Hal Leonard Ultimate Rock Pop Fake Book

Songbook for C-Instruments

Over 500 rock and pop songs arranged for C-instruments
With lyrics and chords
Medium difficulty
In practical spiral binding
ISBN 978-1-5339-0
556 Pages

Songs:

Against the wind
Baby Come Back
Fields Of Gold
Eye Of The Tiger
Dreamer
Come together
Cuts Like A Knife
Axel F
Heart Of Glass
Head over heels
Forever Young
Daniel
Call Me
Blue Velvet
Bohemian Rhapsody
Born To Be Wild
Guilty
Purple Rain
My way
Miami Vice
Little Lies
I Shot The Sheriff
Monday monday
Let it be
Like A Prayer
Proud Mary
Y.M.C.A.
Waterloo
Time After Time
Sloop John B.
Roxanne
Ride Like The Wind
Smokin In The Boys Room
Take On Me
You Raise Me Up
Unchained Melody
Wishing You Were Here
Sweet Home Alabama
Sexual Healing, and many more

Further information

Level Of Difficulty	Intermediate
Incl. Notes	Yes
With Tabs	No
With Text	Yes
With Chords	Yes
Blues/R&B/Soul	No
Country	No
Folklore/Traditionals	No
Jazz	No
Classical Music	No
Latin	No
Metal	No
Golden Oldies/Evergreens	Yes
Pop	Yes
Reggae	No
Rock	Yes
German Popular Songs	No

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Great book with a huge selection of songs!

GJK123, 08.10.2017

I bought this book because I wanted a big book of songs so I could practice my chart and sightreading. The books has the vocals written in notation, the chords written above and lyrics written below. Songs range from the 50s, 60s,70s and 80s. There are a few 90?s and early 2000?s songs too but they are in the minority.

Pros
1) This book has so many songs! This is great a tool for practicing your sightreading. There is a wide variety of songs, keys and sometimes different time signatures. You could also use this for a gig where you need to play a lot of songs!
2) It is very clear and easy to read. The print and notation is very clear and crisp. Songs are between half a page to 2 pages long. The 2 page songs are always laid out side by side (no need to turn pages)
3) Composer and year is written above each song, which is nice to know.
4) Instrumental sections are written for certain songs which instrumental passages. They are written in smaller notation.
5) It does include some major artists and famous hits that you would expect (Madonna Prince, Abba, Queen etc?)
6) Book will fit in a school bag, so it is somewhat portable (although it is a little heavy!)

Cons
1) Have to be careful with the pages, they can tear very easily.
2) This book is quantity over quality! I have found some mistakes with certain songs: wrong chords, missing sections, incomplete bars etc?
3) A good few songs are written in the wrong key! Very frustrating when you want to play along with the original recording. Although this could be a good exercise for your transposing skills! :)
4) I feel there is good selection of songs although it could be a little better. I think there is definitely some hits that should be in there that aren't.

Overall I think the book is good quality and worth the money. I?m glad I bought this because it has helped me a lot with my reading and sightreading skills.

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Giant collection!

01.08.2016

Hello everybody,

With the Ultimate Rock and Pop Fake Book comes a really thick chunk - so the music stand definitely kicks! Similar to the real and fakebook collections from the jazz section, there is text, melody and chords in easy-to-read form. Arrangements are not considered. It is therefore suitable for singing or instrumental re-playing of the songs. Have the selection only overflown - but from the 50s up to current songs is from every decade what is in it, classics like rather more unknown works. Whether this is the "ultimate" collection, which is not missing a song, I can only say after many long winter adventures ... The sheet music is in any case clearly readable; The spiral binding looks stable; But the book is definitely too heavy for the instrument bag or for the use of the camp fire - falls rather under the category "reference book".

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