Little Walter song transcriptions
Hi David,I'm just wondering if your transcriptions of Little Walter's songs have ever been published in book form or are otherwise available for purchase. I find your notation to be the most intuitive and you include all of the little details that are difficult to pick out by ear and most other transcribers simply leave them out. I recently bought Hal Leonard's Little Walter tab book and I'm really disappointed, as some songs are nothing like the original, while other tabs are wildely inaccurate (the opening chorus to Rocker sounds nothing like the real thing, for example). The included backing tracks are cool, so there's always that ;). Cheers!MJ PS. I can't get the post to display correctly, so sorry about that.
I'm happy to help Zenedon. Yes, please contact me through there.
Hello MJ. Unfortunately they're not available. Most of the classic 50's songs, the Hal Leonard Corporation owns the print rights to. They have a policy of not licensing the tunes. I'm also a Mel Bay author (a competitor), so unfortunately there will never be a book offered by me with them. If there is a song you're dying to learn, and you haven't had much luck learning it on your own, drop me a note and I'll see if I've transcribed it and I'll send it to you, free of charge of course.