Rolling Stone Easy Piano Sheet Music Classics, Vol 1: 39 Selections from the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (<i>Rolling Stone</i>(R) Easy Piano Sheet Music Classics) Paperback – December 1, 2008

Cool songs to play on piano !

I am new (still learning) to piano and wanted a collection of sheet music to play that would be fun (funner than the public domain stuff that is out there for free). This was good buy for a great collection of easy to follow and not too advance sheet music. The lyrics are also included and the music is not over complicated where people still learning cannot follow it and play it. The music is fun and is more rewarding when you know the song that you are playing.I am really happy with this book and really enjoy playing some hit songs. It is fun and when you hear the song you are playing and recognize it is a great feeling! I highly recommend this for anyone learning piano and wanting to play something they know and get that awesome feeling of hearing a popular song come out of the piano. The only thing I would change is the binding. I wish they had the binding that had that wrapping (like binders) that allows the book to sit open completely on the music stand. This book has to be really bent out to make it stay open on the music stand. However, it is doable and for the price I am not complaining!!

I knew there were only 39 songs before I ordered it, but I do think the cover is misleading. Nice variety of songs. I will have to cut it up and put it in a 3 ring binder, so it will stay open. The arrangements look to be too hard for a beginner, but not challenging for an advanced pianist, which is exactly what I wanted. There are notes about the songs in the front of the book, and that is where my complaint lies. Several instances of vulgar language, which was totally unexpected in this type of book, but hey, it’s Rolling Stone, so I guess I should’ve known. I just took my white out tape and covered up everything I found offensive. I didn’t find any of the extra info particularly useful, or even interesting, so I may just leave those pages out when I put them in my binder. Just a heads up, in case you’re gifting this to someone and it would be inappropriate, or you’re like me and just don’t appreciate that kind of language. Overall, I’m satisfied with the music, which is what I bought it for anyway.

The Rolling Stone song books are a great value, well printed, and well written. Although it is written for piano, I can play the songs on my trumpet. The spiral binding makes it easy to set on my music stand.

Amazing book my granddaughter loves it

I'm a beginner pianist, but I've been playing other instruments for many years and have an intermediate music theory knowledge. I NEVER would have bought this book if I'd known their definition of "easy". First of all, the treble part for nearly every song is just the vocal part, even on songs where they don't even correspond (uhm, THUNDER ROAD?) and any bass accompaniment is just lower-octave, lightly syncopated "drones" of whatever the predominant tone in the corresponding treble measure is. The arrangements sound rinky-tink, like accompaniments for some lame musical comedian. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of how to read music and who could point at middle C can plunk these songs out in about five minutes apiece. Not at all what I expected!On the bright side though, they're nice easy "song skeletons" to improvise on and even fool around with your own adaptations. So I am actually getting my money's worth, just in a sort of different form.

Very happy with this. It doesn't have 500 songs by the way, or it would have had 1000 pages. LOL I already knew that since I had since the list of contents. It is a good mix and the music is a good difficulty level. I am an advanced player but wanted something I could play without much thought. It fits the bill for me. I would say a beginner would have trouble as the music is not super easy.

Love having this to learn how to play the keyboard. I have no idea where I'm doing as I was a flute player growing up, but I do read music and it including some great songs!