6-Hole Ocarina Songbook - 46 Songs From Ireland & Great Britain

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 46 well known songs from Ireland and Great Britain, noted for the Ocarina with 6 holes according to the well known "English Crossfingering" grip system.
The melodies were simply prepared with fingering symbols, the vocal melody indicates the rhythm of the notes to be played.
With chords, lyrics, fingerings for the guitar and suggestions including explanations for strumming.
The MP3 sounds (melody and band as well as band only - playalong) are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed.
No knowledge of music notes is necessary - suitable for beginners!

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Sep 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201797331

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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Ocarina songbook

for the Ocarina with 6 holes

No music notes + MP3-Sounds

46 songs from Ireland and Great Britain

Info: www.songbooks.info

Table of content:

Instrument

The tablature

Sounds

A Highland Lad my love was born

Across the western Ocean

Arthur McBride

At the wave mouth

Auld Lang Syne

Barbara Allen (In scarlet town, where I was born)

Byker Hill

Ceol brutha – A Fairy plaint

Down by the Sally Gardens

Drunken sailor

Duan Nollaig – Christmas Duanag

Eileen Aroon

Farewell, Nancy

I will never marry

I'll tell my ma

Loch Lomond

MacPherson's Farewell

Marmaid Song

Molly Malone

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

Skye Boat Song

Spancil Hill

Spanish Lady

Spinningwheel Song

Sweet Carnloch Bay

Tam Glen

The Ash Grove

The Bantry Girls of Lament

The Castle of Dromore

The Croppy Boy

The Curragh of Kildare

The Earl of Moray

The Foggy Dew

The Highland Widow's Lament

The Lark in the Clear

The leaving of Liverpool

The meeting of the Waters

The rising of the Moon

The Seagull of the Land-under-Waves

The Wellerman

There was a Lad was Born in Kyle

What can a young Lassie do

Whiskey in the Jar

Wild rover

Will ye go, Lassie?

Ye Banks and Braes

Chords

Rhythm pattern

Misc

Imprint

More books

Instrument

(1) mouth piece

(2) index finger

(3) middle finger

(4) thumbs

This songbook uses the world's most widely used „English Crossfingering" system by John Taylor. Suitable instruments can usually be recognized by the four different sized top holes - similar to the graphic above.

Fingering and symbols used in this book:

If a hole is filled in black, this means: hole closed with a finger/thumb.

The tablature

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

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

(3) fingering - open and closed holes – see graphic on the previous page

Pattern (specification under song title): 1 _ 2 & 3 &: rhythm pattern for guitar – see attachment

A Highland Lad my love was born

Robert Burns, Scottish Folk / Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 _ 4 &

Wi' his philabeg my love was born,

an' gude claymore down by his side;

The ladies' hearts he did trepan,

my gallant braw John Highlandman.

Sing hey my braw John Highlandman!

Sing ho my braw John Highlandman!

There's no` a l-ad i-n a' the lan',

was match for m-y John Highlandman.

They banished him beyond the sea,

but ere the bud was on the tree,

a down my cheeks the pearls ran,

embracing my John Highlandman.

Sing hey my braw