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  • August 20, 2009 at 11:38 pm #160247
    rod-c
    Participant

    Can anyone recommend one of the fake books containing pop music for pedal harp?

    Thanks,

    Rod C.

    August 22, 2009 at 2:54 am #160248
    patricia-jaeger
    Member

    Rod, Lyon and Healy publishes Easy Fake Book for Lever Harp by Louise Trotter, easily filled out by a pedal harp player, given the good chord symbols printed in the popular selections. Another fake book I like is not popular music, but: The Classical Fake Book published by Hal Leonard Corp., $19.95,

    August 22, 2009 at 1:34 pm #160249
    unknown-user
    Participant

    Ray Pool has some fake books as well:

    August 22, 2009 at 2:36 pm #160250
    jennifer-buehler
    Member

    I have two fake books that might fit your bill.

    August 22, 2009 at 3:37 pm #160251
    rod-c
    Participant

    Hi guys:

    Thanks for these recommendations. I will check them out!

    Rod C.

    August 22, 2009 at 4:53 pm #160252
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    The Hal Leonard company puts out a ton of decent fake books in many genres.

    Three I have that are easy to work from and have a lot of good pop music are

    The Easy Fake Book

    The Simplified Fake Book

    Your First Fake Book

    August 24, 2009 at 9:17 pm #160253
    Deborah O.
    Participant

    Tony…..I would like to ask you if the Celtic Fake book you have has a lot of songs with accidentals?

    I do have some other Fake books and just love them but some songs have a lot of accidentals and I don’t like having to switch levers during a song if I can help it so I don’t play those songs at all.

    If the Celtic Fake book doesn’t have too many I may consider purchasing that one too….so I would appreciate your opinion on that.

    Thanks!
    Deborah

    August 25, 2009 at 2:13 am #160254
    harpglo-jean
    Participant

    Hi Deborah,

    I also have the Celtic Fake Book and it was the “best” investment I ever made in a music book! hardly any “lever flipping” within songs, and they are mostly in the keys of “G” and “D”…..I’ve used this book over and over again, and have gotten many compliments on the songs…..

    August 25, 2009 at 3:26 am #160255
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    I checked through it because there are just so many tunes in it I haven’t even learned a fraction of them yet.

    The vast majority have no accidentals. A few do but they are a definite minority.

    It is a great book.

    August 25, 2009 at 8:11 pm #160256
    Deborah O.
    Participant

    Tony & Gloria…….Thanks so much for the info on the Celtic Fake Book. I think I will put that one on my “Must Have” list. I am still researching more Fake Books that have few accidentals.

    Deborah

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