Lead Sheets and Fake Books Good morning. This is Duane. Today I’d like to talk about lead sheets and fake books. If you don’t know what a lead sheet and fake book is, you really need to know that if … Continue reading →
A fake book is a book of songs where the melody, the lyrics, and the chord changes are included. If there is anything unique about the song, like an area where everything stops for a certain amount of time, that will also be noted.
Continue reading →A lead sheet is a piece of music that contains only the melody (tune of the song) and the chord symbols that go with it (and sometimes the lyrics). Musicians read the melody while taking their clues from the chord symbols.
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