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Norton Music's Fake Disk #8 for Band-in-a-Box - The Best Chord Changes for the Most Requested Standards.Norton Music's Fake Disk #7 for Band-in-a-Box - Best Known Latin Songs.Norton Music's Fake Disk #6 for Band-in-a-Box - The Blues Fake Book.Norton Music's Fake Disk #5 for Band-in-a-Box - The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book.Norton Music's Fake Disk #4 for Band-in-a-Box - The Great Rock Fake Disk.Norton Music's Fake Disk #3 for Band-in-a-Box - Dick Hyman's Pro.Norton Music's Fake Disk #2 for Band-in-a-Box - The Ultimate Pop/Rock Fake Book.Norton Music's Fake Disk #1 for Band-in-a-Box - Variety.* (See footnotes)Ĭlick for information about: (The following links will open in a new window or tab ) Norton Music Fake Disks contain chord progressions only, and there are no copyrighted melodies or lyrics on the disks. How many songs written with a 12 bar blues progression can you name? I lost count after a few hundred and I think I barely scratched the surface. For example: Hot Hot Hot (soca), shares the same chord progression with La Bamba, Guantenamera, and others (Latin American) which is the very same chord progression as Louie Louie, Twist And Shout, and others (Rock And Roll) - I could go on and on for pages but by now you get the idea. In fact, any given chord progression can cross the lines from one style or type of music to another.

Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and other jazz giants participated in this practice. For Example: Groovin' High, by the late Dizzy Gillespie is actually the standard tune Whispering (by John Schonberger, Richard Coburn, and Vincent Rose), with a new, 'bop' melody. They gave it a new name and published the new song with a copyright of its own. In the 1930's and The 1940's it was common for jazz musicians to write a new melody to some of the old standards they had played for years. Sometimes the borrowing of the progression is intentional, sometimes it is not, a composer's subconscious mind can store something it likes and then reinvent it later.

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In the 20th century, just about every field of popular music is full of songs with borrowed chord progressions (Rock, Jazz, Country, Latin, Dance, Reggae, etc.). From the very beginning of modern western music, and continuing to the present day, composers and songwriters have written new compositions by using the chord structure or the chord progression of another song. * Although you can copyright a song, you can neither copyright a song title nor can you copyright a chord progression.

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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.

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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.