Mel Bay Publications

This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele tuned in perfect fifths as used by the string and mandolin families of instruments, as well as the cittern and tenor banjo. The b...

This excellent beginner's text teaches introduces the beginner to the joy of accompanying songs with the baritone Ukulele with basic chords, strumming patterns, and Folk songs. Information on tuning a...

This book/dvd set presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend even for the absolute beginner.

This book is designed to aid the beginning uke player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. Each of the 29 songs has a different strum pattern! A complete grounding in chord accomp...

This book provides an easy and fun way to learn the Ukulele! Based on C tuning, You Can Teach Yourself Uke presents strum/sing-alongs in the keys of C, G, D, F, and B flat. The online video and audio...

The Easy Ukulele Method books give you music at your fingertips! Using both notation and tablature, this method is so easy that in minutes you will be strumming your ukulele and singing along to famil...

The Easy Ukulele Method books give you music at your fingertips! Book II reviews many of the fundamentals presented in Book I. It tests your music reading skills with worksheets, expands your knowledg...

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, mino...

Learn To Burn: How To Play Fast Using Speed Bursts is written for string instrumentalists who want to learn to play faster. Students start with two notes and build to longer, more intricate bursts of...

This book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between instructor and student in private one-on-one lessons. Six areas of beginning music theory are covered. The major scale, th...

Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, presents 46 Bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues Bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and T...

Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk, soul, fusion, contemporary jazz, hip-hop, pop, and dance. This book focuse...

This book is all about Heavy Metal bass playing. It can be very fast and complicated. A variety of grooves (open string, octave, hammer-on) that range from old school to contemporary are presented. Rh...

This book, in notation and tablature, is designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpegiated and 3-note cho...

A good bass player should be able to comfortably play in almost any style of music in almost any given situation. The goal of this book is to reveal the vast world of different musical styles that may...

Blues music is a sturdy, adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2' by 8' QWIKGUIDE is designed to help the bassist becom...

50 Tunes for Bass 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 the s...

Anyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for le...

Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel Banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are th...

This little songbook is a celebration of the spirit for use by ukulele entertainers and everybody else who wants to feel better in these often sad times of ours. There are no hymns or songs of praise...

Perfect for the soprano, concerto or tenor Ukulele, Joe Carr: 20 Caribbean Pieces For Ukulele includes 20 arrangements of Caribbean folk songs. The pieces in this book are arranged for solo playing in...

Lively Ukulele Tunes is a collection of 38 lively, up-tempo tunes arranged for ukulele solo. The collection includes fiddle tunes, reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, bluegrass, old-time melodies an...

A handy photo/diagram chord book which shows, in C tuning, the chords in each key. A special section on moveable chords is also included. The chords are grouped by type, including major, minor, sevent...