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‘Jazz Duets: Etudes for Phrasing and Articulation’ from Berklee Press

Hal Leonard Virtual Choir Toolkits Provide Audio Tracks & Licensing for Virtual Performances

“Ukulele for Young Beginners” by Jake Shimabukuro

The ‘JustinGuitar Easy Guitar Songbook’ and Other Releases from Hal Leonard

The JustinGuitar Easy Guitar Songbook features 101 popular songs that can be played with up to eight open chords. Songs are presented in sequential difficulty order in chord/lyric format with lesson tips, chord diagrams, and more.

Hal Leonard’s Flex-Band Series for Grade 1.5 and ‘Ukulele for Young Beginners: Easy Lessons for Kids’

The Hal Leonard Flex-Band Series features works that are scored with just five parts, plus percussion, that are playable with combinations of woodwinds, brass, or strings.

Hal Leonard’s ‘George Gershwin – Super Easy Songbook’ and Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’ books

The “Super Easy Songbook” series from Hal Leonard features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns.

Teach Kids Music Launches ‘Little Rockers’ Program

Teach Kids Music has launched their new “Little Rockers” program. This program and 80-page book written by Teach Kids Music founder John McCarthy teaches children about music starting as young as three years old in the pre-schematic stage of artist learning.

Hal Leonard Launches Essential Elements Band Talk Podcast

Essential Elements author Charlie Menghini, and Hal Leonard vice president Instrumental Publications and composer Paul Lavender have joined with Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser to create the Essential Elements Band Talk podcast.

Hal Leonard Distributes Masks and Shields to Fight COVID-19

Hal Leonard has acquired exclusive distribution rights to new products that have been successful in making music spaces safer for combatting the COVID-19 virus. 

Hal Leonard’s Essential Elements Interactive Expanding

Hal Leonard’s Essential Elements Interactive, the online component for its Essential Elements methods for band and strings, crossed over a half million student users this past school year.

‘Frozen’ Activity Book from Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard has expanded its Music Activity Book Series with a new edition featuring the songs and artwork from Disney’s Frozen and Frozen 2 movies.

‘Flying Fingers’ from Hal Leonard

Flying Fingers from Hal Leonard covers an expansive variety of styles and techniques – including recent innovations like percussive gestures, right-hand string-stopping, two hands on the fingerboard, and partial capos – through its 50 accurate transcriptions with historical and performance notes for each.