Essential Elements for Guitar (Hal Leonard)

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 audio that is available for download or streaming online, 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!

• All My Loving

• Amazing Grace

• American Pie

• Au Clair De La Lune

• Aura Lee

• Can You Feel The Love Tonight

• C.C. Rider

• Corrina

• Danny Boy

• De Colores

• The Drunken Sailor

• Duke Of Earl

• Dust In The Wind

• Eleanor Rigby

• Every Breath You Take

• Fanfare Rondeau

• For He's A Jolly Good Fellow

• Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)

• Give My Regards To Broadway

• Good Mornin' Blues

• Greensleeves

• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

• Hey Jude

• Hound Dog

• I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song)

• Jambalaya (On The Bayou)

• Jingle Bells

• Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)

• Let It Be

• Low Rider

• Marianne

• Midnight Special

• Minuet In G

• Move It On Over

• Ode To Joy

• Pay Me My Money Down

• The Rainbow Connection

• Ramblin' 'Round

• The Red River Valley

• Rock Around The Clock

• Rockin' Robin

• Scarborough Fair

• Shenandoah

• Simple Gifts

• Sinner Man

• Snake Charmer

• Stand By Me

• The Star-Spangled Banner

• Surfin' U.S.A.

• Sweet Home Chicago

• Teach Your Children

• Tell Ol' Bill

• This Land Is Your Land

• This Train

• Time Is On My Side

• Water Come A Me Eye

• Wayfaring Stranger

• When The Saints Go Marching In

• Will The Circle Be Unbroken

• Worried Man Blues

• Yankee Doodle

• Yellow Submarine

• You Really Got Me

• Your Cheatin' Heart

Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 2 is a continuation of the concepts and skills taught in Book 1 and includes all of its popular features as well - great songs in a variety of styles, quizzes, music history, music theory, and much more. Concepts taught in Book 2 include: playing melodically in positions up the neck; playing movable chord shapes up the neck; playing scales and extended chords in different keys; more right-hand studies; fingerpicking and pick style; improvisation in positions up the neck; studying different styles through great song selections; and more!

• All Apologies

• Auld Lang Syne

• Bourrée In E Minor

• Can't You See

• Could You Be Loved

• Crazy Train

• Day Tripper

• Devil's Dream

• Folsom Prison Blues

• Get Back

• Godzilla

• Goodnight, Irene

• I Walk The Line

• I'll Be There For You

• I'm Shipping Up To Boston

• Iron Man

• Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

• King Of Pain

• La Bamba

• Landslide

• Lay Down Sally

• Layla

• Love Me Do

• Minuet

• My Country, 'Tis Of Thee (America)

• Nowhere Man

• Nutcracker Suite

• Online

• Patience

• Pipeline

• R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock)

• Rock Island Line

• Rock You Like A Hurricane

• Sailors Hornpipe

• Secret Agent Man

• (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

• Still The Same

• Summer Of '69

• Sweet Home Alabama

• Symphony No. 1 In C Minor, Fourth Movement Excerpt

• Turkey In The Straw

• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

• Water Is Wide

• We Are The Champions

• When Johnny Comes Marching Home

• Wild Thing

• Wonderful Tonight

• Your Song

Hal Leonard's top-selling comprehensive method for band and strings is also available for guitar! These handy 5″ x 8″ flash cards help students learn material taught in the method book. Concepts covered include: music symbols, musical terms, notes on each string, keys and scales, guitar chords and more!