Jul 01, 2005 the craze for the real book started in the 70s when jazz players around berklee college of music created a fake book of common jazz tunes called the real book. This clef originally looked like an upper case f which during the early 16th century, was written backwards from the way the f is written today. A ledger line is a short line added below or above the staff to extend its range. Below is my good friend kevin yeates description of his fantastic fake book. As a primarily not jazz bassist, this gives me not only the chance to play this music live using the book as crutch, if you will, but also a guide to listening to the music. But chords are not too complicated, they just take a bit of.
Since the 1970s, the real book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Eflat alto and baritone saxophones, and bass clef double bass and trombone. The bass clef is also known as the f clef, and the note below the stave is f which makes it easy to remember. The real book volume 2 bass clef edition the original bootleg version now legal. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. David baker is one of the most soughtafter jazz educators in the world, and. Charts for the standards were derived from a consensus of the best recorded jazz versions. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed without any s or royalties paid to the.
Sep 07, 2017 now, its time to tackle the bass clef. The real book was painstakingly created because the editors care about music and want it to be well played and fun to play by you, the musician. This clef is also known as the fclef because it designates the upper f for the staff. Each version has the exact same page numbers, so band leaders can simply. There is nothing fake about playing using a fake book. When extending the staff it is best to use no more than 4 ledger lines for easy readability. Another way of notating chords is with a chord symbol. Bass clef instruments 9 e b instruments 8 voice 7 more. Realbooks, fakebooks, colorado cook book, jazz ltd, and. This volume features 400 more fabulous standards on one disc, with easyto. Charts include separate rhythm section parts, horn parts, bass parts, etc. The bandleader sends you the set list, and you pull out your trusty real book, vol.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the real book volume i. The real book volume 2 bb edition the real book volume 2 eb the european fake book c edition. This product includes pieces featured in grade exams. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The real book volume 3 c edition the real book vol 3 bb the real book volume 3 eb the real book volume 3 bass clef instruments fake book. Catalog real book software the best jazz fake book.
The collection of tunes in it differs from the original real book, but this edition offers some of the same songs, in new transcriptions and a different notation some other music publishers also apply the term real book to their own publications for example. The dixie brew jazz band fake book hark corno 1 alto sax. Ledger lines are only used when a note is outside the range of the staff. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scalesfrom simple major to complex lydian augmented scales. Jazz musicians find it convenient to work from the book, because it is available in different editions to suit b. Time to throw away that old bootleg edition with illegible engravings and tons of editing mistakes. C treble bb treble eb treble bass clef f horn if you want versions in other keys or want more tunes added, feel free to contact me. These are circulating through the jazz players of vancouver. This site features a jazz book and cd by jazz clinician lenore raphael called jazz master class. Fakebook with public domain jazz tunes, collected by the creole jazz band. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
The bottom staff of keyboard instruments also use bass clef. The righthand page is a special page of supplemental material sample piano voicings, useful scales, guitar voicings, bass lines, etc. It is an alternative to the plethora of poorly designed, illegible, inaccurate, badly edited volumes which abound on the market today. Christmas, it is quite nice to have in ones possession a fake book of christmas songs with jazz changes. Placed on one of the lines at the beginning of the staff, it indicates the name and pitch of the notes on that line. The chicken with the jaco pastorius big band live in japan 1982 with chorale style soul intro opening starts at minute and 30 seconds of video. This is the book of what ive gleaned from my years as a tourin. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or fake it. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night.
Now you can get the most popular jazz fake book of all time on cdrom. May 30, 2011 bass clef made easy in this short video explaining what bass clef is and how to read it. Bass clef notes, naming lines and spaces, how to draw. This unique fake book features 150 custom arrangements with lyrics of carols and. A short history of jazz includes easy, but classic, jazz tunes on one page, and all the things a band director might have to write out for their students on each facing page. This is the backward c on the lefthand side of the staff. Many standards will also be found in these jazz books. The chord symbols in fake books are called changes. This fakebook has been produced in the following versions. Realbooks, fakebooks, colorado cook book, jazz ltd, and the master index. Piano music shows both a treble and bass clef, and what to do with your right hand and your left hand.
Patterns for jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational materials. Oct 06, 2017 sorry to come down hard on you, but if youre going to call yourself a jazz musician, you are going to have to be able to read concertpitch lead sheets like everyone else does. Fake books are derived from jazz lead sheets, which were originally used by jazz. This fake book has been assembled with tunes that have been written prior to 1923 which makes them out of in the usa. The bass clef symbol is a half heart shape, with two dots. Lead sheets and piano accompaniments for arrangements from the ab real books are available to purchase via download here.
Dont read or perform a tune from a fake book without listening to it first. Instrumental tunes generally available in c, bb, and eb sometimes bass clef too. This mustown collection includes 635 songs spanning all jazz styles from more than 9 decades from traditional to swing to modern jazz, carefully chosen chords with common practice chord substitutions, lyrics to accomodate vocalists, easytoread music, and composer and performer indexes. Lowering the bass clef to the second highest line creates a baritone clef. The music in fake books 1, 2, and 3 was photocopied or reset with a musical typewriter from the melody lines of the original sheet music. The real book fifth edition f bass clef internet archive. The chicken with jaco pastorius, bass randy brecker, trumpet, bob mintzer, tenor sax. I, only to discover that three of the tunes youll be playing arent in it. Who says the real book is wrong jazz guitar online. This unique fake book features 150 custom arrangements of carols and contemporary holiday songs featuring sophisticated jazz chord changes in the popular, userfriendly real book format. The real book vol 4, bass clef edition bass musician. At first glance, piano chords may seem confusing and hard to understand, especially for beginners. Dont perform standards with a real book as much as possible.
Ive used this book with much success on many traditonal jazz dixieland gigs. The only legal, corrected and updated version of the original real book. The top of the clef should touch the very top line of the staff. A band leader can conveniently call out page numbers, since each edition is set out identically. Musicians in jazz bands find it convenient to play from fake books because they are available in different keys, including c concertpitch instruments, bflat trumpet and tenor saxophone, eflat alto and baritone saxophones, and bass clef double bass and trombone. Its easy to use you just search for the title of the chart you want in the master index and it tells you. Fake books use only a melody line in the treble clef and chord symbols above the melody line no bass clef. Famous fakebooks are now available as interactive software. The real book volume iv bass clef edition hal leonard. A jazz band leader has to know the music inside and out by memory and use the lead sheet more as a reference point than a road map. The bass clef edition of the real book is an excellent resource for gigging, especially for trombonists. It is like an outline of the song and the piano player improvises the rest. Once a player can navigate a tunes harmony confidently, then rhythm can more easily come to the foreground.
Im new to jazz and learning how to improvise so the chord symbols are great too. With musicianfriendly lead sheets, melody cues and other splittrack choices on the included. Started in 1980 as a company that published songs in the jazz and musical theater vein, we expanded our catalog to include show tunes and childrens music. Dont use a fake book as a substitute for learning tunes from the recording. In most genres of popular music, including jazz, pop.
You may notice that certain phrases appear in many solos. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images, photos and vectors. Musicians use various kinds of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. I m new to jazz and learning how to improvise so the chord symbols are great too. Reading changes goes all the way back to the baroque period, when writing in figured bass was common. Dixieland fake book the firehouse jazz 002 psalm 100 we are gods people. Fakebook for c, bb, eb, and bass clef instruments click here to see the same page from the eflat instrument.
For more info about the jazz real books, and other products in the real book series. Includes special notation, markings, and info for string players. For example, orchestral music uses staff notation, harmonic analysis uses roman numerals, and the baroque era used figured bass. Davids most innovative book yet on the art of jazz improvisation. The real book bass clef edition by various fakebook. For use with all bb, eb, c and bass clef instruments, the jazz playalong series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. Musical flaws in the book are virtually nil, but all music is taken down an octave with scant regard for what range it enters, and whether the original pitch might have worked for low instruments. The real books are the bestselling jazz books of all time.
Get yourself or your beginning jazz combo sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser. The new real book, also in 3 volumes, published by sher music co. Bass clef instruments tunes for beginning improvisers. Bass clef may also be referred to as f clef, because the note f is found on the line in between the two dots of the clefs symbol. There are many systems used to notate harmony, whether that harmony is an interval, an arpeggio, or a chord. I highly recommend our summer jazz workshops which are offered in the u. Usually chord symbols, titles, composer names, and lyrics were typewritten, but for a number of songs these were all. Skip ahead 30 something years, and there are now legal versions based on the original real book. In the 1950s the modern jazz fake book, volumes 1 and 2 was issued, and fake book volume 3, containing about 500 songs, came out in 1961.
Piano songbooks and sheet music guitar, bass and folk instruments educational piano vocal choral and classroom church music band. Stantons sheet music large selection online of fake books in bass clef, popular music, popular, guitar and folk music. These can be used in abrsm jazz exams at grades 4 and 5 alongside the ab real books. A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. The f clef clef means key in french is a musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes. Dec 27, 20 in this lesson we will learn about ledger lines. Includes all keys c,bb, eb, bass clef plus recordings. This book is not intended as a compendium of every possible pattern or harmonic approach. The real book volume i c edition fake book real books hal leonard. Dont use a fake book to perform when you know your. Set pieces may alternatively be accompanied by playalong tracks, available as audio downloads at our online shop. Hal leonard the real book volume 1 c edition bass clef.
The real book now has been cleaned up with professionally edited crisp jazzstyle engravings. The notes in the spaces of the bass staff follow the pattern above as well, with an added bonus. Its clear to see that its the clef that tells you what notes the lines and spaces of the musical staff correspond to. The line notes for the treble clef are egbdf while the space notes are face.
I got them from a friends memory stick and i dont know if theyve been shared before but here you go. If this symbol is different like a cursive s or strange b you do not have a bass clef. Several versions for c, bb, eb, f instruments as well as bass clef and tuba. Fake books are collections of songs with a notated melody line, chord symbols, and complete lyrics see sample line below. Collection of 43 dixielandtraditional jazz hits in the keys of bb and c bass clef and eb currently in production with suggested chords and melody lines, not handwritten, professionally scored and arranged in the style of a fake book. Thus, successfully using the fake books required the expertise of jazz musicians and others trained in functional harmony in order to reinterpret the chord symbols. Hal leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition to new generations of players in all styles of music. Bass clef, sixth edition plastic comb july 1, 2005. Saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, bass, piano, vocals. This clef is used for lowsounding instruments, such as bass guitar, cello, double bass, bassoon, trombone, tuba, and timpani. Unavailable per item here is a great collection of tunes available for free. Dec 12, 2011 the real christmas book bass clef edition the christmas collection that all jazz cats will want in their stocking. Walking bass lines the blues in 12 keys upright bass and electric bass method fantastic familiar folk songs. Fake books in bass clef by popular music by popular, guitar.
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