Customer Reviews for Fake Book Of The World's Favorite Songs - C Instruments - 4th Edition
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dorothy
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 11, 2011
Fake Book of the World's Favority Songs
Unsatisfied. Does not give a listing of all the songs.
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Location: from Newport News, VA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
June 1, 2011
Must for Fake Book users
This s a great addition for users performing for the senior crowd who enjoy music from early 1900 thru the 50's. It's quite complete, easy to read(good print) and the spiral binder is a plus. A good cross section of early standards, light classics, marches and even unknown works you will enjoy playing.
14 of 26 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
February 7, 2008
More of a memory recall book for baby boomers.
This book contains all those songs you learned as a kid including xmas carols. It has a lot of songs, but has the same melody for several songs as people learned them with different words - instead of having 'variations' on one song. It is the most common songs, not the greatest.
14 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Rockwell,NC
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 28, 2008
C instruments is the operative word in this title.
I like many of the selections, but am not accomplished enough to play many as yet. Pieces are written in many different key signatures, so do not read this as a strictly key of C offering.
19 of 42 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 24, 2008
Floutist
That is one reason why I got it. However, I have to 8va (up an octive) the majority of music.(What's new?!) Some of the notes are so low they are in the Alto Clef range of the Viola. If you haven't had any piano and play the flute you won't be able to 8va some of the music, as the lowest is an Alto G? You have to 8va if you play a normal(soprano-High C to middle pianoed C keyed) flute. An Alto Flute might find the range perfect? Maybe even an Oboe would find it easy to play? I like the song collection very much and that it has guitar cords, and lyrics, too! This would be a great song book for an elementry school teacher/parent/grandparent as it has some great school age songs, also a nostalgic collection of folk tunes, hymns, patriotic tunes, Marches etc. Except it's so large, it would be good for a sing a-long at a campfire. A good all rounder book of tunes. I highly recommend it!
21 of 41 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Carlisle, PA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 17, 2008
800 Song Fakebook
The book has lots of variety with some moderately difficult and also easier songs as well. Many nostalgic and fun songs to play.
18 of 36 people found this review helpful.
Rick D
Location: from Hendersonville, North Carolina
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
September 25, 2007
Great, but could be greater
By adding a category offering old favorite college songs - those with printable lyrics, of course. Otherwise, very comprehensive and useful for alternate novelty tunes and sing-alongs on small band gigs.
10 of 24 people found this review helpful.
Ken
Location: from Chino Hills, CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
August 6, 2007
Excelletent Product
I have over 600 pieces of music I perform and ordered this thinking it would probably have many duplicates, which it did, however, the other music that was included with this fake book were very much worth the cost. Now I have well over 700 pieces of music to perform.
6 of 10 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from massachusetts
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
June 23, 2007
versatile fake book
when you're performing for seniors there's no better variety of selection than you have in this book. this and a good book of standards from the 30's & 40's and that's all you need.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Ontario, Canada
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
June 11, 2007
Good book
This is one of several fake books that I've acquired and it met most of my expectations. Although it was purchased for use with my concertina (key of C and G), many of the tunes were written in other keys and will need to be tranposed prior to use. Nonetheless, it is a good addition to my keyboard collection, with many new tunes.
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
John Luthi
Location: from Skamokawa Wa.
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
May 11, 2007
Fake Book in C, Where the real songs are!
This book offers songs that are easy to play, quite a difference to the traditional books. It is hard to stop playing page after page when I get started. I would rate it an A+
4 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Bobby G
Location: from Tewksbury, MA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
May 3, 2007
Top Shelf
Great addition to my repertoire for playing at various assisted living communities. They all know the songs and sing-a-long. Strongly recommend to anyone wanting to complete their song playlists....
8 of 11 people found this review helpful.
Don T
Location: from Arkansas
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 5, 2005
Truly a favorite
A good mix ... gospel, country, rock, jazz, classical, latin --- you name it. Usually one of the first books I pick up when I sit down to play.
6 of 9 people found this review helpful.