Christmas Sheet Music For Piano: 60 Easy To Intermediate Classic Christmas Hits

Disappointed with this book.Cannot open the book to be able to play the musicDifferent songs with different music complemention.To be honest what a waste of money.

Very disappointed in this. Some of the arrangements were missing part of the song (missing bars, missing second halves of songs!) which made it irritating at best and useless for singalongs and such. I was genuinely shocked that such mistakes hadn’t been caught before it was printed and sold! Don’t waste your money. I’ve returned it. I’m an intermediate-level pianist and have played for years, so it’s not that the arrangements were too difficult; they just had too many errors.

This was such a disappointment. On looking through there is only the first couple of lines of each song. As it shows in the pictures not even half the song. The Holly and The Ivy should have 6 verses and the chorus in between. This book only has the first verse and no chorus at all. It is the same for every carol and song. I would have prefered less songs and more content to each one. I would not recommend this music book to anyone, just save your money.

Cheap quality and too basic

Perfect for a 'new' piano player to play us some Christmas carols and the music arrived next day after orderingThan you Amazon

This book is a great collection of songs that mix together two of the world’s most beautiful things, especially for children: music and Christmas. I remember when I first touched the keys of an old piano as a kid, I just fell in love with the sounds. This book was meant as a gift to a friend of mine, her child was so adamant about learning how to play piano, and hopefully, she will hold on to that. She says this is a great book because all melodies are already familiar and they are also very short so her daughter can learn them one a day. And because of that, she can show off a lot of skillful playing in a very short time. It’s a great little book for beginners of all ages!

The right hand music is fine, but the left hand notes are incorrect on many songs. Waste of money, do not recommend.

Expensive for what it is.

The best thing about this book is its title. If only it could deliver! but alas, it is chock-full of errors and omissions.The contents include a broad selection of carols from around the world, mostly in English, but also some in French and German. They range from the timeless classics through modern popular music, and include both well-known and less familiar songs, with a few surprises (like Christmas lyrics set to the music of When The Saints Go Marching In.)There are quite a number of songs in poorly chosen keys that would require singers to have many years' training; they lie far above the vocal range of the ordinary amateur caroler.Many songs are listed as "traditional" when in fact they were composed quite recently, within living memory, and such information is readily available on the internet. Also, several songs have been attributed not to their authors, but instead to the artist or group that popularized them with a recording. This is poor documentation and could possibly be a breach of copyright law; besides that, it's downright rude--don't you expect to get the credit when you do a job?There are many errors in the text of lyrics. For example, in The Seven Joys of Mary, "The first good job that Mary had..."--this looks to me like the auto-correct function was allowed to run amok. Yet other typos are obvious--"nos" for "not", and "they" for "the". Also, long carols have been truncated by omitting verses and sometimes music. The Seven Joys of Mary only tells us of the first one, and The Twelve Days of Christmas ends with the three French hens. Perhaps the most annoying of all: I Saw Three Ships gives the first and second verses only, and we are left to wonder, "what was in those ships all three?"While we're wondering--O Come All Ye Faithful, Go Tell It On The Mountain, and Sing We Now of Christmas are all included, and all are given the subtitle "Here We Come A-Caroling", which is another (musically unrelated) carol that could well have been included in this collection, but it isn't. What is it doing as a subtitle to these other carols? Why mention it if you're not going to include it?As to the music, the arrangements are simple enough that each hand plays only one note most of the time, and most selections (though not all) are in keys with no more than two sharps or flats. The right hand melodies look correct enough, but sometimes the left hand part doesn't seem to be intended to go with it--there are a number of questionable passages. There are several instances of outright errors in notation, such as a direction "Dal Segno" without the required sign. Also, it seems as though the software was left in charge of laying out the notes and their spacing and the number of measures per line, so that there will be five or six measures on each line except the very last, which will contain only two, or even only one measure. This leads to difficulty in reading, and could easily have been adjusted.Faults like these are to be found on every page, often four or five or more within a piece. Because of this, I cannot recommend this book for beginners, so if you're looking for a gift for your first or second year student, pass this one by. For a more advanced player also, pass it by; there are much better works available that will not need to be decoded before playing.The saddest part is that all of these flaws could have been corrected easily with only a few hours research and the advice of two editors: one for the text and another for the music. Any writer/composer benefits from the expertise of a good editor, and the compiler of this work needs to realize that and not undertake a job that's beyond his present level of skill without enlisting the help of knowledgeable friends to guide him.I'll definitely be returning this one.