Mel Bay Publications

Whether you already play old-time music, or you are just getting started, this is the book for you. Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes presents more than 300 tunes in standard notation...

A deluxe, comprehensive collection of 103 school and camp favorites. Contains patriotic songs, campfire songs, hiking songs, and even fun songs for use on buses. Includes melody line, lyrics, and guit...

Great performers have proven that the trumpet can be successfully used for playing not only classic music, but also symphonic or chamber music from the classical, romantic or modern period just as wel...

Great performers have proven that the trumpet can be successfully used for playing not only classic music, but also symphonic or chamber music from the classical, romantic or modern period just as wel...

Questo libro presenta studi di riscaldamento e di flessibilità, oltre a ventidue etudes melodici e lirici incentrati sulla gamma medio-bassa della tromba, concepiti per restituire flessibilità, forza...

You may not fall in love, but the 257 online piano accompaniment tracks that come with I Love My Scales are likely to change your attitude towards playing tetrachords, scales, arpeggios, and double st...

Incorporating skills taught in many popular violin methods, these tuneful solo pieces offer a fresh alternative for teachers who would like a stimulating supplement to their usual method. These entert...

The etudes in this book offer students a musically and intellectually satisfying means of practicing scales in all major and minor keys, even while remaining in first position. Although presented in t...

Although the practice of scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility - it is very easy to slip into the habit of playing them automatically, without paying a...

Thoughtful and pragmatic fingering is essential to achieving a high degree of musicianship on any string instrument. Violin Fingering: Basic to Advanced is a primer for conventional fingering practice...

Basata principalmente sulla pratica delle scale di Jascha Heifetz, questa compilazione di due precedenti libri di scale per violino di Mel Bay include tutte le forme di scale maggiori e minori e arpeg...

Iniziando con un ripasso rudimentale della prima posizione, questo libro introduce le posizioni terza, seconda, quinta e quarta in un formato facile, seguito da esercizi più avanzati. L'autore fornisc...

Presents much needed repertoire on the A, E, D, and G strings in the keys of A, D, and G, in addition to providing a wealth of finger strengthening and dexterity-building studies. Ideal Suzuki supplem...

This valuable supplement has been written to present essential scales and scale studies for the beginning student. The scales are presented in various rhythms and patterns, including arpeggios. All of...

The purpose of this book is to provide students with an enjoyable, fast pace, and effective means of learning the third position. Visually, enlarged staves and notes make technical difficulties easier...

Tommy Emmanuel is one of the hottest fingerpicking guitar stars today. This complete transcription offers not only a look at his music, but insight to his style and techniques. The performance notes h...

The incomparable Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel presents four fingerstyle exercises plus an arrangement of the classic tune Freight Train and two signature compositions- Mister Guitar and Dixie M...

This book/online audio lesson is designed for the beginner and intermediate student. Basic fingerpicking styles are illustrated in all the major keys. The technique of the alternating bass is introduc...

This book/audio set presents six complete songs and 19 licks and patterns (in both standard and open G tuning) in the styles of banjoists Earl Scruggs and Allen Shelton, and guitarists Chet Atkins and...

Getting Into Guitar Styles is the Guitarist's guide to playing different musical styles. The styles that are covered include Blues, Rock, Country, Funk, R & B, Latin, Reggae, Fingerstyle, and Classica...

This book will enlighten Merle Travis enthusiasts and fingerstyle pickers alike. It will take you from an ordinary way of playing fingerstyle guitar to the extraordinary technique that Merle brought t...

This handy case-size QWIKGUIDE book offers a baker's dozen effective warm-up exercises plus 31 progressive 'Warm-Up Solos'. The book is written in notation and tablature with above average backup chor...