Michael Finnegan

Michael Finnegan arranged for guitar trio. All parts are elementary - the middle part very much so.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Or, if you prefer, the French tune Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman, first written down and printed in 1761. Mozart wrote variations on it. Combine it with Jane Taylor's famous short poem (first published in Rhymes for the Nursery in 1806) and you have the ubiquitous Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, as sent up by Lewis Carroll - and beloved of people learning instruments ever since.

Lord of the Dance

Bobby Shaftoe

A sheet of easy tunes: Bobby Shaftoe, When The Boat Comes In, Tallis' Canon and Sur le Pont d'Avignon.

Drunken Sailor

A tab version of the famous tune, What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?

A Carol Arrangement

One of my favourite carol tunes. Personent Hodie was first published in 1582, in the Finnish collection of songs, Piae Cantiones, along with Good King Wenceslas and Unto Us a Child is Born (well, those are the words we put to the tunes these days).

This arrangement is a simple one - it's about Trinity Initial Grade level.

If you're after a lot of carol tunes, click on "Christmas Tabs" link, above.

Minuet

Another movement arranged from a Haydn Baryton Trio - this time a Minuet. The middle part has been rewritten: it's been made very simple, using only G, A, B and C.

Three Tunes

Amazing Grace, The Can Can and Joshua at the Battle of Jericho.

Elementary, but not as easy as those in the previous post.

Elementary Tune Sheet

A sheet of very elementary pieces for children - ranging from 3-note tunes to 5-note tunes. It includes Old McDonald Had a Farm and Little Bo Peep.

In case anyone is interested in a fuller version of the Three Note Jig included on the sheet, I've uploaded a complete version of that tune as well.

Handout

For learning notes on strings 4 and 5, with a bit of revision of the top three strings thrown in.

Pentatonic Blues (Tab Version)

A version with tab of a piece I posted last week...

Pentatonic Blues

Tango!

An easy tune, with tab.

A Simple Blues Trio...

...plus a pentatonic scale selected to help make the hardest part of the trio easier.

A Sheet of Tunes...

Includes The Can Can.


And a tab version (well, of the first two tunes)...

Drunken Sailor

Unusual for this blog as it includes tab.

A Blues Trio - or a Duet

A page of easy tunes...

Includes Aura Lee, Red River Valley and The Worried Man Blues.

Hero Tordenskjold

An easy duet based on a Danish folk song.

Sur le Pont...

Sur Le Pont d'Avignon, for 1 to 4 guitars. Very easy and adaptable. For example, the 4th part is a descant and could just be played the second time were the piece to be played straight through twice.