Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard (December 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423411366
ISBN-13: 978-1423411369
Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.3 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #583,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #156 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Songbooks > Folk & Traditional #286 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Musical Genres > Folk & Traditional #413 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Songbooks > Combination Piano, Vocal, & Guitar
Love it, love it, love it! These are all of your favorites, or should I say favourites? Whether you like Clancy Brothers, or Dubliners, Pogues or Dropkick Murphys, this is the ultimate collection for you. Traditional ones in here of course, and no matter what instrument you play, you'll have great craic (translation: fun) !! Written mostly in easy keys to play in, you can start playing immediately. I bought it for "Fields of Athenry," which is written if F, because that's a song difficult to find anywhere else. Once you learn it in F, of course, you can easily play it in C from memory. MacNamara's Band (in G) is so easy that you really only need to play it once or twice to get the tune, and then it's the all important lyrics you really need to learn - "..and Hennesey Tennessee tootles the flute, and the music is something grand."Glue from the binding not so great, and pages coming out almost immediately. That could just be a Hal Leonard Publishing thing, but it's all about the music for me.Irish Pub Songs (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook)
Great book for beginners like me. There is a little diagram above the chord notation with the chord shape. Fantastic for someone like me that has most of the basics down but have a few I'm fuzzy on. I don't have to go find another reference to go and look up how to play the chord. Great!
The Good: The content of the book is great. Music is readable and playable with nice and simple arrangements of tunes.The Bad: The kindle format is somewhat unconventionaly built. At this point I have to say I only read it on macbook with Kindle App. The format doesn't leave space for the title on top of the starting page of the song. Therefore you have a lot of title pages and no repetition of tunes name on any page with the acctual music. Very confusing to read. I would recommand you to buy the printed edition instead.
Just got my book yesterday and haven't had much time to play from it, but in the first few minutes, the book fell apart. The glue in the spine is evidently weak and the pages have completely come loose. However, it might not be all bad as I can now three hole punch the pages and put it in a binder so that the pages lie flat.
The keys of these songs were much different than I was used to in some cases. This isn't necessarily a problem for some people, but it wasn't ideal for me.On the plus side, the book has a nice layout and is fairly easy to understand.
You will love the songs in this book. Many of the old standards like "Finnegan's Wake" and "All For Me Grog" are here, as well as some of the haunting ballads like "The Parting Glass". The arrangements are good for low intermediate and up, and this will make any party more fun; it's also good to play and sing alone when the mood takes you.
The book was bought for my 13yo son. I'm a big Pogue fan and it's rubbed off on him. I have no musical background myself but he has some natural talent. He loves the book, it has some of our favorite song on it. Wish it had a few more of there more popular song that's the reason for the 4 stars
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