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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 / CD -$10.99

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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

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2 / CD - $9.95
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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 CD includes 57 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along.

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 3/ CD - $9.95
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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 CD includes 60 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along.


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Easy Pop Melodies – 2nd Edition - Bk / CD - $14.99
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Hal Leonard Pop Melody Supplements are the unique books that supplement any guitar method books 1, 2 or 3. The play-along CD features guitar on the left channel and the full rhythm section on the right. Each book is filled with great pop songs that students are eager to play!
Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 pages for easy student and teacher use. Includes 20 top songs: All My Loving • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Dust in the Wind • Every Breath You Take • I Get Around • I Shot the Sheriff • I Walk the Line • Imagine • Let It Be • Love Me Tender • Maggie May • My Cherie Amour • My Girl • My Heart Will Go On • Nowhere Man • Smells like Teen Spirit • Stand by Me • Walk Don't Run • We Will Rock You • Your Cheatin' Heart

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More Easy Pop Melodies Bk/CD - $14.99
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(Guitar Method). A unique pop supplement to any guitar method book 2. Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2 pages for easy student and teacher use. 18 songs, including: All Shook Up * Jailhouse Rock * Ticket to Ride * King of Pain * and more.

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Even More Easy Pop Melodies - Book/CD Pack - $14.99
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An excellent pop supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method, or any guitar method book 3. Includes 20 songs: Another One Bites the Dust • Change the World • Crazy • Crazy Train • Good Vibrations • Heart Shaped Box • Heartache Tonight • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds • Sea of Love • Tequila • Yesterday • Y.M.C.A • You May Be Right • and more!

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Easy Pop Rhythms – 2nd Edition - Book/CD Pack- $14.99
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Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and others! These songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple 3- and 4-note chords and ending with songs that contain many chords, including 7th chords and barre chords. 20 songs, including: Closer to Free • Hurts So Good • Iris • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • Let Her Cry • Surfin' U.S.A. • That'll Be the Day • Twist and Shout • Wonderful Tonight • and more.


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More Easy Pop Rhythms - Book/CD Pack-
$ 14.95
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(Guitar Method). Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Nrivana, and more! The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple open-chord songs and concluding with songs that use movable power chords. 20 songs, including: Authority Song * Building a Mystery * Fire and Rain * Get Back * Hey Joe * La Bamba * Time for Me to Fly * What I Like About You * Wild Thing * Yellow Submarine * and more.


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Even More Easy Pop Rhythms – 2nd Edition - Book/CD Pack-
$14.95
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Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and many others. The songs in this book are presented in order of difficulty, so you can work along with the Level 3 book of the Hal Leonard Guitar Method or any other guitar method. The accompanying CD includes every song recorded by a full band so you can hear how each song sounds and then play along when you're ready! 20 songs including: Angie • Crazy Little Thing Called Love • Dreams • (Everything I Do) I Do It for You • Give a Little Bit • Give Me One Reason • I Won't Back Down • The Man Who Sold the World • One Love • Respect • Revolution • Smooth • and more.


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A Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1 -$12.95
by William Leavitt
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A practical and comprehensive guitar method designed for the serious guitar student and used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program. Volume 1 teaches beginning guitar students all the music fundamentals including scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, special exercises for both hands, accompaniment techniques, and a unique approach to voice leading using movable chord forms. The "play-along" audio CD features solos, selected studies, duets, and trios. It's the next best thing to having a private instructor coach you through the lessons.

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Hal Leonard FastTrack Guitar Method Book 1-Book/CD - $7.95
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FastTrack Guitar Method gives you 73 songs and examples to help you learn electric or acoustic
guitar - or both! This book/CD package teaches you music notation, tablature, full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, scales, plus rock and blues styles.

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FastTrack Guitar Songbook 1 with CD $12.95
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(Fast Track Music Instruction). The FastTrack songbooks were designed to supplement the FastTrack method books, but also can be used independently. They feature 8 great songs by artists including the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and Van Halen.


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Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method- Book 1-Book/Audio Access- $12.99
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This is the guitar method students and teachers have been waiting for. Learn single notes with riffs like “Day Tripper” and “Crazy Train,” power chords with classics by AC/DC and the Who, strumming with songs from Neil Young and Nirvana, and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin will keep them playing and having fun. Book 1 includes: parts of the guitar, easy-to-follow guitar tablature, notes & riffs starting on the low E string, tempo & time signatures, understanding notes and rests, palm muting, vibrato, power chords, open chords, strumming, slides and slurs, hammer-ons and pull-offs, many music styles, nearly 100 riffs and songs, audio access with demos of every example, and more! Audio Access gives you a code to download mp3’s of audio recordings.

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Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method Songbook 1-Book/CD - $12.99
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Here are 10 hit songs tabbed for beginning guitarists to play while they are working through the Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method, or any other guitar method. The songs are all on facing pages for no
page turns, and the CD features both examples of how the guitar should sound, and full-band
backing tracks so students can play the lead! Songs: All the Small Things • Breaking the Law • Californication • Come Together • Free Fallin' • Lick It Up • Pork and Beans • Smells like Teen Spirit • 21 Guns • You Really Got Me. The CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the tempo without changing the pitch!


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Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method - Book 2- Book/Audio Access - $12.99
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This innovative method for acoustic or electric guitar picks up where Book One leaves off. Learn notes up the fretboard with riffs like "Purple Haze" and "Sunshine of Your Love," lead guitar licks from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, more chords with songs by the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, and Pearl Jam will keep them playing and having fun. The Audio Access feature demos all 80 riffs and songs in the book. Audio Access gives you a code to download mp3’s of audio recordings.

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method- Acoustic Guitar Songs- Book/ CD - $14.95
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This book/CD pack features 10 complete songs in standard notation and tab, including: Behind Blue Eyes • Best of My Love • Breaking the Girl • Drive • Dust in the Wind • Every Rose Has Its Thorn • Night Moves • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • Signs • Tears in Heaven.

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Music Reading for Guitar (The Complete Method) - $16.95
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(Musicians Institute Press). Starting at the elementary level and progressing to advanced techniques, this comprehensive method is like a complete two-year guitar course in book form. It includes over 450 songs and examples, and covers: notes, rhythms, keys, positions, dynamics, syncopation, chord charts, duets, scale forms, phrasing, odd time, and much more. Designed from an MI core curriculum program.


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Hal Leonard Guitar Method- Rock Guitar- Book/CD-$16.95
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Learn to play rhythm and lead rock guitar with the step-by-step lessons and 70 great rock songs in this book/CD pack! 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 such rock classics as ″Wild Thing,″ ″Crossroads,″ and ″Takin' Care of Business.″


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Total Acoustic Guitar- Book/CD - $19.99
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This instructional guide presents you with everything you need to make the journey from a mediocre acoustic player to a solid one. It's perfect for anyone who feels that they may be in a rut – a situation all too familiar to the advancing beginner. Packed with tons of examples and audio demonstrations, this book/CD package breaks down the most common, essential acoustic techniques with clear, concise instruction and then applies them to real-world musical riffs, licks, and songs. You'll learn syncopation, power chords, arpeggios, rhythm fills, and much more. Songs include: House of the Rising Sun • Midnight Special • Amazing Grace • Scarborough Fair • Frankie and Johnny • and more.


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Hal Leonard Guitar Method – Jazz Guitar -Book/CD - $19.99
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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 CD contains 99 tracks for demonstration and play-along.

“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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Lead Licks-Book/CD- $9.95
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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/CD 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 CD includes each lick played at full speed and at a slower practice tempo.


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Red Hot Country Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks)-Book/CD - $17.95
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(Guitar Educational). The complete guide to playing lead guitar in the styles of Pete Anderson, Ray Flacke, Danny Gatton, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, and more! This book and CD pack will take your country guitar playing to the next level with loads of red-hot licks, techniques, solos, theory, and more! You'll learn: hybrid picking, single-note soloing, open chord licks, double stops, bending, open-string licks, licks in the style of the masters, CAGED system, chord and scale diagrams, and more.


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The Hymn Book - $14.95
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An inspirational collection of 143 glorious hymns arranged for easy guitar. Includes: Abide with Me • Amazing Grace • At the Cross • Be Thou My Vision • Blessed Assurance • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing • Fairest Lord Jesus • Holy, Holy, Holy • Just a Closer Walk with Thee • Nearer, My God, to Thee • The Old Rugged Cross • Rock of Ages • more. Perfect for church services, sing-alongs, bible camps and more!

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WOW Hits Songbook 2001 Piano Vocal Guitar- $21.95
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WOW 2001 represents all the best that is happening in Christian music right now. For the fifth consecutive year, this unique inter-label partnership brings together the industry's best artists from more than 10 record labels. This edition features songs by Avalon, Steven Curtis Chapman, Delirious, Jars of Clay, Newsboys, Nicole Nordeman, Point of Grace, V-Enna, Jaci Velasquez, CeCe Winans and others. Songs include: Redeemer * Alabaster Box * Live for You * Shackles (Praise You) * This Is Your Time * Dive * and more

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The Complete Guitar Player Songbook No 2 - $14.95
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Contains 50 songs arranged in keys that are examined in The Complete Guitar Player method. Includes chords, left-hand fingerings, right-hand rhythm patterns, and full lyrics. Songlist All My Trials, America, April Come She Will,
Bill Bailey, Both Sides Now, Boxer, Carolina On My Mind, Classical Capers, Diamonds And Rust,
Early Mornin' Rain, Fire And Rain, Frankie And Johnny, G.Wizz, Guantanamera, Help! ,
Here Comes The Sun, Homeward Bound, I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Imagine,
Just The Way You Are, Kum Ba Yah, Lyin'eyes, May You Never, Moneys The Word, Mr Bojangles,
Only Hopes Returning, Plumstones, Ridin' Blind, San Francisco Bay Blues, Skyline, Slip Slidin' Away, Sloop John B [Traditional], Snowmobiling, Something, Sundown, Sunny Afternoon , Sweet Baby James, Take It Easy, The Black Velvet Band, The Third Waltz, The Waltz Of Love, The Wild Rover, There But For Fortune, Universal Soldier, Whiskey In The Jar, Wild World, Worried Man Blues, Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Your Song, You've Got A Friend

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Incredible Chord Finder – 9″ x 12″ Edition - $6.99
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A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and advanced players. Note names of each string are indicated on each chord diagram to let the player know what notes are being played in the chord.

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Guitar™ Magazine Manuscript Paper – #1 Standard & Tab Staves – 9″ x 12″ $3.95
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Guitar Manuscript Paper is the ideal writing paper for today's guitarists. Printed on professional-quality paper and based on the same formats used in Guitar Magazine, this comprehensive series satisfies even the most discriminating musicians. The 9″ x 12″ Standard and Tab Staves pad is 64
pages, 5 systems, and features a tablature explanation and notation legend.

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Hal Leonard Manuscript Paper (Wide Staff) 'E-Z Play Today' $1.95
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48-page stitched; 6 staves per page; 9 inch. x 12 inch.; punched to fit all ring binders.

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