Description
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NEW: All of the music and songs that accompany this book were once sold separately on a CD but are now available completely free. Click HERE for access or go to www.otb.ie/whistle-along. It is recommended that each pupil should have their own book (price: €4.95). Books can be purchased individually or in packs of 10 (10% saving).
Strum Along 1 is a comprehensive guitar tutor for beginners which will assist teachers to be able to teach themselves the guitar. The teacher may then go on to give guitar classes. All songs are in the key of D. It uses the vocabulary of the school music curriculum (Ireland). There is a new song to be learned in each lesson.
Lessons in Strum Along 1:
- About the guitar
- Naming the strings, Song ‘Four seasons’
- How to read chords
- Finding your note, Song ‘Frere Jacques’
- Three chord trick, Chord A7
- Chord sequences, Song ‘Hush little baby’
- Pentatonic music, Accompaniment style for 2/4 rhythm
- Song ‘Rocky Mountain’
- Accompaniment style for three beats in a bar
- Song ‘Clementine’
- Using a plectrum, Chord G
- Song ‘Oh Susanna!’
- The elements of music
- Song ‘Connemara Cradle Song’
- Reading Tablature, plucking style accompaniment
- Song ‘Auld Lang Syne’
- Chord E, Plucking style for waltz time
- Song ‘Molly Malone’
- New Strumming, song ‘Jingle Bells’
- Tuning the guitar by relative tuning
- Revision work, changing accompaniment styles
- Tablature of plucking style for three / four time
- List of suggested songs suitable for Key D