MILWAUKEE - You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series.
The First 50 series from Hal Leonard steers new piano and guitar players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.
First 50 Popular Songs You Should Play on Piano (HL00131140) provides superb pop hits for beginning pianists to learn, including: Autumn Leaves, Candle in the Wind, Chopsticks, Don't Know Why, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Hallelujah, Happy, Happy Birthday to You, Heart and Soul, Hotel California, I Walk the Line, Just the Way You Are, Let It Be, Let It Go, Your Song, Moon River, Over the Rainbow, Piano Man, Stand by Me, Summertime, Unchained Melody, What a Wonderful World, Yesterday, and more.
First 50 Classical Pieces You Should Play on Piano (HL00131436) contains quintessential pieces such as: Arabesque, Op. 100, No. 2, Ave Maria, Can Can, Canon in D, Clair de Lune, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Fur Elise, Hallelujah Chorus, Hungarian Dance No. 5, La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), Largo from Symphony No. 9 ("New World"), Meditation, Minuet in G, Ode to Joy, Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte, Pomp and Circumstance, Sonata No. 11 in a Major, K 331, Third Movement ("Rondo Alla Turca"), The Surprise Symphony, Waltz in a Minor, William Tell Overture, and more.
First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar (HL00131209) features songs essential to any unplugged guitarist's repertoire, including: Against the Wind, Barely Breathing, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Champagne Supernova, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Fast Car, Free Fallin', Hey There Delilah, Ho Hey, I Won't Give Up, Layla, Let Her Go, Mean, One, Ring of Fire, Signs, Stairway to Heaven, Trouble, Wagon Wheel, Wish You Were Here, Yellow, Yesterday, and more.
First 50 Songs You Should Play on Electric Guitar (HL00131159) is a great collection of "standards" that you need to know if you want to call yourself a guitarist! It includes: All Along the Watchtower, Beat It, Born to Be Wild, Brown Eyed Girl, Cocaine, Communication Breakdown, Detroit Rock City, Hallelujah, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Iron Man, Oh, Pretty Woman, Peter Gunn, Pride and Joy, Seven Nation Army, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Smells like Teen Spirit, Smoke on the Water, Sunshine of Your Love, When I Come Around, Wild Thing, You Really Got Me, and more.