Bill Piburn Plays Antonio Carlos Jobim - Guitar Book with Online Audio | Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library | Perfect for Guitarists & Bossa Nova Lovers

In review of the guitar solos book entitled Bill Piburn Plays Antonio Carlos Jobim - This is a collection of 12 popular Jobim favorites with a CD of every song in the book that is a precise performance of every transcription in the book. The CD alone is easily worth the price of the Book/CD set for any lover of Brazilian Latin fingerstyle guitar solos and is a beautifully performed Jobim repertory by the author himself - Bill Piburn who has numerous accolades including stellar recommendations by Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel - two of the world's greatest fingerstyle solo guitarists. The solos in the book are a meticulous and exciting collection of the CD arrangements precisely transcribed down to every hammer-on, glissando, grace note, slide, harmonic, etc. - no guessing here! Bill's arrangements are designed in my opinion for the intermediate to advanced and even pro players being perfectly gig ready as transcribed in the book. The solos are challenging so be ready to work in order to bring this masterful collection up to speed. If you are already doing gigs these arrangements will get the crowd's attention off their conversations, drinks and or dinners as they ring with powerful and rich Latin rhythms as well as stunning improvisational fills and lines. All solos work beautifully for the classical style guitar solo and can be applied to your own style as well as offering countless arranging techniques and ideas from a master that will embellish any arrangers repertory of skills. In addition to the performance potential of the collection - if you are willing to work toward mastery of these gems it is virtually guaranteed that your playing will be taken to the next level and or several levels beyond your present acoustic or electric soloing abilities. I have many if not all of Bill's fingerstyle material and recommend this book and others as representative of the highest level of virtuoso fingerstyle popular guitar! A definitive 5 star production!