Product Overview
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! Book 1 Song List: • 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
