Essential Elements for Guitar, book 2; Will Schmid and Bob Morris (Hal Leonard)

Essential Elements offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.

Concepts in Book 2 include:

• Playing melodically in positions up the neck
• Playing movable chord shapes up the neck
• Playing scales and chords in different keys
• More right-hand studies - finger picking and pick styles
• Improvisation in positions up the neck
• Studying different styles through great song selections