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Finally, it is no longer necessary to have years of experience at the piano to get professional sounding arrangements with a Fake Book.

Each song on each disk has been optimized for top performance in the Band-In-A-Box program. Musicians consistently agree that Norton Music's Fake Disks are some of the finest Fake Disks available in the world. You can even make up your own, new melody to an old song's chord progression*. You can either play the melody from your Fake Book (by popular request, some Norton Music Fake Disks also come with an optional, accompanying printed Fake Book), or you can simply "Fake" the melody. It provides an arrangement from the chord progression in the Fake Book. The Norton Music Fake Disk differs from the Fake Book in that it contains no melody. These inventions gave rise to a new musical tool/toy,the Fake Disk. That is how they got their name, Fake Book.Ĭomputers gave us both MIDI sequencers and auto-accompaniment software like Band-In-A-Box. Rather than notate a specific background arrangement, these books leave it up to you to "Fake it", or make up your own arrangement. Traditionally, the Fake Book is a printed book containing the melody, the chords and sometimes some or all of the words in a compact, no frills form. Why? Because they contain both the biggest collections, and the best selections of popular music you can get for your bucks - period. Fake Books - Preferred by professional musicians for generations.