Hal Leonard

A Beginner's Guide for Group or Private Instruction

Authors: Scott Burstein, Spencer Hale, Dave Wish, Mary Claxton
Format: Book with Media Online
Instrumentation: Guitar

Winner of the 2021 "Best Tools for Schools" award for best method!

The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This guitar method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band!

Guitar lessons include:

• Tuning
• Reading music and tablature
• Chords and strum patterns
• Single notes and scales
• Basic soloing
• Hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides
• Alternate picking
• Bending
• Syncopation
• Composing a song
• Writing lyrics

Song List:

• Am I Evil?
• Bad
• Bad Romance
• Best Day Of My Life
• Can't Stop The Feeling!
• Closer
• Come As You Are
• Dark Horse
• Dazed And Confused
• The Edge Of Glory
• Heathens
• I Gotta Feeling
• Imagine
• Kick Push
• Little Talks
• Love On The Weekend
• The Man Who Sold The World
• Mannish Boy
• Misirlou
• Oye Como Va
• Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
• Seven Nation Army
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Someone Like You
• Stir It Up
• Sunshine Of Your Love
• Supermassive Black Hole
• 25 Or 6 To 4
• U Can't Touch This
• Umbrella
• Under Pressure
• Uptown Funk
• Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
• Wake Me Up
• Wild Thing
• Without You
• Zombie