Series: Best Ever
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard; 4 edition (February 1, 1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0881883077
ISBN-13: 978-0881883077
Product Dimensions: 9 x 1.4 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
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The book itself is great-big, thick, and solid unlike some smaller collections, and overall a beautiful book. Best of all, the book lays open really well, which saves the frustration of bending back the binding or using paperclips as I have previously. Basically, I'm a self-taught sort-of-intermediate (I guess) player who purchased this book to get away from the "learning music" used in John Thompson's Level 3-4 study books. (You know, classical songs that no one has ever actually heard before.)This book contains a lot of songs I know, and a lot that are common enough that I could find cds containing them (to see if I'm playing somewhere close to the correct way.) Anyway, there's a good selection-some from movies and broadway, some from the sixties, etc. Also there are some surprising songs you wouldn't expect to find-like "Somewhere Out There" from "An American Tail" (Just so you know, in the movie a mouse sings the song.) I was pleased to find that "Moon River" was included, as well. Anyway, the terrifying part was when I opened the book and found that every single song is written on three staves. For most people this is probably no big deal, but my experience with three staves was limited primarily to a song in a lesson book that I couldn't make heads or tails of. When I showed it to my uncle, who is very proficient on the piano and organ (played professionally in lounges during college and now plays the organ in churches) he pretty much squinted at it and told me he'd never seen anything like it before, that it was ridiculous, and that I should skip over it. Thus, the dismay when I opened this book. However, a day and a few tears later, I have finally come to a conclusion: you do not attempt to play all three staves together (two treble, one bass) as I first thought.
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