The Best of Coldplay for Easy Piano: Updated Edition Reviews

• Not So Easy

  
  By AD6B99LMTDQF1 on 2004-11-29
  This isn't for a beginner or an advanced beginner. By "easy" is meant that it is comparable to The Library of Easy Piano Classics ISBN 0-82556-1284-5.
  
  If you're not quite ready for this level I'd still order it and the more advanced Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head, because these punk rock music books are here today and gone tomorrow. This is probably not going to be available by the time you're ready.
  
  

• Simple arrangements & Great selection of songs

  
  By A21ZSZ2XZURPQB on 2006-01-05
  12 Coldplay songs from the albums "Parachutes" and "A Rush of Blood to the Head".
  
  I've only had a couple of years of piano lessons (and that was years ago) and I bought this book to help me get back into playing. The arrangements are easy (but no, not beginner), and don't take much practise before you're sounding pretty good! Includes the guitar chords.
  
  The songs are:
  
  (1) Amsterdam (2) Clocks (3) Don't Panic (4) Everything's Not Lost (5) Green Eyes (6) In My Place (7) Rush of Blood (8) The Scientist (9) Sparks (10) Trouble (11) A Warning Sign (12) Yellow
  
  The book itself is a slim softcover book with a shiny cover. It is bound by three staples, and the pages fall flat once pressed down - so its fine on a music/piano stand.
  
  Note - This describes the the 2003 edition which I was sent initially (in error). So check that you were sent the right edition! The 2004 edition is bound, so doesn't lie flat as well as the 1st Ed but it includes a 13th song: "Fix You" from "X&Y"
  
  

• A good find....but

  
  By A2O9109QC9T11W on 2005-08-22
  It's a great book for intermediate players. I wouldn't exactly call it "easy piano." While the notes are easy to read and not complicated, the key signatures are what make the songs difficult. Brush up on those before trying out this book!!
  
  

• As advertised

  
  By A1PKU90N7H45MF on 2007-03-08
  The music was easy piano by my standards, a quick learn and authentic enough to the true sound of Coldplay as well.
  
  

• Not original arangements or really even close

  
  By A3VBDJQQSRGG08 on 2008-04-06
  I'm surprised that none of the other reviews mentioned the fact that these "arrangements" are very different from the originals. The melody (vocals) is in the right-hand treble clef and simple base notes in the left. These are not really the chords that are played by the band, and it is virtually impossible to sing along with what is written, unless you like singing exactly the same thing your right hand is playing. And there's not enough of a chord in the left hand to fill it out if you just drop the right and sing it. I'm fairly disappointed in this. Maybe if all you're looking for is a similar sounding arrangement and don't plan to sing, then this may be the book for you.
  
  

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