Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1 (with online audio)

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!

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

• Low Rider
• Rondeau
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight
• 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
• Ode To Joy
• 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
• Scarborough Fair
• Give My Regards To Broadway
• Duke Of Earl
• Dust In The Wind
• Eleanor Rigby
• Every Breath You Take
• Good Mornin' Blues
• Hey Jude
• Hound Dog
• I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song)
• Let It Be
• Move It On Over
• The Rainbow Connection
• Ramblin' Round
• Rock Around The Clock
• Surfin' U.S.A.
• Sweet Home Chicago
• Teach Your Children
• This Land Is Your Land
• Time Is On My Side
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Yellow Submarine
• You Really Got Me
• Corrina
• Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
• Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)
• Pay Me My Money Down
• Sinner Man
• Tell Ol' Bill
• Rockin' Robin
• Marianne
• Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
• Your Cheatin' Heart
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
• Shenandoah
• Jingle Bells
• Midnight Special
• Snake Charmer