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Deluxe folio, with color photos, notes from Tori, and her renditions of each song. Includes: Pretty Good Year, God, Cornflake Girl, Icicle, Cloud On My Tongue, Space Dog, Yes Anastasia, and two bonus songs not on the album: All The Girls Hate Her and Over It.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Under Stands (slightly) Above (most of) the Rest, Mar 16 2003

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Peter Marinari (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tori Amos: Under The Pink (Paperback)

Given the nature of Tori Amos's music (and slightly obsessive fans) one would think that Amsco would be interested in releasing the most accurate possible piano score to each of her recordings ... complete with vocal notation and extensive editor's notes! However, this is not always the case. Her sheet music books often provide over-simplified piano parts reduced to melody and the bass-line. Harmony vocals are nearly unheard of, and comments from the editor are virtually non-existant.

The biggest problem with many of her books is their follow-the-vocal approach to right hand notation, which typically ignores Tori's expressive playing in favor of a cut-n-paste job from the melody line along with sparse chords on the down-beats. This issue is somewhat avoided in Pink, on which Tori follows her own vocals much of the time already.

Some sections are slightly "dumbed down" from Tori's playing ("Yes, Anastasia" specifically), but the changes blend better and are much subtler here than in other books. Even the repetitive left hand parts of "Pretty Good Year" and "Icicle" are preserved nearly verbatim from the record. Bonus piano compositions "All The Girls Hate Her" and "Over It" are stunningly well-done.

However, off-setting the faithful transcriptions in this book are a few key transgressions. Foremost is the neutering of "Cornflake Girl," presented here without any of its awe-inspiring solos and with too much right-hand-play-a-long. Luckily, a brief internet search will lead you to several quality transcriptions of this gem. Equally as offensive is the trimming of the classical-style openings of both "Icicle" and "Yes, Anastasia," but the rest of each song is faithful.

Pink is a challenging album to play, and includes a few remarkable passages ("Cloud On My Tongue"), key signatures (Cb on most of "Icicle"), and ever-shifting time-signatures ("God" ... yikes). Vocals are noted with precision -- this album is largely lacking in backing vocals. The exception is "Space Dog," which *does* include backgrounds in its bridge/outro.

For the guitarists among you (of which I am one), Under The Pink offers sensible chord translations, and it includs the use of capos where chords would otherwise be painful to play. The book only ever suggests capoing up to the first fret, but you may find better options for some tunes on your own (try 6th for "Pretty Good Year").

Aside from "Cornflake Girl" every song in this book is presented in a playable *and* mostly accurate fashion. Not for the beginning pianist, but unless it comes back into print it will soon be hard to find!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings on partial transcription, Jun 11 2000

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Bryan Riddle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tori Amos: Under The Pink (Paperback)

Generally speaking, this book will be good for most fans of Tori who happen to also be reasonably competent on the piano. That said, these are not exactly what she plays (a bit easier, right hand tends to follow the melody), though they are in the correct key signatures. Advanced pianists who read music and have poor ears will likely be frustrated by the book because of the transcriptions, while advanced pianists with good ears likely can play a more accurate version of the songs than the transcriptions in the first place (this was my situation). Also, if you're a beginning pianist (<2 years), the difficult key sigs will likely be hard for you. Still, I'm sure the book fits a nice broad swath of Toriphiles who worship the ground she walks on, so I give it 4 stars.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Better have been, April 16 2000

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I got this book for a preasent amd tryed to play all the songs. I havent played for a long time and can figur out most music but some things ae just strange. Cornflake Girl's rythm was way of in beging it was straight 8ths from the what i thinkquart 16th 16th doted quarter. It also includes all the girls hate her and over it which are easy and fun.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for those of you who want to play the basic notes
This is a great and fun book for those of you who desire to play the basic notes; however, since Tori is so talented, it is somewhat toned down (at no fault of the editors). Read more

Published on Oct 4 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars PRETTY GOOD
While I must agree that certain songs are lacking the best parts of them,overall,this book is my favorite of all the sheet music books. Read more

Published on Sep 22 1999 by Jason Koenig