Acoustic Masters For Guitar: Bob Dylan
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Acoustic Masters For Guitar: Bob Dylan Details
A great collection of 19 of Bob Dylan's acoustic guitar tracks transcribed in guitar tab and standard notation, complete with full lyrics and chords. Songs include: Ballad of Hollis Brown * Buckets of Rain * 4th Time Around * I Shall be Released * Just Like a Woman * Lay Lady Lay * Tangled Up in Blue * Visions of Johanna * and more.
Reviews
In general, there are two types of song books: Those that dumb down the music and those that try to faithfully transcribe the music at hand. This book falls into the latter camp.The written music is for guitars that use the treble clef. In a few cases this involves more than one guitar -- up to three. So, no bass guitar. There is harmonica music on a few songs. Lyrics are on all songs.Chord diagrams for each song are provided, but only once -- they are listed by the song title. Once you get into the written music, this book only has the chord name above the staff. (They do not list fingerings for the chords, either.) There is Tab.Below I've listed the songs in the book. There is about a 50/50 split between strumming songs and finger-picking songs. As you can see, they're all over the Dylan map, on 14 different albums:Baby, Let Me Follow You DownBallad of Hollis BrownBlood in My EyesBuckets of RainDon't Think Twice, It's All Right4th Time AroundGirl From the North CountryI Don't Believe YouI Shall Be ReleasedIf You See Her, Say HelloJust Like a WomanLay Lady LayOne Too Many MorningsPo' BoyShooting StarTangled Up in BlueThings Have ChangedVisions of JohannaYou're a Big Girl NowIf you're not a big Dylan fan, you should know that this is not a "radio Dylan / greatest hits" song book. I like Bob's music, and I'm happy with the song selection, but a casual music listener might only recognize a couple of the songs.I won't comment on the overall accuracy of the music, except it "looks good to me." I am new to guitar (4 months in), and I can really only play one song from this book, today, and that one follows the studio album as well as I can tell.