Songbook for the Melody Star Harmonica - 52 Folk & Gospel: Melody Star Songbooks, #1

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 52 of the best known and most popular folk and gospel songs for the Hohner "Melody Star" harmonica.
The melodies in this songbook were simply edited with the numbers / symbols that can be found on the instrument.

 

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

 

The MP3 sounds (per song melody and band as well as band alone - "playalong") are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed.
The lyrics in this songbook are in their original language; including accompanying chords, fingering for the guitar and suggestions for rhythm patterns (with video explanation).

Die "Melody Star" harmonica is an instrument of HOHNER Musikinstrumente GmbH, D-78647 Trossingen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393611264

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 Melody Star Harmonica

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

Rhytm pattern

Misc

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Imprint

The Melody Star Harmonica

The Melody Star is a very popular single-tone harmonica in a solo tuning. The large, widely spaced channels are provided with protruding openings and thus makes the playing of the single tone easier.

The range is two full octaves in the key of C major. The so-called solo tuning is mainly used for chromatic harmonicas. This song book can therefore also be used as a preparation for playing or for players of the chromatic harmonica.

A special feature of this solo tuning is the double occurrence of the basic tone C in chamber 4 and 5 blowing. When editing the songs, this identical tone was used in such a way that it matches the respective neighboring tones or the course of the melody.

The next graphic shows Melody Star harmonica with the numbers / symbols used in the book. The numbers can also be found on the instrument, the underscore means draw.

The tablature

(1) chords, for the Melody Star Harmonica in the key of C

(2) lyrics, if you sing them you know the rhythm of the melody

(3) number of the channel, see graphic in the page before - the underline means draw

Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &: rhytm pattern for the 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 that grace appear, the hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares,

I have already come.

That was grace that brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,

his word my hope secures.

He will my shield and porion be, as long as life endures.

Yes, when this lesh and heart shall fail,

and mortal life shall cease.

I shall possess, within the veil, a life of joy and