Chromatic Harmonica Songbook - 48 Songs from Ireland and Great Britain

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 48 Songs from Ireland and Great Britain - 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 slightly advanced and advanced player.

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Nov 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201330927

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

A Highland Lad my love was born

Amazing Grace

Arthur McBride

Auld Lang Syne

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

Byker Hill

Ceol brutha - A Fairy plaint

Danny Boy

Down by the Sally Gardens

Duan Nollaig - Christmas Duanag

Eileen Aroon

Farewell, Nancy

Fields of Athenry

I will never marry

I'll tell my ma

Loch Lomond

MacPherson's Farewell

Marmaid Song

Molly Malone

Sailors Hornpipe

Scarbourgh Fair

Scotland the Brave

Scots wha hae

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 Air

The Parting Glass

The Seagull of the Land-under-Waves

The leaving of Liverpool

The lost Child

The meeting of the Waters

The rising of the Moon

There was a Lad was Born in Kyle

What can a young Lassie do

Will ye go, Lassie?

Ye Banks and Braes

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 the so-called „Solo" tuning. There is a blow tone in channels 1 to 3, and the next higher tone in the scale can be found as a draw tone. With the fourth channel this is reversed - the draw tone is deeper than the blow tone. With this draw note the octave is complete, the blow note is the beginning of the new octave. The blow tone in channel 4 is