Real Book #4 Sucks.

[Neon Scribe]

Sher Music's "The Standards Real Book" has the best version of "The Best Is Yet to Come", including lyrics and the instrumental countermelody.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

Which one?

If you’re asking which tunes differ from fake book to fake book, the answer is “too many to count”. Start with ATTYA and this thread.

Both chords and melody differ in many songs among the many fake books out there today - and I have 39 as pdfs plus half a dozen in hard copy. This has been the subject of countless posts here and elsewhere.

[garybaldy]

If you’re asking which tunes differ from fake book to fake book, the answer is “too many to count”. Start with ATTYA and this thread.

Both chords and melody differ in many songs among the many fake books out there today - and I have 39 as pdfs plus half a dozen in hard copy. This has been the subject of countless posts here and elsewhere.

No. I was asking which of your posts you wanted me to re read

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

No. I was asking which of your posts you wanted me to re read

#15 -

The value of a full lead sheet is that everybody in the band can play and / or chord behind the same head. Unless you're in a collective improvisation band, it's critical that all play or support the same melody (even if it varies from the original). The audience won't notice or care about deviations from originality, but they'll sure notice clashing notes or rhythms.

We "get away with" a lot, but the band sounds much tighter when all are on the same page.

#22 adds to it:

It's not so much the rhythm of the song as it is the rhythmic structure of the lead lines, eg a dotted quarter followed by an eighth vs a triplet or a pair of quarter notes. There are also many melodic variations in standards that affect the rhythmic flow of the line and / or the most appropriate comping, bass lines, and drum patterns.