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Paul McCartney - Bass Master: Playing the Great Beatles Basslines
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This indispensable guide offers full transcriptions (including tablature and chord names) of ten of Paul McCartney’s most revered bass parts: "You Won’t See Me," "Drive My Car," "The Word," and "In My Life" from Rubber Soul; the classic b-side, "Rain," as well as "Taxman" and "I’m Only Sleeping" from Revolver; "Lovely Rita" from Sgt. Pepper; "Dear Prudence" from The White Album; and "Something" from Abbey Road. Each of these key tracks is analyzed and explained in detail to show today’s bassists how much they can still learn from McCartney’s remarkable skill and imagination.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787.87092
EAN: 9780879308841
ISBN: 0879308842
Label: Backbeat Books
Manufacturer: Backbeat Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2006-10-28
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Studio: Backbeat Books
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Better Stuff Out There - 
Great book if you are looking for info on one of the most influencial bass players of the last century. However, if you interested in learning his basslines, you would be better off with with "The Beatles 67-70 Bass Recorded Versions", and "The Beatles 62-66 Bass Recorded Versions".
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Real Musicianship -
This is a fascinating book, because it's more musucally aware than 99% of the hundreds of books on music I've read. It's not just anecdotes and instruments, but some very detailed discussion of what choices were made, what technical elements went into the effect, and how the bassline shapes the song. It's not just helpful transcription, but intelligent analysis. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Finally, McCartney's bass-playing gets its due -
Written with wit and verve, this book finally gives McCartney's extraordinary bass-playing its due. By analyzing each Beatles album through the lens of McCartney's bass lines, Bacon and Morgan give us a chance to hear these extraodinary recordings with fresh ears. My only quibble is with their choice of "Something" as "the best piece of bass playing he's evr committed to record." Better than "Rain"? Better than "The Word?" Better than "Taxman"? Better than "It's Getting Better All the Time"? C'mon, guys!
A must-have. The best music book I've ever read -
The transcriptions are fine, but most of all: this book is brilliantly well written, a delicious reading, and it's clear and deep analysis of Paul's bass lines (along with a lot of background information about recordings, instruments etc) will open your ears for one of the most important features in the never-ending beauty of The Beatles' music. Great job!
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a reply to rodrigo -
Tony Bacon & Gareth Morgan, England, October 2007.
Firstly, thanks a lot for the review, Rodrigo. We had great fun putting the book together - the story of Macca's bass playing and the transcriptions - and did a lot a lot of hard work on it. In answer to your regret concerning the wonderful 'Something', in fact we did prepare a transcription that was originally in the book, but permission to reproduce it was declined by the licensor, Harrisongs. We agree with Rodrigo and say so in the book: it is McCartney's finest hour with the Fab Four. The dynamics, phrasing, melodic content and feel (or groove) of what he plays is simply sensational. We hope the book also underlines some of PM's other great work with The Beatles.
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