Oh, Fake Book... How do I love thee?

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Unread post by GSR » Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:30 pm

......what the HELL IS GOING ON
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Unread post by fatjack » Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:36 pm

A fake book is a giant tome of specific songs. A jazz fake book contains jazz standards and other types of jazz music. Basically, the melody is written out and the chords are above the measures of the songs. It's called a fake book because, in general, you are supposed to be able to read the melody and play the chords on the spot. You're supposed to bring em to gigs and if someone requests a song that happens to be in the book, you look at the music and "fake" the song (as if you already knew it). They are just handy to have if you are ever in need of a particular song that you want to learn. I was expresses my love for it because it has a load of songs that i was looking for.

And to answer the question that I am sure will come: no, there are no tabs in a fake book

and the reason they are shady about it is because its not exactly legal...
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Unread post by Coldchillin » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:03 pm

fatjack wrote:and the reason they are shady about it is because its not exactly legal...
and that's why we must never speak of them again...
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Unread post by thejoe » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:50 pm

fatjack wrote:and the reason they are shady about it is because its not exactly legal...
why?
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Unread post by fatjack » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:53 pm

crash_in_to_me wrote:
fatjack wrote:and the reason they are shady about it is because its not exactly legal...
why?
because they usually have about 500 songs in there. do you have any idea how impossible it would be to go ask all those artists for rights the their music?
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Unread post by gcom007 » Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:39 pm

there are legal fakebooks, don't be fooled, if it's out, it's the fake fake book...you gotta ask for the good one...*shady-eyed smiley...
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Unread post by fatjack » Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:57 pm

gcom007 wrote:there are legal fakebooks, don't be fooled, if it's out, it's the fake fake book...you gotta ask for the good one...*shady-eyed smiley...
yeah, ever seen the Real Book, that one is the best
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Unread post by duluoz » Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:59 pm

Oh man fatjack, the Real Book is fuckin awesome. The band teacher at my old highschool has one and my friends and I borrowed it for a couple months. I got awesome heads for jazz tunes outta that. Yay for illegal stuff
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Unread post by fatjack » Sat Dec 20, 2003 4:54 pm

duluoz wrote:Oh man fatjack, the Real Book is fuckin awesome. The band teacher at my old highschool has one and my friends and I borrowed it for a couple months. I got awesome heads for jazz tunes outta that. Yay for illegal stuff
yay! someone else is cool!
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Unread post by sunglassesatnight » Tue Dec 23, 2003 6:13 pm

I (HEART) fakebooks.
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Unread post by thejoe » Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:12 pm

hmmm
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