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The Best Christmas Songs Ever (Best Ever)

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I think that this book is great. It has just about any christmas song that you can think of. Some of those songs are: "Frosty the Snow Man", "Blue Christmas", "Home for the Holidays", "Let it Snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!" and many more! I think that book is very well arranged. The music is simple and arranged well also. I give it a five star rating!

This "The Best Christmas Songs Ever" has a lot of nice Christmas music. It is an easy arrangement and would do nicely for a student of piano in about grade two. It did not quite reach my expectations but I have played piano for fifty-five years and have a lot of music. This book did have some songs that I did not have and I enjoy playing from it. It is sold at a bargain price and well worth the money .

A solid collection of 72 traditional Christmas songs, most songs for grade two or three level, with some growing room. A nice bonus with this collection are the guitar chord fingering diagrams, shown along with the chord names. CleverJoe gives it a big three thumbs up!

Excellent choice of all time favorites. Good size music score. Only recomendation is that it be published with spiral binding. Difficult to keep open on the piano - I have been using a big plastic bag clip but then when pages need to be turned you need to stop and reposition. I would have been willing to pay another five for this convenience.

This book has a nice selection of everyone's Christmas favorites, even including such "pop Christmas" songs as Blue Christmas.

The arrangements as written are for a somewhat advanced player. Some of the songs are in "advanced" keys, and the bass as arranged is pretty complicated in most of the arrangements. However, even if you can just play the melody along with the listed chords, these songs come out sounding the way you'd expect them too. The music has not been transposed into simpler keys just so every beginner can look at the left side of the staff and be comforted by the presence of no more than one sharp or flat. LOL

Even an advanced beginner who knows his chords can find some very enjoyable music to play in this book ... even by sight reading. And if you want to put some real effort into learning the left hand side of the arrangements, you'll be even further rewarded.

If you are an advanced or professional player who for some reason still needs a compilation of all the classic hymns and pop Christmas music in one book, you have it here, and in arrangements and keys which will show off your skill to good purpose.

(PS, though they aren't written in the music, I play "Blue Christmas" - noted above - with the "Elvis flourishes" - the little stutters he introduced into his singing. For some reason I just can't hear that music without those in there, so I play them as well. LOL)

There are sixty-nine pieces of music here, including some that I'm not familiar with, and I'm pretty much of an old pro when it comes to knowing a lot of Christmas songs. Included are a few "seasonal songs" which aren't truly Christmas songs, such as: Auld Lang Syne, Frosty the Snow Man, Home for the Holidays, Let it Snow, My Favorite Things, and Suzy Snowflake. You get a lot of the new "fun" songs that became popular in the mid 1900s: The Chipmunk Song, Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Jingle-Bell Rock, Pretty Paper, The Christmas Song, Santa Baby, Happy Holiday. And of course all the old standards/hymns are there too, including: Angels we have Heard on High, Away in a Manger, Deck the Hall, The First Noel, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, O Holy Night, and MANY more.

As I write this in late July, its about time to start brushing up to play these for Christmas. My mistake is always waiting for Thanksgiving to start doing that, and then I never feel ready by the time Christmas shows up. I'm starting early this year .. I PROMISE!!!

This book is great. The arrangements are fun and it has HARD CANDY CHRISTMAS! What?!?!?!? Great book, has a lot of Christmas songs that are different from the norm.

I'm very happy with this purchase. It's everything I read in the previous reviews. Easy but very nice piano songbook!

I have been looking for a good Christmas music compilation book and this one turned out to be perfect. There is a good mix of songs and it arrived in time for me to practice!