Hal Leonard Guitar Method

I found this old Hal Leonard Method Book at the school yesterday . While looking through it I discovered that it has a lot of the same exercises found in the Essential Elements Method I wrote about in a previous post.


The Essential Elements includes the bulk of the material found in the first two Hal Leonard Method books with the newer songs and a new snazzy layout. I haven't looked at a newer edition of the HL Method to see what's changed over the years.

The one I found has a 1977, 1980 copyright and included this vinyl record!

Again, I think the main difference is that the Essential Elements book has a lot more copyrighted popular music in it.