Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Repertoire Series features great original guitar music that is carefully graded and leveled for easy selection. The songs are presented in standard notation and tablature, and are fully demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Blues Cruise features 10 original songs with bluesy chords, rhythms, and riffs.

The songs in Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble Series are playable by multiple guitars. Each arrangement 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; no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. This folio includes 16 favorite pieces: Air on the G String (Bach) • Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) • Canon in D (Pachelbel) • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) • Für Elise (Beethoven) • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) • New World Symphony (Theme) (Dvorak) • Ode to Joy (Beethoven) • and more.

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 quality demonstration and backing tracks on the accompanying CD, Essential Elements for Guitar is sure to become a staple of guitar teachers' instruction – and get beginning guitar students off to a great start.

This method has been designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education, with features such as cross-curricular activities, quizzes, multicultural songs, basic improvisation and more. Concepts covered in Book 1 include: getting started; basic music theory; guitar chords; notes on each string; music history; ensemble playing; performance spotlights; and much more!

Songs used in Book 1 include such hits as: Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Every Breath You Take • Hey Jude • Hound Dog • Let It Be • Ode to Joy • Rock Around the Clock • Stand By Me • Surfin' USA • Sweet Home Chicago • This Land Is Your Land • You Really Got Me • and more!

The songs in the Hal Leonard Essential Elements® Guitar Ensemble Series are playable by multiple guitars. Each arrangement 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. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages – no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. Your guitar ensemble will enjoy playing these 15 standards: Body and Soul • But Beautiful • A Child Is Born • Easy Living • Here's That Rainy Day • Misty • Moonlight in Vermont • My Foolish Heart • My Funny Valentine • My One and Only Love • My Romance • The Nearness of You • Polka Dots and Moonbeams • When I Fall in Love • When Sunny Gets Blue.

The Essential Elements® Guitar Songs Series will help you play your favorite rock songs faster and easier than ever before! Each song has been carefully selected and arranged to include only basic, open guitar chords such as C, G and D so it is playable for beginning guitarists. Just follow the notes and tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate sound-alike backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and for PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! 8 songs that mid-beginners will love to learn, including: Brown Eyed Girl • Bye Bye Love • Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True) • Have You Ever Seen the Rain? • Learning to Fly • Love Me Do • Should I Stay or Should I Go • Willie and the Hand Jive.