Description
Learn to play autoharp with the help of this superb book and CD.
This leading autoharp method book offers quality and value for autoharp beginners of all ages.
Logical presentation teaches required fundamentals, plus strum patterns that fit thousands of songs.
The book offers a generous selection of excellent songs, each with melody, lyrics, and chords.
After learning a strum pattern, the idea is to then apply that pattern to a chord progression or song of your own choice. The strum patterns fit thousands of folk and traditional songs of all eras. Thus, this book is an excellent choice for creative autoharp students and players who want to explore individual application and creativity.
Contents:
- Parts of the Autoharp
- How to Hold the Autoharp
- How to Strum the Autoharp
- Flatpicks, Thumbpicks, Fingerpicks
- How to Tune the Autoharp
- Music Fundamentals
- Accompaniment: Terms and Rhythm Marks
- Rhythm Patterns in 4/4 Time
- Rhythm Patterns in 3/4 Time
- Down in the Valley
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- Dark Hollow
- Michael
- Way Downtown
- The Joys of Love
- Jesse James
- Two Dollar Bill
- America
- Amazing Grace
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Praire
- Juanita
- I Am a Pilgrim
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Midnight Special
- Stagger Lee
- Rising Sun Blues
- Joe Turner Blues
- Careless Love
- Shady Grove
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Sinner Man
- Prerequisite Ability
