Rolling Stone Magazine Sheet Music Classics, Volume 1: 39 Selections from the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Easy Piano)
Rolling Stone Magazine Sheet Music Classics, Volume 1: 39 Selections from the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Easy Piano)
- Arranged by Dan Coates Series: Rolling Stone Easy Piano Sheet Music Classics.
39 of the best songs, all chosen from Rolling Stone® magazines “”500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”" Fingering, lyrics, and chord symbols are included in these Easy Piano arrangements by Dan Coates. Titles: Baby Love (The Supremes)
* Beat It (Michael Jackson)
* Blowin in the Wind (Bob Dylan)
* The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
* Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)
* Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers)
* Dancing Queen (ABBA)
* Everyday People (Sly and the Family Stone)
* Gimme Some Lovin (Spencer Davis Group)
* Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
* (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
* Hotel California (Eagles)
* How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees)
* I Believe
List Price: $ 19.95
Price: $ 12.67
Good Book, Good Arrangements,
This is a good book for early intermediate/late elementary players. All of the songs arranged so that they aren’t hard but still good. I play piano, although I bought this for my twelve year old grandson. I’ve tried a couple and they’re very fun! If this you’re range and you would like to play some good, popular songs, I’d buy this book.
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|Ok for VERY early beginners…,
I purchased this and volume II to play and sing with friends when we get together. The arrangements are painfully easy (as in the treble is the melody exclusively); I would not buy this unless you are quite new to piano or like to improvise. Most of the songs are so watered down that they are no longer very fun to play or sing. Also, the binding is TERRIBLE. You have to practically break the book in half to get it to stay open, even my music clip wasn’t helping very much. The plus side is you can sightread all of these songs perfectly, so you don’t need to worry about running through them ahead of time.
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|When they say “Easy” they mean it!,
I’m a beginner pianist, but I’ve been playing other instruments for many years and have an intermediate music theory knowledge. I NEVER would have bought this book if I’d known their definition of “easy”. First of all, the treble part for nearly every song is just the vocal part, even on songs where they don’t even correspond (uhm, THUNDER ROAD?) and any bass accompaniment is just lower-octave, lightly syncopated “drones” of whatever the predominant tone in the corresponding treble measure is. The arrangements sound rinky-tink, like accompaniments for some lame musical comedian. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of how to read music and who could point at middle C can plunk these songs out in about five minutes apiece. Not at all what I expected!
On the bright side though, they’re nice easy “song skeletons” to improvise on and even fool around with your own adaptations. So I am actually getting my money’s worth, just in a sort of different form.
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