Mel Bay Publications

Lively Tin Whistle Tunes is a collection of 55 spirited tin whistle solos. The selections include reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, dance tunes and more. These tin whistle solos are ideal for perf...

Reggae Grooves For Electric Bass has been specially created to provide guidance for the bassist as well as the percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating individual reggae grooves. The numerous ch...

It was rumored that Johnson sold his soul to the devil and this is what gave him the power to play the blues so well! Here, Woody Mann has carefully prepared this book with online audio to describe an...

In this book, six of Rev. Davis' Holy Blues are presented-- gospel songs with a taste of the blues. The online audio recordings teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the orig...

This book and online audio has been carefully prepared for guitarists who are starting to learn blues fingerpicking-and yes, the book can actually be used by an ambitious total beginner. The arrangeme...

This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple 'Carter-style' mel...

Virtually every country blues recording made prior to World War II that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available. No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of...

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit, enormous musical intelligence, technical brilliance, an encyclopedic memory, driving passion...

The blues have been a major focus of music in Texas, from the earliest days of commercial recordings right up to the present. And there has been an impressive lineage of great Texas fingerstyle blues...

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitut...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar...

This book and online audio has been carefully prepared for guitarists who are starting to learn blues fingerpicking-and yes, the book can actually be used by an ambitious total beginner. The arrangeme...

LESSON ONE: BEGINNINGS - THE ROOTS OF ELECTRIC BLUES - Electric blues stylists grew out of the guitar picking of versatile single-string soloists like Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell and the cou...

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...

Classical and Contemporary Studies for Bass Guitar combines essential studies from 19th century composer Giovanni Bottesini: the 'Paganini of bass , with contemporary studies by Gilbert Isbin: one of...

Fiddle Tunes, Classic Rags and Cakewalks covers well-known tunes in each style taught by Leo Wijinkamp Jr.. These tunes are presented in Open G, Standard and Drop D tunings. The three audio CDs give 3...

Having written or contributed to several volumes of Celtic guitar music over the course of four decades, El McMeen offers fresh and unusual concepts in these 30 fingerstyle arrangements of both famili...

A set of 14 folk tunes arranged for acoustic instruments and suitable for ensembles ranging from duos to small orchestras. Each tune has three written parts – melody, countermelody, and bass line – as...

At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Bunting published a major work of Irish music called A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (1797). He followed this publication with two mor...

Presented here is a rare collection of some of the best Gypsy folk songs popular among the Romanies of Russia and Eastern Europe. All offered in the original Romany tribal dialect, as appropriate to e...

A set of 12 beautiful new folk tunes arranged for acoustic instruments and suitable for ensembles ranging from duos to small orchestras. Each tune has three written parts melody, countermelody, and ba...

Celebrate the winter season with these concert-ready arrangements influenced by a variety of folk traditions such as Celtic, old-time, bluegrass and Scandinavian fiddle. This collection of time-honore...

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...

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues harp and ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic guitar and quickly learned and mastered th...

Corey Christiansen: Jazz Guitar Essentials combines nine of the author's previous editions into a comprehensive book that explains the key concepts of jazz Guitar in an accessible approach. Each chapt...