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Lead Guitar

Specifically designed for teaching guitar in a classroom setting, this standards-aligned, comprehensive curriculum uses guitar learning and music from diverse traditions to teach core music competencies. With method books in English and Spanish, an online learning system with hundreds of instructional videos, unlimited seats for self-paced instruction, evaluation materials, an ensemble library, and 1:1 setup and pedagogy training, this course has everything you need to lead an engaging, inclusive, and challenging guitar class.

Guitar Ensemble Method

Guitar Book

Alfred Music Publishing

This revolutionary new method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music theory. The included MP3 recordings demonstrate every example and song in the book, and specialized instructional tracks feature concise explanations and demonstrations of all new concepts and techniques. Included software lets students slow tracks down and loop sections for continuous practice, and video lessons on the included DVD explain and demonstrate all the concepts and techniques. Additional free resources are available online from the publisher.

Sound Innovations for Guitar, Book 1

Guitar Book & DVD

GIA Publications

This is the first guitar method based on Gordon's Music Learning Theory. It guides beginners (K–8) through progressive levels of technical and musical content and provides audio and jam tracks featuring real musicians playing popular genres such as pop, blues, jazz, classical, and rock. Perfect for the music classroom or the private lesson studio! This innovative series includes many activities that help develop solid timing and rhythmic awareness. It includes a detailed sequence to teach musical skills based on Dr. Gordon's Music Learning Theory.

Audiate!

Guitar Book 1 - Student

Ensemble

Hal Leonard Corporation

Each arrangement in the Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble series features the melody (lead), a harmony part, and a bass line. Chord symbols are also provided if you wish to add a rhythm part. For groups with more than three or four guitars, the parts may be doubled. Play all of the parts together, or record some of the parts and play the remaining part along with your recording. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages, so no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. Includes 15 hits arranged for three or more guitarists: Aqualung; Behind Blue Eyes; Crazy Train; Fly Like an Eagle; Free Bird; Hey Jude; Into the Great Wide Open; Low Rider; Maggie May; Oye Como Va; Proud Mary; Smoke on the Water; Start Me Up; We Will Rock You; You Really Got Me. 32 p.

Essential Elements Rock Classics

Guitar Ensemble

Ukulele is a fun and easy way to get involved in music, and it's a great opportunity to share the joy of making music with others. This book provides the basic skills and musical background needed to get started. The audio contains demonstrations of all the songs and examples. This carefully crafted method emphasizes chord strumming skills and teaching students how to practice; it includes note-reading exercises; chord challenges to learn how to figure out chord progressions, tab reading, and more. It also includes nearly 30 familiar songs that students can play while still learning, including All My Loving; Hound Dog; La Bamba; The Lion Sleeps Tonight; Take Me Out to the Ballgame and more!

Essential Elements for Ukulele, Book 1

Ukulele Book

Designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar, this method is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages and reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes tuning; playing position; musical symbols; notes in first position; C, G, G7, D, D7, A7, and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; strumming and picking; and over 80 great songs, riffs, and examples. Book 2 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. 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 and examples and more!

Hal Leonard Guitar Method

Guitar Book Volume 1

This method was designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education, with features such as cross-curricular activities, quizzes, multicultural songs, basic improvisation and more. Volume 1 covers basic music theory, guitar chords, notes on each string, ensemble playing and more. Volume 2  includes playing melodically in positions up the neck, playing movable chord shapes up the neck, playing scales and extended chords in different keys, right-hand studies, fingerpicking and more. Take your guitar teaching to a new level with this comprehensive method.

Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1

The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning to play ukulele. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The accompanying CD contains 46 tracks of songs for demonstration and playing along. Topics covered: types of ukuleles; tuning; music reading; melody playing; chords; strumming; scales; music notation and more.

Hal Leonard Ukulele Method

Ukulele Book with Tablature Volume 1

Themes & Variations

This resource is an excellent song collection to teach young beginners to sing and strum on the ukulele. The collection includes 32 folk songs with a performance/accompaniment CD, projectables, chord charts, reproducible student lyrics pages, and links to easy pop songs to play along with. The first 15 songs use just one chord. The next 15 songs are very easy two chord songs, and there are two songs that use three chords. Songs Include: Little Tommy Tinker; Johnny One Hammer; Funga Alafia; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; Adieu My Comrades; This Old Hammer; Ten in the Bed; Land of the Silver Birch; Canoe Song; In the Land of Oz; Skin and Bones; The Ghost of Tom; Cotton Eyed Joe; Whistle Daughter; Little Liza Jane; The Wandering Cowboy; Clementine; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Hush Little Baby; This Old Man; He’s Got the Whole World; Rock-a My Soul; Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor; Hey Lidee; Old Texas; Found a Peanut; Boll Weevil; Nobody Likes Me; Wade in the Water; What Shall We Do With the Silly Sailor?; Nothing But Peace; He is Born.

Easy Ukulele Songs in C

Ukulele Book & Online Audio Reproducible

Offering the ultimate in sound educational value and maintenance of student interest, this course of instruction for class guitar is truly revolutionary! Each book has more than 45 songs and is 96 pages long. Songs include: Eleanor Rigby; By the Time I Get to Phoenix; Hey Jude; Yesterday; You Needed Me; The Long and Winding Road; It's Hard to Be Humble; Daniel; Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys and more!

Contemporary Class Guitar

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Plank Road Publishing

Filled with familiar folk songs, this reproducible ukulele method reinforces learning with motivational karate belt levels as students improve their technique. With new chords and progressively more complex strumming, each level includes warm-ups and exercises along with songs to reinforce learning. There are special sections on tuning, strumming, reading and understanding tab, and playing and mastering chords. Several holiday tunes and optional picking tunes starting at the middle level are also included. The student pages in the kit are reproducible but are also available in handy student packs of five or ten as an add-on item to the kit. Songs include Apples and Bananas; On Top of Old Smoky; When the Saints Go Marching In; Deck the Halls; I Have a Little Dreidel and Jingle Bells.

Ukulele Karate

Ukulele Class/Ensemble Book & CD Pack w/ Reproducible Student Pages

This collection of sequential lessons, with links to cultural and historical connections, illustrates and guides teachers how to incorporate ukuleles along with other common classroom resources to create engaging, robust musical activities for students. Examples are provided for using ukuleles together with Orff instruments, recorders, a variety of percussion, and even jug band instruments. Online digital access includes step-by-step projectable lesson slides that show all the visual cues your students will need. This valuable resource helps teachers to use these fun, accessible instruments to encourage singing and promote confidence and musical independence while providing an additional way to observe student progress and assess musical understanding. Songs include: Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques!); Michael Finnegan; Buffalo Gals; Joe Turner Blues; Shalom Chaverim; I Love the Mountains; Little ‘Liza Jane; Hambone; One Bottle of Pop; Pay Me My Money Down; Let Us Chase the Squirrel; Go Tell Aunt Rhody and Old Joe Clark.

Ukuleles on Board

Ukulele Book & Online Audio

Perfect for class or individual study, this collection of nearly 400 sequenced exercises for the beginning guitar student features introductory warm-ups; sequenced rhythmic vocabulary; appropriately paced melodic studies for each string; opportunities for students to compose their own melodies; an introduction to chords, including nine common pop song chord progressions and barre chords; 11 song arrangements for concert performance; and a basic introduction to 12-bar blues. The teacher's edition also includes dozens of teacher tips for sequencing instruction, and the companion website includes accompaniment tracks and videos for each exercise in the book, 180 days of detailed lesson plans, and downloadable chord sheets and assessments.

Habits of a Successful Beginner Guitarist

Guitar Book & Online Media Student

A good warm-up session can be the most crucial part of your practice session. Not only does it limber and stretch your finger muscles, it helps to ward off injuries, gets your hands in sync, and promotes accuracy and speed. This book contains a wide variety of exercises to help get your hands in top playing shape. It addresses the basic elements of guitar warm-ups by category: stretches and pre-playing coordination exercises, picking exercises, right and left-hand synchronization, and rhythm guitar warm-ups. The Odds &amp; Ends chapter covers other misc. topics such as legato warm-ups, string-bending exercises, scale sequences, and arpeggios. Use this book daily, choosing one or two exercises in each chapter to warm up, and you'll playing will be cleaner, more articulate, and of a higher caliber.

Essential Elements Daily Guitar Warm Ups

Guitar Book & Online Audio

Essential Elements Ukulele Book 2 is a great next step for players who are ready to expand their knowledge of music and further develop their skills on the ukulele. This comprehensive method book uses familiar and popular songs to introduce more advanced strumming options and fingerpicking techniques. A combination of traditional notation and tablature are used to illustrate new ideas. The accompanying online audio provides demonstrations of songs and play-along accompaniments, making this method a nice framework for individual practice or group instruction. This book also includes many well-known songs, including: Amazing Grace; Rock Around the Clock; This Little Light of Mine; Eight Days a Week; Yellow Submarine; Count on Me; Upside Down and Israel Kamkawiwo'ole's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Essential Elements for Ukulele, Book 2

This is a fun, easy course that utilizes popular songs to keep kids motivated. The clean, simple page layouts will help kids to remain focused on one concept at a time. The accompanying online audio contains tracks for demonstration and playing along. Lessons include: selection of your uke; parts of the uke; holding the uke; reading music notation; notes on the strings; strumming; picking and more.

Ukulele for Kids

Centerstream Publications

These 41 international songs span the globe from east to west and north to south in arrangements with lyrics, chords, diagrams, tab, and online audio tracks. This virtual musical tour of the planet includes folk music, children's songs, anthems, popular melodies, dances, and marches.

Ukulele Songs Around the World

This ukulele method features clear, well-paced instruction that makes learning the ukulele easy and fun. This book covers: how to hold your ukulele; tuning your ukulele; right- and left-hand techniques; the basics of reading music; chords; strumming patterns; songs; and how to read tablature. Includes access to companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online.

Alfred's Basic Ukulele Method, Vol. 1

Ukulele Book with Tablature & Online Audio

Mel Bay Publications Inc.

Volume 1 of this method offers an overview of the various styles of guitars and playing techniques, advice on purchasing and caring for the instrument, selecting guitar strings, and playing positions. Included are sections devoted specifically to chord strumming, blues structure and style, fingerstyle technique, note reading, and music theory. Lyrics for many songs, as well as duet arrangements, are included. Volume 2 focuses on melodic development and solo playing and provides a vast collection of solos, duets and quartets in multiple styles including rock, blues, classical, gospel, and folk, using flatpick and fingerstyle technique. Both books are written in standard notation and tablature with chords presented in both diagram and photo format.

Guitar Class Method

Guitar Book & Online Audio Volume 1

The ukulele is the perfect instrument for kids looking to play a fretted instrument. This collection includes 45 fun songs that appeal to kids. Songs include: Animal Fair; Do-Re-Mi; Elmo's Song; Happy Birthday to You; The Hokey Pokey; It's a Small World; Mickey Mouse March; Old MacDonald; Pop Goes the Weasel; SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song; Take Me Out to the Ball Game; We're Off to See the Wizard; Yellow Submarine; Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and more.

Kids' Songs for Ukulele

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