Customer Reviews

The Praise & Worship Fake Book: An Essential Tool for Worship Leaders, Praise Bands and Singers!

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This book has a great selection of old & new P & W songs, in lead sheet form, mostly one or 2 pages, mostly in easy keys to play the songs. It is possible to bring this to a gathering and just praise, but more likely, it is extremely helpful to have a one or two page chart, in an easy key, to copy for the band at church, and do the song. Worship leaders-NO PAGE TURNING....THANK YOU LORD!!!!

This fake book is packed with contemporary worship songs. I am continually surprised at the songs that I'm familiar with that are contained in this book. It's a fake book so it has the melody line and the chords. I play piano for a contemporary church service and this book has just about every song in it that the pastor wants to sing. It's not quite as new as I would like; I think the newest songs I've seen in it were copywritten in 2002. However a good song doesn't lose it's meaning, and there are a lot of good songs (current and memorable) selected from the past 25 or so years. This book is a great starter book for a church musician's song library. It may even be all you need.

This book contains hundreds of worship songs,although not to many "new" songs. New Worship songs are being written constantly and hopefully will be put into new volumes to follow. This book only contains the melody line, lyrics and chords.Very good binding, easy to turn pages, well written.

Our praise band consists of Youth and the young at heart. This book was a nice resource that provided material that all could appreciate. Our band consists or two singers two guitarists and a precussionist. It was easy to read and follow for everyone. We did have our church organist sit in with us and she had a tough time since it is a fake book format. She needed to be able to see all the notes on staff instead of just the melody with some harmonies in spots with the chord names over the staff. We were able to use it as a good starting resource. If you are starting a praise band or contemporary service and are on a limited budget, I'd really recommend this song book. The selection of music represents both past favorites and current ones in an easy to read format that will allow you to start and progress in building a good pool of songs to use during worship. We play in a United Methodist Church and I would go as far as to choose this over The Faith We Sing song book that is published by United Methodist Press.

this was a BIG book, and definately a hit to son the guitarist.
This was a well done book, stays open easy with the binding and had lots of songs to choose from. Since I play piano, I wish I'd gotten one for me too! Package arrived on time and in great condition. Thanks!

I think this is a very practical and helpful book for worshipteams, musically and practically (1 page instead of 6 per song!). The big plastic binding ring is also very practical and durable: no loose pages and no more pages that have their own will by turning when you are in the middle of a song. The book is very complete and contains almost all of the standard repertoire.

The only downside IMHO is that the melody lines of some songs are "obscured" by fully written out righthands (for piano). It may sometimes help if a part of the song is written out in a fakebook (guitar intro, basspattern, pianolick etc.), but this is not helpful and very annoying.

...but there's nothing fake about it =)
With only the chords and treble cleff melody line (sometimes simple chords), 400 songs can fit in the palm of your hand and be copied on one peice of paper instead of the full score which takes so much more space. If your keyboardists can fake with only the melody line and chords written above, then you're in business! After using various (not always copyright ethical) ways of gathering music together for teams in the past, I LOVE having it all in one place!
The only drawback is an odd paper size which can cause problems when photocopying one-time-use sheets (lines cut off sides and bottom)

As a Christian school music teacher and as someone involved in church music ministry, I use this book constantly. Almost every song I look for is in this collection. It is incredibly helpful to have one giant resource to look at rather than searching through dozens of books to find one song. I highly recommend this book.

When I started looking for a book to order for all my musicians in a growing praise team, I picked this one b/c of it's contents and, in all honestly, availability. I needed to have bunch of copies and couldn't afford all of them at once, so I picked something I could find almost anywhere. Most of my vocalists are messo-soprano or below so it's hard to sing a lot of the songs because most of the keys are so high, but there are several great resources in the book. My favorite is the index of keys. Great song selection too. Chords, a few already transposed for use with a capo, and large print. Overall a safe and varied choice.

Our Praise Team/Band could not live without it. Can't wait for a new edition with more of the recent songs of the last two years.