Mel Bay Publications

First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold...

Learn from the best. Grandpa Jones was a country music legend and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was very well known and respected for his own style of clawhammer banjo. The instructio...

Players of all kinds of instruments including flute, fiddle, mandolin, recorder, whistle, guitar, harp and more can use this collection of music which is popular at modern renaissance festivals. The m...

North Carolina is rightly known as producing some of the finest banjo players in southern traditional music. Within this DVD, Bob Carlin, one of the state's most accomplished pickers, teaches some of...

Evo Bluestein is a well-known teacher and performer on many folk instruments and has recorded a number of albums with the Bluestein Family and as a solo artist. Evo teaches you basic frailing (clawham...

Tuning, basic melody, techniques including: picking, triplets, slides, moving triplets, long notes, different rhythms and repertoire.

Percy Danforth started playing the bones in 1908 when he was eight years old. This is the definitive work on playing the bones! Learn all Percy's secrets, alignment, tone, sublety, and how to hold the...

Jazz Viola Wizard Jr. is designed for beginning and intermediate middle and high school violists in the tradition of the parent method, Jazz Fiddle Wizard - a breakthrough approach for string players...

Designed for beginning to intermediate musicians at a high school level, the Jazz Wizard Junior series follows in the footsteps of the original Jazz Wizard method by providing a break-through approach...

As a continuation of the first volume in this series, this lesson is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. It introduces easy optional chord theory only AFTER the student h...

Good jazz is made from good musical ideas. The brilliance of jazz violinists like Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith came, not from instrumental virtuosity but their 'jazz intelligence'-their ability...

For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a uniqu...

Jack Wilkins presents this collection of Jazz etudes with accompanying audio providing students a fun and effective way to learn to play Jazz style Blues lines. The online audio tracks provide a profe...

Blues Violin For The Young Beginners introduces children to bluesy Violin techniques in a ground-breaking way that is both structured and fun. They will quickly learn to slide the fingers using exerci...

Mel Bay's Modern Piano Method is designed to introduce the student to the world of piano playing from a contemporary perspective. The book will teach basic music theory concepts as well as general pia...

Included are hundreds of photos depicting all the chords today's pianist/keyboardist will ever need to know; each shown in the left hand, except where two hands are necessary. Also supplied are a usef...

Included are photos depicting the most common chords today's pianist/keyboardist will ever need to know to play country music; each shown in the left hand, except where two hands are necessary. A hand...

Developed by Robin Jarman to enable anyone to accompany songs on the Piano without music, change key when a song is pitched too low or too high, and provide accompaniment when only the melody and chor...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in Piano instruction. No other Piano method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also...

Following the best-selling Jazz Piano Chords, this informative volume provides a scale reference and practice tool for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with diatonic, pentatonic, sy...

This beginner Piano course introduces children or adult students to basic music notation and helps them build a solid foundation of Piano skills. Theory and instruction appears alongside music example...

This book and accompanying audio is a detailed guide to learning how to play the upright Bass. Designed for beginners, no prior musical knowledge is necessary. Included are lessons on technique fundam...

At last, here is a method book for the upright string bass or 'dog house bass' as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own, the knowledge gained...

Easy to Play Cello Airs and Ballads is a collection of 25 nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century folk and popular songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States.  All of the song...

Celtic Gems for Cello contains 68 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 25 reels, 31 jigs, 8 slip jigs and 4 Irish hornpipes. Tunes of similar style are grouped wit...