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List Price: $29.95 | | Publisher: Music Sales Group
Salesrank: 349811
Released: December 31, 1996 |
| Our Price: $174.60 |
| Used Price: $17.92 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
Special color photo/lyric section. Eighteen songs, including Beauty Queen, Horses, Bood Roses, Father Lucifer, Professional Widow, Marianne, Caught A Lite Sneeze, Hey Jupiter, Way Down, Little Amsterdam, Talula, Agent Orange, Doughnut Song, In The Springtime Of His Voodoo, Putting The Damage On, and Twinkle.
Tori Amos: Boys For Pele (Tori Amos) Reviews:
Pele Songbook 
2008-07-10 - Great Transcription. Probably the best of all the Tori sheet music books for accuracy. It's been discontinued because there is a picture of Tori suckling a piglet in a rocking chair, so if you get your hands on it it's a collector's item now. Treat it well!
Not for Piano Pros! Intermediates and Amateurs read on 
2003-01-03 - Hmmmmm, tricksy this one. Tori Amos makes me sick. I took piano lessons for like three years and quit because I hated it. But, when you're ten years old and your fat, evil piano teacher slams your finger onto a key yelling "C!C!C!C!C!" when you accidentally played a D, it kind of has a way of ruining the magic of the moment. (She also made luscious smelling cookies all the time, and we had to sit there in our after school hunger and watch as she consumed them one by one) Anyway, Tori "I was playing better piano than you when I was two" Amos was the reason I decided to forget the tyrant Mrs. Evers and take up piano again. I struggle with some things in this book, but I retained enough piano knowledge to get through the majority of her songs. Horses is fun to play, so is the Doughnut Song. Marianne is pretty close to the CD (for all simplified purposes), nothing you can't listen to the song and add to. I have been disappointed with Not the Red Baron, though, because it just doesn't sound right. This book is also generally kind of hard. That could be because I'm not a great piano player and just can't get the flow rght. I would actually suggest getting the Anthology, as it is more simplified and has more variety. The simplification of the transcription in such books can be good and bad, but nothing you can't add to. I think it is better to have it easier to begin with, instead of so complex that it is intimidating. Come on, Tori's music is intimidating enough! For that reason I would suggest the Anthology over this book, at least to start with. Besides, there is so much more to play in it. If you get stuck or discouraged, there are many other songs to play that will boost your confidence, as opposed to this book which is all music from one CD, and one of the stranger Tori CDs at that. I give this book 3.5 stars, and suggest the Anthology. However, if you're just really into Pele and want to play some of the songs, go for it. If all you can do is read and play notes, you can do it. Be confident. Practice one song (Horses!) until you're lost in playing it. Then move on to another (Father Lucifer!). If you can't figure out how it is supposed to sound, put the cd on and listen to that part. Improv if you must! Just don't quit! Before long you'll be throwing your own private piano concert, lost for hours in ethereal Toryland. It's nice to visit her world for a while.
only the best, plays the best
2001-09-13 - Tori Amos is a magnificent piano goddess. I try to play like her all of the time, but I feel like Iam her when I play my piano.
Since I never had the chance to see her in concert I always g online to watch her there. She is amazing. Several years ago at one of my 8th grade talent shows my friend performed "Hey Jupiter" by her. Oh my god she sound just like her. She had excellent props for her performance.
Thats why Iam such a big fan of her music, all for knowing, she plays piano and sings acapella.
A beautiful CD from a beautiful artist
2001-01-08 - All of her music is touching, and this especially so. She is talented both with the composition and the performance, and this is a spendid showpice of her gifts.
BoYs FoR pElE 
1999-12-27 - definately, if you liked the cd, you were constantly thinking" i wish i could play like that." Definately a good source to learn how to play the music that drives you.
