Birdy -- The Piano Songbook

This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist, who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course, to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation, these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.As well as reinforcing basic technique, developing musicality and making learning great fun, the Easiest Pop Songs will be familiar to most young beginners, allowing them to learn and play some of their favourite tunes of the moment. Repertoire books like this have been specially created and graded to be used with the John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course, so pianists who are working through that will recognise the style of this songbook.This book features a number of pop songs, including Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, Sam Smith's Brilliant Stay With Me and Adele's huge smash-hit Hello. There are many more, though, such as Wings by Birdy, Flashlight by Jessie J and I Really Like You by Carly Rae Jepsen. These Easiest Pop Songs are perfect supplementary material for those working through parts 1 and 2 of the course, but also make great sight-reading practice for more advanced students. Since dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part 3 of the course, they are not included here, although some invaluable hints and tips and fingering guides are featured for all songs.All beginner Piano pupils will love to learn the famous pop songs included in this repertoire book - an ideal complement to John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course. / Piano

The fourth book in the Piano Gefällt Mir! series brings you 50 more chart and film hits, all arranged for Easy Piano by renowned composer Hans-Günter Heumann. Featuring an accompanying MP3 CD with both full and play-along backing tracks.This series has long been a favourite for Pianists looking to learn popular tracks from an authoritative source, and Hans-Günter Heumann has proven himself as a name you can rely on for Easy Piano arrangements of great modern pop classics. Everything from Coldplay to Harry Potter is included here, so you'll never be short of contemporary songs to learn and perform.From George Ezra's massive hit Budapest to Sam Smith's Money On My Mind, this book collects the finest hits from the past few years and arranges them for you to start playing straight away. A great selection of film songs and themes are also represented, such as Ed Sheeran's atmospheric I See Fire from 'The Hobbit' film, and Pharrell Williams's unbelievably catchy Happy from 'Despicable Me 2'.With this perfect-bound edition of book four of Piano Gefällt Mir!, you'll receive an accompanying MP3 CD, enabling you to listen to full backing tracks of all the tunes, then versions without the Piano part, ensuring you can get the most out of this songbook.Not only this, but a few of Heumann's own compositions are sprinkled throughout, allowing you to take inspiration from this indisputable giant of composition's own creations. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

From Bruno Mars to Skyfall, Keyboard Gefällt Mir! follows on from book one of the ultimate songbook for Keyboard, featuring 50 popular pieces arranged by Hans-Günter Heumann. The second volume of this Keyboard series follows the bestselling success of the first book, with more simple and straightforward arrangements of hits from the charts and movies, ensuring there is something for everyone.Included in the book are some of the biggest hits of today, such as Skyfall by Adele, Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness, Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe and Lady GaGa's Poker Face. Not only are there a number of contemporary hits included, you will also be able to learn to play many timeless classics, including songs by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Guns N' Roses and Madonna. Songs from popular films include the Mission Impossible Theme, Pirates of the Caribbean and Ludovico Einaudi's excellent Fly from Intouchables.All songs feature tempo markings, chord symbols and full lyrics, in Heumann's excellent arrangements. / Clavier

This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.   As well as reinforcing basic technique developing musicality and making learning great fun the Easiest Pop Songs will be familiar to most young beginners allowing them to learn and play some of their favourite tunes of the moment.Repertoire books like this have been specially created and graded to be used with the John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course so pianists who are working through that will recognise the style of this songbook.   This book features a number of pop songs including Taylor Swift's Shake It Off  Sam Smith's Brilliant Stay With Me and Adele's huge smash-hit Hello. There are many more though such as Wings by Birdy Flashlight by Jessie J and I Really Like You by Carly Rae Jepsen. These Easiest Pop Songs are perfect supplementary material for those working through parts 1 and 2 of the course but also make great sight-reading practice for more advanced students. Since dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part 3 of the course they are not included here although some invaluable hints and tips and fingering guides are featured for all songs.   All beginner Piano pupils will love to learn the famous pop songs included in this repertoire book - an ideal complement to John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.