Mel Bay Publications

Written as a companion to the wildly popular fiddle book, this method opens up the world of fiddling to the beginning/intermediate violist. Finally fiddlers, violists and cellists can jam together! Un...

Scales for Soprano Ukulele provides fingering diagrams, construction formulas in whole and half steps (in standard notation) and application (usage) for the most common scales used in improvisation an...

This book offer scales and modes for the baritone uke. Each scale is shown in multiple fingers with roots on the fourth, third and second string. Scales and modes shown include Major, Minor, Harmonic...

This left-handed Uke chord chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note ar...

The ukulele is an increasingly popular instrument, appearing in everything from rock albums to traditional music. With Learn to Burn: Uke, you can quickly learn to play this versatile instrument. St...

Featuring over 1, 000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mark Kailana Nelson 's Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele is one of the most comprehensive and useful Ukulele chord books...

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, mino...

Famous Solos And Duets For The Ukulele contains a selection of pieces taken from the earliest known methods and collections published for the Ukulele between 1909 and 1920. This is Ukulele music as yo...

This book and companion audio include twenty of the most popular kids' tunes of all time, arranged for small hands to play on the ukulele. Chords are supplied for other instruments to join in the fun,...

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...

This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele tuned in perfect fifths as used by the string and mandolin families of instruments, as well as the cittern and tenor banjo. The b...

This excellent beginner's text teaches introduces the beginner to the joy of accompanying songs with the baritone Ukulele with basic chords, strumming patterns, and Folk songs. Information on tuning a...

Learn To Burn: How To Play Fast Using Speed Bursts is written for string instrumentalists who want to learn to play faster. Students start with two notes and build to longer, more intricate bursts of...

Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, presents 46 Bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues Bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and T...

Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk, soul, fusion, contemporary jazz, hip-hop, pop, and dance. This book focuse...

This book is all about Heavy Metal bass playing. It can be very fast and complicated. A variety of grooves (open string, octave, hammer-on) that range from old school to contemporary are presented. Rh...

This book, in notation and tablature, is designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpegiated and 3-note cho...

A good bass player should be able to comfortably play in almost any style of music in almost any given situation. The goal of this book is to reveal the vast world of different musical styles that may...

Blues music is a sturdy, adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2' by 8' QWIKGUIDE is designed to help the bassist becom...

50 Tunes for Bass Volume 1 is one book in a 5-book series. The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains the s...

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1828) is considered one of the greatest composers and Guitar virtuosos from the Romantic period. His work contains compositions for one and two Guitars, including studies and conc...

Lively Ukulele Tunes is a collection of 38 lively, up-tempo tunes arranged for ukulele solo. The collection includes fiddle tunes, reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, bluegrass, old-time melodies an...

Anyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for le...