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    Posted: February 20 2010 at 13:23
Hi,
 So, I've bought this Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine and started to study it. I don't have trouble understanding this whole thing, but I would like to get sheets for the suggested tunes to work on, because I can't remember all of it just through reading and playing the examples.. It's probably meant in the Real Book form, so lead melody and harmony. I would like a suggestion about buying a Real Book with as many of those tunes as possible. So, if anyone here owns the book, please let me know, or at least suggest me som other tunes, make a sellection of tunes ar anything else, please. Maybe the way you study it or something.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2010 at 10:12
^ I have that book, it's great. Just go buy a standard jazz fake book, I'm not sure where you buy them, I always bought mine from other jazz musicians, but they shouldn't be too hard to find.

Some easy tunes to start with are Start Up by Miles,
Satin Doll by Ellinton or
All the Things You Are, also My Funny Valentine.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2010 at 13:12
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

^ I have that book, it's great. Just go buy a standard jazz fake book, I'm not sure where you buy them, I always bought mine from other jazz musicians, but they shouldn't be too hard to find.

Some easy tunes to start with are Start Up by Miles,
Satin Doll by Ellinton or
All the Things You Are, also My Funny Valentine.

Thanks, but what is actually a standard fake book? There's just so many of them and I don't want to buy a series of 3 just to get all of that stuff if not neccessary. I mean, I don't wanna get fooled, because, looking at the catalogue, I get the impression, that is's like buying the Queen Greatest Hits. There's only a few bigs hit on each of the 3 CDs, which you buy separately. So, any suggestions about a fake book?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2010 at 10:31
Some fake books have a bunch of bogus tunes that no one plays anyway. See if you can find The Real Book, it has about 500 songs and many of them are the kind of standards that other jazz musicians will expect you to know.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2010 at 14:28
Thanks, I'll go to the music store Hartmann (the biggest one in the country) and ask for the book. I couldn't find it, because it has a very ultimate title ... But I did find most of the other realbooks printed so farLOL.
I dunno, this title looks quite convincing ...:
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.best.290239.html Wink ...
As well as this one ...:
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.ultimate.html
But again: "There's no song duplications between these two books ..." This tells you, that you need them both to get the standards, I guess.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2010 at 18:39
I have both of those, they are excellent pop books with some jazz standards, but those aren't actual jazz fake books.
Are there any pro jazz musicians in your city you can talk to who can lead you towards a jazz fake book? Also, jazz students or teachers at a local college might help.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2010 at 08:07
There's a guitar teacher on our music school, who also plays piano and is a jazz musician, quite famous in Slovenia. I'll ask him if I see him. Thanks for the advice.
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