This revolutionary but now obsolete beginning guitar method first showed how to use partial capos to simplify basic chords. It demonstrates 6 different uses of partial capos to generate easy fingerings. (This is not the even more revolutionary Liberty Guitar Method, that we think is much better in almost all ways, but because of its historical significance we have kept it in print.) Duck Soup Guitar shows how children (and lazy adults & beginners) can have fun and play "Instant Guitar" with full-sounding, interesting songs, and no learning curve. It's been in use since 1983 at dozens of universities, in music education programs as well as at hundreds of retirement homes, hospitals and living rooms. The capo configurations used for a lot of the simple fingerings are the same ones good players use for playing fancy guitar. Read more about it. (The problem with it is that it really only works well in the key of E major, or with an added capo, in F, F# or G. These keys are really only useful for adult men, and women and children commonly can't sing along with the songs properly.

SONGS: Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Hush Little Baby, Down in the Valley, Tom Dooley, London Bridge, The Farmer in the Dell, Ten Little Indians, Clementine, Rock My Soul, Billy Boy, Streets of Laredo, Red River Valley, Sloop John B, She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain, Amazing Grace, Worried Man, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, This Old Man, Little Liza Jane, Old MacDonald, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Angels We Have Heard on High, Deck the Halls,Auld Lang Syne, Skip to My Lou, Shenandoah, Oh Susannah, Camptown Races, Silent Night

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