A Charlie Brown Christmas | Vince Guaraldi Piano Solo Sheet Music | 10 Holiday Classics Arranged for Piano | Christmas Time Is Here, Linus and Lucy, Fur Elise and More

This book contains all of the original arrangements for the piano, like the famous Linus & Lucy, and the beautiful song Skating. I am a pretty advanced pianist, but my only precaution for anyone buying this for themselves or for a gift is that most of the songs are pretty advanced. If you or someone else are not at this level, you might not like the book. But if you are more advanced, have a go!

Reminiscent of watching "Charlie Brown's Christmas"! These arrangements are not beginner level but not too hard to play for someone with a few years of experience. I play this book each Christmas and just now bought copies for my grown children.

Our son is a late intermediate piano student and I bought this for him as a christmas gift. This is just a fantastic book of all the songs you will recognize!!!

Very nice. I appreciate the full size sheet music pages and easy to read notes. The only improvement I would suggest would be to make it a stapled book rather than glued together down the spine. Even so it will stay open if you work with it a bit. No wonder its a best seller! Recommended!

Did not Bing's "Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum" ever seem conspicuous when he saddled alongside he-who-is-both-man-and woman's-best-friend? I distinctly recall my father's rather conservative and languidly Bavarian response to Mr. Diamond Dogs, warning me over and over and over again never to wear eye make-up, let alone a purple parka. I tried to correct my father, "But father, he wears a cross as he sings. Look, he even wears a sports coat!" Of course, he could care less as he scowled, "Ahh! But's what's this peace-on-earth crap while he sings Little Drummer Boy?!?" He then proceeded to hit me in the head with a rack of lamb and ranted about the misunderstood merits of white phosphorous.Ever since then, it's been "Pa-Rum-Pum-Pum" and Vince just about nailed it, saving me the torture of having to sit through the likes of Danny Kaye's frightening smile and justifications for clandestine military actions like "Operation Northwoods." I was just fine with the piles of dust spewing from Pig Pen and the slipshod tannenbaum to the sounds of Piano. Drums. Bass. So simple. We thought we were safe. Fast forward to my millennial days as a father in my own right, and juggling pop-culture logic, and "playdates" and the ongoing search for cookware that is free from BPH, and arguing with my piano-playing daughter that what Justin Bieber did to this fine little tune was the worst of all abominations! Akin to a steaming bowl of bile and melted Necco Wafers!Was I to become like my father? Was there any Christmas magic that would save me from that young punk and his plastic death grip on my daughter and the rest of our nation's tweens? Did I have to tally up reasons for hatred? Or could I just spin it toward a time-tested trio that lays to waste the likes of Cream, Rush, and ZZ Top? I purchased Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" for her, invoked the likes of the Archangel Gabriel, shook some maracas, brewed some ginger tea and voila! She's been tickling the ivories ever since, and the ox and the lamb keep time.When I see my father again, I shall say, "I have no gift to bring, but listen to this instead."Joyeux Noël to all the Beliebers out there.

Great book, but I gave it only 4 stars. It is clearly listed as "Piano Solo" which means the music is arranged for a full 88 key Piano with one person playing. But "Christmas Time is Here" (the principal song in this book) is clearly for ORGAN not Piano. Look at the 5th bar bass stave alone: Not many virtuosos even can play an interval from F2 to A3 with the left hand. I also, elsewhere, saw rests in line with other bass notes which usually means two part (person/hand) harmony... that is NOT solo. Studying the piece a bit further I realized that in bar 1: "With pedal" means here "with Bass Pedal(s)". In a Piano solo piece, to most of us, pedal means the "Fote/Sustain", "Sustenuto", or "Piano/Una Corda" pedal... and usually meaning the sustain pedal. Pianos don't have Bass Pedals. But many organs do. I had re-arrange the entire piece for true Piano Solo or synthesizer with no bass Pedals.Normally one would simply not play the lowest pedal notes, but when I did that, the harmony was off - not enough key root in the bass. So one would then only play the lower bass notes (and not play on the lowest non-existent pedal notes). This worked, but I have to move many of the lower bass notes up an octave to sound brighter as the piece should sound.For those of you learning music, this book may not be for you... there are a lot of Jazz chords and the changes and progressions are very much in more jazz oriented themes.Most of the music is from Vince Guaraldi after all. If you ever encounter a piece that is supposed to be arranged for Piano, look for clues as you play it that make you think it may be for an organ: Two hands and one or two feet in the bass. It's not always obvious.Then figure out the best way to leave out the bass pedal notes. As far as the voice parts of the songs (only 3 songs in this book have them) beginners will find them easier to play. But "My Little Drum" has only lyrics in the first few bars only. Also, Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song" does not include lyrics at all in this book (sad). Neither did O'Tannebaum, possibly because these lyrics were not sung in the show, they left them out in the song book. So, not much in here for beginners. I play keyboards and bass, so this book may help a small band but of course there are no drum lines in this "Piano Solo" book.The authors of this book clearly found this music in an archive somewhere but didn't realize it was arranged for organ... not quite the same as a piano solo. Both have music that looks very much alike, but there are some subtle impossibilities from organ to solo piano.

This book is a little harder than I had anticipated it being. I will have to practice more and I just love the songs in it

All the great Peanuts Christmas music and easy to play