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A collection of 120 melodies meticulously transcribed from recordings by the masters of the klezmer style, including Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwine, Abe Schwartz and many more. Written in standard not...

This is a collection of 155 solos for trumpet, cornet, or flugelhorn.  Ninety-one were recorded on various trumpets, 37 were recorded on cornet and 27 on flugelhorn.  One hundred and fourteen are orig...

English & Irish Hymn Tunes for Flute ist eine neue Zusammenstellung traditioneller und sakraler Melodien aus dem Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit, die als Hymnen wiedergeboren wurden. Die meisten Melodien...

Lively Tin Whistle Tunes is a collection of 55 spirited tin whistle solos. The selections include reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, dance tunes and more. These tin whistle solos are ideal for perf...

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitut...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar...

Fiddle Tunes, Classic Rags and Cakewalks covers well-known tunes in each style taught by Leo Wijinkamp Jr.. These tunes are presented in Open G, Standard and Drop D tunings. The three audio CDs give 3...

Having written or contributed to several volumes of Celtic guitar music over the course of four decades, El McMeen offers fresh and unusual concepts in these 30 fingerstyle arrangements of both famili...

A set of 12 beautiful new folk tunes arranged for acoustic instruments and suitable for ensembles ranging from duos to small orchestras. Each tune has three written parts melody, countermelody, and ba...

Jazz virtuoso Johnny Smith presents his complete system of chord analysis, scale and arpeggio study, and practical theory application. This is one of the most useful books to be found in any jazz guit...

For Guitarists, the technical learning curve for improvisation is fairly steep. For this reason, it is important to find multiple uses for the musical structures that you learn to execute. This approa...

This collection celebrates the pioneers of jazz music with 17 pieces composed between the turn of the last century and the end of the 1930s. There are classical ragtime numbers, jazz band tunes, strid...

Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Charlie's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

This book was written specifically for beginning students working with a private teacher or in an entry-level clarinet class. The author emphasizes correct hand positions, breath control, and tone pro...

Scholarly editions, which serve different purposes than performance editions, are not often designed with the modern guitarist in mind. For instance, Renaissance vihuela tablatures are usually transcr...

Written during the 1970s, the etudes featured in The Art Of Two-Line Improvisation were composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble 's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord m...

This second volume of The Classical Guitarist's Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From "The Water Is Wide" and Christmas and patriotic favori...

As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It woul...

The rhythms in this book are intended for the person who is already proficient at playing the bodhrán and wants to add some more complex rhythms to their playing. These rhythms are inspired by funk dr...

Rudimental Grand Tour is a compendium of drumming cultures and traditions from twenty-two distinct regions throughout Europe and the Americas, designed to expand rudimental knowledge and develop inter...

I became aware of the Dropped D tuning in 1960. It literally exploded my playing. Just by lowering the sixth string down a tone ? from E to D, my guitar sounded so much fuller. The tuning seemed to op...

This collection covers ragtime guitar styles and techniques from the 'stumblin' bass' of Blind Blake to the evergreen piano sounds of Scott Joplin. Playing the Guitar like a Piano: Shake That Thing, 9...

The acclaimed first volume of this exciting series gave extensive insights into basic techniques of flamenco guitar playing and the two important rhythmic forms (palos) of Solea and Alegrias. This sec...

Intended as a sequel to 20 Flamenco Guitar Etudes, the longer, more developed exercises in 16 Studies for Flamenco Guitar further explore characteristic flamenco guitar techniques including: picado, a...