It may be me being picky but most sheet music I encounter for popular music seems to have mistakes compared to the original record. I have met this before, but my most recent encounter has proved very frustrating.

The church band I am in is working on the Jasksons song "I'll be there" (for a wedding) so we purchased and printed the music from reputable online UK supplier. However, compared to the Jacksons single version, the bassline for the first verse is completely wrong, as is most of the melody for the second voice that comes in at the modulation after 2 verses. Even worse, at the point where the main lead vocal resturns after this section there is a bar missing. As a result, with our singers having practiced the song against the record, using the music as written makes it sound like we aren't playng the same tune!

Anyone else hit this issue or are we just unlucky?