The Simon and Garfunkel Collection ( Piano/ Vocal/ Chord Songbook) (Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel) [Paperback] Review

The music, words and chords to songs written by Paul Simon and made famous by Simon and Garfunkel. The book contains the songs:

A Hazy Shade of Winter
America
At The Zoo
Bookends
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Cecilia
El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Homeward Bound
I Am A Rock
Keep The Customer Satisfied
Mrs. Robinson
Old Friends
Scarborough Fair (Canticle)
Song For The Asking
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
The Boxer
The Sound Of Silence
Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.

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Includes: A Hazy Shade of Winter, America, At The Zoo, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia, Homeward Bound, Keep the Customer Satisfies, Mrs. Robinson, Song for the Asking, 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy), Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. and more.

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Twilight - The Score - Music from the Motion Picture - Piano Solo Songbook Review

Very easy to play and each songs brings you back to the film setting. Very memorable.

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Based on Stephenie Meyer's popular vampire-romance novels, the movie Twilight is taking huge bites out of box office receipts across the country! Composer Carter Burwell is highly regarded for his scores for the Coen brothers movies. Here are piano solo arrangements of music he composed for this film, including the achingly beautiful 'Bella's Lullaby' and ten more pieces: Dinner with His Family - Edward at Her Bed - I Dreamt of Edward - I Would Be the Meal - In Place of Someone You Love - The Lion Fell in Love with the Lamb - Phascination Phase - Stuck Here like Mom - Tracking - Who Are They?.

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Pischna: Technical Studies - Sixty Progressive Exercises for the Piano (Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics, Vol. 792) [Paperback] Review

I bought this book to give my piano technique a tune up and I've noticed overall that my playing is smoother and clearer.I would recommend a book like this over Czerny since there's no halfhearted attempt to make these exercises a piece of music and you just get straight to the finger calisthenics. Most of the "pieces" (usually just a measure or two) have to be transposed to all 12 keys, which exercises not just fingers, but also the ear and brain.I wouldn't call the exercises fun or easy, but going through them daily has benefited me and has made some of my difficulties with my regular rep disappear.

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Comprised of 60 challenging and musically satisfying exercises, this book accentuates dynamics, rhythm and sensitivity to tempo. With a steady progression of difficulty, these rigorous studies also strengthen the hand, build greater flexibility and enhance finger dexterity. The exercises are transposed and written out in every key. Notations for fingering, dynamics and tempo have been included by the editor.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Latin Jazz: Jazz Piano Solos Series [Paperback] Review

This book is absolutely wonderful! I am an 18-year-old piano student and I have been classically trained for 10 years. These arrangements were perfect for me because I needed a large amount of quality jazz songs to play in a hotel lobby just before most people went to bed. These pieces are fabulous because they dont require all the attention from everyone in the room (many people like to read while listening), yet if someone wants to just sit and actively listen to what I'm playing, they have a lot of interesting melodies and chords that keep their attention locked and invested in the music. Often times, people will walk in the lobby and just stand and listen to the beautiful melodies these arrangements create before actually going to the desk and checking in. It's very rewarding for me to play this music because they speak to a huge audience, and I find that my listening audience will grow every time I pull the book out and start playing.
But Beyond the fact that the original melodies are wonderful, it's even amazing to me the great flexibility that the arranging allows. They are superb when plays them simply as they are and just marvels in what is written on the page, but if you like to changearound things and play them your own way, you have the freedom to move things around and put your own "feel" to the music. Even the different styles of songs in this book are very flexible and broad,too. Songs range from slightly melancholy, to pensive, to light and upbeat, all the way to a couple that are loud and boisterous. I can only find two songs in the entire book that written in a similar style and mood.
I dont want to lead you on that these pieces are just the sort that simply find a good groove and then uphold the same simple thing the whole time, either. These are good, melodious SONGS that anyone could make up lyrics to and singly along with if they wanted to.
But anyway, I just wanted to let it known how thankful I am to Hal Leonard and the arranger, Brent Edstrom, for putting together this book. I am SURE that anyone of medium to advanced piano skills will find this book creeping its way into their everyday, multipurpose repertoir for use at any gig, and that they will probably end up considering buying all the rest of the books in this series, as I'm doing too.

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17 Latin jazz classics, including: Adios (Perez Prado, Astor Piazzolla) * Brazil (Xavier Cugat, Django Reinhardt) * A Day in the Life of a Fool (Stan Getz, Paul Desmond) * Desafinado (Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim) * Mambo #5 (Perez Prado, Xavier Cugat) * Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader) * Mas Que Nada (Dizzy Gillespie) * Perfidia (Perez Prado, Nat King Cole) * Samba De Orfeu (Paul Desmond, Vince Guaraldi) * Triste (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cal Tjader) * and more.

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The Best Songs Ever: 71 All-Time Hits (Easy Piano Songbook) [Paperback] Review

If you're ready to advance beyond the EZ Play books, this is an excellent choice. The Easy Piano format gives you more notes and chords to bring an added depth to your music. Best of all, you'll find more complete songs here, not just the chorus or the 'familiar' part of a song that you find most frequently in EZ Play books.

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Features 73 favorites arranged for easy piano: All I Ask of You * Born Free * Call Me Irresponsible * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chariots of Fire * Edelweiss * From a Distance * How Deep Is the Ocean * I'll Be Seeing You * Imagine * Longer * Mona Lisa * Moonglow * On the Street Where You Live * Save the Best for Last * September Song * Unchained Melody * The Way We Were * What a Wonderful World * When I Fall in Love * You Are the Sunshine of My Life * more.

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Complete Piano Concertos in Full Score (Music Series) [Paperback] Review

This is an excellent book, the concertos are some of Beethoven's best in my opinion. I highly recommend the second movement of the fifth concerto. Excellent!

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Full scores of 5 great Beethoven piano concertos, reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, with all cadenzas as he wrote them. The works reveal the pianistic and orchestral mastery of Beethoven's early and middle periods as well as his innovative genius. New table of contents.


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The Fray How to Save a Life Easy Piano [Paperback] Review

Bought this mainly because of two songs: How to Save a Life and Cable Car (Over My Head). I wasn't disappointed with those two. The arrangements are great and in the right keys. So I was really looking forward to the book as a whole.

Problem, there are very few mentions of this on the first pages of the different songs, but quite a few of them have been transposed, which isn't so fun when you were planning on playing along. So a bit misleading, especially if they plan on catching people offguard in a bookstore where they can't test the keys, but still a good buy.

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