Folk Music for Easy Classical Guitar

by Amy Hite

Overview

Play Your Favorite Familiar Folk Songs with Ease: A Fun Collection of 30 Folk Song Arrangements!

Written by Amy Hite, Guitar Professor, MM Classical Guitar Performance.

Enjoy playing your favorite familiar tunes with this carefully curated collection of thirty folk songs, skillfully arranged for easy classical guitar. Unlike other arrangements claiming to be beginner-friendly, this collection is truly tailored for novice guitarists, ensuring an enjoyable playing experience.

These arrangements are well-suited for beginning guitarists as many of the melodies are harmonized with open bass notes and chords that are easy enough for the hands of a beginner student. They are colorful and fun to play!

Song List:

• 1. All Through the Night
• 2. Alouette
• 3. Amazing Grace
• 4. America the Beautiful
• 5. The Ash Grove
• 6. Au Clair de la Lune
• 7. Aura Lee
• 8. The Blue Bells of Scotland
• 9. Buffalo Gals
• 10. Clementine
• 11. Down in the Valley
• 12. Frére Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
• 13. House of the Rising Sun
• 14. Kum-Ba-Ya
• 15. Lavender's Blue
• 16. Lightly Row
• 17. Loch Lomond
• 18. London Bridge
• 19. On Top of Old Smokey
• 20. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• 21. The Sally Gardens
• 22. Scarborough Fair
• 23. She'll be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
• 24. Shenandoah
• 25. Simple Gifts
• 26. Skip to My Lou
• 27. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• 28. Turkey in the Straw
• 29. Waly Waly (The Water is Wide)
• 30. Yankee Doodle

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546619895
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2017
Pages:	28
Sales rank:	877,064
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

Amy Hite is a guitarist from Southern California. She holds a Masters Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from California State University, Fullerton, where she studied under David Grimes. Amy has performed concerts as a soloist and with various chamber groups at local universities, libraries, and music societies. She was a member of the Fullerton Guitar Orchestra from 2006-2010, during which they performed throughout California and on a three-week tour of Bulgaria, which culminated with a concert at the U.S. Embassy in Sofia. Amy has released three albums, Classical Guitar Christmas (guitar solos), Classic Guitar Wedding (guitar solos and flute & guitar duets), and The Nutcracker Suite (with the Campanella Guitar Quartet), all which are available on iTunes and CDBaby. She teaches private guitar lessons in Orange County, at her home in Riverside, and at Riverside City College. In addition to teaching the guitar, she is currently training to become a teacher of the Alexander Technique with the Alexander Alliance. More information can be found about Amy on her website www.AmyHiteGuitar.com.