Adele - 25 Paperback – December 1, 2015

In general, this book is about what you would expect: it contains piano transcriptions of every song from 25, along with the vocal line and guitar chords. Like much of Adele's music, most songs on this album are quite piano-heavy, so I had high hopes for the transcriptions being authentic. Mostly, this is true. For example, "All I Ask" is absolutely beautiful and sounds almost spot-on to the album recording. It is my favorite piece from both the album and this book, and you won't be disappointed with it. "When We Were Young" is decent, but when the album recording has both the piano and bass, the transcription in this book has only the piano part--you're missing the little bass runs that I think make the song a bit more exciting (and, no matter how stunningly performed the song may be, the instrumentals are very simple and you can probably do just as good as this transcription just by looking at the chord progression and faking it if you don't care about the bass; I was able to find a transcription I liked better as a digital download on a well-known online sheet music store). Finally, her first hit from the album, "Hello," is quite poorly transcribed if you're just looking for the accompaniment: on this piece, they decided to put the melody into the piano part. It's mostly easy ignore if you're a capable enough player to filter it out, but to play it like that requires more effort and ruins what could have otherwise been a great transcription of a beautiful song. Finally, there are a couple songs that just don't work as well on the piano (ones without a prominent piano part in the album itself), but I wasn't as interested in those anyway.I'm deducting one star for the aforementioned reasons: some otherwise good transcriptions are mysteriously missing something that would make them more authentic, and some "accompaniment" lines are transcribed with the melody (but at least the whole book doesn't consistently do that). In general, the book is well done, and it does include all songs from the album with reasonably good transcriptions of most of them.

I'm 24, played piano from the age of 5 - 14, and played very little in the past 10 years. Considering how advanced of a player I was, this version of the score definitely felt on the easier side of intermediate. Honestly, if you open it up and are upset with how complicated it is, I would encourage you to still work on the songs! I promise, it's worth it - get out your metronome, and at least practice the right hand part. Across the songs I've played so far, I think the most complicated aspects a beginner might struggle with are grace notes (maybe?), the beats, the key, and some 4 note chords in the right hand.This was my first time buying sheet music online, and I'm really happy with it. These songs are fun, especially if you sing along!

Sheet music with lyrics and properly done. Love the cover and can't wait to start learning the music.

Very true to her songs! It is intermediate play to advanced. Not for a beginner! Beautiful arrangements tho.

Who doesn't love Adele??? Great songs and they're fairly easy to play, but still offer a challenge for intermediate piano players.

Daughter requested this for Christmas. She was very pleased to get it.

It is perfect.

great piano book - thanks for fast shipping!