The Steel Guitar Forum

Just started getting into jazz/swing music and would like to find a copy of the real book. Or any material that would be a step in the right direction for new to the style guitar player. Thanks

The Real Book isn’t sold “under the counter” anymore. You can order it from Amazon.

https://www.swiss-jazz.ch/partitions-gr ... l-Book.pdf
https://www.swiss-jazz.ch/Real-Book/Volume-2-C.pdf
https://www.swiss-jazz.ch/Real-Book/Volume-3-C.pdf

I don’t know how this is legal, but I found the Django Fakebook a few days ago, free download. All the great Gypsy swing stuff is in it, plus many jazz standards.

https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/jaz ... o_2008.pdf

Contact Mike Ihde. He still may sell a CD called—Fake Book Collection— .It contains about 8 different fake books. Once downloaded you can print out a song at a time and not have to deal with a book.

Thanks, everyone for the help. Appreciate you all.

If you use an iPhone, there is an inexpensive app called "iRealPro" which is the digital version of the Real Book. It has the somewhat incredible advantage of acting as a player of any chosen chart as a backup track. The tracks are basic, but you have the option of changing keys, tempos, etc. so it's a great practice tool.
- John

I use ireal pro all the time, its terrific but caution its not a sub for the Real Book, which has notes scored, occasionaly words too, in addition to the chords.