Elton John for Classical Piano

arr. Phillip Keveren The Phillip Keveren Series Piano Solo

By Elton John

I liked some Phillip Kevern's other arrangements (e.g. Beatles), but was disappointed by the ones for Elton John - in a word... boring.

I absolutely LOVE Keveren's Beatles and Gershwin books, but these Elton John arrangements are terrible. His other arrangements are clever and fit the character of the songs. Out of the 15 songs I give only Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word a "B...

". The rest are so bad I will probably never play them again. Very disappointing.

Love Philip Keveren arrangements and always buy anything new that comes out if I am interested in the songs. The arrangements have beautiful chords and take some time to work through but definitely worth the effort. Most of the music I have that he has done would consider advanced. Particularly...

like the "Lion King & Don't let the sun go down on me" in this book. The only other thing I would say is please Mr. Keveren arrange more songs!!!!

I really like these piano solo arrangements. Especially the arrangements for Your Song and Little Jeannie. I love that Phillip Keveren was able to intertwine the classical elements throughout all of the songs. Essentially, you are playing very classical-type music with the melodies of each Elton John song.

I wish I would have reviewed all of the options for Elton John music before ordering. This book is for you if you have someone to sing the melody while you are playing--no words, no melody in this book.