Easy Folk Songs for the Guitar with Downloadable MP3s

By Hank Aberle

This original collection presents more than 20 popular folk songs that have been specially arranged for beginning guitarists. The timeless melodies are supplemented with a helpful tutorial on guitar basics that offers tips on identifying the strings, tuning, and basic chord patterns and strums.
These arrangements of Skip to My Lou, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Oh! Susanna, Down in the Valley, Barbara Allen, and other tunes include advice for following the time signatures, strumming patterns, and other suggestions. Best of all, each song features a free MP3 download for students to listen to and play along with. The recordings will familiarize beginning guitarists with the pieces' melodies and tempos, and provide practical guidance for playing these beloved folk songs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Aug 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9780486796666

Book preview

The Parts of the Guitar

Easy Folk Songs

for the

Guitar

Hank Aberle

Dover Publications, Inc.

Mineola, New York

All songs available as downloadable MP3s!

Go to: http://www.doverpublications.com/0486493482 to access these files.

Copyright

Copyright © 2014 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

Easy Folk Songs for the Guitar with Downloadable MP3s is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2014.

The publisher would like to thank John Yaffé of Ipsilon Music Press, New York, for his invaluable assistance.

Music and text edited and engraved by Ipsilon Music Press, New York.

Photo Credits

Photography by Jon Legge, Coventry University, UK

Guitarist: Richard Tucker, Coventry, UK

International Standard Book Number

eISBN-13: 978-0-486-79666-6

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

49348201 2014

www.doverpublications.com

CONTENTS

Holding the Guitar

Identifying the Strings / Tuning

The Right Hand

Playing a Chord (The D Chord)

Skip to My Lou (The