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What are your favorite folk songbooks for guitar?
My friends and I are decent intermediate players but we don't have enough songs in common, and we'd love a book that can teach us a thing or two.
My friends and I are decent intermediate players but we don't have enough songs in common, and we'd love a book that can teach us a thing or two.
As in "campfire song book" or as in "precise, written-out pop-rock arrangements"?
I have seen iterations of [this book] (https://www.musik-produktiv.de/dux-das-ding-2-kultliederbuch.html) all over Europe. It is a good collection of popular songs (lyrics and chords). Not sure if that is what you are looking for.
When I first was learning I got a few Hal Leonard books which were good because they had tab and music notation. Then I started using the internet like most other people. The quality varies a lot and many sites don't just show you the chords, they do the typical modern internet annoyances. Ultimate-guitar nags you to sign up and has popup videos and other stuff that isn't just the tab or chords. I had their mobile app for a while and it did some similarly annoying things. It's not the worst ever, but I'm really tired of the enshittification of the internet.
I can recommend thesession.org if you're after instrumental tunes! I think it skews towards the British Isles in terms of content, but there are hundreds of tunes (and dozens of variations of the same) available to have a blast at. It came in very handy this Christmas when I was playing music with the family 😊