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Simple copy-edit errors throughout these transcriptions are frustrating, but these tunes are easy and fun to play.
However, if you're just playing along for your own enjoyment, you can easily fix the wrong notes. I've been a fan of George Winston since his vinyl days, so this collection was a thrill to discover. As others have mentioned, there are some errors here and there. The transcriptions are definitely better than listening to the CDs and trying to pick out the notes by yourself. A lovely collection, fun and relaxing to play.
I'm home from college now, and brought this with me just for the few weeks I'm home - does that tell you something. Yes, very difficult - I would suggest to purchase this for someone who has been playing piano for atleat 3 years.
I finally found a shady copy. I LOVE George Winston and his December CD, and searched online for hours about 4 years ago for this music.
It is very calming to play. Then, at the end of 2006, this sheet music was released.
I received it as a gift for about $20, and absolutely love it. Otherwise, there are simpler versions to learn these songs, including some video walk throughs on YouTube.
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I have been a pianist for over 25 years and am currently a music educator. I listened to the recordings with the music in front of me and made the corrections as I went along. If you have a good ear these mistakes are quite obvious.
Especially his work from the December album. If you do, just be prepared to have a pencil ready to make corrections. I was very excited to see Winston's work transcribed.
If you don't mind the mistakes, enjoy. Many of these are very accessible for the intermediate pianist with some more challenging sections in Carol of the Bells and Variations on Pachelbel's Canon. There were other great pieces included in this book but every song has it's fair share of errors, many of them just careless mistakes in the transcribing process.
The majority of the structure is there. Overall, I would recommend this book but I hope Winston is bit more discriminating in the future when choosing people to transcribe for him.
It seems apparent to me that the "someone else" who transcribed his performances was an electronic keyboard or computer and Hal Leonard didn't work very hard to improve the computer's setting of the music. As an accomplished sight-reader, it's great to have this George Winston collection. However, I have to take off a star for the many errors and illogical settings. Besides just plain wrong notes, we get impossible ottava markings and weird stuff like two-note arpeggios. Lovely music but I'd rather save my pencil for interpretive markings instead of endless corrections.
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