Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1 (book only)

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 and popular songs in a variety of styles, 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; ensemble playing; 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!

Additional Item Information (if applicable) appears below.
Composer or Author: Will Schmid
Arranger or Editor: Bob Morris
Instrument: Guitar
Voicing:
Contents:

• Low Rider
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight
• De Colores
• All My Loving
• Water Come A Me Eye
• C.C. Rider
• Amazing Grace
• American Pie
• Au Clair De La Lune
• Aura Lee
• Corrina
• Danny Boy
• The Drunken Sailor
• Duke Of Earl
• Dust In The Wind
• Eleanor Rigby
• Every Breath You Take
• 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
• Marianne
• 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
• 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
• Wayfaring Stranger
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Worried Man Blues
• Yankee Doodle
• Rondeau
• Yellow Submarine
• You Really Got Me
• Your Cheatin' Heart
• Snake Charmer
• Midnight Special
• Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
• Your Cheatin' Heart
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
• Shenandoah
• Corrina
• Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
• Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)
• Pay Me My Money Down
• Sinner Man
• Tell Ol' Bill
• Jingle Bells
• Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
• All Apologies
• Landslide
• Minuet
• Godzilla
• Auld Lang Syne
• Can't You See
• Water Is Wide
• Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Fourth Movement Excerpt
• My Country, 'Tis Of Thee (America)
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Turkey In The Straw
• Wild Thing
• I'll Be There For You
• Rock Island Line
• Patience
• La Bamba
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Online
• Get Back
• Could You Be Loved
• Crazy Train
• Day Tripper
• Devil's Dream
• I'm Shipping Up To Boston
• Folsom Prison Blues
• Goodnight, Irene
• I Walk The Line
• Iron Man
• King Of Pain
• Lay Down Sally
• Layla
• Love Me Do
• Nowhere Man
• Nutcracker Suite
• Pipeline
• R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock)
• Sailors Hornpipe
• Secret Agent Man
• (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
• Still The Same
• Sweet Home Alabama
• We Are The Champions
• Wonderful Tonight
• Summer Of '69
• Your Song
• Rock You Like A Hurricane
• Bourrée In E Minor