Baby Songs and Lullabies for Beginning Guitar

If you love singing your children to sleep, these 15 traditional tunes are bound to be a fun addition to your bedtime tradition. Author Peter Penhallow shows you how to bring these beautiful melodies to life, guiding you through each tune, step by step. This book-and-CD package makes it easy to learn new lullabies. Just listen to the simple instructions on the recordings, then use the transcriptions to practice basic strums, simple chords, and single-note melodies in open position. On the companion CD, accompaniment patterns are played up to tempo, then slowly so you can follow along as you learn to play each tune. Includes complete song lyrics; full guitar parts in standard notation, tablature, and chord diagrams; and detailed notes on song origins. Includes: All the Pretty Little Horses Shoo Fly This Old Man The More We Get Together Down in the Valley Mockingbird My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Make New Friends The Bear Went Over the Mountain Over in the Meadow Kookaburra Jenny Jenkin