| Alex, sorry, I don't agree with you. BIM showed they could produce a first-class product when they published the Jim Thompson "Buzzing Book".
Jean-Christophe Wiener made corrections to an earlier edition of the Warm-ups+Studies when he edited the 8th edition. It is excellent.
The Warm-ups+Studies are standard fare now (like the Schlossberg Daily Drills & Technical Studies) there is really no excuse for publishing the exercises with mistakes. Something has gone wrong or someone has been careless.
Yes, advanced players will play them from memory or by ear.
But BIM need to get their act together - there are plenty of competitors who can produce mistake free publications. I shouldn't have to buy a second or third printing to get a mistake-free edition.
As BIM and Thomas Stevens say in the introduction. It's "the only authentic publication of James Stamp's work." The least they can do is to make it accurate and mistake free. A thumbs up for the CD's, but a thumbs down for a slightly inferior edition of the Stamp exercises.
Andrew Tomlinson |