--- product_id: 5738459 title: "Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book - Sheet Music Beginner Piano Book for Adults and Kids" price: "$57.91" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/5738459-scott-the-piano-guys-favorite-piano-fake-book-sheet-music store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Simple chord frames for instant play 154 pages of piano/keyboard sheet music 74 iconic songs arranged in C major Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book - Sheet Music Beginner Piano Book for Adults and Kids **Price:** $57.91 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🎢 Unlock your inner piano proβ€”play the classics with confidence and style! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book - Sheet Music Beginner Piano Book for Adults and Kids - **How much does it cost?** $57.91 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/5738459-scott-the-piano-guys-favorite-piano-fake-book-sheet-music) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Master 74 Timeless Classics:** From 'Hey Jude' to 'Misty'β€”all your favorites in one sleek volume. - β€’ **Learn with Pattern Recognition:** Chord frames designed for quick finger placement, no music theory needed. - β€’ **Boost Your Improvisation Skills:** Includes alternate jazz and blues chords to personalize your sound. - β€’ **Integrated Melody, Lyrics & Chords:** Everything you need on one pageβ€”no flipping, no fuss. - β€’ **Perfect for Beginners & Intermediates:** Step up your piano game with easy-to-follow arrangements and jazz/blues chord options. ## Overview Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book offers 154 pages of expertly arranged sheet music featuring 74 popular songs in C major. Designed for beginners and intermediate players, it uses unique chord pattern frames for intuitive learning, combining melody, lyrics, and chords on every page. This book is a must-have for anyone eager to master timeless jazz, blues, and pop standards with ease and flair. ## Description (Fake Book). Next time your friends see your piano and say, "Play 'Misty' for me," impress them and really do it! This fake book includes 74 popular song arrangements from Scott Houston, the Piano Master of PBS. Includes: All the Things You Are * Blueberry Hill * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Crazy * Endless Love * The Girl from Ipanema * Heart and Soul * Hey Jude * I Will Remember You * Imagine * Let It Be * Misty * Moon River * My Funny Valentine * Satin Doll * Somewhere Out There * Stand by Me * and more. Includes Scott's unique "simple chord frames" for each song. Review: Excellent: Chord Pattern Recognition, Not Chord Notes - I'll speak for myself, a beginner who can't read music, has no talent, and no experience; this book is great. It may well be great for those more advanced with talent too. I got Scott's DVD at the library and this technique opens up a whole new world for anyone interested in the piano. His Play The Piano in a Flash is a great reference book and addition to this Fake Book. I bought a competing piano lesson book at the same time and it is nearly useless because of the way it deals with chords. Scott's book gives the chords for each song as a PATTERN RECOGNITION KEYBOARD PICTURE and all of the tutorial chords are based on that. For a novice like me, I care NOT that a C chord is made up of CEG, all I need to know is where to place my left fingers based on the chord pattern not on the notes of that chord. I have learned 7 chords in 1 hour over 2 evenings as part of learning "The Girl From Ipanema" and I can't tell you what those chords are made of but I know where to place my fingers. Scott goes over this in his TV series. The fake book by BN is a fine book but the chords are made up of notes that are meaningless to me. According to Scott, and I fully agree, Chord patterns are key to learning to play by ear. All of the chord patterns are detailed on EVERY PAGE of a song. You don't have to go to the back of the book to find and study the chord, and then flip back to the song to try to play it. You learn the chords using pattern recognition (not notes) for the songs you want to play as you are studying melody notes for the right hand. I can't imagine a simpler method. If you ask me what makes up a C#min, A7, or Dmin chord I'll say "I don't have any idea but give me a piano and I'll show you how to play it". I can actually do that after two 30 min sessions. Review: Buy this book -- it's a good one! - As an intermediate keyboardist, I really have to say that this is one of those "gotta' buy" books, both for advanced beginner/intermediate pianists and electronic keyboardists alike. Scott Houston, the Piano Guy (a.k.a. public television's video tutorial guy) must have figuratively scratched his head on what to call this book of his. On the one hand it's a fake book in the traditional sense - this one a book of songs in Cmajor (or transposed to Cmajor) along with their lead sheets. Then on the other hand, since in the Piano Guy's video tutorials he teaches "fun!" playing using Cmajor's three primary triads, I, IV, and V (C, F, G) and their supporting chords, and a minimum of black keys, then this book of his is really a lot more like workbook for his method than just a plain ordinary old fake book. The tip off to what the Piano Guy's book really is, that it's a workbook, can be seen in the composers and types of music he includes in his book. The composers are all notable jazz, blues, C&W, rock and roll, and ballad master greats, both of this and earlier generations. The music included in the Piano Guy's fake book are all absolute classics in those genres, all either in their original key of Cmajor or transposed to Cmajor for ease and fun of playing. The Piano Guy is big on improvising, the key to playing blues and jazz. So, unlike traditional fake books, he includes alternate chords, jazz and blues chords if you will, that you can substitute to vary the sound and feeling of the music you're having fun playing. But it's when you use this book with corresponding YouTube videos and CDs that the book's value doubles and triples, not only for pianists, but especially for electronic keyboardists! All of the songs in this book can be found on YouTube ("YouTube (dot) com"), most in both classic and contemporary videos. From those videos (and YouTube audio clips where a video isn't available) not only can you follow this book's lead, but you can also see/hear the melody played in a huge variety of voicings, rhythms and styles. Not only that, but with some of the videos and most of the CDs you can also follow along with vocalists singing the song's lyrics. Listening to vocalists and following the lyrics in this book as a very good help in learning to read and follow sheet music's standard sequence notations. And in many of the commercial-style videos you'll find in YouTube, you can often see the melodies in this book being played by the composers themselves, as Earl Garner does with "Misty", Bill Evans does with "Waltz for Debby", Paul McCartney does with "Hey Jude", Elton John does with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", and Sarah McLachlan does with "I Will Remember You". And since the Piano Guy also includes movies in the credits line of the songs of many of the songs in this book you can enter "G.I.Blues" in YouTube and watch a young Elvis Presley in a rock'em, sock'em, walloping video clip of his "Blue Suede Shoes" (page 9 in this book). If you want to advance in your keyboard and music knowledge and technique you'll really want to think about buying two of these outstanding books, one (new, or used but good) for permanent reference, and another (used, for lower cost) to use as an actual workbook, taking pages out, marking up the music, the chord designations, and inserting measures as you learn more about the style of music you're playing, or would like to play. A box of Ticonderoga's 2HB soft lead pencils with their equally soft non-smudge erasers (Ticonderoga type number 13882, available at Staples, Office Depot, etc.) will let you do this very easily. Now a word about transposing the music in this book to some other key than Cmajor. It can (and should be) done as a continuing learning exercise with this book, e.g., transposing from Cmajor to the equally common Fmajor and Gmajor keys and their associated chords. And the transpositions can be done easily enough using the Internet. You'll be able to find lead sheets for almost all of the songs in this book in the song database at "Wikifonia (dot) org". Transposing one of the songs in that database to any other key is virtually instantaneous. A nice feature of the site is that you can save to a file and/or print out a lead sheet for a selected song in both it's original key and the transposed key. So the bottom line is this: If you like what you've read in this review, then by all means buy this book!! (And don't forget an inexpensive, used, second book too if you want to have a copy of the book to use as a mark-up workbook.) ## Features - Melody/Lyrics/Chords - Pages: 154 - Instrumentation: Piano/Keyboard ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #72,135 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #23 in Jazz Songbooks #260 in Piano Songbooks | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 502 Reviews | ## Images ![Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book - Sheet Music Beginner Piano Book for Adults and Kids - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tNz0zGugL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent: Chord Pattern Recognition, Not Chord Notes *by B***N on July 30, 2013* I'll speak for myself, a beginner who can't read music, has no talent, and no experience; this book is great. It may well be great for those more advanced with talent too. I got Scott's DVD at the library and this technique opens up a whole new world for anyone interested in the piano. His Play The Piano in a Flash is a great reference book and addition to this Fake Book. I bought a competing piano lesson book at the same time and it is nearly useless because of the way it deals with chords. Scott's book gives the chords for each song as a PATTERN RECOGNITION KEYBOARD PICTURE and all of the tutorial chords are based on that. For a novice like me, I care NOT that a C chord is made up of CEG, all I need to know is where to place my left fingers based on the chord pattern not on the notes of that chord. I have learned 7 chords in 1 hour over 2 evenings as part of learning "The Girl From Ipanema" and I can't tell you what those chords are made of but I know where to place my fingers. Scott goes over this in his TV series. The fake book by BN is a fine book but the chords are made up of notes that are meaningless to me. According to Scott, and I fully agree, Chord patterns are key to learning to play by ear. All of the chord patterns are detailed on EVERY PAGE of a song. You don't have to go to the back of the book to find and study the chord, and then flip back to the song to try to play it. You learn the chords using pattern recognition (not notes) for the songs you want to play as you are studying melody notes for the right hand. I can't imagine a simpler method. If you ask me what makes up a C#min, A7, or Dmin chord I'll say "I don't have any idea but give me a piano and I'll show you how to play it". I can actually do that after two 30 min sessions. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buy this book -- it's a good one! *by K***H on January 5, 2011* As an intermediate keyboardist, I really have to say that this is one of those "gotta' buy" books, both for advanced beginner/intermediate pianists and electronic keyboardists alike. Scott Houston, the Piano Guy (a.k.a. public television's video tutorial guy) must have figuratively scratched his head on what to call this book of his. On the one hand it's a fake book in the traditional sense - this one a book of songs in Cmajor (or transposed to Cmajor) along with their lead sheets. Then on the other hand, since in the Piano Guy's video tutorials he teaches "fun!" playing using Cmajor's three primary triads, I, IV, and V (C, F, G) and their supporting chords, and a minimum of black keys, then this book of his is really a lot more like workbook for his method than just a plain ordinary old fake book. The tip off to what the Piano Guy's book really is, that it's a workbook, can be seen in the composers and types of music he includes in his book. The composers are all notable jazz, blues, C&W, rock and roll, and ballad master greats, both of this and earlier generations. The music included in the Piano Guy's fake book are all absolute classics in those genres, all either in their original key of Cmajor or transposed to Cmajor for ease and fun of playing. The Piano Guy is big on improvising, the key to playing blues and jazz. So, unlike traditional fake books, he includes alternate chords, jazz and blues chords if you will, that you can substitute to vary the sound and feeling of the music you're having fun playing. But it's when you use this book with corresponding YouTube videos and CDs that the book's value doubles and triples, not only for pianists, but especially for electronic keyboardists! All of the songs in this book can be found on YouTube ("YouTube (dot) com"), most in both classic and contemporary videos. From those videos (and YouTube audio clips where a video isn't available) not only can you follow this book's lead, but you can also see/hear the melody played in a huge variety of voicings, rhythms and styles. Not only that, but with some of the videos and most of the CDs you can also follow along with vocalists singing the song's lyrics. Listening to vocalists and following the lyrics in this book as a very good help in learning to read and follow sheet music's standard sequence notations. And in many of the commercial-style videos you'll find in YouTube, you can often see the melodies in this book being played by the composers themselves, as Earl Garner does with "Misty", Bill Evans does with "Waltz for Debby", Paul McCartney does with "Hey Jude", Elton John does with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", and Sarah McLachlan does with "I Will Remember You". And since the Piano Guy also includes movies in the credits line of the songs of many of the songs in this book you can enter "G.I.Blues" in YouTube and watch a young Elvis Presley in a rock'em, sock'em, walloping video clip of his "Blue Suede Shoes" (page 9 in this book). If you want to advance in your keyboard and music knowledge and technique you'll really want to think about buying two of these outstanding books, one (new, or used but good) for permanent reference, and another (used, for lower cost) to use as an actual workbook, taking pages out, marking up the music, the chord designations, and inserting measures as you learn more about the style of music you're playing, or would like to play. A box of Ticonderoga's 2HB soft lead pencils with their equally soft non-smudge erasers (Ticonderoga type number 13882, available at Staples, Office Depot, etc.) will let you do this very easily. Now a word about transposing the music in this book to some other key than Cmajor. It can (and should be) done as a continuing learning exercise with this book, e.g., transposing from Cmajor to the equally common Fmajor and Gmajor keys and their associated chords. And the transpositions can be done easily enough using the Internet. You'll be able to find lead sheets for almost all of the songs in this book in the song database at "Wikifonia (dot) org". Transposing one of the songs in that database to any other key is virtually instantaneous. A nice feature of the site is that you can save to a file and/or print out a lead sheet for a selected song in both it's original key and the transposed key. So the bottom line is this: If you like what you've read in this review, then by all means buy this book!! (And don't forget an inexpensive, used, second book too if you want to have a copy of the book to use as a mark-up workbook.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sit down and start playing... *by D***S on April 20, 2010* It is a "Fake Book", so it cracks me up that people don't get that. If you want to wow some friends and have a little sing-a-long then this is the book for you. With that being said, I think it includes a varied selection of songs from current hits from Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You" to classic standards like Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" (which has been played and sung by almost everyone from Englebert to Willie Nelson). And the great thing about Fake Books is that you can start improvising and filling in your own broken chords, etc. to add spice. Which leads me to why I can't give this book 5 stars because in several songs the author strays from the actual song melody (and I don't mean key signature). For example, what is that first four measures that opens "Imagine"??? C'mon, Scott, that's not the opening melody John Lennon wrote. The melody in those first four measures aren't heard anywhere in the real "Imagine". I don't mind faking it, but let's stick to faking the real thing. ## Frequently Bought Together - Scott the Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book | 74 Popular Songs for Piano and Keyboard | Easy Chord Sheet Music Arrangements for Beginners and Adults | Piano Songbook with Simple Chord Frames - Scott Houston – The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book Vol.2 | 90+ Easy Piano Arrangements with Chords & Lyrics | Sheet Music Songbook for Beginners and Advanced Players | Hal Leonard - Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro -- Whether You've Had Lessons or Not! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/5738459-scott-the-piano-guys-favorite-piano-fake-book-sheet-music](https://www.desertcart.us/products/5738459-scott-the-piano-guys-favorite-piano-fake-book-sheet-music) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-07-21*