America the Beautiful
Video 1: America the Beautiful. Introduction, Performance and explanation of Right and Left hand
Our second national anthem, in my opinion. A beautifully written melody with wonderful lyrics, that's also easy to sing and enjoy. Perfect to be performed any time or place, especially home school. Remember it has more than one verse, and there is a lot of our history wrapped up in the words. Very powerful!
Video 2: America The Beautiful A "left hand only" Perspective and and explanation.
Your left hand as you see it when playing Our second national anthem. A beautifully written melody with wonderful lyrics, that's also easy to sing and enjoy. Perfect to be performed any time or place, especially home school. Remember it has more than one verse, and there is a lot of our history wrapped up in the words. Very powerful!
Video 3: Chords and Melody for America the Beautiful (C&M)
There are two lessons on this video. We want you to listen to and then play a "Melody only", phrase by phrase, version of the song, so you hear the beauty of the melody. Then, similarly we want you to listen to and then play through a "Chords only" version where you can strum the strings, or in the spirit of fingerstyle traditions, begin to use your right hand thumb and fingers to play block chords. Good exercises for any player.…’specially the listening part.