Mel Bay Publications

This book is the story of love, life and loss told by the legendary Argentinean guitarists, Jorge Morel. This book traces his early years with his father in Buenos Aires, to the love of his life, his...

A substantial amount of early music for the guitar remains unknown to modern performers and audiences. In recent years, however, musicologists, scholars and performers on period instruments have provi...

The duets in Ten Concert Pieces for Classic Guitar Duo are written in different musical styles and varying degrees of difficulty. In addition to several pieces emulating the Baroque and Classical peri...

This collection of 41 timeless melodies is tastefully arranged for soprano and tenor recorders with suggested breath marks and accompaniment chords. Selections include a variety of influences which pr...

Von ausgelassenen Tanzmelodien und Märschen bis hin zu Walzern und melancholischen Balladen ist jedes Genre der traditionellen schottischen Musik in dieser Sammlung von 41 Melodien vertreten, die in d...

Die Sammlung von Volksliedern aus Amerika, Europa und Australien dürfte Blockflötenspielern der Mittelstufe viele Stunden angenehmen Musizierens bescheren. Einige Melodien können leicht vom Blatt gele...

58 fine recorder solo arrangements on international folk songs, classics and music from opera and light opera. An excellent addition to the musical library of any recorder student.

This book was conceived to provide the player with tunes well within the comfort range of the recorder and written in manageable keys. The beautiful melodies and spirited dance tunes in this book was...

Irish favorites with piano accompaniment and sug- gested guitar chords. Titles include: A Visit to Ireland; Ballahaboy Fair; Bridget McBride; Captain O'Neill; Comely Jane Downing; Crossing the Stream;...

This intermediate to advanced-level book is intended for the serious rock drummer. It demonstrates the obvious benefits of being a versatile percussionist. The author asserts that creative drummers co...

Beginning drum books can make or break a student's desire to learn the instrument. This book was conceived by a seasoned professional with the idea of developing a collection of exercises that effecti...

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass....

This is a revised version of Tommy Flint's highly acclaimed Fingerstyle Blues Guitar solos text. In this edition, Tommy includes 13 new blues guitar solos! Written in notation and tablature, this fine...

Modern Blues is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which the...

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Any...

My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's 'My First' series, the book starts the stu...

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate eference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords,...

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B. B. KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T. BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn seve...

Best Blues Solos provides a variety of pieces that range in style from the so called country blues of the old American South, to contemporary compositions written in the blues style. Guitarists will a...

This book/audio teaches you how to hear and play Groove Time. Tunes include: Evil Ways; Blue Tuesday, Truckin'; Blues Drive; She Done Me Wrong ; and Coastin'. Two improvising scales are shown for ever...

This book/online audio set presents blues melody and recorded back up improvising tracks for these nine blues tunes: Franky's Place, Bullet Train, Long Gone, Just Can't Take It, Storm Rising, Hurtin'...