Only in Your Heart: Interm./Easy Guitar TAB

This collection captures America's most recognizable songs in a format that actually works for intermediate guitarists. The arrangements preserve what made these tracks memorable on the radio while stripping away unnecessary complexity, so your students play real songs they (and their audiences) know and love from day one.

Warm, conversational, and immediately recognizable. These arrangements carry the gentle, folk-inflected sensibility that defined America's sound: harmonic simplicity layered with melodic sophistication, fingerpicking that feels natural under the fingers, and a timeless quality that hasn't dulled in fifty years.

Intermediate to easy-level guitarists who've moved past basic open chords and are ready for fuller arrangements with varied picking patterns and rhythm figures. This book works equally well for classroom guitar programs, studio instruction, and ensemble contexts where acoustic guitar is part of the texture.

• Pay close attention to the fingerpicking patterns notated in the TAB. The character of songs like "A Horse with No Name" and "Ventura Highway" depends on consistent, steady picking rather than strumming.
• Use the chord voicings exactly as written in the first run-through. These shapes fit the key of each arrangement intentionally; substitutions will undermine the acoustic quality America's originals depend on.
• Keep tempos moderate and steady. These songs benefit from a relaxed groove rather than rushing, especially the ballads like "Lonely People" and "Only in Your Heart."

Build a nostalgia-centered recital or showcase by pairing these with other 1970s soft rock repertoire, or use individual songs as capstone pieces once students master barre chords and alternate picking. These arrangements also anchor a unit on songwriting and song form since America's catalog is built on memorable, repeating structures.

• Fingerpicking patterns and arpeggio technique
• Reading TAB notation with rhythmic accuracy
• Transitioning smoothly between chord voicings across the fingerboard
• Balancing melodic phrasing with harmonic accompaniment
• Building consistency and feel in rhythmic grooves