The Real Bebop Book - C Instruments | Advanced Jazz Fake Book | Songbook with over 200 Arrangements | Sheet Music Learning Reference with Improvisation Practice and Performance Education (Real Book) - Softcover

Hal Leonard Corp.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495052761 ISBN 13: 9781495052767

Publisher: Hal Leonard, 2017

Synopsis

This comprehensive jazz fake book is created for serious students, educators, and performing musicians who want to study and play authentic bebop repertoire. It is ideal for advanced learners, teachers, and adult players using C instruments in lessons, ensemble settings, or independent practice.

Inside this collection are more than two hundred bebop and modern jazz standards presented in clear lead sheet format for C instruments. Each tune is arranged in a familiar Real Book style with accurate melodies and chord symbols, making it easy to read, analyze, and apply in real musical situations. This format supports piano, guitar, bass, and other C instrument players working in combo, rehearsal, or performance environments.

Working through this book helps develop improvisational fluency, harmonic understanding, and stylistic accuracy. Studying classic bebop progressions strengthens technique, improves rhythmic confidence, and supports deeper comprehension of jazz language. The familiarity of these standards encourages consistent practice while offering a reliable reference for jam sessions, lessons, and live performance. This collection functions naturally as a trusted music teacher resource and a valuable long term study tool for advancing musicians.

Song List
Ah-Leu-Cha * Airegin * Anthropology * Apple Core * Au Privave * Babik (Bi-Bop) * Barbados * Be Bop Spoken Here * Be-Bop * Bessie's Blues * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Bird Feathers * Bird Of Paradise * Bird's Nest * Birdlike * Birk's Works * Blue 'N Boogie * Blue Bird * Blue Brew * Blue Haze * Blue Lou * Blue Train (Blue Trane) * Bohemia After Dark * Boneology * Bongo Bop * Bop * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Bouncing With Bud * Budo * Buster Rides Again * Casbah * Cattin' * Ceora * The Chase, Parts 1 & 2 * Chasin' The Trane * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Cheryl * Conception * Confirmation * Constellation * Cookin' At The Continental * Cool Blues * and more.

About this title

About the Authors

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1495052761
• ISBN 13: 9781495052767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248