The most complete, authoritative text available on autoharp. Teacher and author Meg Peterson presents a colorful array of songs and styles as well as a myriad of strum patterns in an easy-to-understand manner. This self-teaching course features Meg's highly acclaimed system for teaching melody solo performance on the autoharp. Each of its 48 lessons builds on the one before it, with a reference section included for those who wish to learn about music notation, theory, harmony, transposition, and chord substitution. There are 122 practice songs and many more suggested ones. Also included is information on tuning, changing strings, and altering chord position on the instrument.
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About the Author
Meg Peterson is the premier Autoharp teacher in the U. S. She has introduced thousands of people-- teachers, students, young and old-- to the delights of this versatile instrument. She has spent the last thirty years collecting and transcribing traditional and innovative ways to play the autoharp, which has resulted in the writing and arranging of thirty books. In her first method book, written in 1965, she introduced her own scoring tablature that has become universal to all autoharp pickers, from beginners to advanced players. Since the autoharp arrived on the musical scene relatively recently, as musical history goes, very few people had learned to do anything with it, except push buttons and stroke. Meg, therefore, invented many of the strums and new techniques shown in her books, using existing guitar and banjo patterns as guidelines, and transcribed them in a way that is playable on the autoharp. As a result, the autoharp has come into its own as an integral! and respected part of country and bluegrass combos. Meg has travelled widely, giving workshops as far away as Australia, England, and South Africa, and has been a judge at the Walnut Valley Festial in Winfield, Kansas.
In July 1995 Meg was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame "for her exceptional contribution to the autoharp community." Meg is also a violinist and was educational director of Oscal Schmidt International for 15 years. During that time she worked extensively with music educators, classroom teachers, music therapists and special educators, showing them how to use the autoharp in their teaching programs. Ms. Peterson also served as executive director of Music Education for the Handicapped for six years, during which time she ran three international symposia.
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A must-have book for learning the autoharp or chromaharp.,
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This review is from: Mel Bay's Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp (Paperback)
I found Mel Bays Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp to be an ideal book for learning to play the autoharp or chromaharp. It starts with the basics of how to read music and takes the reader through an understanding of the autoharp/chromaharp; how to tune it, how to develop various strumming styles and music styles and how to make adjustments to the instrument should the player desire to do so. This book contains well written text as well as photos, charts and illustrations. The photos and illustrations are clear and understandable, a definite help for those who learn better from seeing something done. The selection of music included offers a variety of styles and tastes and takes the learner beyond the beginner stage. Lessons also include some music theory. In my opinion, this is a must-have book for learning either the autoharp or the chromaharp.
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The easiest way to tune you Autoharp is to use a well-tuned piano, matching each string to the corresponding note on the keyboard (See scale label in Fig. 2). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
arpeggiando stroke, next strum, tuning cassette, melody picking, arpeggio strums, octave designations, chord model, middle octave, strum pattern, principal chords, broken arpeggio, thumb stroke, melody string, chord bar, practice songs, lower octave, alternating bass, drag notes, shuffle rhythm, loose fist, higher octave, thumb pick, got peace, next pattern, previous song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Meg Peterson, Aura Lee, Linstead Market, Shoo Fly, Swanee River, Church Lick, Long Ago, New York, Red River Valley, Soldiers of the Cross New!
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The easiest way to tune you Autoharp is to use a well-tuned piano, matching each string to the corresponding note on the keyboard (See scale label in Fig. 2). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
arpeggiando stroke, next strum, tuning cassette, melody picking, arpeggio strums, octave designations, chord model, middle octave, strum pattern, principal chords, broken arpeggio, thumb stroke, melody string, chord bar, practice songs, lower octave, alternating bass, drag notes, shuffle rhythm, loose fist, higher octave, thumb pick, got peace, next pattern, previous song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Meg Peterson, Aura Lee, Linstead Market, Shoo Fly, Swanee River, Church Lick, Long Ago, New York, Red River Valley, Soldiers of the Cross New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- Rhythm and Blues by Anne Bailey on page 108
- In His Hands by John T. Brown on page 15
- All Through the Night (Grace Livingston Hill #6) by Grace Livingston Hill on page 57
- Mel Bay Hymns for Autoharp by Meg Peterson on page 106
- Happy Birthday by Instructional Fair on page 21
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