hi doug,i found that when i bought music books ,the songs that i new in the books were in a key that i didn,t know,so what i did is this ,i have about a dozen fake books ,i wold tear out the easy songs that i could play (in the key of C)and put them in a seperate folder and when i could play these well then i would add to this folder,ex.the first songs you work on ,in the key of C,then work on songs that are in the key of F,then key of G,then Bb,and you will find that your folder will contain lots of songs that you can play ,rather than have big volumes of fake books that you can only play a few songs in each,mike