Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2 - Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook

by Hal Leonard Corporation

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). A great collection of 21 huge hits from this pop superstar: Allentown * Big Shot * Don't Ask Me Why * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Just the Way You Are * The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B0015AB6GQ
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fits Well to Many Billy Joel Songs

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.