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At the listed web sites you can find fake books and sheets to thousands of songs for guitar and for keyboard. A fake book also called a real book is a collection of lead sheets used by jazz musicians. A fake book is a collection of lead sheets used by jazz musicians. In the case of popular songs played in the jazz community, a lead sheet often includes the words to the song. Jazz has changed greatly over the past 70 years and is presently in transition.
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Christmas, it is quite nice to have in ones possession a fake book of christmas songs with jazz changes. All others are on double staff system with chords underneath for easy. The melody is written in modern western music notation, the lyric is written as text below the staff and the harmony is. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics the. Jazz real book download free sheet music and scores scorser.
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