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This book will give you tools to play along with singers and other instrumentalists without needing to read and memorize music! The concept is the same as for learning folk guitar — they only need to learn some chords and a few strumming or fingerpicking patterns, and away they go! So, why should guitar players get all the fun? Here at last is an approach to playing folk harp that is truly a folk style of learning. Although all the songs used for examples and practice in this book are from American and Celtic folk music, you can apply this to modern popular music as well. The book includes how to figure out the keys and lever settings for songs, and what to do about chords that are not “within the key.” It also includes a fingerpicking “library” with 80 patterns in four different time signatures. There are 20 fun folk songs with lyrics and chords, not a single note to read. The book comes with companion recordings of all 20 songs to rehearse along with. Verlene sings and plays her Celtic harp in a variety of styles to give you the sense of playing along with other musicians and singers. Then you can take these fingerpicking patterns, add your own if you like, and bring your harp to the next sing-along or jam session in your own community!
Click here to purchase companion book, The Complete Sing-Along Harper Songbook, which contains transcriptions of the recordings that come with this book.
Song Contents
Amazing Grace
America, the Beautiful
Barbara Allen
Cat Came Back, The
Cockles and Mussels
Down the River
Fair and Tender Ladies
Go Down, Moses
John Henry
Midnight Special
Mockingbird Song, The
Oh Danny Boy
Old Joe Clark
Scarborough Fair
Star of the County Down
Streets of Laredo
Wade in the Water
Water Come a Me Eye
Water is Wide, The
Wayfaring Stranger
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