guitar fake books

[peterp]

Anyone bought guitar fake books?
If so what do you think of them and do you recommend any of them?

similar to this,
http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=240070&subsiteid=7

Hate to order another book and end up with yet another pile of poorly written unusable junk like a few I've acquired lately.

[Blooby]

If you Google the name of a song with the word "chords" or "tab" after it, it will most likely pop up. Some sites let you transpose as well. The biggest issue is finding the best/most accurate version. Between that and YouTube, I think you are more than covered.  It usually takes me 15-20 minutes to clean up a tune in Word, and while I'm checking, I'm learning it in the process. It might seem tedious, but we only add a song or two per gig (every two weeks or so). I now have about 150, so I plop them in sheet protectors and then sub them out for setlists (which wouldn't work so well with fake books). An example is attached. Sorry about the jpeg. I had to take a screen shot as it wouldn't allow me to upload a Word document.

I still have some fake books around, but the only one I see worth keeping is maybe The Beatles as I enjoy so many of their tunes (and many are just chord-based).

Good luck.

Blooby

[Hook]

If its chords you want it's all on line( or most of it), Fake books are good if your looking for lead sheets, melody lines & such. For jazz there great, for pop/contemporary/folk/rock there unnecessary.
Rock On!

[peterp]

Thanks that is what I was wondering, last few books I actually bought were not very good at all.
We are mostly into folk,blues,country,rock type songs, jazz takes way too much thinking and knowing what you are doing! 

Manually assembling songs from the web into docs is what we have been doing.
Just getting on the very disorganized side here with loose papers flying all over the place.

Sheet protectors and a binder might be a better way to go.
Time for another trip to CostCo!
Which is next to a music shop, which might get me in yet more doodoo.

[64Guitars]

Just getting on the very disorganized side here with loose papers flying all over the place.

Sheet protectors and a binder might be a better way to go.
Time for another trip to CostCo!
Which is next to a music shop, which might get me in yet more doodoo.

Paper is so last century. You need a teleprompter. I'm sure your CFO won't mind. Just don't tell her it was my idea.    

http://www.stageprompter.co.uk/




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhjIKn1w0Rw


If the teleprompter's not in this year's budget, maybe she'll let you buy this t-shirt.

[Groundy]

Just getting on the very disorganized side here with loose papers flying all over the place.

Sheet protectors and a binder might be a better way to go.
Time for another trip to CostCo!
Which is next to a music shop, which might get me in yet more doodoo.

Paper is so last century. You need a teleprompter. I'm sure your CFO won't mind. Just don't tell her it was my idea.   

http://www.stageprompter.co.uk/




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhjIKn1w0Rw

Wow could do with one of these myself...............Alex

[peterp]

OH NO more GAS!
We did try using pads but that did not work out as old eyes could not make out what was on their little screens.
This on the other hand looks great.

Though at almost 1100$cdn + shipping/customs suspect I might need to start working on a requiem.

Paper is so last century. You need a teleprompter. I'm sure your CFO won't mind. Just don't tell her it was my idea.    

[64Guitars]

Though at almost 1100$cdn + shipping/customs suspect I might need to start working on a requiem.

You could make one for a lot less. It's basically just a computer running an image viewer program. So get a 23" LED monitor for about $150 CDN (or a used one for less) and a Raspberry Pi B+ running Linux for $35. Then just build a wedge-style box like the Stageprompter to hold it all. You could use a USB flash drive to store the OS and the images.

For a remote control, maybe something like this would work?

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_277&item_id=061336



You wouldn't need a keyboard or mouse because you could just plug the USB flash drive into your main computer when you want to add images, update the OS, etc. So you'd only need a simple way to move between images. Hopefully, the presentation remote would be capable of that. If not, I'm sure you could find some other way. For instance, maybe you could take apart an old mouse and wire the left and right buttons to a pair of footswitches. Then configure the image viewing software to respond to right-click for next picture and left-click for previous.

[peterp]

Good plan, I think I see a fall project in the works!
And by then the Raspberry pi B+ might be on the amazon.ca site as well, right now they only have the older rev B kits showing.
http://www.amazon.ca/CanaKit-Raspberry-Ultimate-Starter-Components/dp/B00GWTNYJW/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_img_b

[Speed Demon]

I never had much use for fake books. Except for the ones that explain how to fake orgasms.