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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLeonard Corporation, Hal
ISBN-101458415317
ISBN-139781458415318
eBay Product ID (ePID)111627273
Product Key Features
Book TitleBilly Joel-Piano Man
Number of Pages88 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicPrinted Music / General, Genres & Styles / Rock
GenreMusic
AuthorDavid Rosenthal
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length12 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Synopsis(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). David Rosenthal, Billy's keyboardist and Music Director, has carefully arranged all the tracks from Joel's classic 1973 release to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements while transcribing those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. This book features the iconic title track and nine others: Ain't No Crime * (The) Ballad of Billy the Kid * Captain Jack * If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) * Somewhere Along the Line * Stop in Nevada * Travelin' Prayer * Worse Comes to Worst * You're My Home. Also includes a foreword by David Rosenthal.
The overall book is better made, but the music written is a bit different and sometimes I resort to the old version or will ignore certain things or put my own twist. The older version was more simplistic and flowed better, but some good extra things are in this book like the real intro to Piano Man...you still have to imagine the record and make it sound right!
It was one of my very first book I learned on in the late 70's still a very good book that almost anyone will like your playing and singing. It saved me once as a band emergency fill in so I played the book as a warm up...it was the only reason we got paid...it was saved the band!!