Best Christmas Music (Big Note Songbook) [Paperback] Review

This is one step up from Easy Play, where the book gives you 1 note melodies for the right hand only and easy chords.This book gives mostly easy chords and a line for each hand.Occasionally there are two notes for one hand instead of only one.Some songs have either one sharp or one flat.I mainly bought this book because it has the Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), but I enjoy many of the songs.
Contents:(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays; A Holly Jolly Christmas; Angels We Have Heard On High; Away In A Manger; Blue Christmas; Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella; C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S; Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus; Coventry Carol; Deck The Hall; Ding Dong! Merrily On High!; Frosty The Snow Man; Go, Tell It On The Mountain; Good Christian Men, Rejoice; Good King Wenceslas; Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer; Grandma's Killer Fruitcake; Happy Holiday; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; He Is Born; Hymne; I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day; I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus; I Saw Three Ships; I'll Be Home For Christmas; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; It Came Upon The Midnight Clear; It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas; Jingle Bells; Jingle-Bell Rock; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; Joy To The World; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!; Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming; Mary Had A Baby; Mister Santa; O Christmas Tree; O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles); O Holy Night; O Little Town Of Bethlehem; Please Come Home For Christmas; Pretty Paper; Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree; Rocking; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer; Silent Night; Silver Bells; Sussex Carol; Suzy Snowflake; The Chipmunk Song; The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire); The Christmas Waltz; The First Noel; The Friendly Beasts; The Holly And The Ivy; The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year; Up On The Housetop; We Need A Little Christmas; We Three Kings Of Orient Are; We Wish You A Merry Christmas; What Child Is This?; Wonderful Christmastime.
I recommend this book if you are looking for an easier but not completely simple Christmas carol book.

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A giant collection of 62 Christmas favorites for big-note piano. Songs include: Away in a Manger ¥ Blue Christmas ¥ The Chipmunk Song ¥ The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) ¥ The First Noel ¥ Frosty the Snow Man ¥ Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer ¥ Happy Holiday ¥ I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus ¥ ItÕs Beginning to Look Like Christmas ¥ Mary Had a Baby ¥ Mister Santa ¥ Pretty Paper ¥ Silver Bells ¥ Suzy Snowflake ¥ Wonderful Christmastime ¥ and more.

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Best of Rock: A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Famous Rock Keyboard Styles and Techniques (Signature Licks Keyboard) [Paperback] Review

good breakdown lessons of some of the classic rock keyboard songs we grew up with!

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Explore the classic riffs and solos of rock's greatest keyboardists with this informative book/CD pack. Includes detailed instruction, transcriptions, and a CD with demos. 12 songs are analyzed: Bloody Well Right (Supertramp) * Cold as Ice (Foreigner) * Don't Do Me Like That (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) * Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John) * I'd Do Anything for Love (Meat Loaf) * Killer Queen (Queen) * Lady Madonna (The Beatles) * Light My Fire (The Doors) * Piano Man (Billy Joel) * Point of No Return (Kansas) * Separate Ways (Journey) * Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon).

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Herbie Nichols - The Unpublished Works (Music Sales America) [Paperback] Review

An excellent music book along the lines of "jazz fake books" that provide melody and chord changes for some of the more harmonically, melodically (and yes, obscure) creatively original tunes in all of jazz.
Now we need the companion piece for Nichol's "popular" tunes (relatively speaking)

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Contains masterful 27 compositions by the pianist-composer that have not been in print before and were never recorded by the composer. Roswell Rudd who has performed and recorded these pieces, discusses them and offers tribute to his friendship with Nichols.

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Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Vol. 7 (Spanning Seven Centuries) [Plastic Comb] Review

I'm a new adult piano player (1 yr), and this book is perfect for me.A wonderful collection of Medieval to Classical pieces that are not way over my head.And, it has more than enough for me to grow in to, (relative Beginner pieces to Intermediate/more technical pieces.
40+ composers represented including B, B, B, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and a few more that are perfect to help graduate your level of play.
Offers a brief history of the composer & history of the piece as it related to his life.
Editor Notations / Suggestions included, and are nice addition to grow in to (trills, why a slur was used / how to play).Suggestions are not obtrusive if you want to stay with the original music.Also includes suggested tempo range (BPM), fingering, and much more.
I learned more from this book in the past few weeks than I've learned from the dozens of books I've purchased so far.
84 selections.Spiral bound. Printing is a good size and is crisp (grayed notations are very legible).]
FYI for Newbies:I often go over to YouTube to see if there is a video on how the piece is played.This often helps me with my timing.

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This volume of 84 early-intermediate selections compiled and edited by Willard Palmer offers the piano student an introduction to the easiest keyboard music of various composers spanning seven centuries and embracing the following periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern.

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Joy Of Irish Ballads (Joy Books) [Paperback] Review

I am very pleased with this book. It includes a wonderful variety of good old fashioned Irish songs (such as "Irish Eyes are Smiling","The Irish Washerwoman", "Danny Boy", "The KerryDance" and "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" just to mention a few)and are arranged with the beginner in mind. 37 songs are contained in this80 page book.
Any beginner interested in Irish music would appreciatethis book. Though, I am no critic, I would suggest this to all interested.

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Best-loved songs and folk tunes in easy piano arrangements. 37 songs include Danny Boy, Irish March, The Last Rose of Summer, Sweet Molly Malone, The Wearing of the Green and many more.

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Daniel Powter (Pvg) [Paperback] Review

I absolutely LOVE this book!As a piano player who is absolutely in love with Daniel Powter, I couldn't not have this book!It's all the songs from his album in print.The piano part is challenging...but it's totally worth it!!!

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Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was exposed to millions of American Idol viewers who came to love it as the exit theme of unsuccessful contestants. Our matching folio to the self-titled debut from this British Columbian singer-songwriter features this megahit and nine more: Free Loop * Give Me Life * Hollywood * Jimmy Gets High * Song 6 * and more.

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The John Tesh Collection (Personality) [Paperback] Review

This music book is based on John's CD, Live At Red Rocks.It has most of the songs preformed at the concert, including Concetta, Garden City, April Song, Shock, Key of Love, A Thousand Summers, ect., and a few others, Good Night Moon, ect.The songs are accurately transcripted, and are fairly easy to play.If you want to impress your frends and famly, this is the song book for you!

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Piano solo arrangements of 15 songs: April Song * Barcelona * Bastille Day * Concetta * The Games * Garden City * Goodnight Moon * Group 5 * In a Child's Eyes * The Key of Love * On American Shores * Road Made for Animals * Shock * A Thousand Summers * Wishing for Home.

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