Mel Bay Publications

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...

World-renowned tresero (tres player) Nelson Gonzalez explains tuning and playing of the Cuban tres guitar, offering tips for beginning to advanced players. As the instrument's name implies, the tres h...

The 'Exploring' series of books within the Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Series walks you through each of the most common played positions on the ten hole diatonic harmonica. This volume for 2nd positi...

This collection presents the genius of Jimmy Wyble's solo guitar compositions. Presented in standard notation and tab, each written piece with an accompanying audio track represents the guitar mastery...

50 Tunes for Guitar, Volume 1 is one book in a 5-book series. The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains th...

This collection of 47 favorite guitar picking tunes includes reels, jigs, waltzes, fiddle tunes and more, each presented in standard notation and tablature with backup chords. As these melodies lend t...

This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are...

These selected works by Giovanni Antonio Terzi, expertly arranged by 2011 GFA Winner Vladimir Gorbach, represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in a motet-imitative style. They stand at a halfw...

This wall chart is a comprehensive visual map of the classical guitar. It includes a large diagram of the instrument and detailed views of its parts. Each part of the instrument is described, exposing...

Mastering the Classical Guitar, Book 1A is the first in a progressive series using a wide variety of musical repertoire and educational material to provide a solid technical foundation for classical g...

Mastering the Classical Guitar, Book 1B is the second book in a progressive series using a variety of musical repertoire and educational materials to provide a solid technical foundation for classical...

The aim of this book is to gather in one place a compendium of techniques specific to the classical guitar. Each technique has a written explanation, preliminary exercises and two original composition...

This electric blues guitar approach to playing roots music dives deep into gear, right and left-hand technique, and advanced soloing and rhythm accompaniment concepts, including "partial" chords that...

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the 'why' rather than the 'how' the classical guitarist does...

In The Joy of Six, Dworsky adapts African and Afro-Cuban polyrhythms to the Keyboard in a world-beat classical style. At the heart of the book are four beautiful solo pieces designed to teach differen...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano Chords combines regular music notation with visual illustrations to give a clear picture of how to voice basic piano chords. The first part of the book introduces the stud...

Beginning-intermediate level. For those with a desire to learn to play from lead sheets and unlock the mysteries of music harmony, this book will lead you on the way to playing by ear. A marvelous tea...