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Glee: Music from the FOX Television Show

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I am going to start out saying that I love Glee and it is probably my favorite show ever on television (next to Friends, of course). Enthusiastically, I bought this product along with the soundtracks, DVD, shirt, etc. I was convinced this compilation of sheet music from Glee were in the arrangements used in the television show and soundtrack. My highschool child was planning to put together a performance group to learn, choregraph, and perform Somebody to Love in the style of Glee, but when we got the book it only included the original Queen arrangment. All of the songs are in their original form, not in the style of Glee. So if you are just looking to expand your music variety with random songs, this book is for you. But if you are looking to buy this book because you would like to have the music in the Glee arrangments (Girl/Guy Mash-up, glee's performance of Somebody to Love,the group arrangment of Dont Stop Believin with the "Da's", etc.) this book is NOT for you. It is simply a collection of songs used on the tv show, put together in a book. Long story short, I returned my package, unhappy with its content and the lack of this information included on Amazon.

For anyone who might not know, this is a Piano/Vocal/Guitar book. I'm not musical so I don't know if songbooks include all 3 or not. I did a lot of searching before I ordered it to find out if it was only vocals & thought this information might help someone else.

This is a gift for my daughter. After Christmas, I'll update my review with her comments.

UPDATE: I noticed that Amazon's title/description of this songbook has been updated to include the information in my review. Previously it read 'Glee: Music from the FOX Television Show'.

For those wondering if this book has SATB vocal arrangements, my answer would have to be 'no' because that term is not printed anywhere in this songbook & the arrangements do not look like the sample given by Media Man in the comment section of this review.

UPDATE #2: My daughter didn't find this songbook to be very useful.

This book with the title "Glee" on it is absolutely ridiculous! The only thing "Glee" about it is the title and the fact that the tv show did different versions of the songs with completely different arrangements in different keys! They may as well call it "Songs that you may or may not need if you have some time to rearrange them and transpose them into what you wanted in the first place!"

I like having the songs themselves to play in an easier version. I have a hard time finding songs like "Imagine" and "Defying Gravity" in an arrangment were I can play it myself. So for that reason I like the book. I want to get the other books in the "Glee" series for the easy arrangments.

highly recommend glee music..my daughter & I love listening and singing to the tunes ! would purchase again... great gift idea

It's a good songbook, but it doesn't include the arrangements that are sung in the show.
I was particularly disappointed with the "Don't Stop Believin'" one because I was really looking for the opening of that song where the Glee club sings "Ba Ba Ba Ba..."

These arrangements are not very pianistic, or if they are, they are too simple. I'm also not happy with the overall selection of songs included.

This is a great book with most of the songs from the first part of Glee Season 1.

I love that I can have the music from Glee and can play it on the piano.