The Easy Classical Fake Book

This collection presents 99 popular classical themes arranged as single-note melodies for guitar with chord accompaniment. Each piece is presented in standard notation and tablature followed by chord diagrams and a suggestedstrumming pattern. This book will serve as an introduction to the classics for the beginning guitarist as well as a good source for the more advanced player who needs to supplement his or her repertoire with 'fake book' stylearrangements of well-known classical themes. The songs range from easy to quite challenging and represent a wide variety of styles.

This super collection gathers 101 Beatles classics for beginners to play. The arrangements are in the key of C and the engravings are all new and larger than most fake book notation. Songs include: Across the Universe - All You Need Is Love - And I Love Her - Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Ballad of John and Yoko - Blackbird - Can't Buy Me Love - Come Together - Eight Days a Week - Eleanor Rigby - A Hard Day's Night - Help! - Helter Skelter - Here Comes the Sun - Here There and Everywhere - Hey Jude - I Saw Her Standing There - I Want to Hold Your Hand - In My Life - Let It Be - The Long and Winding Road - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Magical Mystery Tour - Money(That's What I Want) - Penny Lane - Revolution - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - She Loves You - Something - Ticket to Ride - Twist and Shout - We Can Work It Out - When I'm Sixty-Four - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - With a Little Help from My Friends - Yellow Submarine - Yesterday - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away and more!

Volume 3 is perfect for jazz ensemble directors looking for one book to keep their students engaged and progressing all year long, as well as any musician interested in Sher Music's series of world-famous fake books. At over 200 pages, THE REAL EASY BOOK - VOL.3 comes in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. It features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz: Trad Jazz, The Swing Era, Classic Bebop, West Coast Jazz, The Blue Note Era, Contemporary Jazz, ''Groove'' Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz. The wide variety of styles included means that every jazz combo will be able to find exactly the material that fits their needs.Difficulty ranges from very simple blues, like Charlie Parker's ''Now's The Time'' to deep, but still playable, contemporary tunes, like Mike Stern's ''These Times.'' Also featured are some great beginning trad jazz arrangements of ''Bill Bailey'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'', including separate clarinet and trombone obligato parts to get that authentic Dixieland feeling!In addition to the tunes and educational material, there are also fun and informative introductory texts for each section. These short histories of each era of jazz introduce both the flavor of the era, and a discussion of the musical innovations that each one brought to the evolution of jazz.The end result is a multi-dimensional teaching tool that will keep band directors and their students smiling all year long! / Instruments En Do

Get yourself — or your beginning jazz combo — sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser.This book contains: Easy, but classic jazz tunes to give thestudent a good start in learning the jazz repertoire. Sample Piano voicings, Guitar chord diagrams, sample Bass lines and useful scales for improvisation included with each tune, for easy reference. Each song willsound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos.With The Real Easy Book Volume 1 you'll learntheeasiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery and more.Bags' GrooveBig BerthaBlue SevenBlues By FiveBlues In The ClosetCold Duck TimeContemplationDoxyEdward LeeEquinoxFreedom Jazz DanceGingerbread BoyGroove MerchantJive SambaJo Jo CalypsoKiller JoeListen HereLittle SunflowerMercy, Mercy, MercyMidnight WaltzMr. P.C.One For Daddy-ORed's Good GrooveRevelationRoad SongShort StuffShoshanaSir JohnSister SadieSo Danco SambaSong For My FatherSonnymoon For TwoSt. James InfirmarySt. ThomasStraight LifeTenor MadnessTrail DustWhen The Saints Go Marching InWork SongYardbird SuiteZ's Blues / Instrument en mib / Sher Music

The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser: Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines, and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshops summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. Available in C, Bb, Eb and Bass Clef. / Instruments En Do

Tunes for Beginning Improvisers. The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser. Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop's summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. / Instruments Clé De Fa