How practical is the material in these books? Is alot of it tricks that are real workers in the real world and hard hitting or is it all kindof outdated?
Tarbells Course In Magic Vol. 1-8
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What do you mean by practical? It depends on if you want to put time and effort into learning the material.
If your looking for stuff you can read once and go perform, then probably not. Tho there is some self working stuff, anything can be made practical.
That's just my opinion
If your looking for stuff you can read once and go perform, then probably not. Tho there is some self working stuff, anything can be made practical.
That's just my opinion
I don't mind putting work into effects. When I say practical, I mean is most of it practical to perform for real people be it a walk around gig, or busking or table hopping.
I guess I'm asking, is most stuff here performance worthy, or is (say the card effects) really long, drawn out, outdated and kinda crazy? lol
I guess I'm asking, is most stuff here performance worthy, or is (say the card effects) really long, drawn out, outdated and kinda crazy? lol
Just get it, it's the main foundation for so much of the magic today being released for $30 a pop. If you put some work into finding the material, you'll get way more out of that than a bunch of dvds.
How practical? Extremely, though you have to learn how to adapt a couple of things of it. I have found that about twenty percent of the material to be outdated and just wouldn't work in a lot of circumstances of today. Though, it teaches so many of the basics and is able to turn those basics into better things. My only complaint about the series was the patter, which really isn't a complaint at all because most class "A" magic books have patter that only your grand father would use.
Almost 90 percent of today's magic originated somewhere in Tarbell. It is just dressed differently now days and the patter has been updated. The set is very useful. I believe a few places sell the entire set as a PDF now. That is how I got mine.
Prae, I would laugh, if it weren't so true... =P
You can get the PDF version at lybrary.com here, and it is for a good price too. The down side to it is that it is only the original 60 lessons, though some would say those are the ones that were the best (which I tend to agree with them) though I also feel that you can get some good information out of the other lessons that he published later on. But for forty bucks, why complain?
You can get the PDF version at lybrary.com here, and it is for a good price too. The down side to it is that it is only the original 60 lessons, though some would say those are the ones that were the best (which I tend to agree with them) though I also feel that you can get some good information out of the other lessons that he published later on. But for forty bucks, why complain?