn their songs. These are keyboard arrangements, for intermediate to advance piano. It has guitar chords, too, but not as correct as “The best of Steely Dan, guitar tab”, which you need if you want to learn the guitar solos and nuances. I also noticed that some of the piano chord voicings don’t quite sound like the record. and some of the songs aren’t written in the same key as the record. But overall, a great book to get you on your way.
Reply by Russell Jackson — July 18, 2010 @ 7:23 am
This is a reasonable transcription of Steely Dan’s music through Gaucho. Most of the lyrics are included with the written music so a vocalist can merely look at the music to follow along with the music. A few songs could have been transcripted better. Its ridiculous that there are no guitar chords listed for Charlie Freak. What did Denny Dias and Jeff Baxter do on this song off the recorded version. Much of the music is left off of Bodhisattva. There is no introduction translated although the progression really is about the same. The instrumental break in Do It Again is also missing and that is less obvious. However, the basis for the Aja instrumentals is present.
Anybody with any musical talent can tell that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were two talented and complex song-writers. Gee, just look at the introduction in Deacon Blues. Thirteen chord changes?! Anyway, this is worthwhile for most musicians who play Steely Dan as the much of their music can not be easily transcribed by most musicians. Do It Again, Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, Bodhisattva, and a few others may be exceptions.
Reply by G. J Wiener — July 18, 2010 @ 8:19 am
It is common to transcribe a song and transpose it and publish it in an ‘easy’ key, but I must tell you that ‘Home at Last’ which is in 3 flats on the CD and on the LP, is presented in this book in 4 sharps, i.e. a 1/2 step up from the recording. The 1st chord shows as G# minor instead of G minor. I hope the editor in charge has found another line of work by now. This ‘Home At Last’ transcription is so blatantly stupid, that I’m writing this review based on the one song, “Home At Last”. I’m glad to have the book, as it does include ALL the Steely Dan songs pre-Two Against Nature, but based on this stupid ‘Home At Last’ transcription, I’d have to say that at least some of this book is very stupidly done.
Reply by Robert Wade Cottingham — July 18, 2010 @ 9:08 am