Tremolo Harmonica Songbook - Folk and Gospel Songs: Tremolo Songbooks, #1

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 52 of the best known Folk and Gospel songs, prepared for easy playing with the Tremolo & Octave Harmonica in "Richter" tuning and "asian" tuning. Numbers and symbols set the tone, the vocal melody determines the rhythm - the easy way of making music!

 

No knowledge of music notes is necessary - play by numbers- suitable for beginners!

 

Every song was recorded - melody with band and melody without ("playalong"). 
The MP3 sounds are available online (webaddress in the book) in a player with adjustable playback speed. 
Including lyrics, guitar chords, guitar fingerings and suggestion for strumming. This can also be found on the website as PDF download and explanatory video.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Apr 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393712169

Reynhard Boegl

Reynhard Boegl - since 1984 live and studio musician (harmonica, guitar, vocals), music teacher, sound engineer, graphic artist and lyricist, song and textbook author. Lives and works in Linz / Austria and has published almost 100 song- and textbooks for various instruments.

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Table of content

The Tremolo/Octave Harmonica

Richter tuning

Asian tuning

The tablature

Sounds

Amazing Grace

Angel Band

Auld Lang Syne

Aura Lee (Love me tender)

Banks of the Ohio

Banks of the Sacramento

Barbara Allen

Camptown Races

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Dixie

Down by the Sally Gardens

Drunken sailor

Foggy Foggy Dew

For he’s a jolly good fellow

John Brown’s body

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Kumbaya my Lord

Let the midnight special

Merrily We Roll Along

Michael row the boat ashore

Muss i denn (Wooden Heart)

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Oh my darling Clementine

Oh, Shenandoah

Oh Susanna

Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)

Old MacDonald had a farm

On top of Old Smokey

Over the river and through the woods

Red River Valley

Row, row, row your boat

Scarborough Fair

She'll be coming round the mountain

Skye Boat Song

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Streets of Laredo

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Swing low, sweet chariot

That's what's the Matter

The Ash Grove

The house of the rising sun

Tom Dooley

We gather together (Thanksgiving Hymn)

We shall not be moved

We shall overcome

When Johnny comes marching home

Whiskey in the Jar

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Worried man

Yellow rose in Texas

Yankee Doodle

Chords

Rhyhtm pattern

Misc

Imprint

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The Tremolo/Octave Harmonica

With the tremolo and octave harmonica, several reeds sounds simultaneously while playing, which creates a voluminous and full tone. With the tremolo harmonica, the two reeds are almost in the same tune, with the octave harmonica there is an octave difference between the two sounding reeds.

In both types of instruments, the two draw and pull reeds are located in separate chambers. Usually, these four chambers are played simultaneously - two on top of each other and the two neighboring chambers on top of each other. In this book four such individual chambers are counted as one.

There are instruments in Richter tuning and Asian tuning. Both tunings and the tones and symbols that are used in this book can be seen in the next two graphics, including the model names of wellknown instruments.

Richter tuning

Well known instruments:

The range of the following instruments is marked with capital letters in the previous graphic.

A:  Hohner: Unsere Lieblinge 48 / Seydel: Sailor Steel

B:  Hohner: Golden Melody

C:  Hohner: Echo 48, Sextet, Big Valley

D:  Hohner: Comet 40

E:  Hohner: Echo 32, Unsere Lieblinge 32

Asian tuning

Well known instruments:

Seydel: Skydiver / Hohner: Ocean Star / Suzuki / most of the instruments from Asia

The tablature

(1) chords, for the harmonica in the key of C

(2) lyrics, if you sing them you know in which rhythm the tones are played

(3) number of the quadruple chamber - the tones - see graphic in the pages before - the underline meens draw

Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &: rhythm pattern for guitar - see attachment

Amazing Grace

Trad. / Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &

That was grace that taught my heart to fear,

and grace my fears relieved.

How precious did