A Charlie Brown Christmas(TM)(Easy Piano) [Paperback] Review

There are several reasons I love this book.For one, the songs are very familiar and are pleasing to play.These are instumental works so you get to play it the way it is performed, instead or incorporating the melody into the right-hand piano parts.The chord progressions are very interesting (flat 9th chords, flat 5th, etc.) especially the way they are voiced.You can see an example at the sheet music plus web site.There is another version of this book with parts that are easier to play.I have only seen one sample page from that book (Linus and Lucy) and in the other book it is played in C major and doesn't have the left-hand rhythmic anticipations (first note begins an eight note early) while this book has the song in E-flat, which is a little harder to play but sounds richer.I have a QRS player piano roll of Linus and Lucy and I noticed that it matches the Christas CD better.The song on the CD goes through the main part of the song three times with two swinging (hard to play) refrains.The two refrains are a little different, with the second one being more dissonant than the first.The book documents only the second.The bass line for the refrains are simple walking quarter notes while the piano roll has a rag-time style alternating eight note bass notes and chords.This is fine by me because this is plenty hard to play as it is (triplets over quarter notes, etc.).

At any rate, check out the sample at Sheet Music Plus to see if the difficulty matches you ability.If so, this is a great purchase.

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Product Description:
This deluxe collection features easy piano arrangements of all ten Vince Guaraldi arrangements from this annually anticipated holiday classic: Christmas Is Coming * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Fur Elise * Hark, The Herald Angels Sing * Linus and Lucy * My Little Drum * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This. Also includes an 8-page color section featuring Peanuts illustrations!

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