Marillion - MISPLACED CHILDHOOD: High quality transcription music sheet with Tablature - For Bass & Guitar (The Strings of Marillion) Paperback – 6 April 2024

I was really looking forward to having this book as it’s a favourite album of mine. The book is another ‘printed by Amazon’ situation so if you’ve bought such a thing before, you’ll know what to expect.Briefly, there’s a lot to like about this book, namely the mostly accurate notation and tab. You get guitar and bass here which is a bonus!What isn’t so good are the following:There are no lyrics anywhere, making it very difficult to jump into specific parts of songs. I get that this may be a publishing rights/permission thing but it makes the book less that it could be.The transcriber has often used capos for guitars instead of using different hand positions. Some tunes definitely use capos but I feel like this is lazy and inaccurate representation of the true notes.Some parts are downright incorrect, with arpeggios that oblige the player to from fret 1 to 4 to 7, whilst holding down all of the notes?! Hardly.The song Lords of the Backstage has the wrong title (it says Childhood’s End?, which is of course another song on the album). A silly mistake. This tune also highlights some needlessly difficult phrasing: there are far easier ways to play the guitar parts, plus the easier methods are more accurate to Rothery’s performance!All that said, it’s a lovely thing to flip through the pages and play some great Marillion tunes. We all deserve for this book to just be a tiny bit better, and I’ll think twice before buying other titles in the series.