Is the real book volume 1 by Hal good for piano? Does it offer base cleft? Which version is best?
I was wondering if the real book volume 1 is good for piano, like does it offer base cleft and is it really worth the price? Also which version is best there are so many including base cleft version, C, Eb, and such, but which is best for piano.
Fake books are fake books. For piano you would need « C » edition, you’re not going to get the bass clef because it is a fake book. You get the melody and chord changes for the music. You’ve got to « fake » your way through an arrangement. The Real Books (both the original ones and the Hal Leonard ones) are heavily jazz oriented.
« A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics – the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or « fake it. »
The fake book is a central part of the culture of playing music in public, particularly in jazz, where improvisation is especially valued.
Fake books are not intended for novices: the reader must follow and interpret the scant notation, and is expected to have thorough familiarity with chords and sheet music. However, fake books can be an avenue to playing songs quickly; a few chords and a one-note melody line can allow even an amateur to play a passable version of any song with relative ease. »
… If you’re not good at improvising on the fly, it’s not going to satisfy.
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