Customer Reviews

Christmas Themes (New Age)

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This book contains all the favorites of Christmas with the romantic touch of Jim Brickman's beautiful arrangements. Its melodies are sure to bring a little more heart to an already beautiful season.

I like all the songs and most of all the unique arrangement by Jim Brickman himself. It's just like bringing and listening Jim Brickman to our home. Though it needs a lot of practice to master each songs, I love every bit of it and enjoy playing it in the comforts of my home. For those who are fond of piano songs and instrumental, this is a must have. Also, I would like to appreciate my shopping with amazon.com which has been great and easy for me especially the free shipping. Sure enough, I would be shopping with them again in the future. Thank you.

Roen Diaz
Athens,AL

Christmas is already a happy time of the year, but Jim Brickman just makes it better. When I play his music it makes me feel like a concert pianist. He has an amazing way of filling in empty spaces to make any song complete. I would recommend this to anyone who has a good grasp of the piano.

I have multiple compilations of Christmas music arranged by various composers, Jim Brickman and Dan Coates are by far my favorite. I purchased my copy via a local music store, not through Amazon. Christmas Themes (New Age) is my favorite book although there are only 10 arrangements. Most of the melodies everyone knows by heart, so it's not too difficult to improvise by either adding more notes (ie small run of notes going up or down the scale, arpeggiating, or adding thirds) or leaving out some notes altogether as the mood strikes you. Thanks Jim Brickman and could you please publish a follow-up Volume 2 ?

I thought the music was a bit more challenging than I expected, especially the rhythm aspect. It seems like he adds syncopation to every single measure and that gets quite annoying (for me anyway) to play. I've learned the piece "The Gift" before and thought his other pieces would be similar, but I think the rest in the book are a bit more complicated and I'm just not feeling like making the effort to learn all of his complicated rhythmns. Maybe I should have listened to more of his music before ordering one of his books.