Guitar and Bass Music, Methods and DVD/Video

Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 1 Comprehensive Guitar Method Series: Essential Elements Guitar Format: Softcover with CD - TAB Author: Bob Morris Author: Will Schmid Take your guitar teaching to a new level! Hal Leonard's top-selling comprehensive method for band and strings is now also available for guitar. With the time-tested classroom teaching methods of Will Schmid and Bob Morris, popular songs in a variety of styles, and qualit...

Adele's sophomore CD 21 has enjoyed enormous critical acclaim, with reviewers lauding this British, multi-Grammy-winner's vocal performance and introspective songwriting. The Hal Leonard songbook matches the CD, with piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of the smash hits "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone like You," plus: Don't You Remember - He Won't Go - I'll Be Waiting - Lovesong - One and Only - Rumour Has It - Set Fire to the Rain - Take It All -...

Hard cover book, spiral-bound to last a family lifetime. More than 250 pages, large easy-to-see print for piano/vocal/organ/guitar. A notations on the history of some songs, illustrations, and an all-encompassing collection of seasonal songs. Lyric booklet included. Length: 99 pages

In the first Scratch book, there is a smattering of theory here and there, but first things first. This is where you'll learn to finger the most common simple chords and to switch back and forth between them in a timely fashion. Along the way, it might be nice to see which chords group together in different keys and how to strum and fingerpick these chords using examples from popular music. These books offer a steady flow of information, rather t...

Volume One, The Big Picture, lays the groundwork: scales, chords and the Great and Powerful Circle of Fifths. These books offer a steady flow of information, rather than the Hit-and-Run School of Thought. No gaps, no loose spots, no quantum leaps. The pages have been designed to be inviting to the eye, and not clogged with information. Paragraphs are short and the margins are contoured so that the eye is swept along from line to line. Thoughts an...

Volume Two, The Fretboard, places these scales and chords all around the neck and shows you how to construct fancy Chord Qualities all by yourself. These books offer a steady flow of information, rather than the Hit-and-Run School of Thought. No gaps, no loose spots, no quantum leaps. The pages have been designed to be inviting to the eye, and not clogged with information. Paragraphs are short and the margins are contoured so that the eye is swep...

As soon as the ChordBuddy is properly attached to your acoustic or electrical guitar, you will be able to make music. Within a few weeks, you’ll begin removing some of the tabs and making the chords on your own. In two months, you’ll be able to play the guitar with no ChordBuddy at all!Each package includes the ChordBuddy as well as instructions on how to properly attach the device to your electrical or acoustic guitar. The lesson pla...

There is not a guitar student on earth who doesn't want to learn some Blues. This book starts you off in grand style, with easy licks you can play whether you want to sing or not. For the electric blues player, we go on a tour of the fretboard in search of the best pockets of notes for improvising. And you can also try your hand at playing slide guitar. These books offer a steady flow of information, rather than the Hit-and-Run School of Thought....

In this book-turned-blockbuster, 12 boys and 12 girls are forced to compete in a live, televised event where only one will survive. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to spare her drafted sister, even though she knows it may be a death sentence. This megahit movie's soundtrack debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, featuring an array of artists such as Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Miranda Lambert, the Civil Wars, and Arcade Fire.Our matching folio feature...

In the Sequel, you'll look at some guitar vernacular (or common speech), work our way toward incorporating single-note playing into chord playing and then examine techniques for playing single note lines and melodies by themselves, touching on Major Scales and improvising on Pentatonic Scales. This book also covers learning to read Standard Music Notation for the guitar. It is the universal language of music and even guitarists can benefit from i...

This fun, friendly, step-by-step introduction to guitar is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-help book and a great method for use with a teacher. Learning how to play chords, melodies, and strums is made simple with easy-to-read examples in standard music notation and TAB. Large diagrams and photographs of the hands simply the learning process even further. A CD demonstrating all of the examples is included.By Nick V...

This book focuses on fingerpicking, starting with the most basic tools and concepts and working up to full fingerstyle accompaniment parts for some popular songs. The first part gets you playing arpeggios (broken chords) and the second part introduces specialized arpeggios known as Travis-Style picking patterns. These books offer a steady flow of information, rather than the Hit-and-Run School of Thought. No gaps, no loose spots, no quantum leaps...