Getty and Townend Praise Classics: The Songs of Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend (Sacred Performer Collections)

I adore the selection of songs but was disappointed it didn't contain the lyrics to the songs.

This book has many of the Getty's great songs, but only the music. If you play piano it will be a great book, but not if you are looking for songs to sing (lyrics). Since I don't play piano I'll have to give it to a friend who can play the songs for me and others.

I'm so excited to find nice piano solo arrangements of these contemporary hymns. My church uses these extensively for congregational singing, accompanied by guitars and keyboard from lead sheets, as well as traditional hymns from the hymnal. However, I've struggled lately to find fresh material for preludes and offertories beyond the traditional hymn arrangements I already use. These arrangements are very nice, and only moderately difficult to play (easily learn-able for an experienced pianist in two days for Sunday morning). These really expand my repertoire of music selections that support the Scripture and/or sermon topic of the day, and are familiar to the congregation. I hope to see more books like this out there in the future, bridging the gap between super traditional and super contemporary church music!

This has a good variety of hymns as well as styles (everything doesn't sound the same). It's rated as Early Advanced and I could sight read these for performance. Not advanced by my standards. More like late intermediate. Overall very nicely arranged and the quality I've come to expect from Alfred's Collections. I just think they missed the ability level on this one a bit. )

Although I received a degree in Piano at Christian College only 10 years ago, I find myself hard pressed for time to practice with my home and mother duties! This book is a very accessible collection of pieces you don't hear played on the solo piano because there aren't many arrangements of them out there! Every book has "Great is Thy Faithfulness" or "Holy, Holy, Holy" - so it's fun to have new pieces! I was able to play through the entire book this afternoon - about 1/3 of the pieces could be performed today, 1/3 of them I'd need 1-2 practice sessions, and 1/3 of them would require just a little more work (some arpeggios, some 16th note rhythms). Nothing was overwhelming or complicated in the arrangements, yet they were beautiful and will be a nice addition to my repertoire!

I like this book. I have played one or two songs from this book but it is not as good as I thought it might be. That is why I only gave it a 4star rating. Some of the arrangements were not to my liking. Try it and see what you think. After all, if you find 2 or 3 pieces to play in church; it is worth the money. I like buying my books at Amazon because being a prime member I get them quickly. Also I can order them one at a time which saves money.

This is a great book to have on hand for worship. It is definitely in the intermediate category, so if you consistently get advanced music, you might be less challenged than you are with other music. As a late intermediate/early advanced pianist without a ton of time for practice, I found this book to be perfect for our church needs. I do wish that the lyrics were listed, as I feel that makes it easier to apply appropriate phrasing, etc., but outside of that, this book is great! If your church is familiar with the music of these 3 individuals, they will find this music to be very edifying in the context of a worship service, traditional, contemporary or in between!

Loved the arrangements in this book. They are creative without being overly showy. I love the song selection. Each of the pieces is an appropriate length to play for a church worship service (offering, prelude, postlude, etc). Highly recommend!

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This is an amazing piano book. My daughter plays these for offering songs, pre-service and post-service and all the pieces sound amazing! I wish there were more books like this one!

I bought this so that we could sing these songs with the piano - but there are no words in it and this is not explicit on the website. Of no use to me.

The arrangements for these songs by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend are pitiful. When I ordered this book, I didn't read carefully that these weren't Stuart Townend's arrangements so I am bitterly disappointed in the piano arrangements. (It's my own fault.) Besides the fact that the piano arrangements are not nice, there are no words written in the music. It's all a big disappointment.