{"id":49,"date":"2022-07-24T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/07\/24\/the-power-of-group-singing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:20:30","slug":"the-power-of-group-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/07\/24\/the-power-of-group-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of group singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a very expensive but totally worth it book called <i><b>101 Timeless Songs: a resource for easy song leading<\/b><\/i>. I&#8217;m using it to learn to play piano, but it&#8217;s designed for song leaders to use in, say, senior communities. If you are learning to play piano, or guitar, or ukelele, or you want a songbook you can use to lead singing in a group, this book is amazing. Simplified chords, chord charts for piano, guitar, and ukulele, and songs indexed by the number of chords, their key, and relevant themes. &#8220;This resource sprouted from the clinical practice of two board-certified music therapists with a combined 38 years of experience.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comeonletssing.com\/product-page\/101-timeless-songs-leader-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Order the book here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The very first song I learned to play on piano was out of this book. It was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ntlp3mcyFuQ\">Amazing Grace<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also learned <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K4rcNzN7eIE\">Simple Gifts<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A2j0egMciv4\">Happy Birthday<\/a>!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the only book I&#8217;m using, but it&#8217;s the most fun. Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLINg8P50qEaN0LUQn_jfc-kwCwlwzoUPr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all my imperfect recitals<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My only regret is that I didn&#8217;t start learning to play piano, and didn&#8217;t have this book, when my grandmothers were still alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a very expensive but totally worth it book called 101 Timeless Songs: a resource for easy song leading. I&#8217;m using it to learn to play piano, but it&#8217;s designed for song leaders to use in, say, senior communities. If you are learning to play piano, or guitar, or ukelele, or you want a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,991,1028,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes","category-health","category-hurrah-me","category-pnw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}