Mel Bay Publications

Jazz Blues Styles presents Guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats.   Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles o...

The blues present an opportunity to be deeply expressive. Every note can be colored with pitch bends, slides, vibrato, and all manner of attacks. The style makes it easy to own the music, to close you...

This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles, with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Inclu...

Progressive Cello Solos, Beginning Level geht über den traditionellen Ansatz des Cellounterrichts hinaus, indem es pädagogische Inhalte nahtlos mit einer einzigartigen Sammlung von vergessenen alten u...

This progressive scale system coordinates basic concepts from elementary to advanced scales in preparation for the Scale System by Carl Flesch. In some aspects it goes beyond the scope of the Flesch s...

Learn melodies and practice soloing on fourteen of the most popular old time and fiddle tunes. Play along with a great string band rhythm section: guitar, mandolin, and string bass. The compact disc h...

Easy Classics for Cello ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und fortgeschrittenen Schülern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buch enth...

Warm-ups for the Violist is an adaptation of Warm-ups for the Violinist. It is targeted to help build, strengthen and develop the muscles and techniques needed for viola playing. It is especially suit...

Practicing scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility on the viola, but it is easy to slip into the habit of playing scales automatically, without paying at...

Beginnend mit einer rudimentären Wiederholung der ersten Lage führt dieses Buch in einem einfachen Format in die dritte, zweite, fünfte und vierte Lage ein, gefolgt von fortgeschritteneren Etüden. Der...

This progressive scale system coordinates basic concepts from elementary to advanced scales in preparation for the Scale System by Carl Flesch. In some aspects it goes beyond the scope of the Flesch s...

Easy Classics for Viola ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und fortgeschrittenen Schülern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buch enth...

This book and accompanying audio provide instruction and playable examples for guitarists looking to get into the sounds rooted in classic country music, as well as more modern approaches to the genre...

Johnny Cash left us a wonderful country songbook, and in this one-hour and twenty minute lesson Fred shows you how to play and sing eight of Cash's most popular gems. You'll learn to back yourself up...

Killer Technique: Bass Guitar is a technique and daily study book inspired by Corey Christiansen's Gig Savers: Killer Technique book for guitar (MLB20028). This book provides concepts and daily rout...

This book, in notation and tablature, is designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpeggiated and 3-note ch...

Blattleseübungen mit Achteln, Sechzehnteln, Triplets, Artikulation: Legato, Staccato, Akzente, Slurs, Glissando, und mehr.

This study examines time signatures and rhythms for the acoustic bass and the four and five-string electric bass. This method book is divided into two sections: 1) addresses simple meters, and 2) focu...

Beim zweihändigen Tapping auf dem E-Bass spielen die rechte und die linke Hand jeweils eine Note. Dies ist ein relativ neues Konzept für den Bass. Es werden regelmäßig neue Techniken und Ideen entwick...

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

This delightful collection of Celtic tunes for Flute features many beautiful songs, dances and airs originating from Ireland and Scotland. Designed to make playing Celtic Flute easy, this book contain...

A repertoire collection and piano accompaniment for the more advanced flutist. Keyboard accompaniment is included to diverse works such as Diversions on a Prelude (a jazz rendition of Bach's famous Pr...

Easy Classics for Flute ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und Mittelstufenschülern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buch enthält 16...

24 compositions by the legendary Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan scored for classic guitar solo. The solos are intermediate in difficulty and convey the beautiful, lyrical quality of the original ha...

These lessons, originally handwritten and in some cases were offered only as tab transcriptions, have now been typeset in standard notation and tab. The audio lessons in this series were initially rec...