Mel Bay Publications

This collection presents six legendary blues guitarists from the 1920s to early 1940s. Each has his own unique approach, style and techniques for playing. Some like Rev. Gary Davis favored regular tun...

Hailed by David Tanenbaum, Guitar Department Chair at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as ?a fun and varied set that is pleasing to the ear while being a healthy workout?, theÿ7 Studies for Gu...

Seit den Anfängen des Flamenco-Gitarrenstils im 19. Jahrhundert in Spanien hat die Beziehung zwischen Flamenco und klassischer Gitarre immer existiert; diese 3-Bücher-Methodenserie - begonnen von Juan...

Es ist befriedigend, ein Musikstück zu spielen, das auf nur einer Gitarre großartig klingt. Beyond Chord Melody konzentriert sich auf die fortgeschrittenen Konzepte, die den beginnenden Gitarristen vo...

This book contains note-for-note transcriptions of six original solo flamenco guitar pieces or toques from the author's 2021 CD, Alma de Niño (Soul of a Child). These deep and introspective solos repr...

Award-winning guitarist and folk-blues songwriter Jon Shain shares his personal approach to fingerstyle guitar. Using detailed exercises and his own songs as examples, Shain offers an intimate look at...

Der Stein von Rosette ist eine große Steintafel (ca. 196 v. Chr.), die 1799 in Ägypten entdeckt wurde. Dieses Buch ist ein Stein von Rosette für den Jazzgitarristen, der bereit ist, einen Sprung zu wa...

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Gitarristen, die einen Sänger, Instrumentalisten, Singer-Songwriter oder sich selbst auf der Stahlsaiten- oder klassischen Gitarre begleiten wollen. In den Kapiteln 1 bis 1...

Popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. Students start with easy one finger chord forms and strum accompaniments to numerous songs - Note reading is then methodically and ca...

This is the standard-bearer for pedal steel instruction books. It is extremely comprehensive in scope. Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of...

Tune your Guitar to DADGAD and discover why this tuning is now gaining acceptance as the 'other standard tuning'. This book is intended for guitarists who want to explore the D-A-D-G-A-D tuning, but f...

This book and online audio is a treasure-trove of improvisational techniques. Twenty-nine techniques are covered including: arpeggios, targeting, chromaticism, side-slipping, negative tonal space, pol...

Lonnie Johnson blended blues and jazz styles, performing with blues shouters like Bessie Smith and Texas Alexander on one hand, and Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington on the other. Now learn essential...

A collection of 16 hot, intermediate-level flatpicking guitar solos from five of the leading exponents of this technique. David Bromberg is known as the leader of one of the most successful acoustic b...