Mel Bay Publications

This collection of 41 timeless melodies is tastefully arranged for soprano and tenor recorders with suggested breath marks and accompaniment chords. Selections include a variety of influences which pr...

Da allegre melodie da ballo e marce a valzer e ballate malinconiche, ogni genere di musica tradizionale scozzese è rappresentato in questa raccolta di 41 melodie arrangiate nella gamma ideale per flau...

Questa raccolta di canzoni popolari provenienti dalle Americhe, dall'Europa e dall'Australia dovrebbe offrire molte ore di piacevole musica a chi suona il flauto dolce a livello intermedio. Molti bran...

58 fine recorder solo arrangements on international folk songs, classics and music from opera and light opera. An excellent addition to the musical library of any recorder student.

This book was conceived to provide the player with tunes well within the comfort range of the recorder and written in manageable keys. The beautiful melodies and spirited dance tunes in this book was...

Irish favorites with piano accompaniment and sug- gested guitar chords. Titles include: A Visit to Ireland; Ballahaboy Fair; Bridget McBride; Captain O'Neill; Comely Jane Downing; Crossing the Stream;...

An extremely well-written, thorough study into contemporary and traditional tin whistle music and performance. Included are chapters on fundamentals, ornamentation and more. Includes access to online...

Grey Larsen, in the 150 Gems collection, has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications, 2003) and The Essen...

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...

Reggae Grooves For Electric Bass has been specially created to provide guidance for the bassist as well as the percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating individual reggae grooves. The numerous ch...

This intermediate to advanced-level book is intended for the serious rock drummer. It demonstrates the obvious benefits of being a versatile percussionist. The author asserts that creative drummers co...

Beginning drum books can make or break a student's desire to learn the instrument. This book was conceived by a seasoned professional with the idea of developing a collection of exercises that effecti...

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass....

This is a revised version of Tommy Flint's highly acclaimed Fingerstyle Blues Guitar solos text. In this edition, Tommy includes 13 new blues guitar solos! Written in notation and tablature, this fine...

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds, elements, and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Movin...

Modern Blues is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which the...

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Any...

My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's 'My First' series, the book starts the stu...

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate eference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords,...

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B. B. KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T. BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn seve...

Learning the blues and the chords that are commonly used has never been easier. This book presents blues chord voicings along with applications in a logical, sequenced order. Dominant seventh, minor,...

Best Blues Solos provides a variety of pieces that range in style from the so called country blues of the old American South, to contemporary compositions written in the blues style. Guitarists will a...