Mel Bay Publications

This book is the third release in William Bay's Christmas guitar solo series, which includes Guitar Picking Tunes - Christmas in the British Isles and Guitar Picking Tunes - An Early American Christma...

A new collection by Argentine guitar virtuoso and composer Jorge Morel. This collection features solos by three renowned Latin composers plus two original solo guitar compositions by the author/compil...

1.Band der Gitarrenschule, mit Stimmen der Gitarre, erste Tonleitern und Blattspiel-Übungen

This book and audio teaches excellent techniques to use for walking bass lines on guitar when playing in a duet format, either with another Guitar player or with a Singer or other instrumentalists.

Crystal Harmonics for Guitar provides the guitarist with practical advice on playing harmonics and how to perform them with a crystal-clear tone. The material also covers various notation systems used...

The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the gu...

20 favorite Scottish and Irish tunes, brilliantly arranged for fingerstyle ukulele by Rob MacKillop. Titles include such well-known session tunes as Drowsy Maggie, The Kesh Jig, The Connaught Man's Ra...

This collection contains 20 pieces and exercises for the fingerstyle Ukulele, aimed at those who have strummed chords on the Ukulele and now wish to learn fingerstyle technique. In 20 Easy Fingerstyle...

The didgeridoo is an ancient instrument of the Aborigines of Australia, but the discovery of its rhythmic and harmonic richness has only been in the West for a few years. This work gives all the essen...

A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of Fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for Mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The accompanying au...

Italian Folk Music for Mandolin is an enjoyable collection of pieces from various parts of northern, central and southern Italy. This anthology includes complete texts and translations of the songs wi...

This book presents transcriptions of David Grisman's solos and accompaniment patterns from the CD Shady Grove. The Shady Grove recording contains some wonderful performances of old-time American music...

A good beginner's text showing tuning, basic chords, and songs to sing and strum. Includes access to online audio and video. Tuned for Mandola.

98 favorite hymns, gospel songs, and spirituals arranged in several different keys for diatonic, cross harp, or chromatic harmonica solo. In notation only. The book will give many hours of playing ple...

This handy, fit-in-your-case guide has all you need to know to play both accompaniment and melody on your Autoharp. It includes chord charts for both 15-bar and 21-bar Autoharps that show all of the c...

This instruction book for beginning lap dulcimer in DAD tuning is unique in two ways. First, it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly, the author, a classroo...

This book contains 30 ukulele duets, especially arranged for an absolute beginner and a slightly more advanced player. It features melodies from various musical genres, including American folk and gos...

Bluegrass Jamming on Banjo is the third in a 4-part series of fun books that teach the tools, tricks and tunes to jam in bluegrass style. It covers: 31 bluegrass jam standards, how to jam with others,...

This low-cost (but snazzy) book is packed with songs and lore of the railroads! Includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs plus: Railroad Superstitions and Tall Tales of Train Wrecks, Ro...

This book and accompanying audio is a detailed guide to learning how to play the upright Bass. Designed for beginners, no prior musical knowledge is necessary. Included are lessons on technique fundam...

At last, here is a method book for the upright string bass or 'dog house bass' as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own, the knowledge gained...

Mel Bay's new fingering and scale chart for oboe is an indispensable reference guide for oboists as well as educators. The fingering diagrams are clear and easily understandable, with clear photograph...