pdf The Essential Beginner's Guitar Songbook: A Progressive Collection

Pages: 105 - A substantial bundle deal - 88% cheaper than individual purchases
Songs: 59 (Famous Public Domain Songs)

A collection of famous public domain songs mixed with a few of my original guitar studies. An excellent resource to have for a beginner guitarist with beginner friendly notation. It does an excellent job at slowly getting more difficult. Even if you are an experienced guitarist, it is still useful if you want to up your traditional notation and theory game.

This anthology doesn't avoid traditional sheet music notation, but instead has a highly scaffolded approach, allowing for the ability to learn sheet music while removing tedium, frustration and overly boring pieces.

As a guitar teacher for over a decade, lack of high-quality sheet music is the biggest problem. Sure there are low quality songs on the internet for free, but after a couple months of playing, they begin to not improve talent, insight, accuracy, discipline or theory advancement. Asking someone to buy one song at a time has a lot of friction and tedium, so I created this songbook. I gurantee you will enjoy it and feel like there is little to no prerequisite skills required to use it.

Features:

1. Beginner friendly
2. Guitar Tablature (TAB)
3. Chord diagrams
4. Chord names
5. Often has lyrics when appropriate
6. Large appealing fonts
7. Slurs (Pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides and bends)
8. Often has letter names inside note heads, perfect for aiding in sight-reading and theory.
9. Chord voicings that take the main melody, difficulty, originality, and beauty into consideration.
10. Guitar friendly keys

This is not all of the songs it contains, but a preview of what to expect:
• Amazing Grace
• Happy Birthday
• Jingle Bells
• The First Noel
• We Three Kings
• Danny Boy
• House of the Rising Sun
• Red River Valley
• Down by the Station
• The Water Is Wide
• Frère Jacques
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• By the Waters of Babylon

…and many more traditional folk songs, hymns, and classical themes.