Guitar Collections Ballads with Vocals?

[Kindness]

It's difficult to find one book to capture a style of music that one wants. I really like playing simple fingerstyle/vocal pieces. One good example is Fleetwood Mack's Songbird. Johnoy Danao does a really nice arrangement.

Any suggestions on guitar book collections that might have similar guitar music with vocals?

Thanks!

[Peter Jones]

Do you like Eva Cassidy? She did simple but nice fingerstyle arrangements of popular songs, songbird being one of them. I've had a go at learning quite a few of them from tabs I've found on Ultimate Guitar.

[Kindness]

Yes, I love her music and actually have her songbook. Some of my favorite mellow songs are:

Songbird
Wonderful World
Hallelelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Amazing Grace
Day is Done (Peter, Paul, and Mary)
Edelweiss
Blowing in the Wind

I am lucky that I read music notation and have a music background, as I often just figure these out by ear and create my own arrangement. But it sure would be nice for someone to put a collection together.

Hey, if someone has some old folk music songbooks they want to sell, PM me!

And here is a nice website: http://singalongwith.us/

[Fatfingerjohn]

I don't find songbooks much help as they normally have one or two I like and a dozen I'm not bothered about (exceptions being James Taylor where I like all his stuff and Gordon Lightfoot). But they're so ****** expensive. I much prefer looking up songs I like on the net and youtube and taking it from there.

[Kindness]

Originally Posted by Fatfingerjohn

I don't find songbooks much help as they normally have one or two I like and a dozen I'm not bothered about (exceptions being James Taylor where I like all his stuff and Gordon Lightfoot). But they're so ****** expensive. I much prefer looking up songs I like on the net and youtube and taking it from there.

That's pretty much what I have been doing. I have learned a lot of music on youtube. And you are spot on. Music books are expensive, and usually don't contain but a half dozen song one might like.

[Bern]

Originally Posted by itself

It's difficult to find one book to capture a style of music that one wants. I really like playing simple fingerstyle/vocal pieces. One good example is Fleetwood Mack's Songbird. Johnoy Danao does a really nice arrangement.

Any suggestions on guitar book collections that might have similar guitar music with vocals?

Thanks!

I would suggest to compile your own songbook. There are plenty of sources these days to get what you want.