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:

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

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