Tori Amos: The Singles
by Music Sales Corporation, Tori Amos

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Book Reviews of Tori Amos: The Singles

Book Review: Not bad for a popular music book...
Summary: 3 Stars

A few of the songs have almost totally faithful piano parts, especially noticable in Pretty Good Year, God, Past the Mission, Raspgerry Swirl while some have editorial notes, such as "Tori plays this figure throughout" in Caught a Lite Sneeze. At least the arranger has acknowledged their changes.

Unfortunately it suffers from the normal fault of a popular piano/vocal book.. This is that they always try and make the score a combination of:
- piano accompaniment and vocal part
- piano solo
- transcript of all parts

As a result, you are often left with portions of accompaniment suddenly cutting, in order for the right hand to play the vocal tune. Cornflake Girl is particularly bad at this. At times, as in Spark, the tune is very isolated from the accompaniment, so you can just ignore it and play the rest of the piano part. In other songs, such as Cornflake Girl, you can just repeat phrases from earlier in the song, which were introduction with no melody, as they work as accompaniment.

Often the more virtuoso piano moments are cut out.. eg. that great big in Spark, where the piano part goes all high and jumpy.. that's totally cut, replaced simply by the tune played in triads. Boring. Wierd that they cut that bit, as the similarly odd bit in Past the Mission is included.

Overall, it's worth getting, a good collection of songs, generally OK piano parts. Also, there are guitar chords so you can improvise around the chord, based on the original recordings.

Hope this is of some help :D

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