Mel Bay Publications

Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming p...

Old Time Stringband Workshop for Flatpick Guitar is one in a set of four books, each with a matching collection of 40 traditional type fiddle tunes arranged to develop ensemble and jam session playing...

Traditionally the role of the guitar in Celtic music has been confined to accompaniment of lead instruments or a vocalist. In this book Steve Baughman suggests ways to break free of this mold, allowin...

Fretless bass is a unique instrument. The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass. This book will cover many of the important techniques required...

Focuses on the two most popular topics in the bass world today: slap bass and multiple-stringed basses. Covers a wide variety of slap techniques including triple pops, double pops, and individual stri...

En Mode is a set of twenty-two easy character pieces for guitar with a light contemporary flavor, 'in the style of..., ' that provide early students with a wider range of musical genres than is usuall...

This new series of graded repertoire for Guitar has been put together with the aim of providing students with the most attractive, stylistically comprehensive, and inspiring music available, while at...

Blu di Genova is a connection between the past and the present, the blue fabric of working clothes. First produced in Genoa, my home town, and then landed in America as blue jeans. It is the melanchol...

A modern arpeggio handbook and comprehensive training manual for developing fast, flowing arpeggio runs that connect the entire fretboard. Emphasis is on developing fluid, non-shifting arpeggio patter...

A step-by-step, concise, user-friendly guide to learning chords, strumming, and songs. Music is presented in the keys of G, D, E minor and C with a play-along CD. The book also features sections on ty...

A step-by-step, concise, user-friendly guide to learning chords, strumming, and songs. Music is presented in the keys of G, D, E minor and C with a play-along audio recording. The book also features s...

A collection of reels written in the keys of C, Am, G, Em, D, A, E, F and Dm. Each reel is written in a different position. Thus, the guitarist learns to play great sounding flatipicking solos while l...

Beginning-intermediate level. 108 studies carefully written and edited to build right hand picking technique. All studies are presented in notation and tablature.

Intermediate-advanced level. Presents 16 solos carefully written and edited to build technique. Ideal for solo performances and recitals, this volume contains works by Carcassi, Sanz, J. S. Bach, Sor,...

Intermediate-advanced level. Contains 15 solos carefully written and edited to build technique. Ideal for solo performances and recitals, this volume contains works by Joplin, J. S. Bach, Tarrega, Arc...

Advanced level. Contains 23 solos carefully written and edited to build technique. Ideal for solo performances and recitals, this volume contains works by Carcassi, W. Bay, J. S. Bach, Molino, Saint S...

Advanced level. The 11 solos contained in this book were written by William Bay to explore some of the diverse moods and colors which can be expressed on the guitar. The collection is eclectic and con...

Here are nine solos for plectrum guitar written with the tradition of the Celtic ballad and Scottish Aire. Many of the solos call for a 7 string guitar but can certainly be played on a 6 string. I hav...

Timeless Solos is a play on words. The solos in this volume contain no time signatures or bar lines. I did this because I wanted the solos to be very expressive in interpretation yet 'free-form' in st...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print/big note perfect-bound guitar tune book with over 50 tunes. Songs include gospel, bluegrass, patriotic and popular folk tunres. Chord charts are included showing a...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound chord dictionary for today's rock guitarist. Contains power chord forms, barre chords and essential rhythm chord forms in all keys.

An exhaustive and complete guide to leaning to read notes on the guitar. This text was drawn from all the best of William Bay's 'Modern Guitar Method/Expanded Version, ' 'Mastering the Guitar' and 'Fi...

This 48-page method is geared toward the beginning student of guitar. The method is presented in tablature - not standard music notation - in order to get the student playing as quickly as possible. N...

A Handy reference chart showing 'E-Z Form' chords grouped by key. Full chord forms are also shown. An added feature is a note finder chart showing the location of every note on the first five frets. I...

The 'Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Complete Edition' is known worldwide for the incredible array of music presented, the thoroughness of educational music content and ease of understanding. The method...