The Best in Popular Sheet Music

By Alfred Publishing and Dan Coates

Selections include: Angels Among Us * Desperado * From a Distance * Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? * I Swear * I Will Always Love You * Lane's Theme * Love Will Keep Us Alive * More Than Words *... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0769207863
• ISBN13: 9780769207865
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great songs, challenging arrangements...

This arrangement of songs by Dan Coates is definately challenging. I actually have to practice to get through these. Not for the beginning piano player. This book is for moderate to advanced talent levels. Great songs like Desperado, Angel Eyes, The Rose, Open Arms and more. My only complaint is that delivery time was VERY slow. Took nearly a month to receive.

One of the best I've seen

This book almost single-handedly got me back into piano playing after a 20-year hiatus. I've never been happy with the arrangements in most popular sheet music, especially "PVG" and "Easy Piano" sheets -- they are too simple and have almost no left hand accompaniment to speak of. Generally, there are no chords or arpeggios -- just single note "plink, plink, plink" etc. while the right hand has to carry the whole song.On the other hand, many of the arrangements in this book (and in Dan Coates "Advanced" and "Professional Touch" books in general) have *wonderful* left-hand accompaniments and dramatic chording and other nice touches for the right-hand. Difficulty ranges from intermediate ("The Rose", "Open Arms") to advanced ("I Will Always Love You"). Sure, if you're talented enough to arrange for yourself you might find fault, but for those of us who just read and play and like to play popular music, this is an exceptional book.