Autoharp Tutor Books
The book, musician, entertainer, teacher, and recording artist Carol Stober provides melody lines, lyrics, chord symbols, and melody tablature for 35 tunes she learned in Appalachia.
Designed for anyone just learning to play the autoharp, this comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to the autoharp and its techniques. The accompanying videos, available online for download or streaming, feature demonstrations of songs and exercises throughout the book. Topics covered include: tuning · strumming techniques · beginning melody playing · chord-hand positions · right and left hand exercises · major scales · melody aids · and much more.
A collection of 25 traditional melodies written in standard music notation as well as autoharp tablature. Accompaniment chords are indicated.
Thirty-one Christmas songs from all over the world arranged for autoharp or chromaharp. The arrangements in this book assume that the player had mastered simple strumming techniques and knows the fundamentals of autoharp playing.
Part One of this highly regarded method includes basic music theory and details Evo's easy 4-step method.
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.
This is the Complete Method For Autoharp Or Chromaharp currently available. Teacher and author Meg Peterson presents a diverse array of songs and styles as well as a myriad of strumming patterns in an easy-to-understand manner. This self-teaching course features Meg's highly acclaimed and easy-to-use system for teaching melody solo performance on the Autoharp, alongside access to downloadable audio that demonstrates many of the strum patterns and tunes included.
A great beginner's autoharp book containing basic technical instruction plus melody lines, chords, and lyrics for 48 folk favorites.
The songs and ballads in this book include a rich selection of favorite American folk songs, patriotic songs, sentimental songs from the past, and songs from other lands.
The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance, conversions, tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic), building your own instrument, playing techniques, evaluating instruments, chord bar setups, amplification, history, and much more.
There is a wide selection of hymns in this book, including traditional Hymns of Praise, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Lent. Added to this rich array are the most popular Hymns of Christmastide and a collection of our most beloved Spirituals. They have been arranged in the keys that are most suitable for singing, and can be played in a variety of styles using only the words and the accompanying chords. In cases where there are two versions of a particular tune, both have been included. If one version is not well known, however, the most widely used melody is selected.