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Guitar Lullabies
Guitar Lullabies
Guitar Lullabies
by Paul Greaver

Using the intimacy of a solo acoustic guitar, Paul Greaver creates a calm, peaceful space to drift away into the land of dreams. Paul arranged traditional lullabies and related songs from a variety of cultures and designed the CD to be a soothing, gentle, innocent, elegantly pure and simple recording to be enjoyed by young children.

Age: Birth-12 months | Title: Guitar Lullabies  |  Artist: Paul Greaver  |  Artist: Music for Little People

Using the intimacy of a solo acoustic guitar, Paul Greaver creates a calm, peaceful space to drift away into the land of dreams. Paul arranged traditional lullabies and related songs from a variety of cultures and designed the CD to be a soothing, gentle, innocent, elegantly pure and simple recording to be enjoyed by young children.

Paul Greaver plays traditional lullabies from all over the world through the organic sounds of an acoustic guitar, creating a soothing mood for gentle bonding time with your little one. The lullabies include American classics such as Hush Little Baby, and All the Pretty Horses, Welsh songs Sou Gan and All Through the Night, Hebrew Noumi Noumi, Celtic Song of the Water Kelpiel,  Dreams Angus from Scotland, and Sakura from Japan. Other songs include well-recognized classical favorites, Brahms' Lullaby and Schumann's Child Falling Asleep. The songs carry steady beats and many include heavy strumming or bass notes to emphasize the beat; a great example of this is All Through the Night. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star begins simply and gains complexity with the addition of chords, runs, eighth notes, while the final verse changes to a minor chord. The African lullaby Kumbaya also gains complexity as it goes, creating a bass made up of beautiful triads. Greaver teases the strings, dancing his fingers quickly over them and plucking, in Rock-a-by-Baby, creating a very unique and bubbly sound. The notes in Brahms' Lullaby are played staccato, sounding similar to a music box.

The steady and clear beats in the songs are very easy to rock to while you hold your little one near. If they are not yet asleep while you listen together, you can gently tap your leg to the beat so they feel it moving under them, or nod your head in time so they can see the beat while you smile down at them. The absence of words also encourages humming along, as you will know most - if not all - of the tunes. The vibrations of your voice will sooth your little one and encourage a physical connection with the music.

My friend, Mary, has been playing this recording to her infant son for the past few weeks. She said it was a saving grace when Eddie would wake up crying in the middle of the night. She would hold him close and rock to the music until he drifted back off to sleep. Mary said the music was soothing enough that she was also able to fall back asleep after Eddie was tucked back in, rather than laying awake frazzled.

--Audra

This is a compilation of songs from various cultures all played by Mr. Greaver on acoustic guitar. It is soothing, and Mommy appreciated it as much (if not more!) than baby did! A fabulous cd for the car and I'm sure that it would be great in your nursery if you have a cd player there. It has come to be our go-to cd for relaxing with the baby.
 
--Stephanie, Leominster, MA
 

One of my most treasured memories was when I first became a mom was bringing my now five year-old son Lucian home for the first time. He fell asleep in the carseat and I remember putting in an instrumental lullaby CD once we arrived home. Within a minute I was sobbing, telling my husband that I can’t believe he is ours and I how I love him so much. The CD was played often to soothe my son to sleep and was a sweet reminder to myself how I felt about being a mom. Soft music is not only soothing for babies but also generates an emotional response for parents and helps create an strong connection. (At least it certainly did for me!)

Guitar Lullabies was exactly what I was looking for in terms of lullaby music. The soft instrumental music did wonders to make me feel sleepy as I listened and brought me back to that place of emotion with babies. I can’t wait to play it for my new addition! You will find many favorites on this CD such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Rock -a-By Baby Hush Little Baby but also songs that I never knew the names of but recognized immediately like Noumi Noumi, Sua Gan and Song of the Water Kelpie. Love it! If you appreciate the guitar you will not be disappointed with this CD!

--Emilie, Duluth, MN

 

 

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