Customer Reviews for Just The Riffs For Piano
Return to "Just The Riffs For Piano"
vc
Location: from Tennessee
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 22, 2004
The anatomy of Steely Dan
If you are interested in how Steely Dan constructs their songs, this book is it. The use of 9th intervals and chord clusters are explained with written commentary. Still the book is entertaining, just when you get into it, the riff is over, too bad.
16 of 29 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from UK
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
May 4, 2004
An excellent resource
This book is excellent for those of us who have a dominantly classical music background and who like to get their teeth into something a little more challenging than little turn-arounds and tunes that would never stand by us in say an improvisation context. Disappointing though that, unlike most of Cherry Lane Publications, this book DOES NOT COME WITH A DEMO CD. That's a pity - truly, but not a completely disasterous one. I would recommend this book for anyone that can read piano music.
11 of 24 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Los Angeles, CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
December 10, 2003
Great Fun!
This book is a lot of fun! The transcriptions are as note-for-note as anything I've ever seen -- and I have an out-of-print book of Steely Dan transcriptions for many of the same songs. This puts that book to shape (interestingly enough, they're both Cherry Hill publications) EXCEPT for the fact that, as stated, it's just riffs. You don't get the whole song, so go out and buy another Cherry Hill publication and use them together. It's a shame they don't publish them in one book, isn't it? In any event, I've had much fun with this book. I highly recommend.
12 of 24 people found this review helpful.