Mel Bay Publications

Complete Book Of Wedding Music For Trumpet is a comprehensive collection of Trumpet solos for festival occasions. Piano accompaniment included. Many of the most commonly requested wedding melodies are...

Trumpet/Duets. A collection of easy classical melodies, composed by Beethoven, Mozart, Händel, Rathgeber, Rameau, Brahms, Lehar, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Puscoiu. There are also a few carefully-selecte...

The Trumpet is a brilliant instrument which shines brightly when playing proclamatory pieces. However, the Trumpet also has a wonderfully lyrical side. The sound of an unaccompanied Trumpet causes peo...

Celtic Gems contains 103 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 40 reels, 40 jigs, 10 slip jigs, 3 strathspeys, 2 Irish hornpipes and 8 airs and waltzes. Tunes of si...

This book will teach you to play the fiddle through inspiring traditional music from around the world, arranged specifically for the instrument. The material is ideal for beginners and requires no pri...

Traditional Southern old-time fiddling from the world-renowned Round Peak area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, focusing on the style and repertoire of master fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901...

This collection presents traditional Cajun tunes for fiddle in a simplified manner. The songs all include basic staff notation in the keys of A, D, and G, which are the simplest keys for a beginning s...

Continuing the reissue of the classic Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes - Volume 2, Favorite American Hornpipes for Fiddle presents over a hundred classic and lesser-known fiddl...

Wow your audience with four dozen pro techniques and three sizzling tunes to show them off (including 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'), with this 4-hour online video. A lifetime course for the price...

From the creators of BARRAGE comes this useful collection of fiddle tunes for the beginning violinist. For the violin student who wishes to learn the violin style of BARRAGE, here is an excellent plac...

This fun and easy bluegrass fiddle book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument, the book teaches you basic fiddle technique such as holding the bow,...

A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming features everything the Fiddle player needs to know to participate in a jam session. Suitable for beginning-intermediate level Fiddle players, this book covers all-i...

This book with online audio recordings is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. This Mand...

Learning to play fiddle tunes is made more meaningful when the student is supported musically by the accompaniment of a teacher, parent or friend. The 76 traditional fiddle tunes and folksongs contain...

A comprehensive 96-page, pocket/case sized perfect-bound collection of all time favorite violin tunes. Includes sea shanties, folk songs, Civil War songs, gospel songs, Celtic favorites, classics, and...

This book is for beginning and intermediate fiddlers. No prior playing experience or note reading ability is required. The solos are written in both standard notation and tablature. While writing the...

Championship Contest Fiddling contains painstakingly detailed transcriptions of 44 fiddle tunes as they were played by thirteen champions of the National Old Time Fiddlers' Contest held in Weiser, Ida...

The Modern Violin Method contains 25 lessons which introduce adults and school-aged beginners to playing the Violin. This comprehensive method provides instruction related to the fundamental skills ne...

This book, with companion video, is the second and final volume in the Glengarry Collection of Aonghas Grant's Highland fiddle repertoire. The book contains 188 additional slow airs, marches, strathsp...

A collection, for fiddle, of over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world! Melodies are presented with standard notation, lyrics...

This speed-reading book employs the standard techniques of language speed-reading, converted to music reading. The key ingredients are mental focus, physical eye focus, and quick fingers. The virtuoso...

The purpose of this violinist songbook is to provide the beginning violinist with a repertoire of 24 of the most familiar and beloved tunes ever written. There are several great folk songs of America...

Many selections in this volume are unique and until now have been inaccessible to the string ensemble repertoire. These pieces are intended for multiple strings for performance in the classroom as wel...

Ken Kolodner's book presents transcriptions with detailed bowings in tandem with three recorded versions of 35 Appalachian fiddle tunes ranging from some very common and easy tunes (for more beginning...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound chord dictionary for today's fiddle player. Contains basic major, minor and dominant 7th chord forms plus extensions such as minor 7b5, 9th, 11th, et...