Features:

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. Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary

Table of Contents:

• Chord Chart
• Grande Finale
• Time Is on My Side
• Minuet in G
• The A7 Chord - Down in the Valley
• C Sharp - Rockin Blues
• Simple Gifts
• Boogie Bass
• The D Chord - This Train
• Shalom chaverim
• The Em Chord - Hey Ho Nobody Home
• More Strumming
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• Snake Charmer
• Frere Jacques
• Sea Shanty
• Eight Notes
• Rock 'N' Roll
• Twang
• Red River Valley
• Rests - Deep Blue
• Spy Riff
• Key Signatures - Shenandoah
• Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
• Half and Whole Steps - F Sharp
• Bass Rock
• Give My Regards to Broadway
• Doo-Wop
• Notes on the Sixth String
• Greensleeves
• Joshua Fought the Battle of Jerico
• Notes on the Fifth String - Blues Bass
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken
• When the Saints Go Marching In
• Riffin
• Amazing Grace
• 12-Bar Rock
• G and D7 Chords - Pay Me My Money Down
• C and G7 Chords - Tom Dooley
• Playing Chords
• Worried Man Blues
• Notes on the Fourth String
• He's a Jolly Good Fellow
• Aura Lee
• Au Clair de la Lune
• Surf Rock
• Yankee Doodle
• Rockin Robin
• Notes on the Third String
• Blues
• Ode to Joy
• World Beat
• Notes on the Second String
• Spanish Theme
• Notes on the First String
• Musical Symbols
• Playing Position
• Tuning
• Your Guitar

Catalog:	HL00699027
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Will Schmid
Artist:
Arranger:	Greg Koch
Voicing:	Guitar
Level:	Beginning
Pages:	48