Ideal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click 
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Our new songbook, Sing along with ease, isn’t guaranteed to get you there, but it will help you practice, practice, practice.
That’s one of the benefits of the songbook that I don’t often think about, but the subject came up while I was visiting a local music store the other day. The store owner said the book would be helpful to kids learning the guitar or piano.
Well, that’s occurred to me before. Because the songbook is laid out in single-note melodies that would be easy to follow for someone learning to pick out songs on a guitar or piano. The chord changes are right there in the appropriate spots over the melody lines. And most of the songs are in the ‘easy’ keys — C and G — that don’t have a lot of sharps and flats in them. (Actually, between the two of them, there’s only one sharp — F-sharp in the key of G.)
Furthermore, the book’s introduction shows where to find both guitar and piano chords — every chord that’s possible to play on either instrument.
For a lot of young people, the songbook with its more than 300 oldtime favorite songs would be a revelation to a different era — actually, several different eras — of music. Some of those young students might learn to like some of those songs.
And frankly, when I think back to my days as a young piano student, I realize that most of the music in Sing along with ease is a lot younger than the Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin that I had to learn and that presumably young students have to learn today.
One final thought on this subject: Learning to play guitar or piano isn’t just for kids. I’m still learning both, and I’m about to turn 70. And that’s where Sing along with ease can be really valuable. A lot of adults have heard a lot of those old songs, and I’ll bet a lot of them would like to play them as well.
Look at the image above. If old Johann Sebastian can take time to practice the guitar — and lefthanded to boot — I guess any of us can.
– Sid Leavitt
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