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The solo transcriptions in this book are brilliant!It's like being given Steely Dan's top secret "playbook" for several of their hit songs.

I've been playing Steely Dan tunes on piano since I was in junior high (way back when, in '77), and even though I have a pretty good ear, I don't have a strong jazz background so I could never get Donald Fagen's chord voicings quite right.And all of the Steely Dan songbooks that I have are very crude approximations of what's really being played on the original recordings.This book has "filled in the gaps" for many of my favorite 'Dan tunes.

My favorites from this book are "I Got the News", the solo section of "Time Out of Mind", and the 'plastic organ' solo from "Do It Again" -- songs that I could only approximate, until now.

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Product Description:
Any true fan of the Dan know that Donald Fagen's wizardry on the keys is as unique as his voice, and just as eccentric. This book in the Just the Riffs series culls more than 65 great riffs - from Can't Buy a Thrill through Two Against Nature - and transcribes them note-for-note, just as Fagen played them. Includes riffs from: Babylon Sisters * Black Cow * The Boston Rag * Cousin Dupree * Deacon Blues * Do It Again * Gaucho * Green Earrings * Hey Nineteen * Josie * Kid Charlemagne * Reeling in the Years * Rikki Don't Lose That Number * Time Out of Mind * and more.