Kawai Piano Prices: Neil Young: Greatest Hits (Piano/Vocal/Chords) [Paperback] Review

Some of the best Neil Young tunes here-in .....well-made with decent notation to fiddle around with my meager keyboard skills which equals hours of enjoyment.

While true Neil Young fans know his treasure-rich songwriting career encompasses many many fine tunes not in this collection, it's difficult to find much fault in these sixteen beauties. (I am lucky to have purchased both "On the Beach" and "Zuma" songbooks for piano/guitar when available in the 70's)

Greatist Hits starts with "Down by the River"; easy to hear the plaintive cry of lost love. But I also wonder if Neil's choices of chords/melody were a direct or otherwise influence when Pink Floyd's group effort "Breathe" came out a few years later? Inneresting, but as Neil says onstage, "It's all the same song!"

Well, if you like the music of Neil Young, buy this and mess around with the music (whether you can read notes on the music staff or not isn't critcal)to see which chords are played in first position, and which aren't. Listen carefully enough from the "way it sounds" vs.the recordings; then you can consider the songbook purchase a substitute for a few piano lessons and learn to pick out some great tunes.

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Product Description:
Arranged for Piano/Guitar With Lyrics. Matching songbook to the million selling CD. Contains: Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand, Cinnamon Girl, Helpless, After The Goldrush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Southern Man, Ohio, The Needle & The Damage Done, Old Man, Heart Of Gold, Like A Hurricane, Comes A Time, Hey Hey My My (Into The Black), Rockin In The Free World, Harvest Moon. 4 Pages of color art.