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How to Play the Autoharp by Larry McCabe
48 pages. Buy direct from the author at DISCOUNT.
This listing includes FREE CD.
“This wonderful instrument will become your dear
companion in the years ahead.”
I’m pretty sure that my first exposure to the autoharp came during a Maybelle Carter
performance on one of those old black and white country TV programs in the early 60s. Maybe it was the Porter Wagoner show. Maybelle, of course, would have been performing a wonderful country standard, perhaps “Keep on the Sunny Side,” or a touching hymn like “Anchored in Love,” with her three pretty and talented daughters. I remember that the image of Mother Maybelle strumming her autoharp left a distinctly favorable impression.
When I first saw Maybelle on television, I was not yet old enough to bum around music stores manhanding musical instruments I couldn’t afford to purchase. But later, in the mid-60s when John Sebastian introduced the autoharp to the folk-rock world in the mid ‘60s-and Mike Seeger demonstrated the awesome solo potential of the instrument-my curious friends and I had advanced to loitering age, so we trudged down to our local music emporium and banged out a few chords on the dusty, out-of-tune autoharp that we had liberated from a big glass display case.
Naturally, we didn’t have sufficient capital, either individually or collectively, to adopt the instrument, but the ease of strumming the chords to “Early Morning Rain” and “Stewball” gave us great artistic confidence, and we all probably imagined a resemblance to Bob Dylan the next morning while inspecting our juvenile mugs in the mirror for the anxiously anticipated sideburn growth that was, once again, disappointingly absent.
At that point in history, we were chopping out songs like “I Am a Rock” and “You Were on My Mind” and “Catch the Wind,” things we heard on the radio. Later, we who remained involved discovered the original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, and we learned that Sara had brought the autoharp out of the Appalachian Mountains to national prominence in the late 1920s.
Sara Carter, Maybelle Carter, John Sebastian, and Mike Seeger each helped to hook countless devotees on the sounds of the autoharp, and many of these “students” took the instrument to technical levels deemed impossible during the hootenanny revival. Still, you don’t have to be a virtuoso to make good music on the autoharp, for its pleasant ringing tone is a joy to hear, even when it is played simply.
It is our sincere hope that this book will help you get acquainted with this wonderful instrument that will surely become your dear companion in the years ahead.
Contents
- Parts of the Autoharp
- How to Hold the Autoharp
- How to Strum the Autoharp
- Flatpicks, Thumbpicks, Fingerpicks
- How to Tune the Autoharp
- Music Fundamentals
- Accompaniment: Terms and Rhythm Marks
- Rhythm Patterns in 4/4 Time
- Rhythm Patterns in 3/4 Time
- How to Transpose Chord Progressions
- Standard Chord Progressions in the Popular Autoharp Keys
Songs you will learn to play
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Amazing Grace
- America
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Careless Love
- Dark Hollow
- Down in the Valley
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- I Am a Pilgrim
- Jesse James
- Joe Turner Blues
- Joys of Love, The
- Juanita
- Michael Row the Boat Ashore
- Midnight Special, The
- Rising Sun Blues (House of the Rising Sun)
- Shady Grove
- Sinner Man
- Stagger Lee
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Two Dollar Bill
- Way Downtown
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