Customer Reviews

Bad Love: Piano/Vocal/Chords

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This book, like the superlative 'Randy Newman Anthology', transcribes Bad Love's music perfectly. This is presumably because Newman himself is a meticulous composer and archives his material.

I'm basing the rating for the book purely on the calibre of the sheet music. Whether or not the music itself is five stars is up to you. But ultimately, in the preponderance of songbooks available on the market, Bad Love and the aforementioned Anthology are both extremely good buys. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around Newman's music to begin with, since singing along to a shuffle tempo whilst jumping around with your left and right hands is a bit tricky, but these songs are quickly learnt and certainly not that difficult.

Some other good buys that fit under the category of transcriptions are the Elton John Keyboard Book, the Billy Joel Keyboard Book and any of the Ben Folds Five songbooks. But of course, for true Newman fans, there's nothing like retreating to the piano to play a bit of his music.