James Bond: The Ultimate Collection

lovely music book for keyboard but not for beginneres

I've had so much fun playing these pieces. Great to get a book that isn't just an easy piano version but rather the full score, with separate voice part and piano accompaniment.

Arrived today. Such a quick delivery. My Nephew will love this.

The main thing is that all the songs are there up to and including "Writing's on the Wall" bar Never Say Never Again, which I understand was not one of the official Bond Franchise. I couldn't find sheet music for that song online and had to transcribe chords for it myself, which was a pain. I don't tend to play note-for-note when reading, but busk on the chords and main themes. This worked perfectly for rehearsal and performance purposes. The song structures mostly followed the recordings, with one or two exceptions for long instrumentals. The same applies to the keys.I don't usually buy sheet music for songs, usually playing by ear and writing up my own notes. I needed the sheet music to prepare quickly for a Bond-themed evening gig.The songs were better than 99% accurate for chords and motifs. Reasonably full basslines too where needed.I echo some of the comments about the weak binding, I ended up taking mine to Staples and paying a fiver for spiral binding so I could open it flat and not lose pages. Would the extra fiver have put me off buying it ready-spiralled? Who knows?I would recommend it.

An adequate set of arrangements, but thoroughly unsuitably bound: there is no way to make this kind of glued binding lie sufficiently flat to stay open on a piano music stand. Shame on the publishers. The choice of keys for these arrangements is eclectic, not to say downright perverse, and some of the enharmonic spelling is baffling: a decent editor and minimal transpositions would make little difference to the ability of singers to manage the range of these but would make the arrangements considerably more accessible to the hobby pianist.

Print quality so poor it was very difficult to read the music. Returned it immediately.