Your First Fake Book – 2nd Edition Featuring Large Music Notation, Lyrics, & Simplified Harmonies

C Edition
Easy Fake Book Softcover

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Your First Fake Book – 2nd Edition Featuring Large Music Notation, Lyrics, & Simplified Harmonies

C Edition
Easy Fake Book Softcover

This is a beginning fake book for players new to “faking.” By using a fake book, musicians learn to “fake” an accompaniment to a melody, playing chords as indicated. This book is designed for those players just acquiring this important musical skill. It includes 100 favorite songs that belong in all musicians' repertoire library, including standards, pop hits, Broadway and movie songs, folk favorites, and much more. All the songs are in the key of C and include easy-to-read, large notation complete with lyrics. Chords have been simplified, but remain true to each tune. This book even includes an introduction on how to use a fake book.

Songs include: Beauty and the Beast • Bewitched • Blackbird • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Do-Re-Mi • Don't Cry for Me Argentina • Edelweiss • Georgia on My Mind • Heart and Soul • Hotel California • I Walk the Line • Lean on Me • Let It Be • A Million Dreams • Satin Doll • Stand by Me • Sweet Caroline • This Is Me • Try to Remember • Unchained Melody • When I Fall in Love • When the Saints Go Marching In • A Whole New World • Yesterday • You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) • and more.

Song List

  • Ain't Misbehavin' (from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN')
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band (from ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND)
  • All The Things You Are (from VERY WARM FOR MAY)
  • Alley Cat Song
  • America, The Beautiful (Tune Name: MATERNA)
  • Annie's Song
  • As Long As He Needs Me (from the Columbia Pictures - Romulus Motion Picture Production of Lionel Bart's)
  • Audition (The Fools Who Dream)
  • Beauty And The Beast (from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)
  • Bewitched (from PAL JOEY)
  • Blackbird
  • Blame It On My Youth
  • Blue Suede Shoes (featured in G.I. BLUES)
  • Blueberry Hill
  • Bring Him Home (from LES MISERABLES)
  • Bye Bye Love
  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight (from THE LION KING)
  • Can't Help Falling In Love (from the Paramount Picture BLUE HAWAII)
  • Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (from SHOW BOAT)
  • Can't Smile Without You
  • Chariots Of Fire (from the Feature Film CHARIOTS OF FIRE)
  • (They Long To Be) Close To You
  • Colors Of The Wind (from POCAHONTAS)
  • Do-Re-Mi (from THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
  • Don't Cry For Me Argentina (from EVITA)
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore (featured in SOPHISTICATED LADIES)
  • Don't Know Much
  • Earth Angel
  • Edelweiss
  • Falling In Love With Love
  • Falling Slowly (from the Motion Picture ONCE)
  • Fascination
  • Fly Like An Eagle
  • Georgia On My Mind
  • Get Me To The Church On Time
  • Getting To Know You
  • The Greatest Love Of All
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
  • Heart And Soul
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Hey Jude
  • Honeysuckle Rose
  • Hotel California
  • Hound Dog
  • How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
  • I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • I Could Have Danced All Night
  • I Could Write A Book
  • I Walk The Line
  • I've Got You Under My Skin
  • If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)
  • In The Still Of The Night
  • Isn't It Romantic?
  • Just The Way You Are
  • Lean On Me
  • Leaving On A Jet Plane
  • Let It Be
  • Love Me Tender
  • Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  • Manhattan
  • Maria
  • A Million Dreams
  • Mood Indigo
  • My Favorite Things
  • My Funny Valentine
  • My Heart Stood Still
  • My Romance
  • No Other Love
  • Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
  • Oklahoma
  • Ol' Man River
  • On The Street Where You Live
  • The Power Of Love
  • Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
  • Satin Doll
  • Seventy Six Trombones
  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Somewhere Out There
  • Stand By Me
  • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
  • Summertime
  • Sweet Caroline
  • That Old Black Magic
  • This Is Me
  • This Land Is Your Land
  • Till There Was You
  • Try To Remember
  • Unchained Melody
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • What Kind Of Fool Am I?
  • When I Fall In Love
  • When I'm Sixty-Four
  • When The Saints Go Marching In
  • Where Or When
  • A Whole New World
  • Yesterday
  • You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
  • You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You
  • Young At Heart

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Instrumentation

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Product Details

  • #HL 299529
  • 9781540060600
  • 888680956820
  • 9.0"
  • 12.0"
  • 176 Pages

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  • Easy Fake Book
  • Hal Leonard
  • Digital Book
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This is a beginning fake book for players new to “faking.” By using a fake book, musicians learn to “fake” an accompaniment to a melody, playing chords as indicated. This book is designed for those players just acquiring this important musical skill. It includes 100 favorite songs that belong in all musicians' repertoire library, including standards, pop hits, Broadway and movie songs, folk favorites, and much more. All the songs are in the key of C and include easy-to-read, large notation complete with lyrics. Chords have been simplified, but remain true to each tune. This book even includes an introduction on how to use a fake book.

Songs include: Beauty and the Beast • Bewitched • Blackbird • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Do-Re-Mi • Don't Cry for Me Argentina • Edelweiss • Georgia on My Mind • Heart and Soul • Hotel California • I Walk the Line • Lean on Me • Let It Be • A Million Dreams • Satin Doll • Stand by Me • Sweet Caroline • This Is Me • Try to Remember • Unchained Melody • When I Fall in Love • When the Saints Go Marching In • A Whole New World • Yesterday • You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) • and more.

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