Mel Bay Publications

Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. The relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is analyzed. In addition, o...

This collection of jazz etudes by Jack Wilkins gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues comes with audio tracks, available to d...

Here is the perfect study guide for today's jazz combo drummer. A professional for more than 30 years, world renown jazz drummer and educator, Danny Gottlieb, explains and demonstrates the main skills...

Inside The Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind Drum method that uses traditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazz ensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form,...

A collection of 120 Drum set exercises designed to help the beginning to intermediate drummer develop coordination, independence and accompanying skills between the snare and bass Drum while keeping s...

With this collection of 26 folk hymns, author Peter Irvine brings shape-note music into the home, and provides adaptable music for a variety of instrumental ensembles. This format allows for instrumen...

This collection presents nineteen hymns in arrangements for the progressing beginning piano student. The left hand uses block chords, broken chords, and Alberti bass, and the right hand introduces two...

This collection of Piano solos includes twelve classic hymns, a variety of themes representative of the Christian faith's heritage. Unique arrangements are an addition to anyone's music library and ca...

A collection of 45 popular hymns, two with variations, arranged as preludes and offertories for worship services. Intermediate difficulty. Hymns include A Mighty Fortress is Our God, The God of Abraha...

This collection consists of nine engaging piano arrangements of well and lesser-known gospel tunes in an arranging style reminiscent of Floyd Cramer. Pianistic ornaments and flair have been added with...

The word gospel means “good news,” so it is no surprise that many songs of faith are uplifting, rhythmic and exuberant. Such is the case with the fresh piano settings of the 9 well-known gospel songs...

Tutti noi possiamo essere giustamente descritti come troppo poco riconoscenti e troppo veloci nel lamentarsi. Questo libro è stato presentato per aiutare a concentrarsi sul ringraziamento e sulla cons...

Beautiful piano solo arrangements of hymns and sacred favorites featuring wonderful harmonic treatment coupled with innovative voice leading. Moderate to intermediate in difficulty. Songs include: Roc...

These etudes were written at the request of students and colleagues to create music specific to the low clarinets for use in study and competitions. Due to their tessitura, etudes for soprano clarinet...

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...

Contains scales, chords and routines which are written for the technical advancement of the intermediate-level clarinetist. The material is presented with varied articulations, meters, rhythms, and dy...

Easy Classics for Clarinet fa parte della serie Easy Classics, scritta per fornire agli studenti di livello iniziale e intermedio una piacevole introduzione ad alcune delle più grandi melodie classich...

This book is the story of love, life and loss told by the legendary Argentinean guitarists, Jorge Morel. This book traces his early years with his father in Buenos Aires, to the love of his life, his...

A substantial amount of early music for the guitar remains unknown to modern performers and audiences. In recent years, however, musicologists, scholars and performers on period instruments have provi...

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...

The duets in Ten Concert Pieces for Classic Guitar Duo are written in different musical styles and varying degrees of difficulty. In addition to several pieces emulating the Baroque and Classical peri...

This second volume of graded repertoire for guitar continues the goal of providing students a stylistically comprehensive collection of attractive and inspiring music which also meets the pedagogic ne...

Born in 1956 in Moscow, guitarist Nikita Koshkin is one of Russia's leading composers, teachers and concert artists. This collection includes works from throughout his 30-year career as a composer inc...