The Big Book of Hymns Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords Paperback – October 1, 1999

I like that this book is not like the one in the picture which is a thick hardback. Mine is an overall largerbook which is not nearly so thick and lies flat easily on my piano. It is also a paperback. I would not need this book to be spiral bound. Also if you read the magnified list of hymns in the picture you will see what the book contains which is just about every hymn one could imagine. The print could be a little bit biggerbut on the whole I love it.

Large selection of favorites! Not too hard but not simple either. Gave as gift...recipient likes very much.

It’s really hard to find legit hymn music that adds the chords to the top; usually they are fake books with just the melody. This is better cause it’s 4 part harmony with the chords added.

This definitely has a lot of the hymns that my relatively-conservative church sings, which is mainly what I was looking for. The accompaniment is not that difficult to follow if you have been playing piano for a couple of years, but pretty quickly you will see that the binding is a bit tough to work with; it would be much better as a spiral bound book.

I am learning piano and guitar, and this book is perfect for both endeavors. I love the old hymns, and I enjoy being able to play some of my favorites.

Has music for guitar piano too!

I was looking for a few older hymns from my childhood and they were in this collection. Wonderful selection, easy to sight read and follow. Highly recommend.

On the positive side, this book provides a good list of hymns for guitar application. The majority of the songs are familiar to any congregation that still is hymn-based rather than praise chorus oriented. Some of the hymns, however, are almost unusable for the musicians due to the format---one song in particular that we were considering stretched over five pages. The Hymn Book, published by Elderly Instruments is vastly superior when it comes to being user friendly, although its selection isn't as large as The Big Book. Overall, I would recommend the book. Most guitar oriented books for worship have a ton of praise choruses with a few token hymns. The Big Book gives you a lot of selections and options that most of the others don't