Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Autoharp written by MEG PETERSON and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step, self-instruction method. Includes care of the autoharp, playing positions, chord changes, back-up strums, arpeggio strums, melody picking, rhythm picking, and much more! Each song teaches something new and each strum pattern is built on the previous one. When you have practiced each selection and perfected each strum, you will have the necessary foundation to go on to more advanced styles and more intricate picking. the songs in the book are arranged for the 15-chord instrument, since it is the most popular for beginning students.
Download or read book Beginning Autoharp Instruction Book written by Bonnie Phipps and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This step-by-step approach to learning to play the autoharp will help beginners and teachers understand the many ways in which this versatile instrument can be used. You will learn a variety of strumming techniques, how to work the chord bars, how to use the different areas of the strings effectively, how to play songs and simple melodies, and even a brief history of how the Autoharp began and developed.
Download or read book Fun with the Autoharp written by Sue Banks and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great beginner's autoharp book containing basic technical instruction plus melody lines, chords, and lyrics for 48 folk favorites. Includes information on playing positions, fingering, strumming, glissando playing technique, and more with helpful photographs. Lyrics are placed above the music to make reading easier while playing chords.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself to Make Music With Homemade Instruments written by Mark Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many instruments in this book can be built in a half hour or less by children as young as age 5, using common household items. Songs include guitar and autoharp chords as well as dulcimer tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book First 50 Songs You Should Play on Autoharp written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Autoharp). If you're new to autoharp or want to add to your repertoire, this book has melodies, chords and lyrics for some of the most popular songs that are suited to the instrument: Amazing Grace * Blowin' in the Wind * Crazy * Hallelujah * I Will Always Love You * Imagine * Keep on the Sunny Side * Love Me Tender * Man of Constant Sorrow * Over the Rainbow * Scarborough Fair/Canticle * Stand by Me * This Land Is Your Land * What a Wonderful World * Yesterday * You Are My Sunshine * and more.
Download or read book Love Songs for Autoharp written by CAROL STOBER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of favorites in easy-to-play arrangements for either autoharp melody solos, or basic rhythm accompaniment. the format can be easily understood by a novice autoharpist, as well as a more advanced skill-level musician. Each song includes standard melody notes, chord progressions, autoharp tablature, and lyrics for sight-reading a tune on the fly, or the information can be a helpful guide for play-by-ear enthusiasts. Since love is universal to all ages and stages of life, this book is a potpourri of songs about love, lost loves, longing for love, and a never-ending desire to be loved by someone.
Download or read book Autoharp Owner s Manual written by Mary Lou Orthey and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance,conversions, tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic), buildingyour own instrument, playing techniques, evaluating instruments, chord bar setups, amplification, history, and much more. Each subject is addressed by a current premier musician/builder. The articles in this book have been taken frompast issues of Autoharp Quarterly and have been updated to address current innovations, problems, and instruments. It is a must have for every autoharp player
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Country Guitar written by DIX BRUCE and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a step-at-a-time enjoyable method for learning to play great sounding country guitar. Dix Bruce, in his humorous yet musically right-on teaching style, introduces you to country back-up, bass runs, Carter-style bluegrass picking, the Nashville Numbering System for indicating chord changes, use of the capo, transposition, and much more. Work at your own pace and learn to sound like the country greats! Written in standard notation and tablature.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin written by DIX BRUCE and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's words, It is aimed at helping you get started immediately on your way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the mandolin and mandolin playing. with this informal, often humorous text, Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatile instrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords, and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin folk songs, and more. All musical examples and tunes are written in both standard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix, making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of vintage instruments.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Lever Harp written by LAURIE RILEY and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated, step-by-step method for playing the harp. This book can be used alone or with a teacher. the easy-to-follow method produces results for musicians of all levels, and even if you have no prior experience, and varying levels of difficulty are presented in arrangements of familiar musical pieces. All basic techniques and tunes are clearly and thoroughly explained. Specific topics include: how to use this book, how to sit with your harp, how to tune your harp, how to use your hands, plucking the strings, finger placement, basic structural concepts of music and 14 tunes.
Download or read book Autoharp Songbook written by Thomas Balinger and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Balinger Autoharp Songbook 60 All Time Favorites 60 popular songs arranged for easy autoharp. Aimed at the beginning player each song has chord symbols plus strumming tablature to get you playing as fast as possible. There are no advanced melody arrangements or complicated fingerpicking techniques to master, just easy strumming patterns to help you develop your feel for the instrument. All songs can be played on 15 button models as well as 21 button models. Complete with sections on tuning your autoharp, playing position, and basic playing technique. Chord diagrams for guitar, ukulele, mandolin and dulcimer included so you can have your friends join in and double the fun! Songs: 1. A beautiful life 2. Acres of clams 3. All the good times are past and gone 4. Amazing grace 5. Auld lang syne 6. Aura Lee 7. Banks of Sacramento 8. Banks of the Ohio 9. Barbara Allen 10. Beautiful brown eyes 11. Bound for the Rio Grande 12. Buffalo gals 13. Bury me beneath the willow 14. Careless love 15. Carry me back to old Virginny 16. Cindy 17. Clementine 18. Colorado trail 19. Cotton-eyed Joe 20. Don't this road look rough and rocky 21. Down by the riverside 22. Down in the valley 23. Foggy mountain top 24. Give me that old time religion 25. Go, tell it on the mountain 26. Greensleeves 27. Hard times come again no more 28. He's got the whole world in his hands 29. Home on the range 30. Home! Sweet home 31. House of the Rising Sun 32. Jesse James 33. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho 34. Kum ba yah 35. Morning has broken 36. My Bonnie lies over the ocean 37. My home's across the smoky mountains 38. Oh! Susanna 39. Old folks at home 40. Old MacDonald 41. On top of Old Smokey 42. Over the river and through the woods 43. Red river valley 44. Roll in my sweet baby's arms 45. Scarborough fair 46. She'll be coming round the mountain 47. Shortnin' bread 48. Swing low, sweet chariot 49. The last rose of summer 50. The streets of Laredo 51. The Wabash Cannon Ball 52. The wild rover 53. The yellow rose of Texas 54. Tom Dooley 55. Way down the old plank road 56. We wish you a Merry Christmas 57. When the saints go marchin' in 58. Wildwood flower 59. Will the circle be unbroken 60. Yankee Doodle
Download or read book The Beatles written by Beatles and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Collection). 25 classic songs from the Fab Four are presented in lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams, making Beatles' music accessible to beginning guitarists just learning their craft. Songs include: Beautiful Dreamer * Come Together * Don't Let Me Down * Eleanor Rigby * Helter Skelter * I Saw Her Standing There * Let It Be * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Twist and Shout * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away * and more.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Blues Harp written by Phil Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative book that enables the student to play rhythm chords immediately to create exciting sounds on the harmonica, You Can Teach Yourself Blues Harp is designed to allow the beginning student gain maximum results in the shortest amount of time. The student is guided is developing the ability to hear blues progressions and styles Upon completion of this method, the student will have developed the ability to handle the demands of most blues music. Written by a masterful teacher with years of studio, classroom, and workshop experience, if you really want to play blues harp, this is the book for you! The accompanying recordings contain a spoken introduction and demonstrate each exercise in the book. The recording is split-track w with solo harmonica on one track and accompaniment on the other.
Download or read book Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp written by MEG PETERSON and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete, authoritative text available on autoharp. Teacher and author Meg Peterson presents a colorful array of songs and styles as well as a myriad of strum patterns in an easy-to-understand manner. This self-teaching course features Meg's highly acclaimed system for teaching melody solo performance on the autoharp. Each of its 48 lessons builds on the one before it, with a reference section included for those who wish to learn about music notation, theory, harmony, transposition, and chord substitution. There are 122 practice songs and many more suggested ones. Also included is information on tuning, changing strings, and altering chord position on the instrument. the CD is a stereo teaching tape with vocal instruction and performance demonstrating many of the strum patterns and tunes in the book at full tempo with a singer.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeline MacNeil's performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the mountain dulcimer. Early on, she reminds the reader that the dulcimer is not a toy or a stringed kazoo but a serious, expressive musical instrument capable of stretching as far as the imagination. She endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standard notation. In easily-understood language she manages to explore some very complex, even esoteric concepts, making this a particularly valuable book for the beginning instrumentalists. You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer is simply a great fundamental book. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages. Standard notation and tablature. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Hammered Dulcimer written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every aspect of the hammered dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher, Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a beginner's book, providing a firm foundation for the development of a total musician while maintaining an engaging, informal tone throughout. with detailed discussions on dulcimer layout, hammers, tuning, and stands plus extensive performance notes on every tune, this book is a valuable asset to the beginning through intermediate player. from Oh Suzanna to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Madeline shows the novice dulcimer player how to map your way through a new piece of music, finding clear, musical directions through what at first must seem like a maze of strings. All tunes are in standard notation. the book's 87 pages are illustrated with photos as well as quaint woodcuts, engravings, and pen and ink drawings.
Download or read book Hammered Dulcimer Chords written by JEANNE PAGE and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. the majority of chords diagrammed are those most commonly used, and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six repeated shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.