Beck’s New Album Will Be In Sheet Music Form Only

August 9, 2012 10:43 AM

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It’s been four years since Beck put out an album, 2008′s Modern Guilt, so it’s about that time for a new one to be hitting shelves soon, no?

Good news: The newest album, Song Reader, will be released in December.

Bad news: It’ll be in sheet music form only.

So for those of you who excel in your particular instrument, you’re in luck, because you can hear his new tracks yourself. Literally.

Well, you can hear yourself play them, but not Beck himself. There’s no real word that we’ll get any studio releases of these 20 tracks any time soon, or even at all.

The album will, however, include full color illustrations from several different artists, so you could at least have something nice to look at while you’re attempting to read the sheet music.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Beck will play some of these tracks at his future live performances, at the very least.

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Beck is either brilliant or a mixture between arrogant and ignorant. On the one hand I’m intrigued. It can turn into an exciting exchange between musicians interpreting his songs, probably on youtube. Anyone can try to create their own version instead of just covering what you hear from the CD.

On the other hand I don’t like that Beck’s release will create exclusion. Many musicians don’t read sheet music (I only started learning it end of last year). I wonder if someone will go ahead and translate it into tabs?

Depending on the price of this “lavishly” produced reader I’d be up for joining the project and trying to play some of the songs. I wonder if other enthusiasts will follow, or if only lovers of art (visual) will buy the reader to put it on the coffee table?
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I think a lot of people will buy it because they are loyal Beck fans, or they want to see the photos in the package, but I foresee most people being upset about it not coming out as a studio, audio release. I’m a Beck fan as well, and I know a little bit about reading music and performing, but certainly not enough to get the je-ne-sais-quois= of Beck.