Product Description

Next time your friends see your piano and say, "Play 'Misty' for me," impress them and really do it! This fake book includes 74 popular song arrangements from Scott Houston, the Piano Master of PBS. Includes: All the Things You Are * Blueberry Hill * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Crazy * Endless Love * The Girl from Ipanema * Heart and Soul * Hey Jude * I Will Remember You * Imagine * Let It Be * Misty * Moon River * My Funny Valentine * Satin Doll * Somewhere Out There * Stand by Me * and more. Includes Scott's unique "simple chord frames" for each song.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19413 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781423413172
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Hey! I can play the piano!
This book is terrific. It actually makes it fun and rewarding to sit down at the piano. You honestly are playing in a couple of hours. I know Houston did not invent this whole thing with chords, but he pulls it all together and teaches it in an accessible, lighthearted way. I can't believe that I can play!

Very limited usage
First, I did enjoy his music selection. Just right for an older person like me.

This is great for beginners who just want to play tunes on the piano. Everything is easily written in the key of C with easy chords. Couldn't be simpler.

However, if you seek to improve your piano skills, playing everything in the key of C will not teach you much. It also sounds boring to hear song after song in the same key.

It's also a bit boring that he omits chord changes whenever possible to simplify. He does supply alternative chords to spice up the music, and that's good, but I miss the chords sequences that he left out.

I bought this book at the same time I bought one of those extremely large fake books. The other gets used constantly. Scott's is just gathering dust on the shelf.

Powerful, especially after watching the TV shows
After struggling with trying to pick up the piano off-and-on over the years, i stumbled across Scott Houston's TV show on a local PBS station a couple of years ago. It was a revelation -- here was an approach to quickly learn songs i liked without trying to read sheet music note-for-note. After watching several episodes of the show, i purchased this book and enjoy it. Yes, some (or many) of the songs are not to my tastes, but even making use of just a dozen tunes is worth the price of admission. I am online today to buy the 2nd 'Fake Book' Scott Houston has produced.

Using lead sheets seems like a well-kept secret. You could probably find this book useful even without seeing the show, but see the show if you get a chance.