Mel Bay's Complete Method for Autoharp Or Chromaharp
Mel Bay's Complete Method for Autoharp Or Chromaharp

Author: Meg Peterson

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780786647361

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"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."

Mel Bay's Fun with Autoharp
Mel Bay's Fun with Autoharp

Author: Sue Banks

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 1971-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780871664310

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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.

Complete Balalaika Book
Complete Balalaika Book

Author: Bibs Ekkel

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1610655664

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The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A Brief History of the Balalaika, and a Repertoire Section. Unlike many Mel Bay books, the Complete Balalaika Book does not begin with the rudiments of music notation. Rather, the 20-page Foreword offer insights on the tunings of all the instruments in the balalaika family, hand positions, string sources and height adjustment, and chord shapes. the author even describes how to make a bass balalaika pick from shoe leather. the Tutor or instruction segment is written for the 'prima balalaika' which is correctly played with the fingers only rather than with a pick. the Tutor jumps right in with exercises and tunes in quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-note values with occasional dotted notes and syncopation. Perhaps half of the music in this section is shown in both standard notation and tablature. A glossary of musical signs and Russian musical terns is included. A Brief History of the Balalaika is well written and nicely illustrated. Very few Mel Bay books contain such a comprehensive historical overview of the subject instrument. the Repertoire Section offers a valuable resource of Eastern European folk tunes. All but two selections in this section are written in both notation and tab with suggested guitar chords, the exceptions being an arrangement for balalaika and piano, and a balalaika orchestra score. More than simple melody chord leadsheets, these are the author's own arrangements of tunes for solo balalaika and balalaika orchestra. A companion CD with selections performed by the author completes this highly effective instructional package.

Easy Celtic Harp Solos
Easy Celtic Harp Solos

Author: Laurie Star Edwards

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1609742257

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Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns. Notes at the end of the book give insights into the meanings of the texts of the songs, aiding interpretation and inviting you to experience the ambience of the Celtic lands through their music. Lyrics for selected songs are given in the notes in English.

Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp
Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp

Author: Meg Peterson

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1610654323

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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.

Autoharp Songbook
Autoharp Songbook

Author: Thomas Balinger

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781987550252

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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