Your First Fake Book: Featuring Large Music Notation, Lyrics, & Simplified Harmonies C Edition

Start your musical journey with Your First Fake Book - C Edition. Designed for beginners, students, and teachers, this easy piano fake book helps new musicians learn how to accompany songs using simple chord symbols. With large notation, full lyrics, and simplified harmonies, it’s an ideal introduction to chord-based playing and fake book technique. Perfect for piano, keyboard, or voice, it builds essential skills in rhythm, reading, and improvisation while keeping practice engaging and rewarding.

What’s Inside: This 176-page songbook features 100 beloved songs spanning pop, jazz, Broadway, movie, and folk classics. The clear layout makes reading and playing effortless, helping beginners build confidence as they learn to accompany melodies and perform favorite tunes. Chords are simplified but remain true to each song, supporting both solo and group performance.

Why It’s Valuable for Learners and Teachers: This collection helps students strengthen their understanding of harmony and rhythm while encouraging creativity and musical expression. It’s widely used as a music teacher resource for introducing chord reading and fake book skills. Pianists can explore a variety of styles and eras - while developing confidence in improvisation and accompaniment.

Full Song List: Beauty and the Beast * Bewitched * Blackbird * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Edelweiss * Georgia on My Mind * Heart and Soul * Hotel California * I Walk the Line * Lean on Me * Let It Be * A Million Dreams * Satin Doll * Stand by Me * Sweet Caroline * This Is Me * A Whole New World * Yesterday * and more.

Trusted by teachers, loved by students. A thoughtful gift for pianists and aspiring musicians, this beginner-friendly fake book makes learning enjoyable and helps bring every song to life through confident, creative playing.

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.