PLAY IT NOW! 20 Christmas Carols for the Bowed Psaltery

Even if you don’t read music or have never played an instrument before, you can play the bowed psaltery. And this book show you how!

PLAY IT NOW! has been laid out so that every song includes not just the music, but both the name of the note and a number corresponding to a string on the bowed psaltery. This should allow anyone to pick up the instrument and, after a couple minutes becoming familiar with the bow, play a tune. Most of the songs are ones that you may already know. They were selected because, once a tune is in your head, it’s not hard to play it on an instrument.

Many of the songs have been transposed into the key of C which means there are no sharps or flats for you to worry about. If you want to know what this means and you do not read music, you can refer to the chapter “How to Read Music 101” at the end of the book. Learning just the simple concepts described in that section will allow you to play many other songs.

Includes Angels From the Realms of Glory, First Noel, Friendly Beasts, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Good King Wenceslas, He is Born the Holy Child, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In, I Wonder as I Wander, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, O Christmas Tree, O Come All Ye Faithful, Riddle Song, Silent Night, Sing We Now of Christmas, The Snow Lay on the Ground, The Wassail Song, While Shepherds Watch