Classic Rock Fake Book: Over 250 Great Songs of the Rock Era, Arranged for Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Electronic Keyboard an all 'C' Instruments [Plastic Comb]

Hal Leonard Corporation (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1999

This fake book is a great compilation of more than 250 terrific songs of the rock era, arranged for piano, voice, guitar and all C instruments. Includes: The Air That I Breathe · All Right Now · American Woman · And When I Die · Angie · Beast of Burden · Birthday · Born to Be Wild · Brown Eyed Girl · Bus Stop · Carrie-Anne · A Day in the Life · Don't Stand So Close to Me · The First Cut Is the Deepest · Free Bird · Hello, It's Me · Honesty · Honky Cat · Hot Legs · I Shot the Sheriff · I Want You to Want Me · Imagine · It's Still Rock and Roll to Me · Jesus Is Just Alright · Killer Queen · Kiss You All Over · Lay Down Sally · Layla · Leather and Lace · Let It Rain · Levon · Magic Carpet Ride · My Generation · New Kid in Town · Owner of a Lonely Heart · Piece of My Heart · Rikki Don't Lose That Number · Rock and Roll All Nite · Spinning Wheel · Sweet Home Alabama · White Room · We Will Rock You · Young Americans · lots more!

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Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.

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• Plastic Comb: 280 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation; 2nd edition (February 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793578566
• ISBN-13: 978-0793578566
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not really "Classic", but Pretty Good, January 31, 2005

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-TMcN- (Snohomish, WA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Classic Rock Fake Book: Over 250 Great Songs of the Rock Era, Arranged for Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Electronic Keyboard an all 'C' Instruments (Plastic Comb)

Fake Books have just the melody/lyric line (staff); piano players will only have their right hand busy; the left "fakes" it. And there's no tabs and songs are in their actual keys, so you need to read music. But if you do and either are good at theory or play a non-chording instrument, they're fantastic.

This book has a very impressive selection of songs, but "Classic Rock" doesn't describe it. More like "SuperHits of the 70s and 80s". There's some rock, some pop, some glam, a pretty wide variety of stuff people will likely request or that you might enjoy playing, but it's not all "rock" and certainly not "classic rock" - it's got songs from Heart, Bon Jovi and Jefferson Starship, fer cryin' out loud! Very playable stuff.

I enjoy this book a lot. I also enjoy the Disney Fake Book and the Ultimate Fake Book; there's not much overlap between them. The breadth of styles (again, it's not all classic rock) is a nice touch, and most of the songs were really big hits at one time. There are some omissions and excesses. No Dire Straits, but 22 Beatles songs. Six Elton John, but no Candle/Funeral for a Friend? No Led Zeppelin but FOUR Lennon/Ono (and one Lennon solo) songs? But on average it's a great collection.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars has some flaws, May 5, 2005

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The repertoire in this book is pretty good for classic rock fans. Of course, due to licensing restrictions it doesn't have EVERY great classic rock tune. There are some fatal flaws, however. The chords and lyrics are extremely small. Forget about using this book while playing live or jamming. The book would have been much better if it had been written in "real book" format instead of cramming all of the music and lyrics on one page. Also, songs that are tuned to E flat are sometimes notated as the actual chord shapes (without notating the tuning) and sometimes notated as the flatted chords. In other words, an open E chord would be notated as E flat. This is an awful thing to do to guitarists, especially on guitar based songs. I had to do a lot of crossing out and rewriting in chords. I also found a few of the chords to be incorrect when I went and learned them from CD. It's good as a reference for learning songs quickly, but you can't use it while playing.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Collection but beware Small Printed Pages, June 3, 2008

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This fake book has many hits that I would love to be able to play.
But this sheet music has such tiny printing that it makes the notes and key signatures dificult to read.
I would have given this book 3 more stars if it had have the songs and bigger print.