Cat Stevens Songbook


Printed:	1996	Author:	Arthur Dick
Publisher:	Music Sales Corp	ISBN:	0711918368
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Paperback - 48 pages (June 1996), (The Complete Guitar Player Series), usually ships within 4-6 weeks.
Amazon Review
William Curlew (wcurlew@juno.com) from US , April 9, 1998
Incredible number of songs for the price! There are a whopping 28 songs in this little book, which was many more than I expected for the price asked. There are very few pop songs that the Cat did that aren't in this book. Unfortunately they got away with this by using VERY small print fonts, dropping the piano scores from the music, and only putting one line of lyrics with the music. What you do get are all the words (though the second verses on are printed as blocks of text on the bottoms of the pages), the melody lines, and the chord box notation above the lines (Circles with teeny-tiny finger numbers inside.)
There is also a nifty strumming chart at the top of each song to give you a feel for the rhythms involved. Nice touch. They squeeze 7 lines of music with up to 10 measures per line on each page, which is tough on the eyeballs. The advantage of this is that a whole song fits on one or two facing pages, with no page turns. If you can read the chords without the finger notation detail, and don't get lost moving from music to lyric sections this is a great book for performing from. From a content point a view, a definite 10. From a printing point of view, a 6. Overall a 9.