9(Modern Band). 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 Songs include: Can't Stop the Feeling! * Closer * Come As You Are * I Gotta Feeling * Imagine * Misirlou * Seven Nation Army * Smells like Teen Spirit * Sunshine of Your Love * 25 or 6 to 4 * U Can't Touch This * Umbrella * Uptown Funk * Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) * Zombie * and more.