Classic Rock

Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions

By Various

This is the best book I own! Great 80's music!

The sheet music is written exactly as the original music note for note.

Has great songs from artists like Styx, Queen, Beatles, Foreigner, Genesis, and others. Piano is exactly as it is in the recordings so you can sing along with yourself playing. It doesn't have the melody line written into the music, only the accompaniment, which is great because then it...

's all about the singer. You can start a tribute band with this book. If you like the accurate transcriptions they also have a pop/rock version of this book and I think a jazz version. Also check out the Beatles Keyboard Book, Elton John Keyboard Book, and Billy Joel Keyboard Book.

. . . . all the songs they chose to transcribe seem to reek of the seedy side of the seventies and eighties! Sure, there's a few gems here and there like JOY TO THE WORLD, etc. I already have the other Classic Rock transcriptions book, and many of those are duplicated in...

this book.

A great book because it is one of the few keyboard books with note-for-note transcriptions. Most of the songs are right on, but a handful are just missing stuff, like the intro to Come Sail Away is for some reason missing the trill part (you know what I...

mean), the Meatloaf song must be from the shortened radio verison, Mandolin rain is slightly off in the first 2 bars, but this book gets it pretty close. If the song fades out, there is always an optional ending tabed out, nice touch. Great songs too, Point of Know Return is my fav to play so far. Cheers