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 accessible online with the unique code included with the book.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and reflects some of the best teaching ideas from around the world. This super-convenient Complete Edition features the new and improved method books 1, 2 and 3 spiral-bound together. This edition includes online access to 164 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Guitar for Kids is a fun, easy course that teaches children to play guitar faster than ever before. Popular songs such as “Yellow Submarine,” “Hokey Pokey,” “I'm a Believer,” “Surfin' U.S.A.,” “This Land Is Your Land” and “Hound Dog” keep students motivated, and the clean, simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time.
The method is equally suitable for students using electric or acoustic guitars. It can be used in combination with a guitar teacher or parents, even if they've never had any musical training themselves.
The accompanying online audio contains more than 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along and is accessed using the unique code printed inside each book. No tablature included.
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Guitarists of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book with online audio access. Veteran guitarist and author Tom Kolb dispels the mysteries of music theory using plain and simple terms and diagrams. The accompanying recordings provide 94 tracks of music examples, scales, modes, chords, ear training, and much more!
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Book 2 continues the instruction started in Book 1 and covers: Am, Dm, A, E, F and B7 chords; power chords; fingerstyle guitar; syncopations, dotted rhythms, and triplets; Carter style solos; bass runs; pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs, riffs and examples; notes in first and second position; and more! The included audio features 57 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This convenient pack combines the Guitar for Kids Method and Songbook for all-in-one learning. The method is a fun, easy course that teaches children to play guitar faster than ever before. Popular songs keep students motivated, and the clean, simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time. Once they've got a handle on the lessons, they can practice further using the fun songs featured in the songbook. The book also includes access to online full-band recordings of each song for demonstration and play-along fun. Full tunes include: Feelin' Alright • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • Love Me Do • Paperback Writer • and more.
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The Hal Leonard Fingerstyle Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning fingerstyle guitar. This book uses real songs and song excerpts to teach you the basics of fingerstyle guitar in the styles of the Beatles, Leo Kottke, Paul Simon, Robert Johnson, James Taylor, Adrian Legg, David Wilcox, and many others. 13 full songs include: Anji • Blowin' in the Wind • Imagine • What a Wonderful World • Yesterday • and more. Song excerpts include: Dust in the Wind • Fire and Rain • Landslide • Strong Enough • Take Me Home, Country Roads • When I Was a Boy • You Were Meant for Me • You've Got a Friend • and more. Includes online access to 99 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along. Use the unique code inside each book to access the audio for streaming or download.
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Featuring in-depth lessons and 40 great jazz classics, the Hal Leonard Jazz Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning jazz guitar. This book uses real jazz songs to teach you the basics of accompanying and improvising jazz guitar in the style of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and many others. Lesson topics include: chords and progressions; scales and licks; comping and soloing styles; chord-melody; intros and endings; technique; equipment and sound; and more! Songs include: Satin Doll • Take the “A” Train • Billie's Bounce • Impressions • Bluesette • My One and Only Love • Desafinado • Autumn Leaves • Watch What Happens • Misty • Song for My Father • and more. The audio contains 99 tracks for demonstration and play-along. It's accessed online via a unique code in each book and includes Playback+ tools such as looping, tempo adjustment, and more. “Highly Recommended.” – Just Jazz Guitar
“Filled with well-written examples ... bask in the glory of having a lot of great material at your fingertips.” – Downbeat
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Book 3 covers: the major, minor, pentatonic and chromatic scales, sixteenth notes; barre chords; drop D tuning; movable scales; notes in fifth position; slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and string bends; chord construction; gear; great songs, riffs & examples; and more! The online audio includes 60 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along.
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Learn to play rhythm and lead rock guitar with the step-by-step lessons and 70 great rock songs and excerpts in this book with online audio! The Hal Leonard Rock Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning rock guitar. This book uses real rock songs – no corny rock arrangements of nursery rhymes here! – to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead rock guitar in the style of Eric Clapton, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and many others. Lessons include power chords, riffs, scales, licks, string bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and slides, to name a few. Each chapter concludes with a jam session, which enables you to jam along to full arrangements of nine rock classics as: Day Tripper • Oye Como Va • Pride and Joy • Takin' Care of Business • Time Is on My Side • Wild Thing • and more. Online audio is accessed using the unique code in each book and includes PLAYBACK+ features such as tempo adjustment and looping capabilities.
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Here's your complete guide to learning flamenco guitar! This method uses traditional Spanish flamenco song forms and classical pieces to teach you the basics of this style and technique. You'll learn to play in the style of Paco de Lucia, Sabicas, Niño Ricardo and Ramón Montoya. Lessons cover: strumming, picking and percussive techniques; arpeggios; improvisation; fingernail tips; capos; and much more. Includes flamenco history and a glossary, and both standard notation and tab. The book also includes online access to 58 professionally recorded tracks for demonstration and play-along.
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The Hal Leonard Bluegrass Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning bluegrass guitar. This book uses excerpts from popular bluegrass songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Maybelle Carter, Lester Flatt, and many others. Lessons include Carter strumming, alternating bass, waltz strums, using the capo, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, crosspicking, and much more. The accompanying audio tracks include 43 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Excerpts from the following songs are included: Amazing Grace • Blue Moon of Kentucky • Cripple Creek • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • I'll Fly Away • We'll Meet Again Sweetheart • The Wreck of the Old '97 • and more.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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If you've been finding yourself trapped in the pentatonic box, then Connecting Pentatonic Patterns is for you! This hands-on instructional book with online audio access offers examples for guitar players of all levels, from beginner to advanced. The only prerequisites are a basic understanding of the minor pentatonic scale and a desire to expand your fretboard horizons. Study this book faithfully, and soon you'll be soloing all over the neck with the greatest of ease. The online audio includes demonstrations of every example in the book, plus jam tracks for practicing! Audio can be downloaded or streamed according to personal preference.
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This book provides 365 exercises – one for every day of the year! – to keep your rhythm chops fine tuned. As an added bonus, demos of all 365 exercises are provided online. The book covers chord theory and the fundamentals of rhythm; basic and complex fingerpicking and strum patterns; popular diatonic and non-diatonic progressions; major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads; major, minor, and dominant seventh chords; extended and altered chords; major and minor keys; and more. By practicing these you'll gain greater knowledge of chord construction and progressions, exposure to the rhythm styles of several musical genres, improved fingerpicking and strumming technique, increased chord-voicing vocabulary, and more!
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Take your playing to the stratosphere with the most advanced lead book by this proven heavy metal author. Speed Mechanics is the ultimate technique book for developing the kind of speed and precision in today's explosive playing styles. Learn the fastest ways to achieve speed and control, secrets to make your practice time really count, and how to open your ears and make your musical ideas more solid and tangible. Packed with over 200 vicious exercises including Troy's scorching version of “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Music and examples demonstrated in included online audio. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Legendary guitarist Pat Martino shares his personal formula for chord conversions with you. This uniquely simple system allows you to think melody, not theory. Amply illustrated with some of Pat's favorite lines.
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Because rhythm and timing lie at the foundation of everything you play, its importance can't be underestimated. This series will give you that solid foundation you need. Starts with simple upbeat rhythms for the beginner and moves step by step into advanced syncopations - all demonstrated with seriously heavy metal examples that have practical applications to today's styles. Tablature. Music and examples demonstrated on accompanying online audio.
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Features tips & instruction on how to play more than 30 Metallica songs on the guitar: ...And Justice for All • Battery • Damage, Inc. • Enter Sandman • Fade to Black • Fuel • Hero of the Day • Master of Puppets • Nothing Else Matters • One • Ride the Lightning • The Struggle Within • The Unforgiven • and many more! Also available: Learn to Play Bass with Metallica (02500189) and Learn to Play Drums with Metallica (02500190).
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This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principles are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 fully transcribed heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! “One of the most thorough” and “one of the best rock series currently available” - Guitar Player magazine. Music and examples demonstrated through the online audio available using the unique code printed in the book.
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Improve your command of the guitar by mastering the essential scales and their fingerings. This reference will help you play scales up, down, and across the fingerboard, in all keys. You will learn multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included.
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This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andrés Segovia, is now available with online audio! Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful classical pieces, 26 exercises and 14 duets, and through numerous photos and illustrations. The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more!
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Guitar World picked 'em, and now you can play 'em – thanks to this collection of 100 must-know guitar leads transcribed note for note! This unique book also includes insightful background and performance notes for more than 40 of the best solos. Songs include: Alive • All Along the Watchtower • Aqualung • Bohemian Rhapsody • Cliffs of Dover • Crazy Train • Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) • Eruption • Get the Funk Out • Hotel California • Layla • Little Red Corvette • Money • November Rain • One • Pride and Joy • Sharp Dressed Man • Smells like Teen Spirit • Stairway to Heaven • Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental) • Sultans of Swing • Sweet Child O' Mine • Sympathy for the Devil • Walk This Way • While My Guitar Gently Weeps • Won't Get Fooled Again • Working Man • You Shook Me All Night Long • and more.
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Are you tired of playing the same licks over and over again? Or maybe you just don't know what to play during your solo? Lead Licks is a unique book designed to increase your improvising vocabulary by taking a short phrase, or “lick,” and morphing it into different styles! This book with online audio examples pack covers rock, blues, jazz, country, and “outside” styles. It gives you major, minor and dominant 7th licks (12 of each!) plus a special “exotic” section. You'll have a lick for nearly any musical situation. The audio includes each lick played at full speed and at a slower practice tempo.
Written by Greg Koch, Hal Leonard Guitar Method co-author, Fender clinician, and Favored Nations recording artist!
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La Méthode de Guitare Hal Leonard s'adresse à quiconque désire apprendre à jouer de la guitare électrique or acoustique. Elle repose sur l'expérience acquise durant de nombreuses années d'enseignement de la guitare à des élèves de tous ages, et constitue aussi l'une des meilleures méthodes de guitare dans le monde. Le Volume 1 aborde: l'accordage; le jeu en position; les sybmoles musicaux; les notes en première position; les accords de C, G, G7, D, D7, A7 et Em; les rythmes en croches; les attaques; 100 superbes chansons, riffs et exemples. Inclus 47 pistes pour démonstration ou playback.
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Learn how triads are key to understanding harmony, soloing, and comping. Triads are the basis of all harmony. By understanding how they relate to larger chord structures, you will improve your command over harmony generally and be able to use triads more effectively in all your playing. Through visualizing and using common triads on the first three strings, you will create smooth lines that make sense of the chords even when the song changes keys or modes. Examples are in traditional notation and guitar chord diagrams and audio demos are provided for each.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning folk guitar. This book uses popular folk songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carter Family, Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, and many others. You'll learn: basic strumming; strumming variations; Carter-style flatpicking; bass runs; basic fingerstyle patterns; alternating thumb patterns; flatpicking solos; hammer-ons and pull-offs; fingerpicking solos; using a capo; I-IV-V chord families; and much more. Songs include: Blowin' in the Wind • Freight Train • The House of the Rising Sun • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Little Boxes • Puff the Magic Dragon • Scarborough Fair • This Land Is Your Land • Tom Dooley • Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) • and more. The price of this book includes access to 31 audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside the cover. The tracks provide audio demonstrations of each example in the book performed by the author. The files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book uses classic excerpts from country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, James Burton, Albert Lee, Merle Travis, and many others. Lessons include: Chords, Scales and Licks • Common Progressions and Riffs • Carter Style and Travis Picking • Steel Licks, String Bending and Vibrato • Standard Notation and Tablature • and much more! Full songs include: “Country Gentleman” and “Rebel Rouser.” Song excerpts include: Could I Have This Dance • Green Green Grass of Home • I Fall to Pieces • Satin Sheets • Yakety Sax • and more. This edition also includes 99 full-band tracks for demonstration and play along. The audio files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed. They also include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book teaches the techniques, licks, chords, scales and strums you need to play rockabilly guitar. It shows you how to play rhythm & lead for all kinds of rockabilly grooves, in the style of masters such as Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer, Cliff Gallup, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore, and others. Instead of learning exercises, you learn excerpts from classic rockabilly songs and solos that made the genre come together in the first place. 58 audio tracks will help you catch the rhythms and nuances of the rockabilly style. The audio is accessed online for download or streaming and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment and looping software. Excerpts from these songs are included: Be-Bop-A-Lula • Get Rhythm • Honey Don't • Milk Cow Blues • No Particular Place to Go • Rock Around the Clock • Rock This Town • Susie-Q • Train Kept A-Rollin' • and more!
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Everything you need to know to learn Brazilian guitar! This book uses popular Brazilian songs to teach you the basics of the Brazilian guitar style and technique. Learn to play in the styles of Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfá, Baden Powell, Dino Sete Cordas, Joao Basco, and many others! Songs include: Aquarela Brasileira • Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) • Desafinado • O Barquinho • Song of the Jet (Samba do Aviao) • and more. Includes 33 demonstration tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. It is a complete guide to the basics, designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and professional-quality Online Audio with 99 full-demo tracks. Students can learn at their own pace and open the door to the world of guitar music! This method covers: songs, chords and riffs; picking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; standard notation and tablature; and over 80 great songs and examples!
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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