Series: Faith We Sing
Spiral-bound: 428 pages
Publisher: Abingdon Press (March 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0687090571
ISBN-13: 978-0687090570
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 1.2 x 10.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
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This version of TFWS is good for instrumentalists and singers - the music has melody/lyrics, chord symbols, and keyboard parts, similar to the more expensive Accompianment Edition. The songs, like in the UMC hymnal, are organized by topic - they seem a good selection of 80's-90's praise music, with some older hymns and such thrown in.
Our church has the pew editions in the pews (of course). Here at home, I have 1 copy of the accompaniment edition, and just now 1 copy of the singers edition. For a lot of the songs, a person could just use the singers edition for the person playing accompaniment. Both the top and bottom hands are in most of the songs in the singers book. There are some selections that have only the top hand in the singers edition. If a person wasn't to picky, the singers edition would work for the accompanist, but if you want to make sure you have everything, make sure to get the accompainment edition if you are the accompainist.The Singers edition is great!!! It is spirial bound and easy to flip through for singers. Like I said, most of the songs have both top and both hands for each song. The dimension size of the singers edition is bigger than the pew books, but smaller than the accompaniment edition.Overall, is you are wanting to get books for your choir, don't just use pew books, get your choir the singers books, it will be well worth the money so that not just the soprano have their part, but the alto, tenor and base have their parts too!!!
If your church is using "The Faith We Sing", then you need the "Guitar Edition". The Guitar Edition is laid out in an easy to read lead-sheet format. The finger positions of all the chords (for guitar) are printed at the bottom of each page. The Guitar Edition is also well suited for keyboard players who like to improvise their own accompaniament.
I am the pianist for our church, and my complaint about the Accompanist edition was that many of the pieces did not have the melody in the accompaniment. We don't have a praise band or a vocalist leading the songs, so I need to be able to lead the hymns from the piano, including the melody. The Simplified edition has that in its arangements, and they fit the hands well. I do sometimes refer to the full Accompanist edition for alternate versions or supplemental instrument parts, but I usually play out of the Simplified edition.
The Fath We Sing Comes in a variety of formats. This one has guitar chords for all of the hymns and full harmonies as well. If you want to play these on guitar, this is for you. If you want to sing the alto or tenor parts, this is for you. If you want both THIS is for YOU!
Delivered promptly and the music was as I exepected. Just a general plug for .....I turn here often for things I need and was surprised to be able to get this accompaniment book on ....and it arrived before I needed it for Easter Thank you
This product offers NO advantage for an instrumental ensemble except for the spiral binding... there are NO chord changes, just the same limited musical info as the large accompanist book; very disappointed.
The favorite reason for having this book is that it lays open with the big spiral and sits nicely on the music stand. The music is printed dark enough to see at a distance and it is everything I had hoped and expected.
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