Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1

Book Only or Book/CD/Online Audio Pack

Authors: Will Schmid, Greg Koch 

The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Features a chord chart, and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace • Greensleeves • and When the Saints Go Marching In. Audio examples of the exercises are included on the CD and are also accessible online with the unique code included with the book.

• 12-Bar Blues Rock
• Amazing Grace
• Au Clair De La Lune
• Aura Lee
• Bass Rock
• Blues
• Blues Bass
• Boogie Bass
• Doo-Wop
• Down In The Valley
• For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
• Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
• Give My Regards To Broadway (from LITTLE JOHNNY JONES)
• Greensleeves
• Hey, Ho! Nobody Home
• Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho)
• Londonderry Air
• Minuet In G (from THE ANNA MAGDALENA NOTEBOOK (originally for keyboard))
• Ode To Joy (from SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, FOURTH MOVEMENT CHORAL THEME)
• Pay Me My Money Down
• The Red River Valley
• Rock 'n' Rest
• Rockin' Robin (from the movie YOU'VE GOT MAIL)
• Shalom Chaveyrim (Shalom Friends)
• Shenandoah
• Simple Gifts
• Snake Charmer
• The Star Spangled Banner (Tune Name: NATIONAL ANTHEM)
• This Train
• Time Is On My Side
• Tom Dooley
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Worried Man Blues
• Yankee Doodle