Lesson Books

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone learning to play guitar. Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos & ensembles & strumming. Learn More

Book 2 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; bass runs; pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; songs, riffs and more! Learn More

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2 continues the instruction started in Book 1 and covers: Am, Dm, A, E, F and B7 chords; power chords; fingerstyle guitar; syncopations, pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs, and more! Learn More

Book 3 covers 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; songs, riffs and more. Learn More

Learn to properly adjust your guitar for peak playability and optimum sound. Hal Leonard Guitar Method – Setup & Maintenance will get you started on the road to becoming your own guitar repairman. Learn More

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. This super-convenient Complete Edition features the new and improved method books 1, 2 and 3 spiral-bound together with 3 CDs. Learn More

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. This super-convenient Complete Edition features the new and improved method books 1, 2 and 3 spiral-bound together. Learn More

The Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method is the first and only beginning guitar method of its kind! Learn single notes with riffs like “Day Tripper,” power chords with classics by AC/DC and the Who, strumming with songs from Neil Young and Nirvana, and much more. Learn More

Noted mandolinist and teacher Rich Del Grosso has authored this excellent mandolin method that features great playable tunes in several styles (bluegrass, country, folk, blues) in standard music notation and tab. The audio features play-along duets. Learn More

Noted mandolinist/teacher Del Grosso has authored this excellent mandolin method that features great playable tunes in several styles (bluegrass, country, folk, blues) in standard music notation and tab. Learn More

Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,000 Ukulele Chords - Learn to play chords on the ukulele with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The Ukulele Chord Finder contains over 1,000 chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types. Learn More

The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is for anyone just learning the ukulele. Includes: types of ukuleles, tuning, music reading, melody playing, chords, strumming, scales, tremolo, music notation and tablature, music styles, ukulele history and much more. Learn More

A step-by-step guide to Harmony and Theory. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and more! Learn More

Jerry Byrd was the session steel guitarist in the mid-1940s and was essential in the development of the “Nashville Sound.” It Was a Trip, On Wings of Music brings to light Byrd's life and times to reveal an important chapter in American musical history. Learn More

Easy arrangements with tab for 15 Bach masterworks: Air on the G String • Bourreé • Gavotte • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring • Little Prelude No. 2 in C Major • Minuet in G • Prelude (Cello Suite No. 1) • Prelude in C Major • Quia Respexit and more. Learn More

The artist-approved folio for Jack Johnson's 2005 release In Between Dreams includes 14 songs and a biography. Songs: Better Together • Break Down • Do You Remember • Good People • No Other Way • Sitting, Waiting, Wishing • and more. Learn More

Notes & tab for all the songs from Jack White's acclaimed 2012 debut solo album, Includes: Blunderbuss, Freedom at 21, Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy, Hypocritical Kiss, I Guess I Should Go to Sleep, I'm Shakin', Love Interruption, Missing Pieces and more. Learn More

Artist-approved, note-for-note transcriptions for the hit single “I'm Yours,” the Colbie Caillat duet “Lucky” and 10 more witty tunes from the Jason Mraz album "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things," plus an intro on the making of the album. Learn More

This terrific book/CD will teach you how to play melodic jazz solos. Topics include: tension and resolution, major scale, melodic minor scale, common licks and substitution techniques, all in standard notation and tab with a CD of 35 demo tracks. Learn More