I bought this as a gift for my sister, who wanted music that she could play fairly well without a lot of practice...and though simple, be really beautiful music. This book is great, and exactly what she wanted. It does have words to the music which she didn't care about, but she loves the music and finds each song uniquely pleasant. She has some of his CD's so she is actually familiar with some of the pieces as well...I would recommend it to anyone wanting simple arrangements of Jim Brickman's music.