Modern Folk Guitar – Music In

One of the best foundational guitar methods Dr. Berlin has encountered is Harvey Reid and Dr. Terry Lee Kuhn’s Modern Folk Guitar. This landmark 330 page college textbook is no longer in print, but Dr. Berlin maintains copies for students to borrow. It was the first folk guitar textbook to pass through the lengthy process of scholarly peer review and to be published with the formal consent and suggestions from the community of university-level guitar educators. For decades, it remained a mainstay of the college folk guitar field, and has drawn considerable praise from numerous educators for its clarity, completeness, and ease of use. In a field cluttered with books written and published without any academic oversight, Modern Folk Guitar stands out as the comprehensive and authoritative work in its field, and remains a definitive text and the only book of its kind.

It contains a wealth of information about folk guitar, including chapters on history, music theory, tips on owning a guitar, and much more. Intended for adult beginners, it assumes no previous musical knowledge, and covers accompaniment skills and basic chording, finishing with simple melody fingerpicking.

Through Modern Folk Guitar, Dr. Berlin introduces students to over 160 songs! More importantly, this material students to play ANY type of popular guitar music. Dr. Berlin supplements this repertoire with modern popular songs from the LKR Jam Zone! The repertoire in Modern Folk Guitar includes:

All the Good Times Are Past and Gone * Alouette * Amanda * Amazing Grace * Angel from Montgomery * As Tears Go By * Ashes of Love * Back Home Again * Banks of the Ohio * Barb’ra Allen * Battle Hymn of the Republic, The * Billy Boy * Blind Fiddler * Blind Fiddler, The * Blowin’ in the Wind * Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain * Blues Shuffle * Boil That Cabbage Down * Boll Weevil * Boxer, The * Bring It on Home to Me * Bringing in the Georgia Mail * Bye Bye Love * C. C. Rider * Camptown Races * Can the Circle Be Unbroken * Cindy * Circle Game * City of New Orleans * Clementine * Cobwebs and Dust * Deep in the Heart of Texas * Desperado * Don’t Think Twice * Down by the Riverside * Down in the Valley * Drunken Sailor * Dust in the Wind * Early Mornin’ Rain * East Virginia * Five Hundred Miles * Flag Decal * For Baby, for Bobby * Frankie and Johnny * Freight Train * Frère Jacques * Gambler, The * Glendale Train * Go Tell Aunt Rhody * Gold Watch and Chain * Good Hearted Woman * Gospel Ship * Green, Green Grass of Home * Greensleeves * Happy Birthday * Hava Nagila * Hello Stranger * Help Me Make It Through the Night * He’s Got the Whole World * Home on the Range * Honky Tonk Woman * Honky Tonkin’ * House of the Rising Sun * Hush, Little Baby * I Never Will Marry * I Walk the Line * If I Needed You * If I Were a Carpenter * If I Were Free * I’m Goin’ Down That Road Feeling Bad * Irene, Goodnight * Jamaica Farewell * Jambalaya * Jesse James * John Hardy * John Henry * Johnny B. Goode * Joshua Fit de Battle * Kansas City * King of the Road * Last Thing on My Mind, The * Lay, Lady, Lay * Leaving on a Jet Plane * London Bridge * Lonesome Pines * Long Black Veil * Long Journey Home * Love Has No Pride * Lucille * Mama Don’t ‘Low * Margaritaville * Marines’ Hymn * Mary Had a Little Lamb * Me and Bobby McGee * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * Midnight Special * Mr. Bojangles * My Old Home on the Green Mountain Side * Norwegian Wood * O Tannenbaum * Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow * Oh, Susanna * Okie from Muskogee * Old Joe Clark * On Top of Old Smoky * Pamela Brown * Paradise * Pat-a-Pan * Paw Paw Patch * Pay Me My Money Down * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Polly Wolly Doodle * Puff, the Magic Dragon * Puttin’ on the Style * Railroad Bill * Ramblin’ on My Mind * Red River Valley * Reuben’s Train * Rock-a My Soul * Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms * Rose, The * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * Ruby * Rye Whiskey * Sally Goodin’ * Salty Dog Blues * Shady Grove * She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain * Shenandoah * Silent Night * Since I Laid My Burden Down * Sinner Man * Skip to My Lou * Sloop John B. * Snowbird * Someday Soon * Southern Railroad Blues * Spanish Fandango * Stay a Little Longer * Stewball * Streets of Laredo * Suzanne * Sweet Betsy from Pike * Sweet Home Chicago * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * Take Me Home, Country Roads * Teach Your Children * Tennessee Waltz * Tennessee Stud * There’s a Place in the World for a Gambler * This Land is Your Land * Tom Dooley * Tomorrow Is a Long Time * Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down * Wayfaring Stranger * Where Have All the Flowers Gone * Wildwood Flower * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * Willie Seton * Worried Man Blues * Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven, The * Yankee Doodle * Yankee Lady * Yellow Rose of Texas, The * You Ain’t Going Nowhere * You Are My Sunshine * You Never Can Tell

Techniques include Alternating Bass * Arpeggio Fingerpicking * Bar Chords * Bass Runs * Bluegrass * Blues * Calypso Strum * Capos * Carter Melody Style * Church Lick * Classical Style * Cotten Picking Style * Country * Damping * Drop Chord Progressions * Drop D Tuning * Fast Waltz Strum * Folk Fingerpicking * Hammer-ons * Harmonization and Modulation * Melody * Open D Tuning * Open G Tuning * Pinch Pick * Plucking Chords * Pull-offs * Reharmonization: Secondary Dominants and Chord Substitutions * Rhythm & Blues * Rock & Roll * Root Bass * Shuffle Rhythm * Strumming * Syncopated Strum * Syncopated Travis Melody Style * Travis Picking * Unsyncopated Travis Melody Style * Waltz Strum