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Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know

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Songs are:

Ain't She Sweet
Alone Together
Am I Blue?
Angel Eyes
Anything Goes
April in Paris
April Showers
As Time Goes By
Autumn in New York
Avalon
Begin the Beguine
The Birth of the Blues
Blues in the Night
Body and Soul
But Not For Me
Can't We Be Friends ?
Can't We Talk It Over
Caravan
Charleston
Crazy Rhythm
Dancing in the Dark
Day by Day
Days of Wine and Roses
Do It Again
Dream
Embraceable You
Fascinating Rhythm
Fine and Dandy
Fools Rush In
Get Happy
Hallelujah!
How Long Has This Been Going On?
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Cover the Waterfront
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Got Rhythm
I Know That You Know
I May Be Wrong
I Only Have Eyes For You
I Thought About You
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
I Want to be Happy
I'll See You Again
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Indian Summer
It's Only a Paper Moon
I've Got a Crush on YOu
I've Got the World on a String
The Japanese Sandman
Jeepers Creepers
Just One of Those Things
Limehouse Blues
Liza
Love for Sale
Lover, Come Back to Me!
Lullaby of Birdland
Lulu's Back in Town
Mack the Knife
The Man I Love
Misty
Night and Day
Oh, Lady Be Good!
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Poor Butterfly
'Round Midnight
'S Wonderful
Satin Doll
Secret Love
September in the Rain
Skylark
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
Somebody Loves Me
Someone To Watch Over Me
Something To Remember You By
Sometimes I'm Happy
Soon
Strike Up The Band!
The Summer Knows (theme from Summer of '42)
Sweet Georgia Brown
Tea For Two
This Love of Mine
Thou Swell
Three Little Words
Time After Time
A Time For Love
Too Marvelous For Words
The Very Thought of You
What Is This Thing Called Love?
What's New/
When Your Lover Has Gone
With A Song In My Heart
You And The Night And The Music
You Are Too Beautiful
You Do Something To Me
You Go To My Head
You Make Me Feel So Young
You Took Advantage Of Me
You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
You're The Top
Yours Is My Heart Alone

This is a great collection of sheet music both for the standards it contains and the chord substitutions Mr. Hyman shares. And, while there isn't much text in it, the familiarity you get with him as a person is certainly there. Its amazing how much you can glean from a musician based on his chord substitutions! And while that doesn't extend to his personal life, I know that he's played throughout the latter end of the 20th century as a working musician. You'll be able to tell too .. these are tunes you're likely to be all too familiar with, but he gives you a ton of options in what seems mostly like the original keys they were written in. And, based on his selections, you also know about where he's been playing and what his audiences like (or perhaps more saliently what he likes to entertain his audiences with). Must have for working musicians .. and consider the accompanying 2nd volume. All the standards all the time. This was written from a keyboard players point of view, but as a guitarist, I've learned a ton from it.

Lots of information in this book. As a banjoist, I am always looking for another opinion on what other chords can be used in a song. This adds color and sophistication to your performing.
This book has lots of them!

A wonderful opportunity to learn some solid changes. It's a pleasure for us younger players to memorize pieces using such a reliable, high-quality fake book of jazz/pop standards--often sung by Sinatra, Bennett, Connick, Krall and many others. Please keep them coming Mr. Hyman, keep them coming.