Mel Bay Publications

A collection of Southern Gospel and Camp Meeting all time favorites scored in notation and tab for fingerstyle guitar. A companion CD is included. On the CD each piece is played twice, once as a guita...

You asked for it and you got it! More tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. 62 more tunes with both basic and advanced standard notation lines with suggeste...

Known as 'The Bible of Irish Music,  Mel Bay's facsimile edition contains the original 1903 collection of 1, 850 melodies consisting of airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, long songs, and marches for fiddl...

A collection of 120 melodies meticulously transcribed from recordings by the masters of the klezmer style, including Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwine, Abe Schwartz and many more. Written in standard not...

A meticulous collection of recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contests, jam sessions and individual fiddlers. This magnificent book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers w...

Jazz Cello Wizard Junior is designed for beginning and intermediate middle and high school cellists in the tradition of the parent method, Jazz Fiddle Wizard - a break-through approach for String play...

Blues Drums Method, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, contains over 250 examples of blues Drum patterns and technique-building exercises! Subjects covered in this book are: The History of...

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to...

Beyond Stick Control is the book that offers the snare and drum set player various eight bar solos to develop hand technique and hand/foot coordination. The book is divided into four sections: Part A:...

Das erste Buch zum Thema wie Congas und Bongos im Jazz zu spielen sind. Ein grundlegendes Werkzeug für Leiter und Schlagzeuger von Jazzensembles.

Volume II is aimed at two distinct categories of readers: 1) Intermediate players who are ready for a wider range of rhythms to study and use in live playing situations: and 2) Experienced congueros w...

Volume III is the first educational product to tackle the complex subject of Timba, the new musical genre which has been played in Cuba since 1989. Timba represents a quantum leap for all the instrume...

It gives us great pleasure to present the venerable tradition of playing the darbuka drum using a method that makes it easy to hear and simple to learn. The rhythms which will introduce you to this en...

This book and accompanying audio are a perfect introduction to the Bongo Drum. The book includes lessons on music notation, posture, positioning, tuning and hand strokes. There are also many exercises...

The Voggenreiter Saxophone Wall Chart offers loads of useful information in a compact space. Here the saxophonist will find essential tips in clear large print including exercises for developing inton...

A concise, easy-to-understand bass method in notation and tablature. This text will acquaint the bass player with basic chord progressions, chord notes, walking bass patterns, and a contemporary solo...

Johann Sebastian Bach's arrangements of the '69 Sacred Songs' from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire a...

As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It woul...

Popular Guitar Styles: Samba and Bossa Nova reflects recent popular Brazilian styles as played with classical or fingerstyle technique. This collection of original pieces will delight both listeners a...

Joel Pena, a professional musician with many years of experience, has created the definitive method book for those interested in taking up the unique instrument known as the Cuban Tres or three-course...

The presentation of this album marks a special event in classic guitar publishing! This anthology contains 11 truly representative examples of the folklore of Latin America, all highly revered folk so...

Abend für Abend hob Charles "Pa" Ingalls seine Geige und erfüllte die Hütte mit Musik, während die Familie sich zum Zuhören, Singen und Tanzen versammelte. Musik war der Herzschlag ihres Zuhauses, der...

This is a collection of 155 solos for trumpet, cornet, or flugelhorn.  Ninety-one were recorded on various trumpets, 37 were recorded on cornet and 27 on flugelhorn.  One hundred and fourteen are orig...

Hymns Made Easy for Violin is a collection of favorite traditional hymns with guitar accompaniment, suitable for church, teaching or recreational settings. The material includes violin parts and bowin...

Diese Sammlung traditioneller Hymnen ist für Solovioline, Duos oder Gruppen gedacht. Die Arrangements sind nicht schwierig, aber musikalisch gut gemacht. Die Stücke sind ideal für Offertorien und für...