Guitar Pieces
Sheet Music Book
By Steve Howe

The music of Steve Howe is always interesting and entertaining. The transcriptions in this book re-worked by Hemme Luttjeboer, Colgan Bryan, and even Mick Barker who did all of them originally in the early publication of this book long before tab are full of mistakes. Did these guys even...

listen to the original recordings? Embarassing. Unfortunately this is all we have in print though by an interesting composer and guitarist.

This book is not perfect, but it's far advanced over most books that cover recordings. It's closer to a classical music representation of the things Steve played than it is the old everything-at-first-position junk that floods the shelves. There is real insight into the musicality...

of Steve's pieces, and while it's not 100% "correct" (that is, per the studio recordings) it is more than enough information for you to figure out what he did and perhaps change voicing or coloration to make them more your own.

The book in general is well structured and is very interesting, though there are lots of mistakes in it (I fixed myself many things in Surface Tension, and it's missing lots of stuff on Diary of the Man Who Vanished, not mentionning the errors on that one). Otherwise the...

book seems to be a good one to me. This book isn't for beginner guitarists, Steve Howe isn't a novice player in fingerstyle and instrumental stuff. I also suggest that you grab the recordings to make sure that you play the songs correctly ;)