Old Fashioned Hymns For The Fingerpicking Guitar

(Meredith Music Resource). Not only do old-fashioned hymns provide a spiritual benefit, they bring back fond memories of families at home or at worship lovingly joining together to sing. While contemporary religious music offers an important new genre, old-fashioned hymns merit special recognition for their contributions to generation after generation. This collection features the "top 20" hymns that have been around for years, but still convey powerful meaning to many folks. Each arrangement is carefully crafted to introduce and cultivate finger picking (some would say "classical style") guitar techniques. Positions and fingerings are clearly marked.

(Finger Style Guitar). Fingerstyle arrangements in notes and tab for 29 inspirational favorites, including: Amazing Grace * Christ the Lord Is Risen Today * For the Beauty of the Earth * Holy, Holy, Holy * In the Garden * Let Us Break Bread Together * O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing * Were You There? * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross * more.

(Easy Guitar). 48 hymns, including: All Hail the Power Of Jesus' Name * Amazing Grace * Be Thou My Vision * Blessed Assurance * Fairest Lord Jesus * I Love to Tell the Story * In the Garden * Let Us Break Bread Together * Rock of Ages * Were You There? * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross * and more.

Craig Dobbins has tastefully arranged this beautiful collection of hymns to be easily playable and yet worthy of concert and solo recital performance. All the music is written in standard notation and tablature, and performed beautifully on the included recording. Selections include: Amazing Grace * In the Garden * O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing * The Old Rugged Cross * Sweet Hour of Prayer * There Is a Fountain and more

Hymns for Fingerstyle Guitar contains twenty five well-known hymns arranged for fingerstyle guitar in standard tuning.The arrangements are designed for easy sight reading, with the potential to embellish them on the fly to create more complex arrangements in your own style. In addition to the hymn arrangements, the book includes tips and suggestions on adding your own introductions and endings as well as improvising variations. Recordings of all hymns are available as a free download. From the author's Introduction: This book grew out of a need. Recently, I was asked to play during several funerals, with the request being to "just play some hymns." When I began looking for material, I found a wealth of wonderful arrangements for fingerstyle guitar, but none of them were going to work for me in this situation. Naturally, I had only a few days' notice, so I wasn't going to learn and memorize complex arrangements, no matter how beautiful they were. Even the simplest arrangements I found were many pages long, and I didn't want to be turning pages during a funeral service, the way I would if I tried to read the music rather than memorize it. I also realized that in this setting, the focus wasn't on me, or how clever or complex the music was. I just needed to play appropriate music for the occasion that helped set the mood and that didn't detract from the service. Uncomplicated, melodic arrangements would be a plus. My solution forms the basis of this book - my own arrangements that are simple, almost "sketches" of an arrangement. What I decided I needed was a type of book known as a "fake book" in jazz circles - but for hymns - and designed for solo fingerstyle guitar. Jazz fake books are typically limited to just chord names and perhaps melody. I wanted a bit more than that - basically easily-playable arrangements with no complicated parts, and designed to be extended on the fly. Hymns: Abide With Me Amazing Grace A Mighty Fortress is Our God Be Thou My Vision Blessed Assurance Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Fairest Lord Jesus Faith of Our Fathers For the Beauty of the Earth He Leadeth Me Holy, Holy, Holy I Have Decided to Follow Jesus In the Garden Jesus Loves Me Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross Just As I Am Love Lifted Me Praise Him, Praise Him Sweet Hour of Prayer The Old Rugged Cross This is My Father's World Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder What a Friend We Have in Jesus Whispering Hope

(Guitar Solo). 25 songs of worship for solo guitar in standard notation and tablature, including: Amazing Grace * Be Thou My Vision * Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing * For the Beauty of the Earth * Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee * My Faith Looks up to Thee * Rock of Ages * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.

All time favorite hymns arranged in notation and tab for easy to play fingerstyle guitar. A companion CD is included. on the CD each piece is played twice, once as a guitar solo with accompaniment and again as a back-up track so the guitarist may practice the piece and use in a worship setting; ideal for small group or church performance.Check out the Free PDF Download that contains a third of the book!

A collection of sacred favorites for fingerstyle guitar. In addition to the relaxing beauty of the arrangements, guitarists will find the music to be quite playable especially with the help of tablature and the companion stereo CD recording. Hymn favorites like Softly and Tenderly; My Jesus, I Love Thee; and Be Still, My Soul are featured. Also included are two original works for guitar: Tranquillo (an homage to George Gershwin) and Had He Not Loved Us.