10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The coolest thing for good piano players!, April 11, 2008
This review is from: Play Piano with Coldplay (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) (Paperback)
I'll say this right up front to you. If you are not a very good piano player then this book is not for you. If you can play good, have some training or can play by ear (like myself) -- AND you are a Coldplay fan... you will fall in love with this book.
I've been a Coldplay fan since I first heard Clock almost 6 years ago and have never stopped listening to them. I couldn't believe this when I saw this and I'm honestly so pleased it already reached my expectations.
The backing tracks are dead on. If you can play the Coldplay songs already then you will not have to go through the book and can just jump right into playing with the CD.
I honestly felt like I was playing with Coldplay which is a dream come true. If just for that, this book was worth my 13 dollars. I would pay 13 dollars to just play clocks, but no, they give you six of Coldplay's best songs from ROBTTH, which is Coldplay's best album.
Seriously, if you are good at piano or can learn, then I recommend this 100% to you.
I also want to say that I like not having vocals because I like to sing with the backing track anyway. :)
Negatives:
For someone who has listed to these songs 100 times over, I can say that some of the piano parts that they play aren't 100% correct but it doesn't matter because when you play, you can do whatever you want.
It may too advanced to moderate to beginner piano players.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but with some complaint..., February 2, 2007
This review is from: Play Piano with Coldplay (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) (Paperback)
This is my first book purchased from the "Play Piano with..." series. Not being a huge fan of Coldplay I really enjoyed this book. The book features 6 songs and comes with a CD that includes 12 songs. 6 of the songs are Coldplay performing with the piano music; the other 6 are the same songs without the piano music - you're the accompaniment!
A couple of complaints:
1 - The CD and layout of the book are great! But the set of 6 songs you get to play the accompaniment, which do NOT include Coldplay's vocals, except toward the very end of the song. Kind of misleading. The book should be titled, "Play piano with Coldplay's band" - though I'm not certain it's the actual band.
2 - I wish there was a way to slow the tempo down for practice, but since it's on CD there's no way of doing that. (UPDATE: Windows' Media Player has a "SPEED" feature and you CAN slow it down, wow!!)
Overall a great fun book to play along to. I really felt like I was part of a band!
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