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  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Colors Of The Wind
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • All The Things You Are
  • Fascination
  • Alley Cat Song
  • The America Beautiful
  • Annie's Song
  • As Long As He Needs Me
  • Beauty And The Beast
  • Bewitched
  • Blame It On My Youth
  • Blue And Sentimental
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • Blueberry Hill
  • Bring Him Home
  • Bye Bye Love
  • Can't Help Falling In Love
  • Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
  • Can't Smile Without You
  • Carolina In The Morning
  • Chariots Of Fire
  • Comedy Tonight
  • Dinah
  • Do-re-mi
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  • Don't Cry For Me Argentina
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Don't Know Much
  • Earth Angel
  • Edelweiss
  • Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
  • Falling In Love With Love
  • Georgia On My Mind
  • Get Me To The Church On Time
  • Getting To Know You
  • Goodnight, Irene
  • Harbor Lights
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
  • Heart And Soul
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Hey Jude
  • Honeysuckle Rose
  • Hound Dog
  • How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
  • I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • I Could Have Danced All Night
  • I Could Write A Book
  • I've Got You Under My Skin
  • If Ever I Would Leave You
  • If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)
  • In The Still Of The Night
  • Isn't It Romantic?
  • It Only Takes A Moment
  • Leaving On A Jet Plane
  • Let It Be
  • Love Is The Sweetest Thing
  • Love Me Tender
  • Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  • Manhattan
  • Maria
  • Maria Elena
  • Mood Indigo
  • My Favorite Things
  • My Funny Valentine
  • My Heart Stood Still
  • My Melancholy Baby
  • My Romance
  • Never On Sunday
  • No Other Love
  • Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
  • Oklahoma
  • Ol' Man River
  • On The Street Where You Live
  • Prepare Ye (The Way Of The Lord)
  • Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
  • Satin Doll
  • Seventy Six Trombones
  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Somewhere Out There
  • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
  • Swanee
  • That Old Black Magic
  • This Land Is Your Land
  • Till There Was You
  • Too Late Now
  • Try To Remember
  • Waltz For Debby
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • What Kind Of Fool Am I?
  • When I Fall In Love
  • When I'm Sixty-four
  • When The Saints Go Marching In
  • Where Or When
  • A Whole New World
  • Yesterday
  • You Can Depend On Me
  • You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
  • You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You
  • Young At Heart

Your First Fake Book arranged by Alexander Citron. For Guitar, Piano, Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Vocal Standards and Pop. Difficulty: easy-medium. Fakebook (leadsheet notation). Vocal melody, lyrics, leadsheet notation and chord names. 158 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.240112).

ISBN 0793585031. With vocal melody, lyrics, leadsheet notation and chord names. Vocal Standards and Pop. 9x12 inches.

An entry-level fake book! This book features larger-than-most fake book notation with simplified harmonies and melodies - and all songs are in the key of C. An introduction addresses basic instruction in playing from a fake book. Includes over 100 songs, including: Ain't Misbehavin' * All the Things You Are * America the Beautiful * Beauty and the Beast * Bewitched * Blueberry Hill * Can't Help Falling in Love * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Edelweiss * Getting to Know You * Heart and Soul * It Only Takes a Moment * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Let It Be * Love Me Tender * Maria * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Somewhere Out There * Try to Remember * When the Saints Go Marching In * Young at Heart * and more.

About Hal Leonard Fake Books

A "fake book" contains songs written in a concise format that includes only the melody and chords, letting you interpret the song's performance as you feel is appropriate. This is great for quickly learning songs by yourself or with an ensemble.

Each song in a fake book only has a single melody actually written out in notes, which is usually the vocal or lead melody. This melody will have the lyrics written beneath the notes, with each word aligned to its corresponding note. Above the notes of the melody will appear the names of the appropriate chords to play - for example, a "C minor" chord would be written as "Cmin" or Cm", rather than writing out all of the notes in those chords as they appeared in the original version of the song.

This format is very compact, which is why you will often see fakebooks containing 500 or more songs.

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      5 star rating

      Location: from Palm coast, Fl

      Difficulty Level:
      Beginner

      September 2, 2012

      Great

      Although I play advanced piano I am just beginning to try to use fake books. This was the perfect waynfornme to begin. Since everything is in the key of C it was easy to acclimate myself to the chords most often used I that key. I actually wish there were...

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      5 star rating

      Location: from Topeka, Kansas

      Difficulty Level:
      Beginner

      September 2, 2011

      Your First Fake BOOK

      This is a great book........I use it with my adult piano students, once they can read treble clef notes with east. THEY all enjoy it, feel they can play a lot faster.......I highly recommend it and keep extras in my personal collection to sell as needed to students. The age...

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      22 of 43 people found this review helpful.

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      5 star rating

      Location: from virginia

      Difficulty Level:
      Beginner

      May 8, 2011

      First Fake Book

      This is a great book for beginning guitar players, for teaching students chords and developing techniques in accompanying bass with a given melody line. Excellent book.

      28 of 55 people found this review helpful.

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      5 star rating

      Location: from Artesia, CA

      Difficulty Level:
      Beginner

      February 2, 2009

      Great Book!

      It's one book that I would like to carry with me. It's as if I am good at playing piano.

      36 of 67 people found this review helpful.

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      5 star rating

      Location: from Australia

      Difficulty Level:
      Beginner

      August 25, 2007

      Great book

      This book contains some fabulous music and is perfect for a beginner.

      34 of 68 people found this review helpful.

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