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!
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