Essential Elements for Guitar – Book 1 Comprehensive Guitar Method Essential Elements Guitar Softcover Audio Online - TAB

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Essential Elements for Guitar – Book 1 Comprehensive Guitar Method Essential Elements Guitar Softcover Audio Online - TAB

  • Essential Elements Guitar
  • Hal Leonard
  • Softcover Audio Online – TAB
  • Will Schmid, Bob Morris

Building Blocks of Music

Are you interested in learning the guitar? Did you recently purchase that acoustic guitar you've been eyeing? Or maybe you're a guitar teacher looking for a comprehensive course to help students get started? You're in the right place! Essential Elements for Guitar – Book 1 is an excellent place to start. This educational method book gradually introduces new concepts in a clear format, followed by effective reinforcement exercises. Designed for beginners, this music book is a creative approach that enhances students' understanding while making learning fun.

Enable Learning & Spark Creativity

The Essential Elements books are reliable resources utilized by music educators for classroom instruction and private lessons. Beginner guitarists will find the tools they need to develop essential skills and a solid foundation for the basics. The EE series includes traditional workbook pages and 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!

Popular Music Provides Instant Motivation

The Essential Elements method uses popular songs to reinforce concepts and motivate students to keep learning. Book 1 includes such hits as: Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Every Breath You Take • Hey Jude • Hound Dog • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • Let It Be • Ode to Joy • Rock Around the Clock • Stand by Me • Surfin' U.S.A. • Sweet Home Chicago • Yellow Submarine • You Really Got Me • and more!

Audio Access Included

Whether you are just beginning your musical journey, or strengthening your foundational knowledge, the Essential Elements for Guitar books follow a practical and proven approach to learning. This edition includes a unique access code to quality demonstration and backing tracks online–available for download or streaming. The accompanying online audio is enhanced with Playback+ tools that let you loop sections, adjust tempo and pitch, and tailor your practice experience.

Start your musical journey with a method you can trust!

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
  • 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

Instrumentation

  • Guitar

Product Details

  • #HL 00862639
  • 9780634054341
  • 073999325942
  • 9.0"
  • 12.0"
  • 98 Pages

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  • Essential Elements Guitar
  • Digital Book/Online Audio – TAB
  • Will Schmid, Bob Morris

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 audio that is available for download or streaming online, 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!

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Instrumentation

  • Guitar

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