Chromatic Harmonica Songbook - 48 Folk and Gospel Songs + Sounds Online

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 48 Folk and Gospel Songs from all over the world - notated for the chromatic Harmonica.

The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the lyrics and / or the classical music notation.
The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well as accompanying band alone - "Playalong") are available online in a sound player with adjustable playback speed.
Videos explain how to read music, download files with common song texts and guitar fingerings are also available online. Web address and access data in the book.
For beginners and slightly advanced.

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Oct 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393881636

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

Instrument and symbols

Notes and note values

Sounds - Online

American Patrol

Angel Band

Aura Lee (Love me tender)

Banks of Sacramento

Banks of the Ohio

Beautiful Dreamer

Camptown Races

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Dixie

Foggy foggy dew

For he's a jolly good fellow

Give me that old time religion

Go down, Moses

Happy birthday to you

John Browns Body

Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho

Kumbaya my Lord

La Cucaracha

Let the midnight spezial

Merrily we roll along

Michael, row the boat ashore

Muss i denn (Wooden heart)

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Oh my darling Clementine

Oh Susanna

Oh, Shenandoah

Old folks at home

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

She'll be coming round the mountain

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Swing low, sweet chariot

That's what's the matter

The house of the rising sun

The streets of Laredo

Tom Dooley

We gather together (Thanksgiving hymn)

We shall not be moved

We shall overcome

When Johnny comes marching home

Will the cirlce be unbroken?

Worried man

Yakee Doodle

Yellow rose in Texas

Chord fingerings for guitar

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Instrument and symbols

The chromatic harmonica is equipped with a diatonic scale in „C" major (comparable to the white keys on the piano). Pressing the slider increases the entire scale by a semitone. This means that all possible tones of the chromatic scale can be played, and thus every imaginable piece of music.

The tone sequence in the channels follows