Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2

Rating:
Summary: Not great
Review: Billy's music is so complex, this book is usless, unless you are looking just to know the chords or melody of the song. If you wanna be able to actually play the real songs, go for the Authentic Transcription book.

Rating:
Summary: Not great
Review: Billy's music is so complex, this book is usless, unless you are looking just to know the chords or melody of the song. If you wanna be able to actually play the real songs, go for the Authentic Transcription book.

Rating:
Summary: Fits Well to Many Billy Joel Songs
Review: This book does an exceptional job of capturing a few of Billy Joel's songs into one instrument. Only for a few songs is this a good book, however. Do not buy this book for the more piano-geared songs like "My Life", "Allentown", or "Piano Man". Those songs should be played from the real transcription from the Billy Joel Keyboard book, unless you hate singing.

Here is the positive stuff about this book: "Goodnight Saigon" - an amazing song, one of my favorite. This book does a great job on it. And it's easy to add little extra strikes to the chords to simulate the guitar strokes. "Uptown Girl", "Only the Good Die Young", and "The Longest Time" - great songs that are written well for this book. Albeit, I have to say referring to "The Longest Time" everything's great except I think the first 3 notes should be C-D-C, not C-C-Bb.

Overall, this book is good for true Billy Joel fans that haven't figured out all of his songs by now, and also Billy Joel fans that would rather play all of his music without having to do any singing.

Rating:
Summary: Billy Joel
Review: This book gives you an easy way to play his songs. If you want to play just the simple tunes to the songs then get this book. For those who want the actual transcriptions that you hear on his cds, go for the billy joel keyboard book.

Rating:
Summary: Billy Joel
Review: This book gives you an easy way to play his songs. If you want to play just the simple tunes to the songs then get this book. For those who want the actual transcriptions that you hear on his cds, go for the billy joel keyboard book.