Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1

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Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1 Book & CD

Comprehensive Guitar Method. Guitar Method. Book & CD Package. Size 9x12 inches. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (862639)

Take your guitar teaching to a new level! Hal Leonard's top-selling comprehensive method for band and strings is now also available for guitar. With the time-tested classroom teaching methods of Will Schmid and Bob Morris, popular songs in a variety of styles, and quality demonstration and backing tracks on the accompanying CD, Essential Elements for Guitar is sure to become a staple of guitar teachers' instruction - and get beginning guitar students off to a great start. This method has been designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education, with features such as cross-curricular activities, quizzes, multicultural songs, basic improvisation and more. Concepts covered in Book 1 include: getting started; basic music theory; guitar chords; notes on each string; music history; ensemble playing; performance spotlights; and much more! Songs used in Book 1 include such hits as: Dust in the Wind * Eleanor Rigby * Every Breath You Take * Hey Jude * Hound Dog * Let It Be * Ode to Joy * Rock Around the Clock * Stand By Me * Surfin' USA * Sweet Home Chicago * This Land Is Your Land * You Really Got Me * and more!

About Guitar Method:
The world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away. The Hal Leonard Guitar Method provides a complete system to playing success which includes three levels of instruction and a myriad of play-along supplemental songbooks that let students play great songs while they're still learning to play.

Contents:
Low Rider
Rondeau
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Jingle Bells
Wayfaring Stranger
Greensleeves
De Colores
Simple Gifts
All My Loving
Worried Man Blues
Water Come A Me Eye
Minuet In G
C.C. Rider
Danny Boy
Stand By Me
Amazing Grace
American Pie
The Star Spangled Banner
When The Saints Go Marching In
Au Clair De La Lune
Aura Lee
Yankee Doodle
The Red River Valley
For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
The Drunken Sailor
This Train
Corrina
Give My Regards To Broadway
Duke Of Earl
Dust In The Wind
Eleanor Rigby
Every Breath You Take
Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
Good Mornin' Blues
Hey Jude
Hound Dog
I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song)
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)
Let It Be
Marianne
Move It On Over
Pay Me My Money Down
The Rainbow Connection
Ramblin' Round
Rock Around The Clock
Rockin' Robin
Shenandoah
Sinner Man
Surfin' U.S.A.
Sweet Home Chicago
Teach Your Children
Tell Ol' Bill
This Land Is Your Land
Time Is On My Side
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Yellow Submarine
Midnight Special
You Really Got Me
Your Cheatin' Heart
Snake Charmer
Scarborough Fair
Ode To Joy
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands