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List Price: $14.95 | | Publisher: CHERRY LANE MUSIC COMP
Salesrank: 1114439
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| Our Price: $8.15 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
An essential collection for every bass player who wants the low-down on GN'R, this songbook features an interview with Gunner bassist Duff McKagen and note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 14 of the band's biggest hits: Bad Apples * Dead Horse * Don't Cry * Locomotive * My Michelle * Nightrain * November Rain * Paradise City * Pretty Tied up (The Perils of Rock N' Roll Decadence) * Sweet Child O' Mine * Used to Love Her * Welcome to the Jungle * Yesterdays * You Could Be Mine.
Best of Guns N' Roses (Bass) (Play-It-Like-It-Is) Reviews:
Guns N Roses sheet music book 
2009-10-07 - Ive been learning some of the songs in this book and i find it very good to learn from, the music is a nice size making it easy to follow.
Most deffiantly worth buying if your into this type of music to learn from.
Excellent
2009-07-10 - Full and easy coverage.. Very happy about this purchase.. If you know the songs, just locate the areas your having trouble with on the sheet music and you get it instantly...
Good Product, BUT...
2008-11-19 - This is a great book for fans of GNR. The songs play well and I would highly reccomend this for intermediate to advanced players. The one problem I had was that they took out the solos at points, for example in the solo to sweet child o mine you just play the rhythm, which isn't that fun. But all in all a good buy!
Good, but not great 
2006-05-02 - The book is good, but having the CD really helps. If you have ever wanted to learn to play GNR songs, get this book. This was the first tab book I ever purchased and I learned note for note how to play paradise city and sweet child o mine and the rest is history.
Good tab book, BUT...
2005-02-25 - ...I can't help but think that slowing the tracks down on the CD would have made it easier. Also, Perrin doesn't spend much time explaining the actual promised "breakdown" of Slash's work - the full title of the book is THE TECHNIQUES OF SLASH: THE BEST OF GN'R, but the title seems to change throughout - sometimes it's a demonstration of Slash's techniques, sometimes it's just tabs of their best songs with little explanation.
For example, he notes the "power strumming" for Civil War, but doesn't give any advice on how to strum the opening, which is in my opinion the hardest part.
It's still a good book and very useful because it contains accurate transcriptions of the songs, and many of them are indeed their best. However I also bought a tab book for Appetite for Destruction - the only bonus here is a few Use Your Illusion tracks and a CD, because the "tutoring" they promise on the back cover isn't exactly very helpful.
Also, don't be fooled by the back cover - November Rain, Bad Obsession and various others that are listed are NOT transcribed; brief solo passages are contained within a section called "Signature Slash Licks," which basically means you learn to play part of the November Rain solo, NOT the entire song (as I was lead to believe).
There's so much Appetite content in this book, I feel as if I paid twice for the same thing! But at least it has _some_ UYI songs, such as Yesterdays, which is fairly easy to play.
However also be aware that this is very hard - the solo for Sweet Child O' Mine is the hardest solo I've ever played, and they don't make it any easier with the CD. (Listen to how fast it goes!)
Good book, not perfect though.
