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Book Damage
This product is being advertised as new, but what I got in the mail has clearly been used, damaged, and returned, only to be sold back to me. There are clear smudges from dirty fingers in the pages.
Hal Leonard The Real Blues Book C Instruments Fake Book
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Bill M.
It's The Real Book, only for blues standards instead of jazz standards
If you're looking at this product, then chances are you're already familiar with "The Real Book": that most famous, enormous book of jazz standards. Over the years, Hal Leonard LLC has published a number of additional "Real Books" such as extra volumes of more songs, editions for Bb instruments, bass clef editions, a Latin jazz standards book, a book for R&B standards, a country book, etc. So as expected, "The Real Blues Book" is a fake book of all blues standards, set in the good ol' Real Book format.
This book has all of the same sort of qualities found in The Real Books: more accurate transcriptions than you may find in other fake books, the nice hand-written font, large print, a spiral spine so that the book sits open on a music stand without any issues, songs set on a single page or across two open pages whenever possible so that you don't have to flip pages in the middle of a song, and so on. And of course like all Real Books, these are lead sheets that give you the basics (lyrics, single-line melody in G-clef, chords); it's not a piano book nor a guitar tablature book.
Obviously you won't find every famous blues song ever written, but you will find a generous selection of 300 songs, spanning from some of the earliest blues recordings to more modern songs, covering all sorts of sub-genres of blues. And no, they're not all I-IV-Vs! If I have any complaints, I suppose it's that much like The Real Book, The Real Blues Book does have a few strange selections. You'll find plenty of famous blues standards here, but also some rather unexpected selections, for better or worse.
Again, this book is what I expected it to be: the blues version of The Real Book. A blues harmonica player introduced me to this book, and we've had a lot of fun picking out different songs to play together as a duo at a coffeehouse.
