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This method book by renowned jazz artist Mimi Fox utilizes a unique approach to helping guitarists develop strong solos. Scales, arpeggios, patterns, and syncopated rhythms are introduced in a logical...

New compositions for solo classic guitar by acclaimed guitarist and composer, David Pritchard. All solos are in standard notation. 'In addition to all the music I've written over the past twenty years...

This book is an attempt to capture the highlights of twenty-eight years of composing. Each of these 32 compositions is an expression, and as such - an exposure, of a genuine part of myself which I pre...

The Encyclopedia of Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Solos is a collection of compositions for steel guitar from styles including Hawaiian, Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, Country, Latin and even Chinese music. Fernan...

This collection presents six legendary blues guitarists from the 1920s to early 1940s. Each has his own unique approach, style and techniques for playing. Some like Rev. Gary Davis favored regular tun...

Award-winning guitarist and folk-blues songwriter Jon Shain shares his personal approach to fingerstyle guitar. Using detailed exercises and his own songs as examples, Shain offers an intimate look at...

Der Stein von Rosette ist eine große Steintafel (ca. 196 v. Chr.), die 1799 in Ägypten entdeckt wurde. Dieses Buch ist ein Stein von Rosette für den Jazzgitarristen, der bereit ist, einen Sprung zu wa...

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...

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...

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...

New arrangements of ten classic hymns presented in a progressive and percussive style that will challenge and inspire the pianist, soloist and drummer. The piano, melody, and drums are charted so when...

While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs,...

Unique among books on the whistle and Celtic music, this book takes the role of a personal tutor. It explains in detail the peculiarities of the instrument, the ancient modal scales the Irish tunes ar...

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Ru...

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...

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...

These chord-melody solos have been arranged for solo ukulele playing. Tunes include Aloha Oe, When the Saints Go Marching In, Bill Bailey, The Sheik of Araby, By the Light of the Silvery Moonlight, an...

Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite Celtic Jigs and Waltzes transcribed for the mandolin (and fidd...