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Location: from Escondido, CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 6, 2011
The Doors Anthology
I love this book! The arrangements are for solo piano (why anyone would by a piano book and not want it for solo piano is beyond me...) They are easy to read and sound great when played.
8 of 21 people found this review helpful.
Dick Jensen
Location: from Michigan
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
April 27, 2008
The Doors Anthology Review
The book is veey complete and includes all of the music in an easy to read form with all parts and chords needed for anyone to play or make their own version of the songs.
24 of 41 people found this review helpful.
Shannon Luebke
Location: from Port Angeles, Wa.
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
September 21, 2007
The Doors
Is an exceptional book with most of the doors songs. They are just a little more difficult to play than I was hoping but will slowly work my way through it.
20 of 36 people found this review helpful.
Chris Engel
Location: from Ocean City, MD
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
July 19, 2007
Not quite...
This is not a keyboard book, so you will not get the real parts that Ray Manzarek plays. It is arranged for solo piano (why someone would play a doors song on solo piano is beyond me) and leaves out most solos and important parts. The only thing it fully includes is the vocal melody and lyrics. I guess this book is OK for finding out sketches of keyboard parts (or chords) and bass lines. The Guitar tab anthology is perfectly accurate to the real guitar parts, so why can't keyboard players get the real parts?!
23 of 35 people found this review helpful.
kevin
Location: from Braintree, MA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
July 14, 2007
could be better
With this book you get the general idea of how to play each song, but it's not really that good. It's almost as if they winged it when they wrote this and completely ignored what the actual keyboard sounds like. If you want to learn any of the solo's of the doors, this book doesnt have it. They just pretend the 2 minute long solo in riders on the storm doesn't exist. Overall, if you just need the basic idea of what each song might sound like this book is alright, but if you want the real keyboard music, this isn't it.
24 of 34 people found this review helpful.
Nicole
Location: from Edmonton, AB
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
June 13, 2007
Crap.
One of the piano teachers that shops at our store bought this book. They attempted "The Spy" and called to let us know this book is absolute CRAP. Don't waste your money.
11 of 19 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous; not
Location: from LA to NYC
October 19, 2006
Again
[...]The book's pretty good. [...] I highly recommend this book as a basic framework for Manzarek's Doors keyboard work, but much of it is inaccurate and there's almost no Manzarek solo material. The ROTS riffs work, but they're wrong, there's nothing for LMF and the TIAIC solo is ridiculously inaccurate. Still, if you're a fan and you listen, you can "practice, practice, practice" as Manzarek preaches and figure out most of this material. It is a good sourcebook for the separation of hands. Buy it, but know what you're buying.
13 of 23 people found this review helpful.
aza g
Location: from tokoroa,New Zealand
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 4, 2006
this book rocks!
a brilliant book, with excellent songs, perfectly transcribed. a must have for any doors fan.
11 of 22 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Hamilton, ON
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
December 3, 2005
Every Tune You'd Ever Want and More.
This book has every song you'd ever want from the Doors and more. The music is written just how you remmember it. This book is a dream come true - Finally!
12 of 22 people found this review helpful.
Simo
Location: from Australia
April 13, 2005
A Brilliant Book
For any Doors fan and musician you simply cannot go past this book. It is easy to read with large enough tabs to read, a great review at the start of the book including their discography, it would make a great gift to any muso. Excellent
9 of 18 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Los Angeles
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
October 24, 2003
Interesting; fun
An excellent introductory compilation where, interestingly enough, some of the arrangements are actually more difficult than what Manzarek actually played. It's particularly useful for aspiring Doors pianists as it allows, in many instances, a relative novice to learn to split the left and right hands while simlutaneously providing a significant skeleton of the original songs. There's much to fill in, but if one works with this book and continues listening, very accurate covers are possible. Know this: it contains minimal solo material from Manzarek and some songs are in the wrong keys, but it's a lot of fun and the basic framework is there.
10 of 20 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Jacksonville, AL
June 21, 2003
Great Book
This is a really good book for keyboard and even for bass players, like myself. Since the keyboardist doubled as the bassist you get two instruments in one. This book has it all. Every song youll want to learn will be here for you. BUY IT NOW OR DIE!!
10 of 20 people found this review helpful.
Sam
Location: from Pittsburgh
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
February 24, 2002
Awesome!
An excellent book! Every song the Doors ever recorded (even the ones on Other Voices and Full Circle), plus some excellent interviews and stories from Robbie, Ray, etc. I wish they had given us keyboardists note-for-note transcriptions like the guitar edition, but the arragements here seem pretty close to the original recordings so I can't complain. Highly recommended!
12 of 22 people found this review helpful.
Robert Alexander Martinez
Location: from London , England
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
November 28, 2001
The Doors Anthology - Review
The Doors anthology is by far the absolute best Doors music book avaliable. Not only does it contain every single song Ray Manzerik, Robbie Kreiger, John Densmore, and Jim Morrison ever composed on the piano ,guitar, and drums. It also has every single brilliant lyric there genius, poet, lead singer Jim Morrison ever wrote. Arranged in perfect timing which is extremly helpful for learning music. There are infinate amounts of knowledge to be learned in this massive body of work . The music of the Doors captured a moment in time that was just as fascinating as was their music, but more importantly, they captured a timeless moment that will perhaps live on through eternity. We should all be so lucky to be able to buy a book that has taken lifetimes to complete in just one second. So do yourself a favor and take advantage this time.
5 of 11 people found this review helpful.